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No OpenAPI spec exists at any of the 5 standard paths checked. The site offers a self-serve signup form 2 steps from the homepage, but no programmatic path to.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3}},{"key":"pricing_legibility","audience":"agent","score":null,"summary":"Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.","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. The site does not publish any machine-readable interface that would let an agent understand how to interact with it.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"machine_fetchable_trust","audience":"agent","score":15,"summary":"No security.txt file is published at /.well-known/security.txt. The homepage refuses automated clients outright with HTTP 403, blocking the honest baseline request before any trust signals could be verified.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"commercial_rails","audience":"agent","score":40,"summary":"A self-serve signup form is reachable from the homepage in 2 steps via the 'Get Started' call to action. The form contains 1 field with 0 required fields, so a visitor can proceed without friction.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"steps_to_first_value","audience":"human","score":80,"summary":"The primary call to action 'Get Started' leads to a signup form in 2 steps from the homepage. The form asks for 1 field and requires none of them, so a human visitor can complete signup quickly.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"required_fields","audience":"human","score":90,"summary":"The signup form contains 1 field and 0 of them are required. A visitor can proceed through the form without providing any information, removing a major friction point in the onboarding path.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"verification_walls","audience":"human","score":65,"summary":"No verification requirement is visible on the signup form itself. The form does not appear to demand email confirmation, phone verification, or other checks before access is granted, though what happens after submission could not be.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"error_recovery","audience":"human","score":35,"summary":"The single input field on the signup form carries 0 validation rules or constraints. 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