Agent Check
206 companies audited · September 2026

Can an AI agent actually buy from you?

Assistants find companies, read their docs, then stop dead at checkout — no account, no API key, no way to pay. Paste a domain and get a measured, reproducible answer in about ten seconds.

Free, no signup. We fetch only what a public agent fetches — llms.txt, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, schema.org markup, /.well-known/* manifests, your pricing page, and an HTTP 402 probe.

Findings

    Get the 2-minute teardown

    Three assistants attempting a real purchase from you, time-stamped at the moment they fail — plus the one-page fix list.

    Can be paid by a machine
    0 / 206

    Not one has a live HTTP 402 challenge. 189 of 206 are gated at “Sign up”.

    Highest score · median
    85 · 55

    Across 206 companies. Nobody finishes the funnel.

    Would have to change
    189 / 206

    Block an unattended agent at purchase, and 0 publish a pay-per-call endpoint.

    The funnel an agent walks

    Six gates. Everyone passes the cheap ones and fails the one that pays.

    Measured on 206 public surfaces — payments, logistics, healthcare, insurance, HR, martech, dev-infra, travel. Reproduce any row with node audit.js <domain>.

    01
    Discover it
    llms.txt, sitemap.xml — 43 of 206 have no sitemap
    widely passed
    02
    Read the catalog
    149 of 206 have no llms-full.txt; 139 have no schema.org Offer markup
    half done
    03
    Get past robots.txt
    Only 5 of 206 block named AI agents outright
    mostly open
    04
    Find a machine price
    Prices exist as prose behind a session, not as data
    partial
    05
    Buy without a human
    189 of 206 stop at “Sign up” / “Contact sales”
    fails
    06
    Pay as a machine
    0 of 206 return HTTP 402 with a payment challenge
    universal failure

    Read the full Verified Agent Report →  ·  watch a machine buy something live →

    What we ship

    Twelve files, generated from your public site in one command.

    Not a slide deck. node build.js <domain> produces the surface, and the same auditor that scored you scores the result: 100/100, checkable live at acme-data.outcomedev.com.

    llms.txt
    What an agent should read, in order
    llms-full.txt
    Everything inlined for large-context models
    .well-known/agent-card.json
    A2A: how an agent addresses you
    .well-known/mcp.json
    MCP descriptor for tool discovery
    mcp-server.js
    A working MCP server over your API
    x402-server.js
    The HTTP 402 pay-per-call endpoint
    schema.jsonld
    Prices as data, not prose
    agent-policy.json
    Spend caps and allow-lists for risk review
    robots-snippet.txt
    Explicit allowance for named agents
    PRICING.md
    Machine-readable price list
    AGENTS-API.md
    Auth, limits, errors, purchasing
    DEPLOY.md
    Ship it in an afternoon
    Pricing

    What you pay, what you get, and when.

    Three options, priced against what one agent transaction is worth. No seats, no per-call meter on our side, no annual lock-in.

    1 · Measure
    $2,000 once

    Seven days. Know your own number before you commit to anything.

    • You get: agent traffic instrumented on your site — which assistants arrive, what they attempt, where they fail, with timestamps
    • You get: the one-page fix list for your domain
    • You pay: on signature, and it is credited in full against a build within 30 days
    Pay $2,000 and start
    2 · Build it · most vendors
    $15,000 once

    For anything an agent buys for $1 or more — labels, messages, payments, bookings, reports.

    • You get: all twelve files built against your API and deployed — llms.txt, agent card, MCP server, schema.org pricing, 402 pay-per-call endpoint, spend-cap policy
    • You get: one paid agent transaction completed end to end on your rails, and the recording of it
    • You get: us as merchant of record for the agent channel — tax, disputes, settlement
    • You pay: 50% on signature, 50% at go-live. About two weeks.
    • Then: 15% of agent-sourced revenue, billed monthly in arrears — first $10,000 free
    Pay the $7,500 deposit

    2,000 agent actions a month at $8 is $192,000 a year of channel revenue; the fee pays back in about six months.

    3 · Build it · penny tickets
    $5,000 once

    For per-call pricing under a cent, where a percentage take is meaningless and card networks cannot settle.

    • You get: machine-readable catalog and pricing, prepaid credits so agents can spend without a human, and an x402 / MPP micropayment endpoint
    • You get: the same proof — one paid agent call completed end to end
    • You pay: 50% on signature, 50% at go-live
    • Then: a flat platform fee on credits spent, not a percentage
    Email us about tier 3

    We grade every target from what one agent transaction is worth. If the build cannot pay for itself at your transaction size, we will say so and quote option 3 instead — or tell you to wait and come back.

    Questions we get

    The honest answers.

    What exactly do I get for $15,000?

    Two weeks of engineering against your API, and the twelve files that make it purchasable by a machine: a metered access layer, agent identity with spend caps, payment acceptance across four competing protocols (x402, MPP, scoped card credential, prepaid credits), a merchant-of-record wrapper so you are not handling tax and disputes, schema.org pricing, an A2A agent card, a working MCP server, and one paid agent transaction proven end to end. It is the same shape of work as any integration project — roughly a developer-month plus payments expertise — delivered in two weeks because the surface is generated, not hand-written.

    When do I pay?

    Measurement on signature, credited against a build within 30 days. On a build: 50% on signature, 50% at go-live, about two weeks later. The 15% channel fee only starts once agents are actually spending, is billed monthly in arrears, and the first $10,000 of it is free — so in practice the fee begins in a later quarter than the build.

    What if it does not work?

    Start with the $2,000 measurement: if agent traffic to your site is negligible, you will know in a week and we will say so rather than sell you a build. On the build, the second invoice is cancelled if three criteria fail — agent traffic measured and attributed within 7 days, at least one paid agent transaction settled end to end, and a cost per paid transaction below your human-assisted alternative.

    Who owns the customer?

    You do. We are merchant of record for the agent channel only, which means we absorb the tax, the disputes and the settlement plumbing. Your existing customer relationships, pricing and contracts are untouched.

    How fast?

    Measurement in a week. A full build is about two weeks from kickoff, and the surface is generated rather than hand-written — which is why it is two weeks and not two quarters.

    What if agents never buy anything?

    Then you have spent $2,000 and learned your own number, and the machine-readable work still improves how assistants describe and recommend you — which is measurable today: AI-referred traffic converts better than human traffic in Adobe's and Shopify's published data. We would rather tell you that than sell you a story.