Basic scanSoftware business · Marketing site/Scanned 8 Sept 2026, 14:07 UTC/1 browser pass

ashbyhq.com

Ashby publishes pricing and welcomes AI crawlers, but offers no API key without a sales conversation and no machine-readable specification for integration.

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Human door

What a first time visitor meets between landing and first value.

Agent door

What a machine can do on the site with nobody watching.

Door Gap

Composite

Both doors weigh equally.

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Present. Agents lose ground at specific gates, not everywhere.

The three issues worth fixing first

Ordered by what the evidence says is costing most. Written for whoever owns the site, not whoever builds it.

2 pieces of evidence and the recommended fix are recorded for this issue, with notes written from your own pages.

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Competitor comparison, 2 per domain

What the agents checked

The audit trail behind every number above. Not measured is not zero.

Agent door53 of 100

Machine discoverability

No AI crawler is blocked by robots.txt or user agent rules. A real browser is served the page normally. The homepage carries 4 schema.org types, a sitemap lists 475 URLs, llms.txt is published, and comparison pages render without.

4 observations recorded.

100Strong

Programmatic onboarding

Authentication is documented at developers.ashbyhq.com, but no OpenAPI spec exists at any of the 6 standard paths checked. No self-serve API key issuance is published.

3 observations recorded.

18Blocking

Pricing legibility

5 prices are readable without JavaScript on the pricing page, ranging from $90 to $400 per month. No tier is gated behind a demo or contact-sales requirement. Currency is USD and pricing is per-seat.

Human door68 of 100

Steps to first value

The primary call to action on the homepage leads to a signup form in 2 steps. The form itself is presented immediately without intermediate pages.

1 observation recorded.

80Strong

Required fields

The signup form on the entry path contains 4 fields, and 0 of them are marked required. No validation rules are enforced on any input. The form imposes minimal friction.

1 observation recorded.

90Strong

Verification walls

No verification requirement is visible on the signup page itself. Email confirmation, phone verification, or identity checks may occur after submission, but the form does not declare them. The initial barrier is low.

1 observation recorded.

65Passable

Error recovery

0 of 4 inputs on the signup form carry validation rules or constraint descriptions. No inline error containers or live regions are present to guide correction. A visitor who enters invalid data receives no help recovering.

1 observation recorded.

35Weak

We sent a buying agent. 15 requests, in order

It got through 10 of 15.

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.

01www.ashbyhq.comreach the site at allreached

02/robots.txtfind out whether machines are welcomereached

03www.ashbyhq.comask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' namesreached

04/llms.txtread the site's own guide for language modelsreached

05/sitemap.xmlfind out what pages existreached

06/.well-known/security.txtfind a contact route for machinesnot found

07www.ashbyhq.comfind a published agent interfacenot found

08/.well-known/ai-plugin.jsonfind an agent plugin manifestnot found

09www.ashbyhq.comfind out whether verified agents are recognisednot found

10www.ashbyhq.comread the homepage as data rather than as a pagereached

11www.ashbyhq.comfind a machine readable API specnot found

12www.ashbyhq.comread the developer documentationreached

13/pricingread the prices without running JavaScriptreached

14www.ashbyhq.comfind a comparison page worth citingreached

15/startupswalk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a productreached

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What the agents checked

For a portfolio and a release cadence.

We sent a buying agent. 15 requests, in order