AI Agent Readiness covers the infrastructure layer that lets AI agents navigate, understand, and reference your site. Worth 23% of your AEO score, this category tests whether AI systems can discover your content, resolve your canonical identity, and find structured answers to common questions.
A valid XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml listing all public pages.
Why AI cares: AI crawlers use sitemaps as a road map to discover all indexable content. Missing sitemap = incomplete coverage.
Every page must include a <link rel="canonical"> tag pointing to its preferred URL.
Why AI cares: Duplicate content confuses AI models. Canonical tags ensure AI systems index and cite the correct URL.
Include a visible FAQ section on your homepage, pricing, and product pages with real questions your customers ask.
Why AI cares: AI models look for pre-formed answers to user questions. FAQ sections are the most reliable source for quotable, accurate responses.
Each sitemap URL entry should include a <lastmod> date reflecting when the page was last updated.
Why AI cares: AI models prefer fresh, recently-updated content. Stale lastmod dates signal that content may be outdated.
Include sameAs links in your Organization schema pointing to your Wikidata entity, Crunchbase profile, LinkedIn, and other authoritative sources.
Why AI cares: Knowledge graph signals help AI models disambiguate your brand from similar names and cross-reference facts about you.
Add Offer schema to your pricing page or product schema, including price, priceCurrency, and priceValidUntil.
Why AI cares: When users ask AI models "how much does X cost?", AI models prioritize answers from structured pricing data over unstructured text.
Publish a plain-text file at /entities.txt listing your brand, products, key people, and competitors you operate alongside.
Why AI cares: entities.txt is an emerging AI-native format (similar to llms.txt) that gives AI agents a structured map of your knowledge domain.
Each entity in entities.txt should include name, type, description, and URL.
Why AI cares: Incomplete entity files are less useful than complete ones. AI models use these to disambiguate and cross-reference.
Reference /entities.txt in your sitemap.xml and/or link to it from your homepage footer.
Why AI cares: AI crawlers need to find the file to benefit from it. Discoverability is a prerequisite for utility.
AI agent readiness measures how well your website is structured for autonomous AI systems to navigate, discover, and extract information. This includes proper sitemaps, canonical URLs, structured Q&A content, and entity files that give AI agents a clear map of your site's knowledge domain.
entities.txt is an emerging AI-native file format (similar to llms.txt) that you publish at the root of your website. It lists your brand, products, key people, and related entities in a structured plain-text format, giving AI agents a knowledge map of your organization without requiring them to crawl and interpret your entire site.
AI crawlers, like search engine crawlers, can encounter the same content at multiple URLs. Without canonical tags, they may index duplicate versions and cite inconsistent URLs. Canonical tags ensure that AI systems credit and link to the version of your content you prefer.
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