ACS checks your public site against the open AgentReady standard (agentready.org) — the discoverability, machine-readable content, structured-data, and capability signals AI shopping agents use — plus the commerce layer that standard doesn't cover: product clarity, trust pages, policies, checkout path, and ACP/UCP planning signals.
ACS checks your site against the open AgentReady specification (agentready.org/spec.json): we meet its web agent-readiness requirements — discoverability and agent-readable content — and extend them, so your results map to published, versioned requirements rather than our opinion. On top of that baseline, ACS adds its own commerce-trust and policy checks for merchants who sell. ACS is an independent implementation built on the open standard.
No. ACS is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, OpenAI (ACP), Shopify or Google (UCP), Anthropic, or any AI platform. ACS provides readiness guidance against an open standard — not certification, approval, or an official score from any platform.
No. ACS checks public readiness signals only. It does not guarantee discovery, citation, or purchase by any AI agent, approval for ACP, UCP, or Merchant Center, or any ranking or inclusion in AI search. Readiness improves your odds; it doesn't promise outcomes that platforms control.
No — that's the point. Shopify and Stripe-native merchants are largely auto-enrolled into agentic commerce. ACS is built for custom-stack and headless merchants — Next.js, Vercel, Supabase, custom Stripe/PayPal, headless WooCommerce — who have to expose these signals themselves.
It depends on your stack and where you want AI agents to find you. The AgentReady standard treats some machine-readable discovery files like llms.txt as recommended signals for AI agents — not mandatory, and separate from traditional search. ACS tells you which ones actually apply to your site and which you can skip.
The free Custom-Stack Site Review is a manual, human read of your public pages with the top agent-readiness gaps. The $7.99 Full Agentic Commerce Readiness Report (per submitted URL) adds your readiness score, a per-category breakdown against the standard, evidence, prioritized fixes, and matching package recommendations, emailed to you. If you'd rather ACS implement the fixes, the done-for-you packages start at $299.
No. ACS is a readiness assessment, not certification or approval. No one — not ACS, not any AI platform — can certify a site as guaranteed agent-ready. ACS shows where you stand against the open standard and what to fix next.