The 5-point AI-readiness spot check, explained.

This site offers a quick spot-check: five questions about your storefront that take a few minutes and point at where the highest-leverage AI-readiness gap is likely to be. It is deliberately smaller than our full commerce audit — a spot-check, not a scored report — and it is worth explaining exactly what it does and does not do.

What five checks, and why those five

Our full commerce audit scores ten dimensions: product titles, descriptions, variants, category guidance, contact info, structured data, returns, shipping, payment availability, and FAQ. Running that audit against real stores repeatedly showed that six of those ten are close to solved on modern platforms — product and structured data are rarely the problem. The spot-check focuses on the handful that keep failing in practice: a reachable, real shipping policy; a reachable, real returns policy; a clear payment-methods answer; a findable FAQ page; and whether your policy links actually point where their labels say they point, instead of two links resolving to the same page.

Those five are chosen because they are fast to check by hand, they are the ones an AI shopping agent is most likely to ask about before a purchase, and — based on what we have found reviewing real independent stores — they are the ones most likely to be missing, broken, or mislabeled even on an otherwise well-built site.

What the spot-check is not

It is not a crawl of your entire site, it does not render JavaScript, it does not check a second locale or currency, and it does not touch anything behind a login. It is a first read, meant to tell you whether it is worth doing the deeper audit, not a substitute for one. It does not score product copy quality, SEO, or design — only whether the specific answers an AI agent needs exist and are reachable.

What happens with the result

You get the five findings directly, in plain language, with no obligation attached. If a gap is worth fixing with a bounded engagement, we say so and point at the relevant service. If nothing meaningful turns up, we say that too — a clean spot-check is a legitimate result, not a sales dead end.

Why a spot-check at all, instead of always running the full audit

The full ten-point audit takes longer to run and produces a longer report, which is the right depth once you already know something needs fixing. Most people arrive at this site not knowing that yet — they suspect their storefront is fine because it looks fine to a human, and looking fine to a human is exactly the case where the gap hides. A five-minute check that either confirms "you're clean" or surfaces one concrete, named problem is a lower-commitment way to find out which situation you're actually in, before either of us spends more time on it.

It also keeps the incentive honest. A shorter check makes it easier for us to tell you nothing is wrong, because there is less sunk effort pushing us to find something to report. That is the same reason the full audit exists as a separate, clearly bigger step rather than an automatic upsell tacked onto the spot-check result.