What to ask a vendor who says "agent ready"
In short
Ask any vendor who says agent ready five questions: does it show the evidence behind the score, does it name the fix, are its prices published, does it measure after the fix, and does it work with your stack. They separate tools that measure task completion from tools that measure mentions. The vendors page scores four examples.
The five questions
- Does it show the evidence behind the score?
- Good: a list of named checks, each with pass or fail, and a method page. Weak: a single number with no breakdown.
- Does it name the fix?
- Good: each failure points to a change and who makes it. Weak: a report that describes the problem and stops.
- Are the prices published?
- Good: a price page you can read today. Weak: contact sales for a tool that reports on public pages.
- Does it measure after the fix?
- Good: you can re-run the same checks and see the change. Weak: a dashboard of new numbers that cannot be compared with the old ones.
- Does it work with your stack?
- Good: it names the platforms it supports and what it cannot see, such as pages behind a login. Weak: it works with everything.
Questions do not make a vendor good or bad. They show whether it measures what you are buying it for. A tool that tracks mentions in AI answers answers a different question from one that runs an agent on your checkout, and you may need both.
What the evidence says
Give a buyer five questions that separate tools that measure task completion from tools that measure mentions.
- 4 Nov 2026
Ora's fixing product is behind a waitlist with no published price; its scan is free (read 4 Nov 2026).
- 19 Oct 2026
AgentReady requirements carry stable identifiers such as AR-FIND-01 and strengths MUST, SHOULD and MAY; the spec itself scores no one.
- 1 Jul 2026
Cloudflare's AI traffic controls are available on every plan, including Free, since 1 July 2026.
- Read 4 Nov 2026
Scrunch lists Starter at 250 US dollars a month billed annually and Growth at 417, Enterprise custom (read 4 Nov 2026).
- Read 4 Nov 2026
Scrunch's pricing page does not say which plans include AXP, its AI-friendly site version (read 4 Nov 2026).
- Read 4 Nov 2026
Cloudflare's free scanner at isitagentready.com checks discoverability, content accessibility, bot access control, protocol discovery and commerce.
Related
- What to ask a vendorOra first, then three others, scored on the same five questions.
- Which tool should our team useThe scanner rubric and the recommendation.
- What to measureTask completion and mentions as two lines.
- What to budgetThe cheap fixes first.
Sources
- Ora home page (ora.ai), read 4 Nov 2026. Vendor claim.
- Introducing AgentReady.org (19 Oct 2026) (ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch), read 4 Nov 2026.
- Cloudflare changelog: New options to manage AI traffic (1 Jul 2026) (developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-01-ai-traffic-options), read 4 Nov 2026.
- Scrunch pricing (scrunch.com/pricing), read 4 Nov 2026. Vendor claim.
- Is Your Site Agent-Ready? (Cloudflare, isitagentready.com) (isitagentready.com), read 4 Nov 2026.
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