# AI agents are your new customers. I built a checker to see which stores they can actually read > Source: > Published: 2026-11-06 07:39:48+00:00 A shopper asks ChatGPT for "a waterproof hiking jacket under $150 that ships to Dubai". The answer gets built from whatever the agent could read in the **few seconds** it spent on your store. If it couldn't read you, you aren't in the answer. Nobody tells you that you lost the sale. I kept getting the same question from store owners: *"Are we visible to these things or not?"* Guessing wasn't good enough, so I built a checker that fetches a store the way an agent does and scores what it finds. Once you strip it down, it comes to **8 checks**. They don't all count the same: | Check | Weight | |---|---| | Store is open (no password page) | **15** | | AI search crawlers allowed in robots.txt | **20** | | Refund, privacy and terms policies published | **20** | | Product pages carry Product JSON-LD (name, image, price, currency) | **20** | | Brand, stock, barcode, shipping and returns in that data | **10** | | `/.well-known/ucp` answers (Universal Commerce Protocol) | **10** | | Sitemap published | **5** | | Descriptions answer real questions | **5** | `llms.txt` / `agents.md` get reported but weigh **0**. Nobody has shown agents rely on them yet, and I didn't want the score to reward hype. Plenty of stores added blanket AI blocks in 2024 to stop training scrapers, and they took out the *search* bots in the same line. Training bots and shopping-answer bots are different user agents: ``` # Blocks training only. Fine. User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / # Blocks ChatGPT search answers. Probably not what you meant. User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: / ``` The checker looks at **3** agents: `OAI-SearchBot`, `PerplexityBot` and `Googlebot`. Training blocks get a note in the report but don't lower the score. A public "enter any URL" tool turns into an SSRF tool unless you lock it down: It samples up to **3** product pages, not one. A single product page lies too often: one product has rich data, the next has nothing. On a first run, a big store scored badly on "product data". The JSON-LD was there. Shopify had answered my second request with a **429** (rate limited), and my code read the empty body as "no structured data". Now a 429 gets polite retries with backoff. If the page still won't load, the report says *"didn't load"* as a warning instead of failing the store. A checker that confidently tells you wrong things is worse than no checker at all. `priceCurrency`, so agents can't compare prices` OAI-SearchBot` Each of these takes **under an hour** to fix. The problem is that nobody checks. The checker is free and needs no signup: paste a store URL and you get a score with the exact fix for each failed check. 👉 [Check if AI agents can read your store](https://fahadazhar.site/blog/is-my-shopify-store-ready-for-ai-agents) If you build stores for clients, run it on one of yours and tell me in the comments what it caught. I'm still tuning the weights.