How ready are online stores for AI shoppers?
96 of 182 stores let an AI shopping agent get all the way to checkout.
The same agent tried the same 8-step purchase on every store the Agentic Commerce Grader scanned. Here is where it gave up on the others, and what fixing each step would win back.
Follow the 182 stores through one purchase.
Each store got the same task: find a product, check it, put it in the cart and get to payment. Where the agent can't go on, it stops, and the store loses the sale.
stores lost the agent at the door.
A bot check stopped it before the page loaded, or robots.txt told AI agents to stay off product pages. Step 1 · Reach the store −34more while it looked for the product and its price.
The product page was empty without JavaScript and had no Product markup, or there was no price it could trust in the page source. Steps 2–3 · Shortlist products −2 · Read the price −20more while it checked stock, delivery and returns.
It couldn't tell whether the product was in stock, found no delivery cost or date, or couldn't find a returns policy anywhere on the store. Steps 4–6 · Confirm it is in stock −1 · Check the delivery date no losses · Check returns −29made it to checkout.
Checkout itself is tested only on stores whose owners opted in, and the grader never places an order. Steps 7–8 · Add to cart no losses · Check out tested on 1 storeFix a leak, win back its stores.
Tap a step to fix it and see how many more stores an AI agent could buy from. It's the best case: every store you win back is counted as clearing the steps after it.
Source: Scayl Agentic Commerce Grader benchmark, October 2026 (182 stores; checkout runs only on stores whose owners opted in).
AI shoppers are arriving fast. Is your store ready for them?
Sources: Shopify, June 2026 (traffic and orders); Scayl Agentic Commerce Grader benchmark, October 2026 (182 stores).
One agent, one task, the same 8 steps on every store.
Each store gets the same shopping task: find a product and get to the payment step. The agent shopper reads the store the way shopping agents do, and each step is scored on what the store gives it.
- 01Reach the storeThe store loads: no bot check stops the agent, robots.txt lets AI agents onto product pages, and no popup covers the page.
- 02Shortlist productsThe product page has Product markup, and its details are in the page source, not only after JavaScript runs.
- 03Read the priceThe price is in the page data, so the agent doesn't have to trust the layout.
- 04Confirm it is in stockStock is marked in the product data, for each option a shopper can pick.
- 05Check the delivery dateThe product page gives both the delivery cost and the timing.
- 06Check returnsThe returns policy is on a public page, not behind a login or in a PDF.
- 07Add to cartThe platform takes add-to-cart links, or the store's own button puts the product in the cart.
- 08Check outGuest checkout, four steps or fewer to the payment choice, and no CAPTCHA.
How a step is scored
- Passed cleanlyThe store gave the agent what it needed, in a form it can rely on.
- Passed by guessingThe agent went on, but had to guess. A stricter agent would have stopped.
- Gave upThe agent stopped there, and the store lost the sale.
- Not testedAdding to the cart and checkout run only on stores whose owners opted in.
The rules we keep
- Read-only: the grader never places an order, and it stops before the payment button.
- It respects each store's robots.txt.
- Checkout is tested only on stores whose owners opted in.
- Only aggregates are published here. Stores are never named.
Agentic Commerce Grader by Scayl. Rubric v0.1 (draft).
More ways to read the data.
- In the store reportGrade distributionHow many independent stores earn each grade, from agent-ready to closed.
- In the store reportBy platformAverage scores on Shopify, WooCommerce, headless builds and other platforms.
- In the store reportBy nicheTwenty niches side by side, each with a card to share.
- Coming soonMonth by monthAre stores getting more agent-ready? Snapshots over time.
Where does your store lose the agent?
Run the same test on your store. It's free, takes about a minute, and you get a grade, a step-by-step replay and the fixes that matter most.