# Nutshell: 39 point Door Gap
- Site: nutshell.com
- Scanned: 2026-09-10
- Scan type: Basic scan
- Business type: b2b_saas
- Report: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/nutshell-anubb5
- Scanner version: 49
- Scanner release: c49d1def936f56a5ab0871f38c5e6412433ec37a
- Scoring methodology: 1
- Evidence schema: 1
1 human and 5 agent dimensions measured from the pages checked; remaining dimensions are not scored.
## Scores
| Measure | Score |
| --- | --- |
| Humans | 80/100 (1/4 dimensions) |
| Agents | 41/100 (5/6 dimensions) |
| Composite | 61/100 |
| Door Gap | 39 points |
The human score is the mean of the measured human dimensions, the agent score the mean of the measured agent dimensions, and the Door Gap the difference between them.
## What the machine actually did
The scanner recorded successful observations for 8 of 14 checks, but could not find a contact route for machines. It came up empty on 5 other checks too. 1 check could not be measured; see the report limitations.
- 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
- ok      read the site's own guide for language models
- ok      find out what pages exist
- missing find a contact route for machines
- missing find an MCP manifest at the standard paths checked
- 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 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
## What a visitor meets
1. **Entry observation** (observed). Primary entry is "Free 14-Day Trial". 2 steps from the homepage. 3 fields, 1 marked required in the visible form. 2 sign in options: microsoft, google. 1 of 3 visible entry-form inputs carry validation attributes; submission was not tested.
## Top issues
1. **Prices appear only after JavaScript runs, so a client that reads raw HTML sees no price at all.** (pricing_legibility)
   - Evidence: 11 prices render in the browser and none exist in the raw HTML.
   - Evidence: Checked URL: https://www.nutshell.com/pricing
   - Fix: Serve prices in the initial HTML response.
2. **The checked comparison response contained limited text in its initial HTML.** (machine_discoverability)
3. **No valid security.txt was identified at /.well-known/security.txt.** (machine_fetchable_trust)
The evidence and the recommended fix for the rest are on the report page: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/nutshell-anubb5
## Files generated from this scan
- **Prices in the HTML, not only after JavaScript** at `pricing page`, 1 hour, developer. Verify: The next scan reads the prices in the raw HTML of the pricing page, with none needing JavaScript to appear.
- **A comparison page brief** at `/compare/nutshell-vs-competitor`, 3 hours, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan finds a comparison page listed in the sitemap or linked from the homepage, and reads its text without JavaScript.
- **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.
- **pricing.md** at `/pricing.md`, 20 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan fetches /pricing.md as text and records pricing as machine readable.
- **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.
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/nutshell-anubb5
## The agent door
- **machine_discoverability** 86/100. No restriction on the tested crawler names was found in robots.txt. On its first visit, our browser read the homepage. No user agent rule refused the tested retrieval crawler names.
- **programmatic_onboarding** not measured. Not measured: our scanner could not identify the required evidence on the pages checked.
- **pricing_legibility** 30/100. 11 prices appear only after JavaScript runs. A client that does not render pages sees no price at all.
- **agent_aware_instrumentation** 8/100. No MCP manifest was identified at the discovery paths checked.
- **machine_fetchable_trust** 40/100. No security.txt was identified at the checked path. The homepage answers automated requests.
- **commercial_rails** 40/100. A self-serve signup entry was observed from the homepage.
## The human door
- **steps_to_first_value** 80/100. A signup form was reached in 2 steps from the homepage.
- **required_fields** not measured. Not measured: our scanner could not identify the required evidence on the pages checked.
- **verification_walls** not measured. Not measured: this read-only scan did not submit the form or perform the action needed to test this behavior.
- **error_recovery** not measured. Not measured: this read-only scan did not submit the form or perform the action needed to test this behavior.
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