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title: "Agent readiness: plain-language definition | Am I Ready for Agents?"
description: "Agent readiness: How well a site supports AI agents across finding, reading, acting and paying. What it is, a dated example and where it matters."
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# Agent readiness: plain-language definition | Am I Ready for Agents?

> Agent readiness: How well a site supports AI agents across finding, reading, acting and paying. What it is, a dated example and where it matters.

Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/agent-readiness
Site: Am I Ready for Agents?
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05

# Agent readiness

## In short

Agent readiness is what the self-check scores, in five areas, from your own answers. The self-check is the next stop after Agent readiness. Compare it with Scanner and AgentReady and Agent experience (AX). Ora reported an average score of 44 out of 100 across 145,922 sites scanned on 5 Nov 2026.

## Definition

How well a site supports AI agents across finding, reading, acting and paying. Scanners turn it into a score; the self-check turns it into decisions.

## A dated example

-   Read 5 Nov 2026
    
    Ora reported an average score of 44 out of 100 across 145,922 sites scanned on 5 Nov 2026.
    
    Vendor claim. [Ora home page](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=glossary), read 5 Nov 2026
    

## Where it matters

It is what the self-check scores, in five areas, from your own answers.

-   [The self-check](https://amireadyforagents.com/self-check)
-   [Readiness levels](https://amireadyforagents.com/readiness-levels)

## Related terms

-   [Scanner](https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/scanner)A tool that checks a site against agent readiness practices and returns a score and failing checks.
-   [AgentReady](https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/agentready)An open, MIT-licensed list of what a product should implement so agents can find, read and act, maintained by Ora with partners.
-   [Agent experience (AX)](https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/agent-experience-ax)How an AI agent experiences your business once it arrives: whether it can find, read, act on, pay and trust your site.

## Sources

1.  [Ora home page](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=glossary) (ora.ai), read 5 Nov 2026. Vendor claim.

Last reviewed 5 November 2026

Reviewed 5 November 2026. [1 source](#sources), each with the day it was read.