The readiness score is a single A to F grade for how readable your store is to AI shopping assistants. It is not an SEO score. It measures whether an assistant can identify your brand, read your products, reach your pages, and trust your store enough to recommend it.
The five dimensions
Every check rolls up into one of five categories, each scored out of 100:
- Brand identity. Can an assistant tell who you are? Organization and WebSite structured data, your name, logo, and linked social profiles.
- Products and catalog. Can it read and recommend your products? Product schema, price and availability, ratings, product identifiers (GTIN/MPN), and images.
- AI discovery files. Can the crawlers reach you?
robots.txtaccess for AI search bots, an XML sitemap,llms.txt, andagents.md. - Answer-engine basics. The metadata answer engines summarize from: title, meta description, canonical URL, Open Graph, and declared language.
- Trust and policies. The signals that make an assistant comfortable recommending you: return policy, shipping details, and FAQ structured data.
How the grade is weighted
Checks are weighted by impact, not counted equally. Product structured data and AI-crawler access carry the most weight, because an assistant that cannot read your products or reach your store cannot recommend you at all. Lower-weight items like a meta description or a declared language still count, but they move the number less.
The grade bands are A (90+), B (75 to 89), C (60 to 74), D (40 to 59), and F (below 40).
The score cap
If your robots.txt blocks an AI search crawler site-wide (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Googlebot, or Amazonbot), the headline score is capped at the D band no matter how clean the rest of your data is. The logic is blunt on purpose: pristine structured data is worthless if the engine that would read it is shut out. Fix the bot access first, then the rest of your work starts counting.
Reading the checklist
The checklist sorts gaps by impact, failures first, then warnings, then passing checks. Each row gives you three things: what an assistant currently sees, the specific fix, and a link to a guide if you want the full background.
The list is split into two groups. AgentReady fixes these are the structured-data gaps the app resolves automatically when it syncs. Do these yourself are the items that live in your theme or settings (your page title, canonical tags, robots.txt), which AgentReady reports but does not edit for you.
A note on freshness
Your score reflects your store at the moment of the last sync. As you add products or change policies, re-sync so the score and the published data stay current. On paid plans this happens automatically on every edit.