# Sextant

Sextant scores an ecommerce store on the signals AI shopping agents use
to find, understand and recommend products. Free scan, no signup, no install.

## What this site does

- [Free scan](https://sextantscan.com/): paste a store URL, get a 0 to 100
  score, an A to F grade and every failing check with its fix.
- [Pricing](https://sextantscan.com/pricing): the scan is free. Done for you
  implementation is a fixed GBP 300 to 500. Pro monitoring is in development.
- [Case studies](https://sextantscan.com/case-studies): real engagements,
  before and after. [BeadnFloat, our own WooCommerce store, 47 to
  89](https://sextantscan.com/case-studies/beadnfloat-woocommerce) is the
  first one, run as a dry run of the done for you tier.
- [Journal](https://sextantscan.com/journal): essays and product notes on
  agentic commerce.
- [Blog](https://sextantscan.com/blog): practical guides to agent readiness.
- [Feed](https://sextantscan.com/feed.xml): RSS for the Journal and the Blog.

## Reference reading

The definitive statement of what agent readiness means and why it matters:

- [The switch was flipped: agentic shopping is on, and most stores are not
  ready](https://sextantscan.com/journal/the-switch-was-flipped)

Measured sector data, with the method and its limits stated:

- [What a sector looks like when nobody is blocking the
  agents](https://sextantscan.com/journal/what-a-sector-looks-like): an
  agentic commerce audit of 19 fishing tackle retailers in British Columbia
  and the Pacific Northwest. Zero blocked any AI crawler; none scored above
  D. Small sample, one sector, one region, and the known skew is disclosed
  in the piece.

Practical guides:

- [What is agent readiness?](https://sextantscan.com/blog/what-is-agent-readiness)
- [Agentic commerce audit: what it covers and why stores fail](https://sextantscan.com/blog/agentic-commerce-audit)
- [Why ChatGPT does not show your products](https://sextantscan.com/blog/why-chatgpt-doesnt-show-your-products)
- [How to get your store recommended by AI shopping assistants](https://sextantscan.com/blog/get-recommended-by-ai-shopping-assistants)
- [Is your Shopify store invisible to AI?](https://sextantscan.com/blog/shopify-store-invisible-to-ai)
- [llms.txt for Shopify](https://sextantscan.com/blog/llms-txt-for-shopify)
- [The schema fields AI agents actually read](https://sextantscan.com/blog/schema-fields-ai-agents-read)
- [GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot: an ecommerce robots.txt guide](https://sextantscan.com/blog/ecommerce-robots-txt-ai-crawlers)

## What the scan measures

Five weighted categories, forty checks:

- Discovery (20 percent): llms.txt, llms-full.txt, agents.md, a UCP manifest at
  /.well-known/ucp, and a valid sitemap that exposes product URLs.
- Crawl access (25 percent): whether robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot,
  OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot or Google-Extended, whether there is a blanket
  disallow, HTTPS, and homepage response time under 3 seconds.
- Product schema (25 percent): Product JSON-LD, an Offer with price and
  currency, availability, SKU, GTIN or MPN, AggregateRating, BreadcrumbList.
- Merchant data (15 percent): MerchantReturnPolicy, OfferShippingDetails,
  FAQPage and Organization structured data.
- Content quality (15 percent): product titles of 30 characters or more,
  descriptions of 500 characters or more, and 3 or more detectable images.

## API

- POST /api/scan with {"url": "example.com"} returns a scan id. Limited to 3
  scans per IP per day.
- GET /api/scan/{id} returns status and, once complete, the full report as JSON.
- GET /api/self-score returns this site own score, refreshed daily.

## Contact

Email hello@sextantscan.com