The next commerce channel is already here.

AI agents are your new customers.Is your store ready to be chosen?

More and more shopping happens through AI assistants like ChatGPT. Aheadness checks your store the way they experience it — whether they can find you, read you correctly, and complete a purchase — then tells you exactly what to fix, in plain English.

Your report arrives on screen — we only use your email to save your free-scan allowance (one per store every 90 days).

⏱️ Takes ~20 seconds👀 Read-only — nothing changes on your store💬 Plain-English results🧾 Evidence behind every finding

A new buying journey

Shopping is shifting from search boxes to AI conversations.

Shoppers are changing how they discover products, businesses are preparing, and agent-mediated commerce is moving from experiment to commercial channel.

Business response

48%

of organizations are preparing content for AI discovery.

Adobe, 2026

2030 projection

$3–5T

in global consumer commerce could be mediated by AI agents.

McKinsey, 2025
  1. 1.Shopper asks
  2. 2.Agent interprets
  3. 3.Agent compares
  4. 4.Store gets considered

If an agent cannot reliably understand your catalogue or checkout, your store may be absent before a human ever sees the shortlist.

What is Aheadness?

A check-up for your store's newest customer: the AI shopping assistant. Three steps, no installation, no tech skills needed.

Aheadness tests whether shopping agents can discover your products, understand what you sell, and make it through checkout — then turns the results into a clear list of what to fix.

1

Enter your store's address

That's genuinely all we need. No installs, no passwords, no access to your admin.

2

We test all four layers

Our scanner experiences your store the way AI assistants do — finding, reading, and walking the path to checkout.

3

Fix with clear guidance

A score out of 100, what's working, and a prioritized fix-first list in plain English — plus a PDF for your developer.

The four layers of agent-readiness

Every scan tests all four — most tools stop at the first.

🔍In every scan

Discoverability

Can AI find your store and list your products? Crawler access, sitemaps, catalog feeds, structured data.

🧠In every scan

Comprehension

Does AI read your prices, stock and policies correctly? We cross-check every source — and have a real AI model read your pages.

🛒In every scan

Transactability

Could an agent actually buy? Every scan performs a read-only preflight of search, product options, add-to-cart and checkout. Full live-agent journeys are a clearly labelled early-access capability.

🔌In every scan

Protocol readiness

Do you speak the new agent-commerce protocols (MCP, ACP, UCP)? Specs move quarterly; we track them so you don't have to.

Built to be trusted

🧾 Evidence, always

We never report a finding we can't prove. Every check carries the exact responses, markup and model outputs behind it.

👀 Read-only by design

Public pages only. No logins, no store access, no orders — journeys stop long before any payment step.

🔒 Your data stays yours

Accounts are isolated at the database level (row-level security). We hold no store credentials and no payment details — billing runs on Stripe.

📐 A score you can explain

The scoring rubric is versioned and published in every report — no black-box grades.

Free to score. Paid to stay safe.

A scan is a snapshot — but your store, the AI agents, and the protocols all change weekly. Monitoring is how you find out before your customers' assistants do.

Free Scan

$0

See your Agent-Readiness Score in minutes.

  • • One full scan of your storefront across all four layers
  • • Agent-Readiness Score /100 on screen and in a PDF report
  • • Your top 3 issues, in full detail with evidence
  • • See how many further findings were detected (unlock with Monitor)
Most popular

Monitor

A$199/mo per storefront

Early-access monitoring plan — activation is confirmed before billing.

  • • Available now: full evidence-backed scanner and on-demand rescans
  • • Early-access rollout: weekly scans and daily change checks
  • • Early-access rollout: live journeys and screenshot/video evidence
  • • Early-access rollout: email and Slack regression alerts
  • • 4 on-demand rescans/month to verify your fixes
  • • Early-access rollout: re-checks when agent protocols change

Multiple stores? 20% off each additional storefront.

Monitor Daily

A$499/mo per storefront

Daily monitoring tier — available when scheduled monitoring launches.

  • • Planned: everything in Monitor, checked every day
  • • 12 on-demand rescans/month
  • • Planned: category benchmark against comparable stores

Agency

A$1,499/mo

Agency early access — contact us for the current delivery scope.

  • • Planned: 10 client storefronts on weekly monitoring
  • • Planned: client spaces and per-client digests
  • • Planned: white-label PDF reports with agency branding

For a $10M-GMV store, A$199/month is less than one lost order — against the risk of an entire agent sales channel silently broken for weeks.

Prices in AUD, cancel anytime. We check on schedule and tell you the moment a check finds something.

On the roadmap: API access, CI/on-deploy scan triggers, analytics integration.

Questions, answered

What exactly is an “AI shopping agent”?

When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity “what's the best running shoe under $150?” — and increasingly, “buy it for me” — software visits stores, reads product pages, compares options, and completes purchases on the shopper's behalf. That software is the agent, and it experiences your store very differently from a human.

Is the scan safe? Will it change anything on my store?

The scan is read-only. We fetch public pages the way an AI assistant would — nothing is installed, nothing is changed, no order is ever placed, and we stop well before any payment step. We identify ourselves honestly as an automated visitor.

Do I need technical skills to use the report?

No. Every finding is explained in plain English with a “what to do” recommendation you can act on yourself or forward to whoever looks after your site. The raw technical evidence is included for developers, one click away.

Which platforms do you support?

Any public storefront can be scanned. Shopify stores get the deepest coverage today (feed, cart, checkout and agent-endpoint checks), with BigCommerce next. The score is comparable across platforms.

How is the score calculated?

It's a weighted roll-up of four layers — Discoverability (35%), Comprehension (25%), Transactability (25%) and Protocol readiness (15%). Every point traces to a specific check with captured evidence: we never report a finding we can't show you proof for.

What does monitoring add over the free scan?

A scan is a snapshot; stores and AI agents both change weekly. The monitoring tiers are currently early access: scheduled rescans, live agent purchase journeys, and regression alerts will activate only as those capabilities roll out, while on-demand evidence-backed rescans are available now.

Something else on your mind? Get in touch — we reply within one business day.

Your next customer might not be human.

Find out in twenty seconds whether it can buy from you — free, read-only, and explained in plain English.