# Maze: 34 point Door Gap
- Site: maze.co
- Scanned: 2026-09-08
- Scan type: Basic scan
- Business type: b2b_saas
- Report: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/maze-db59az
- Scanner version: 12
Maze publishes no prices and routes all commercial conversations to sales, blocking agents from computing cost before signup.
## Scores
| Measure | Score |
| --- | --- |
| Humans | 73/100 |
| Agents | 39/100 |
| Composite | 56/100 |
| Door Gap | 34 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 8 of 15 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
- ok      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
- missing read the prices without running JavaScript
- ok      find a comparison page worth citing
- ok      walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product
## Top issues
1. **Pricing is entirely gated behind a sales conversation, preventing agents from computing cost before signup.** (pricing_legibility)
2. **No developer documentation is linked from the homepage, in raw HTML or the rendered page, so integration starts with a search engine.** (programmatic_onboarding)
3. **No API documentation is discoverable from the homepage, blocking agents from learning how to integrate.** (programmatic_onboarding)
The evidence and the recommended fix for each are on the report page: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/maze-db59az
## Files generated from this scan
- **A pricing page that states a price** at `/pricing.md`, 1 hour, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan reads at least one price in the raw HTML of the pricing page.
- **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.
- **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/maze-db59az
## The agent door
- **machine_discoverability** 96/100. No AI crawler is blocked by robots.txt or user agent rules. A real browser is served the page normally. The sitemap lists 808 URLs and is declared in robots.txt. The homepage carries 6 schema.org types including SoftwareApplication.
- **programmatic_onboarding** 10/100. No API documentation is linked from the homepage in raw HTML or rendered page. No OpenAPI spec exists at any of the 6 standard paths checked. No MCP manifest or ai-plugin.json is published.
- **pricing_legibility** 12/100. The pricing page publishes no prices in raw HTML or after rendering. The page routes to a demo request and sales contact. Pricing is entirely gated behind a conversation with the vendor. An evaluator cannot compute total cost from the site.
- **agent_aware_instrumentation** 8/100. No MCP manifest.
- **machine_fetchable_trust** 85/100. security.txt is published at /.well-known/security.txt with a contact route for machines. The homepage responds to automated requests with HTTP 200 in 65ms. The site establishes basic machine trust signals.
- **commercial_rails** 25/100. A self serve signup form is 2 steps from the homepage and requires 0 of 3 fields. However, the pricing page routes all commercial inquiry to sales without publishing any prices.
## The human door
- **steps_to_first_value** 80/100. The primary call to action, 'Try Maze for free', reaches a signup form in 2 steps from the homepage. The form itself is a single page. A human can reach working access quickly, though what happens after submission was not observed in this.
- **required_fields** 98/100. The signup form asks 3 fields, 0 of which are required. Google single sign on is offered as an alternative to email entry. A visitor can proceed without providing any information.
- **verification_walls** 80/100. The signup page does not display any verification requirement such as email confirmation or phone verification. Google single sign on avoids verification entirely.
- **error_recovery** 35/100. 0 of 8 form inputs carry validation rules, descriptions, or live error regions. The form has 2 live regions but no inline error containers. An agent submitting invalid data receives no guidance on what went wrong or how to correct it.
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