--- title: "Ten decisions for leadership | Am I Ready for Agents?" description: "Ten decisions about AI agents that belong to leadership, each with its options, what each costs, dated facts and the sentence for your web team." canonical: https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions site: "Am I Ready for Agents?" last_updated: 2026-11-04 section: "Decisions" --- # Ten decisions for leadership | Am I Ready for Agents? > Ten decisions about AI agents that belong to leadership, each with its options, what each costs, dated facts and the sentence for your web team. Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions Site: Am I Ready for Agents? Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 # Ten decisions about AI agents ## In short Ten decisions about AI agents belong to leadership rather than developers: which bots to let in, whether to charge crawlers, whether prices are readable text, whether an agent may complete a purchase, whether to publish an interface, agent payments, verification, what legal needs, what to measure and what to budget. Each page sets out options and dated facts. ## The ten decisions - [Which AI bots and agents to let in](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/which-bots-to-allow)Four kinds of AI visitor, four separate choices, one robots.txt that matches your bot protection. - [Whether to charge AI crawlers and agents](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/whether-to-charge-crawlers)Revenue against reach: what charging for access can cost you in AI answers. - [Whether prices and policies are readable as text](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/readable-prices-and-policies)Which prices, fees and policies are plain text on the page an agent reads. - [Whether an agent may complete a purchase](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/agent-completes-purchase)Whether a customer's agent may finish the purchase or must hand back the last step. - [Whether to publish an API or an MCP server](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/publish-api-or-mcp)Whether agents finish tasks through an interface you publish, or through your web forms. - [Whether to accept agent payments](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/agent-payments)Which agent payment routes you accept, and through which provider. - [How to tell verified agents from unknown bots](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/verifying-agents)Whether agents that prove who runs them are treated differently from unknown bots. - [What to tell legal](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/what-to-tell-legal)What your terms and consent rules say about agents acting for customers. - [What to measure](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/what-to-measure)Task completion and mentions in AI answers, tracked as two separate lines. - [What to budget](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/what-to-budget)Which line pays for agent experience, and what the first spend buys. ## How to use them Read the decision and its options with the people who own the outcome. Each page names who decides, lists three options with the consequence of each, and shows the dated facts behind them. Settle one decision per meeting rather than all ten, and write the answer on one page with a review date. The sentence at the side of each decision is written for your web team. All ten are collected on [ask your web team](https://amireadyforagents.com/ask-your-web-team), together with the technical checks from the [self-check](https://amireadyforagents.com/self-check). ## Sources 1. [Cloudflare: Disallow AI Training, Accountable crawlers (15 Sep 2026)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers/) (blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers), read 4 Nov 2026. 2. [Cloudflare: The Internet has a second audience (30 Sep 2026)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web/) (blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web), read 4 Nov 2026. 3. [Ora research: AX is the new AEO (8 Oct 2026)](https://ora.ai/blog/ax-is-the-new-aeo?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=decision-index) (ora.ai/blog/ax-is-the-new-aeo), read 4 Nov 2026. 4. [Google: holiday shopping updates (16 Sep 2026)](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/shopping/google-shopping-updates-holiday-shopping/) (blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/shopping/google-shopping-updates-holiday-shopping), read 4 Nov 2026. 5. [AgentReady.org guide](https://agentready.org/?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=decision-index) (agentready.org), read 4 Nov 2026. 6. [Microsoft Advertising: Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents (Jan 2026)](https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en/blog/post/january-2026/conversations-that-convert-copilot-checkout-and-brand-agents) (about.ads.microsoft.com/en/blog/post/january-2026/conversations-that-convert-copilot-checkout-and-brand-agents), read 4 Nov 2026. 7. [Retail Gazette: Amazon blocks Meta's Muse (22 Sep 2026)](https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2026/09/amazon-blocks-metas-new-ai-shopping-agent-from-its-website/) (retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2026/09/amazon-blocks-metas-new-ai-shopping-agent-from-its-website), read 4 Nov 2026. 8. [Ora home page](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=decision-index) (ora.ai), read 4 Nov 2026. 9. [Introducing AgentReady.org (19 Oct 2026)](https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=decision-index) (ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch), read 4 Nov 2026. Last reviewed 4 November 2026