--- title: "Confirm your self-check with a scan | Am I Ready for Agents?" description: "What Ora's scan tests in four layers, what it does to your site, how to read the grade and what to send your web team after you finish the self-check." canonical: https://amireadyforagents.com/confirm-your-self-check-with-a-scan site: "Am I Ready for Agents?" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "For leaders" --- # Confirm your self-check with a scan | Am I Ready for Agents? > What Ora's scan tests in four layers, what it does to your site, how to read the grade and what to send your web team after you finish the self-check. Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/confirm-your-self-check-with-a-scan Site: Am I Ready for Agents? Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 # Confirm your self-check with a scan ## In short The self-check shows what your business has decided; a scan shows what a visitor gets from your public pages. Ora's scan lists 132 checks in four layers, counts 106 of them, and costs nothing; Ora says it takes about 30 seconds. Read the score, grade and layer scores, send the failed checks to the web team, then rescan. ## The four layers beside your five areas Ora groups its checks in four layers, and each layer asks one question of your public site. Four of your five self-check areas line up with a layer. Trust is the area with no layer of its own, so its questions stay decisions for your team. | Self-check area | Ora layer | Ora's question | Counted checks | Shown, not counted | Points in the score | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Find | Discovery | Can agents find and recommend you? | 13 | 3 | 20 | | Read | Access | Can agents access your data and understand you? | 29 | 13 | 30 | | Act | Usability | Can agents use you? | 58 | 10 | 40 | | Pay | Payments | Can agents pay you? | 6 | 0 | 10 | Across the four layers Ora lists 132 checks, 106 of them verified and counted. Ora's llms.txt adds that checks that do not apply to your kind of site are left out of the score, so a site is not marked down for what it does not need. ## What a scan does to your site Tell your security team before the first scan. Ora's scanner page says what they will see: - 5 Nov 2026 Ora's scanner identifies itself as OraBot/1.0 (+https://ora.ai/bot), visits on demand rather than on a schedule, and fetches public pages and files such as robots.txt, llms.txt, OpenAPI specs, MCP manifests and structured data. Vendor claim. [Ora scanner bot page](https://ora.ai/bot?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan), read 5 Nov 2026 - 5 Nov 2026 Ora signs its own requests with HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421, the Web Bot Auth profile) so a site can verify them against keys published at ora.ai. Vendor claim. [Ora scanner bot page](https://ora.ai/bot?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan), read 5 Nov 2026 - 5 Nov 2026 During a scan Ora also sends a handful of requests to the home page carrying other crawlers' user agents, such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, to see how the site answers them; those requests are not signed. Vendor claim. [Ora scanner bot page](https://ora.ai/bot?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan), read 5 Nov 2026 ## How to read the result 1. Read the grade as a band. Ora's scale: A+ is 95 to 100 (Leading), A is 86 to 94 (Agent-Ready), B is 70 to 85 (Competitive), C is 48 to 69 (Needs Work), D is 28 to 47 (At Risk) and F is 0 to 27 (Unusable). 2. Look at the four layer scores before the total. A strong total can hide a layer near zero. 3. Take the failed checks ranked by impact to your web team. Each failed check carries a recommendation in Ora's report. 4. Compare the total with the median for your sector on the [sector guide](https://amireadyforagents.com/for). 5. Rescan after each fix. Ora says a fresh scan takes about 30 seconds. The self-check level and the Ora grade can disagree, and the disagreement is useful. A high level with a low grade means decisions were made that the site does not yet show. A low level with a high grade means the site is ahead of the decisions behind it, so find who owns them. The [readiness levels](https://amireadyforagents.com/readiness-levels) page explains the level. ## What the scan leaves out - It reads public pages only: private, internal and login-gated pages are out of reach. - Ora publishes no data on repeat scans, and says only that the same scan twice converges within a couple of points. A move of one or two points is not a result. - Its fixing service is a waitlist, so the web team makes the fixes. - [Which agent-readiness tool should our team use](https://amireadyforagents.com/which-agent-readiness-tool)The rubric behind the recommendation and the other scanners. - [What is a good agent readiness score](https://amireadyforagents.com/what-is-a-good-agent-readiness-score)Where a result sits among 132,085 ranked companies. - [The self-check](https://amireadyforagents.com/self-check)Eighteen questions, scored in your browser. ## Sources 1. [Ora scanner bot page](https://ora.ai/bot?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan) (ora.ai/bot), read 5 Nov 2026. Vendor claim. 2. [Ora check catalogue API](https://ora.ai/api/checks?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan) (ora.ai/api/checks), read 5 Nov 2026. Vendor claim. 3. [Ora llms.txt](https://ora.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan) (ora.ai/llms.txt), read 5 Nov 2026. Vendor claim. 4. [Ora methodology](https://ora.ai/methodology?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan) (ora.ai/methodology), read 5 Nov 2026. Vendor claim. 5. [Ora: Introducing Deep Scan (8 Apr 2026)](https://ora.ai/blog/introducing-deep-scan?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan) (ora.ai/blog/introducing-deep-scan), read 5 Nov 2026. Vendor claim. 6. [Ora home page](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan) (ora.ai), read 5 Nov 2026. Vendor claim. Last reviewed 5 November 2026 Reviewed 5 November 2026. [6 sources](#sources), each with the day it was read. Scan your domain with [Ora](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=confirm-scan), then read its four layer scores against the table at the top of this page. Limits: public pages only, no published data on repeat scans, and a waitlist for its fixing service. [Which tool should our team use](https://amireadyforagents.com/which-agent-readiness-tool)