# Curology: 54 point Door Gap
- Site: curology.com
- Scanned: 2026-09-08
- Scan type: Basic scan
- Business type: content
- Report: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/curology-956vh4
- Scanner version: 12
A dermatology content publisher blocks programmatic access to its product while allowing human readers to browse freely.
## Scores
| Measure | Score |
| --- | --- |
| Humans | 94/100 |
| Agents | 40/100 |
| Composite | 67/100 |
| Door Gap | 54 points |
The human score is the mean of the four human dimensions, the agent score the mean of the six agent dimensions, and the Door Gap the difference between them.
## What the machine actually did
The agent got through 6 of 13 requests, but could not read the site's own guide for language models. It came up empty on 6 other checks too. That is enough missing for a machine to give up before it reaches a purchase.
- ok      reach the site at all
- ok      find out whether machines are welcome
- ok      ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names
- missing read the site's own guide for language models
- ok      find out what pages exist
- missing find a contact route for machines
- missing find a published agent interface
- missing find an agent plugin manifest
- missing find out whether verified agents are recognised
- ok      read the homepage as data rather than as a page
- missing find a machine readable API spec
- missing read the developer documentation
- ok      walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product
## Top issues
1. **Agents cannot verify Curology's identity or security practices because no security contact or vulnerability disclosure policy is published.** (machine_fetchable_trust)
2. **Agents cannot invoke or integrate with Curology's services because no API documentation or endpoint specification is published.** (programmatic_onboarding)
3. **Agents cannot retrieve article content from the site because no article structured data is published in the HTML.** (machine_discoverability)
The evidence and the recommended fix for each are on the report page: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/curology-956vh4
## Files generated from this scan
- **robots.txt rules for AI crawlers** at `/robots.txt`, 10 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan reads robots.txt and finds every search and agent crawler allowed, none of them kept off product or pricing paths.
- **Machine interfaces: where you stand** at `notes`, 10 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan finds the interface you published answering at its well-known path, and that check passes.
- **security.txt** at `/.well-known/security.txt`, 10 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan fetches /.well-known/security.txt as text and the security.txt check passes.
- **llms.txt** at `/llms.txt`, 15 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan fetches /llms.txt as text and the llms.txt check passes.
Each file is written from what this scan found on the site. The content is in the JSON once the evidence is opened: https://www.seconddoor.io/api/reports/curology-956vh4
## The agent door
- **machine_discoverability** 90/100. No AI crawler is blocked by robots.txt, a real browser is served the page normally, and the sitemap lists 1168 URLs with 5 schema.org types published on the homepage. Agents can find and index the content.
- **programmatic_onboarding** 20/100. No API documentation, OpenAPI spec, or developer surface exists. The product itself requires no account, so there is no programmatic path to onboard. Agents cannot integrate with the service.
- **pricing_legibility** null/100. Not scored: a business of this kind is not measured on this.
- **agent_aware_instrumentation** 8/100. No MCP manifest is published at any of the 3 standard paths checked. Agents cannot discover structured capabilities or invoke the product through standard protocols.
- **machine_fetchable_trust** 40/100. No security.txt or Web Bot Auth signals are published. The homepage answers automated requests, but no trust metadata is available for agents to verify the site's identity or security posture.
- **commercial_rails** null/100. Not scored: a business of this kind is not measured on this.
## The human door
- **steps_to_first_value** 95/100. The product is a quiz that begins immediately at https://quiz.curology.com/sign-up/start/face with no account required. A visitor reaches the content in 2 steps from the homepage CTA.
- **required_fields** 100/100. No form exists on the entry path. The quiz begins without asking for any information, so nothing stands between a visitor and the product.
- **verification_walls** 100/100. No account system exists. There is no email verification, phone verification, or identity check. A visitor proceeds directly to the quiz.
- **error_recovery** 80/100. No form fields mean no validation errors to recover from. The quiz interface itself was not walked, so error handling within the product cannot be scored.
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