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What a scan does, and what it does not do
A scan sends a real AI agent at your storefront and records where it got to: whether it could find your catalogue, read your product data, compare you against an alternative, and drive your checkout toward the payment step. It stops before payment, it never places an order, and it reports what it observed rather than what it guessed.
What it covers
- Discover. Whether your store and catalogue can be found and enumerated at all.
- Evaluate. Whether your price, availability, variants and terms can be read.
- Compare. Whether your delivered total is computable well enough to be weighed against an alternative.
- Buy. Whether a real product can be driven toward the payment step.
Each stop is reported against a named stall, with the mechanism behind it and the change that removes it. The full set is in the stall library.
What it deliberately does not do
- It does not buy anything. The journey stops before the payment step.
- It does not pretend to be a person. The agent identifies itself, comes from published addresses, and respects your robots rules.
- It does not guess. Where your store does not say something, the report says that you do not say it, which is a different finding from you not meeting the requirement.
- It does not test everything every time. A store that fails at discovery is never measured on its checkout, because nothing got that far.
Why a signal check is not the same thing
Tools that read your storefront can tell you your product markup is present. They cannot tell you your variant picker only answers a hover, or that your checkout loses its cart in an in-app browser. Those are behaviours, and behaviour only appears when something tries.
That distinction is the whole argument, and it is set out in agent readiness score vs purchase attempt.
Questions
Does a scan place a real order?
No. The journey stops before the payment step. Nothing is bought, no order reaches your system, and no payment details are submitted.
Will it change anything on my store?
No. It reads pages and drives the same controls a shopper would, up to the point before payment. It does not create accounts, place orders or alter settings.