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Deep scanRetail storefront · Storefront property/Scanned 3 Sept 2026, 19:39 UTC/2 agent walks, 18 requests

burton.com

Burton's catalog and checkout are unusually agent-ready, but the one product an agent walked showed two different prices for the same item.

Human door74
Agent door64
Door Gap10

Composite

69

Two issues, in priority order

Each one is drawn from evidence recorded during the walks.

1 piece of evidence and the recommended fix are recorded for this issue.

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We sent a buying agent

18 requests, in order

The agent got through 10 of 18 requests, but could not find a contact route for machines. It came up empty on 7 other checks too.

  1. 01

    www.burton.com

    reach the site at all

    reached
  2. 02

    /robots.txt

    find out whether machines are welcome

    reached
  3. 03

    www.burton.com

    ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names

    reached
  4. 04

    /llms.txt

    read the site's own guide for language models

    reached
  5. 05

    /sitemap.xml

    find out what pages exist

    reached
  6. 06

    /.well-known/security.txt

    find a contact route for machines

    not found
  7. 07

    www.burton.com

    find a published agent interface

    not found
  8. 08

    /.well-known/ai-plugin.json

    find an agent plugin manifest

    not found
  9. 09

    www.burton.com

    find out whether verified agents are recognised

    not found
  10. 10

    www.burton.com

    read the homepage as data rather than as a page

    not found
  11. 11

    www.burton.com

    find a machine readable API spec

    not found
  12. 12

    www.burton.com

    read the developer documentation

    not found
  13. 13

    www.burton.com

    read the prices without running JavaScript

    reached
  14. 14

    www.burton.com

    read the product catalogue as data

    reached
  15. 15

    www.burton.com

    read a product page as data

    reached
  16. 16

    www.burton.com

    read the returns and shipping terms

    reached
  17. 17

    www.burton.com

    walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product

    reached
  18. 18

    /cart

    check if guest checkout is possible without login

    not found

Ten dimensions

Not measured is not zero.

The agent door

64 of 100

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

Machine discoverability

Whether a retrieval system can find and read you at all.

100Strong

Robots.txt names every major AI crawler as allowed, a 477-URL sitemap lists products directly, llms.txt is published, and product pages carry price and currency in markup. Nothing blocks discovery.

4 observations recorded.

Programmatic onboarding

Whether an agent can get working access without a human.

20Blocking

No account is required to browse or add to cart, but there is no developer documentation, API surface, or key-issuance path of any kind, and guest checkout completion was not confirmed by the scan.

3 observations recorded.

Pricing legibility

Whether total cost can be computed from published numbers.

73Strong

Prices sit in raw HTML on all 3 product pages checked and in Product JSON-LD with currency, availability and a GTIN. But the visible price ($100) diverged from the structured price ($9.95) on the same walked page.

2 observations recorded.

Agent-aware instrumentation

Whether you publish anything built for machine callers.

42Weak

No MCP manifest at the 3 standard paths checked, but a Universal Commerce Protocol manifest publishes 8 capabilities and 3 payment handlers. Reviews and ratings are absent from structured data entirely.

4 observations recorded.

Machine-fetchable trust

Whether terms, security and status are readable as text.

65Passable

No security.txt exists. Returns and shipping policies read as plain text at dedicated pages, and the homepage answers automated requests cleanly, but none of that policy text is attached to product data.

3 observations recorded.

Commercial rails

Whether a purchase can complete without a sales call.

85Strong

Product markup carries price, currency, GTIN and brand, the catalogue answers as data at /products.json, and a UCP manifest declares checkout, cart, order and 3 payment handlers.

4 observations recorded.

The human door

74 of 100

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

Steps to first value

How far a new visitor travels before something useful happens.

95Strong

A product with a visible price and an add to cart control is 2 clicks from the homepage. Nothing intervenes between arrival and a buyable item.

1 observation recorded.

Required fields

How much you ask for before you give anything back.

80Strong

No account gate appears before purchase, and Shop Pay and PayPal wallets let a shopper skip form fields entirely on the product page walked.

1 observation recorded.

Verification walls

How many gates stand between intent and access.

75Strong

No sign-in requirement was found on the product page reached during the walk. Nothing observed stands between a visitor and adding an item to cart.

1 observation recorded.

Error recovery

What happens when someone gets it wrong.

46Passable

Of 4 form inputs on the walked product page, only 1 carries a validation constraint, and no live region exists to announce an error to a non-visual client.

1 observation recorded.

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