{"slug":"quip-dbc5fx","companyName":"Quip","domain":"quip.com","url":"https://quip.com","headline":"Quip publishes prices and a signup form but blocks agents from obtaining API credentials or reading developer documentation.","compositeScore":60,"humanScore":68,"agentScore":51,"doorGap":17,"humanMeasured":4,"agentMeasured":6,"percentile":37,"humanPercentile":20,"agentPercentile":40,"isPartial":false,"depth":"free","siteClass":"b2b_saas","scannerVersion":12,"scannedAt":"2026-09-08T14:26:54.630Z","unlocked":false,"mission":{"steps":[{"url":"https://quip.com","outcome":"ok","purpose":"reach the site at all"},{"url":"https://quip.com/robots.txt","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find out whether machines are welcome"},{"url":"https://quip.com","outcome":"ok","purpose":"ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names"},{"url":"https://quip.com/llms.txt","outcome":"missing","purpose":"read the site's own guide for language models"},{"url":"https://quip.com/sitemap.xml","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find out what pages exist"},{"url":"https://quip.com/.well-known/security.txt","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a contact route for machines"},{"url":"https://quip.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a published agent interface"},{"url":"https://quip.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find an agent plugin manifest"},{"url":"https://quip.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find out whether verified agents are recognised"},{"url":"https://quip.com","outcome":"ok","purpose":"read the homepage as data rather than as a page"},{"url":"https://quip.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a machine readable API spec"},{"url":"https://quip.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"read the developer documentation"},{"url":"https://quip.com/about/pricing","outcome":"ok","purpose":"read the prices without running JavaScript"},{"url":"https://quip.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a comparison page worth citing"},{"url":"https://quip.com/templates","outcome":"ok","purpose":"walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product"}],"verdict":"The agent got through 7 of 15 requests, but could not read the site's own guide for language models. It came up empty on 7 other checks too."},"observations":null,"dimensions":[{"key":"machine_discoverability","audience":"agent","score":97,"summary":"No AI crawler is blocked by robots.txt or user agent rules, a real browser is served the page normally, and a sitemap lists 93 URLs. The homepage renders in 181ms and serves key pages without JavaScript.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"programmatic_onboarding","audience":"agent","score":10,"summary":"No API surface was found in the documentation that was linked and fetched.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3}},{"key":"pricing_legibility","audience":"agent","score":85,"summary":"Five prices are readable without JavaScript on the pricing page at quip.com/about/pricing: $10, $30, $12, $25, and $100. All are per-seat. An enterprise tier routes to sales contact, which is standard practice.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"agent_aware_instrumentation","audience":"agent","score":8,"summary":"No MCP manifest is published at any of the 3 standard paths checked. No ai-plugin.json or Web Bot Auth signals are present. An agent cannot invoke Quip as a tool or integrate it into an agentic workflow without manual configuration.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"machine_fetchable_trust","audience":"agent","score":40,"summary":"No security.txt file is published at /.well-known/security.txt. The homepage answers automated requests and serves HTTP 200, but no machine-readable security policy, vulnerability disclosure route, or contact information for security.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"commercial_rails","audience":"agent","score":65,"summary":"Prices are published in raw HTML on the pricing page and a self-serve signup form is reachable from the homepage in 2 steps. The form asks for 1 field with 0 required fields, so a visitor can enter the product without payment information.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"steps_to_first_value","audience":"human","score":80,"summary":"The primary call to action, 'Get started with any use-case', reaches a signup form in 2 steps from the homepage. The form contains 1 field with 0 required fields, so a human can proceed without friction.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"required_fields","audience":"human","score":90,"summary":"The signup form on the entry path contains 1 field total, and 0 of those fields are marked as required. A visitor can submit the form without entering any data, removing a common friction point in the onboarding flow.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"verification_walls","audience":"human","score":65,"summary":"No verification requirement, email confirmation demand, or CAPTCHA is visible on the signup page itself. However, the walk did not observe the post-submission flow, so verification gates that appear after form submission cannot be ruled.