{"slug":"rankscale-tdthx9","companyName":"Rankscale.ai","domain":"rankscale.ai","url":"https://rankscale.ai","headline":"Rankscale publishes prices and welcomes agents to read them, but blocks automated signup and offers no API key without a sales conversation.","compositeScore":66,"humanScore":80,"agentScore":52,"doorGap":28,"humanMeasured":1,"agentMeasured":6,"percentile":58,"humanPercentile":71,"agentPercentile":53,"isPartial":false,"depth":"free","siteClass":"b2b_saas","scannerVersion":12,"scannedAt":"2026-09-08T14:53:00.506Z","unlocked":false,"mission":{"steps":[{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"ok","purpose":"reach the site at all"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai/robots.txt","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find out whether machines are welcome"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"ok","purpose":"ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai/llms.txt","outcome":"ok","purpose":"read the site's own guide for language models"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai/sitemap.xml","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find out what pages exist"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai/.well-known/security.txt","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a contact route for machines"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a published agent interface"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai/.well-known/ai-plugin.json","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find an agent plugin manifest"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find out whether verified agents are recognised"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"ok","purpose":"read the homepage as data rather than as a page"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a machine readable API spec"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"ok","purpose":"read the developer documentation"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai/pricing","outcome":"ok","purpose":"read the prices without running JavaScript"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find a comparison page worth citing"},{"url":"https://rankscale.ai","outcome":"ok","purpose":"walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product"}],"verdict":"The agent got through 10 of 15 requests, but could not find a contact route for machines. It came up empty on 4 other checks too."},"observations":null,"dimensions":[{"key":"machine_discoverability","audience":"agent","score":100,"summary":"Robots.txt names 10 AI crawlers and allows them all. A real browser is served the page normally. No user agent rule refuses declared crawler names.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"programmatic_onboarding","audience":"agent","score":18,"summary":"Authentication is documented at /api in prose form. No OpenAPI spec exists at any of 6 standard paths. No self-serve API key issuance is published.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3}},{"key":"pricing_legibility","audience":"agent","score":93,"summary":"8 prices are readable without JavaScript on the pricing page. No tier is gated behind a sales contact. Plans are published as Offer structured data. 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A visitor cannot verify the site's security posture or contact information without reading HTML.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"commercial_rails","audience":"agent","score":40,"summary":"Prices are published in raw HTML, the plans are published as Offer structured data.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"steps_to_first_value","audience":"human","score":80,"summary":"The signup page is 2 steps from the homepage. The site answered our automated browser with a traffic challenge, so the form itself could not be read. A human following the same link reaches the form. 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