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# Grounded answer: plain-language definition | Am I Ready for Agents?

> Grounded answer: An agent's answer built from the business's own pages rather than from search results or other sites. Dated and sourced.

Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/grounded-answer
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Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# Grounded answer

## In short

A grounded answer is the goal: an answer built from your own pages rather than from someone else's. Read on in How agents change SEO budgets. Compare it with Agent journey and Initial HTML. Ora's lab found 78 percent of runs on agent-ready sites ended with a grounded answer, against 56 percent otherwise (8 Oct 2026).

## Definition

An agent's answer built from the business's own pages rather than from search results or other sites.

## A dated example

-   Read 4 Nov 2026
    
    Ora's lab found 78 percent of runs on agent-ready sites ended with a grounded answer, against 56 percent otherwise (8 Oct 2026).
    
    Vendor claim. [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=glossary), read 4 Nov 2026
    

## Where it matters

It is the goal: an answer built from your own pages rather than from someone else's.

-   [How agents change SEO budgets](https://amireadyforagents.com/guides/how-agents-change-seo-budgets)

## Related terms

-   [Agent journey](https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/agent-journey)A recorded run in which an agent is given a real task on a site, with every step, stall and outcome logged.
-   [Initial HTML](https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/initial-html)The page as your server first sends it, before any scripts run.

## Sources

1.  [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=glossary) (ora.ai/blog/ax-is-the-new-aeo), read 4 Nov 2026. Vendor claim.

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Reviewed 4 November 2026. [1 source](#sources), each with the day it was read.