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"error_recovery","audience":"human","score":35,"summary":"Of the 9 inputs on the signup page, 0 carry validation rules such as type, pattern, or required attributes. The page includes 4 live regions for dynamic content but 0 inline error containers.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}}],"issues":[{"rank":1,"title":"No comparison or alternatives page exists, which is the page an assistant cites when a buyer asks it to shortlist vendors.","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1},"fix":null},{"rank":2,"title":"No developer documentation is linked from the homepage, in raw HTML or the rendered page, so integration starts with a search engine.","dimensionKey":"programmatic_onboarding","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1},"fix":null},{"rank":3,"title":"No comparison or alternatives page is published, so agents cannot find Quip when shortlisting vendors in a category.","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3},"fix":null}],"fixArtifacts":{"locked":true,"count":8,"summaries":[{"id":"software_offer_jsonld:pricing-page","kind":"software_offer_jsonld","title":"Pricing as Offer structured data","path":"pricing page","effort":{"minutes":20,"role":"developer"},"outcome":{"dimension":"pricing_legibility","external":["Assistants comparing vendors read the plans and prices as Offer structured data."]}},{"id":"comparison_page_brief:compare-quip-vs-competitor","kind":"comparison_page_brief","title":"A comparison page brief","path":"/compare/quip-vs-competitor","effort":{"minutes":180,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_discoverability","external":["A server-rendered comparison page exists for an assistant to cite."]}},{"id":"robots_search_bots:robots-txt","kind":"robots_search_bots","title":"robots.txt rules for AI crawlers","path":"/robots.txt","effort":{"minutes":10,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_discoverability","external":["The assistants' search crawlers read and cite the site to buyers; training stays the owner's decision."]}},{"id":"interfaces_note:notes","kind":"interfaces_note","title":"Machine interfaces: where you stand","path":"notes","effort":{"minutes":10,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"agent_aware_instrumentation","external":["The developer surface is built in an order where every published pointer answers."]}},{"id":"pricing_md:pricing-md","kind":"pricing_md","title":"pricing.md","path":"/pricing.md","effort":{"minutes":20,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"agent_aware_instrumentation","external":["Agents read the price list directly instead of rendering the pricing page."]}},{"id":"organization_jsonld:homepage","kind":"organization_jsonld","title":"Organization structured data","path":"homepage","effort":{"minutes":15,"role":"developer"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_discoverability","external":["Search and assistant crawlers read the company entity from the homepage rather than inferring it."]}},{"id":"security_txt:well-known-security-txt","kind":"security_txt","title":"security.txt","path":"/.well-known/security.txt","effort":{"minutes":10,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_fetchable_trust","external":["Researchers and automated scanners find a disclosure address instead of guessing one."]}},{"id":"llms_txt:llms-txt","kind":"llms_txt","title":"llms.txt","path":"/llms.txt","effort":{"minutes":15,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_discoverability","external":["Assistants that read llms.txt get a curated map of the site instead of guessing from the homepage."]}}]},"feedback":{"endpoint":"/api/feedback","mcpTool":"rate_fix","targets":[{"type":"report","key":"report"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","key":"dimension:machine_discoverability"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"programmatic_onboarding","key":"dimension:programmatic_onboarding"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"pricing_legibility","key":"dimension:pricing_legibility"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"agent_aware_instrumentation","key":"dimension:agent_aware_instrumentation"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"machine_fetchable_trust","key":"dimension:machine_fetchable_trust"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"commercial_rails","key":"dimension:commercial_rails"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"steps_to_first_value","key":"dimension:steps_to_first_value"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"required_fields","key":"dimension:required_fields"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"verification_walls","key":"dimension:verification_walls"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"error_recovery","key":"dimension:error_recovery"},{"type":"issue","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","checkId":"comparison_pages","key":"issue:machine_discoverability:comparison_pages"},{"type":"issue","dimensionKey":"programmatic_onboarding","checkId":"api_surface","key":"issue:programmatic_onboarding:api_surface"},{"type":"issue","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","checkId":null,"key":"issue:machine_discoverability:-"}]}}