# Prose: 66 point Door Gap
- Site: prose.com
- Scanned: 2026-09-08
- Scan type: Basic scan
- Business type: unknown
- Report: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/prose-c3ab7b
- Scanner version: 12
A content platform with no discoverable pricing, no API surface, and no machine-readable business model.
## Scores
| Measure | Score |
| --- | --- |
| Humans | 94/100 |
| Agents | 28/100 |
| Composite | 61/100 |
| Door Gap | 66 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 14 requests, but could not read the site's own guide for language models. It came up empty on 7 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
- missing read the homepage as data rather than as a page
- missing find a machine readable API spec
- missing read the developer documentation
- ok      read the prices without running JavaScript
- ok      walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product
## Top issues
1. **Pricing is completely hidden from both humans and machines.** (pricing_legibility)
2. **No API documentation or integration path exists for agents or developers.** (programmatic_onboarding)
3. **The business model and service offering are not machine-readable.** (machine_discoverability)
The evidence and the recommended fix for each are on the report page: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/prose-c3ab7b
## 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.
- **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.
- **Organization structured data** at `homepage`, 15 minutes, developer. Verify: The next scan reads Organization and WebSite nodes in the homepage JSON-LD and the structured data check passes.
- **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/prose-c3ab7b
## The agent door
- **machine_discoverability** 68/100. The site allows all major AI crawlers by robots.txt and serves pages normally to automated clients. A sitemap lists 230 URLs. However, no schema.org markup exists on the homepage to describe what the business offers, and the business model.
- **programmatic_onboarding** 20/100. No API documentation is linked from the homepage or discoverable in raw HTML. No OpenAPI spec exists at any of the 6 standard paths checked. The product requires no account, so programmatic signup is not applicable, but there is no way for.
- **pricing_legibility** 20/100. No prices were found on the pricing page in raw HTML or after rendering.
- **agent_aware_instrumentation** 8/100. No MCP manifest is published at any of the 3 standard paths checked. The site does not declare support for Claude's Model Context Protocol or any other agent integration standard. Agents cannot be instructed to use this service as a tool.
- **machine_fetchable_trust** 40/100. No security.txt file is published at /.well-known/security.txt. The homepage does respond to automated requests, which is necessary for trust signals, but the site publishes no vulnerability disclosure policy or security contact.
- **commercial_rails** 10/100. .
## The human door
- **steps_to_first_value** 95/100. The product is usable immediately upon arrival. No signup form, no login wall, and no account system stand between a visitor and the service. A user can begin using the product in zero steps.
- **required_fields** 100/100. No form exists on the homepage or pricing page. The entry path walk found zero fields and zero required fields. Nothing is asked of a visitor before they can access the service.
- **verification_walls** 100/100. No account system exists. There is no email verification, phone verification, or identity check of any kind. The absence of an account is the absence of a wall.
- **error_recovery** 80/100. No form exists to generate errors. The site serves pages normally to all clients and does not block access. Error recovery cannot be measured on a form-free surface, but the site does not appear to reject or redirect visitors.
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