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Research and tools for the age of AI agents.

We're Delivering Pizzas with Ferraris
Token Tax

We're Delivering Pizzas with Ferraris

The most capable machines we've ever built, stuck parsing your HTML.

Frontier models are doing pizza-delivery work — parsing HTML, re-sorting tables, padding chatbot replies. The model providers bill by the token, so they don't mind. The fix isn't a bigger model, it's the input you feed it. And from the customer's seat: if your agent burns $4 in tokens to find the best deal, an unoptimized store is subsidizing its own negligence with your token budget.

x402 Agent Payments on Solana
Payments

x402 Agent Payments on Solana

Pay-per-scan commerce over the open HTTP 402 protocol — live on Solana mainnet.

BotVisibility accepts x402 agent payments live on Solana mainnet via pay.sh: an agent's wallet pays USDC per scan and gets back a full agent-readiness report. Real money, no testnet, no human in the loop.

Google's AI Search Guide Is Out. We Turned It Into a Test.
Research

Google's AI Search Guide Is Out. We Turned It Into a Test.

Twelve new checks at L4: Indexable, mapped to Google's official guidance.

Google just published their official playbook for showing up in AI Overviews and AI Mode. We mapped it to 12 auto-detectable checks at our new L4: Indexable tier — Googlebot policy, Google-Extended, sitemap, JSON-LD entity, canonical, headings, alt coverage, real content. Send your AI coding agent to our MCP server and ship the fixes.

Welcome to the Party, Cloudflare
Commentary

Welcome to the Party, Cloudflare

isitagentready.com is a great v1. The move that defines the category comes next.

Cloudflare just shipped a public agent-readiness scanner, and it's the clearest sign yet that agent-ready is a real market category. What it gets right, what a passive crawler misses about agent-native readiness, and the prompt-standard partnership only Cloudflare could pull off.

The Agent Tax
Research

The Agent Tax

Fifty-one checks. Three layers of waste. One bill your customers see and you don't.

Every unoptimized site charges its customers — in the tokens their agents burn grinding through your HTML to figure out what you offer. Fifty-one automated checks measure exactly where that bill comes from, across discovery, retries, and over-fetching.

The $250K Token Illusion
White Paper

The $250K Token Illusion

Why Jensen Huang wants you to burn through AI spend — and why smart companies won't.

NVIDIA's CEO says a $500K engineer should burn $250K in tokens a year. The math doesn't work, the motive is obvious, and the real leverage is optimization over consumption — structured content that makes every token work harder.

Your Site Is Agent-Ready. The Agents Aren't.
Research

Your Site Is Agent-Ready. The Agents Aren't.

AI agents ignore llms.txt, skill files, and structured APIs — even when they exist.

We scanned the top 10k sites and found the discovery gap runs both ways: most sites still aren't agent-ready, and even when they are, agents often miss the signals. Here's why, what it costs, and six fixes builders can adopt today.

The Death and Resurrection of MCP
White Paper

The Death and Resurrection of MCP

How a failing protocol got a second life from an unlikely source.

MCP was hyped, trashed, and left for dead — then a single tweet from the developer behind OpenClaw reframed the entire conversation. A look at MCP's collapse, its grassroots revival, and what it means for the agent-readable web.