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What does the check cover?
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Two independent checks run together. The security check opens the homepage in an isolated browser and looks for threats: threat-database listings, domain age, lookalike addresses, fake sign-in or card forms, data sent to third parties, malicious downloads and the company behind the site. The AI-readiness check requests the site as eight AI crawlers and tests the standards that decide whether AI systems can reach, read and cite it.
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How is the security score calculated?
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Each piece of evidence adds or removes points from a neutral 50. Hard evidence — a listing in Google Safe Browsing, VirusTotal or a phishing feed, a sign-in form that posts to another domain, data sent to a collector — caps the score at high risk, however polished the site looks. Missing data is shown as lower evidence coverage, not as danger.
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Does a good score mean the business is honest?
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No. Automated checks find known warning signs and confirm public facts; they cannot prove that a shop delivers or that a company is honest. Check payment and refund terms before you buy.
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Is this the same as SEO?
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No. Classic SEO optimizes for ranked links; the readiness check measures whether autonomous agents can fetch and use your site at all. A site can rank well in Google and still be invisible to AI assistants — for example if a WAF challenges every bot user-agent.
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Do I need to install anything?
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No. Both checks read only public pages, the way a visitor or a crawler would. No code, no tags, no access to your server.
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How is the readiness score calculated?
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Each check carries points weighted by severity (Critical, Major, Minor) and grouped into five categories: Discoverability, Content, Bot access, Policy and Capabilities. Your score is the sum of passed checks against the maximum for your profile, converted to a percentage and an A–F grade.
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What is the AI trust opinion and why is it separate?
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A separate language model estimates trust from identity, transparency and reputation. It is an opinion, not a measurement, so it never changes the readiness grade and never overrides a security warning.
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How often can I re-scan?
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Saved results are reused for 7 days. A fresh check is free within a small daily limit per visitor, which keeps the load on scanned sites reasonable.
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Are results public, and what do you keep?
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Scores and summaries are public so anyone can look a site up. A security scan keeps a homepage screenshot and page evidence for 40 days; after that only aggregate scores remain. Site owners can ask us to remove a security report.
