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Is The Economist ready for AI agents?
economist.com earns an agent-readiness grade of F (2/100). Its strongest area is Content for Agents (6/100), where agents can read you. The biggest gap is AI Visibility (0/100), where the scan flagged that no sectioned content. ai answers cite concise, heading-led passages — so agents can't reliably recommend you. Closing that gap is the fastest way to raise this site's score.
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F2/100
Agent readiness verdict
Agents struggle across the board. Start with AI Visibility: they can't reliably recommend you.
AgentReady v1.0.0✗ Not yet baseline-conformant·MUST 0/1SHOULD 0/4MAY 0/4
Found by AI2
Will AI search cite you?AI VisibilityRecommend
0DiscoverabilityFind
0Content for AgentsEvaluate
6Usable by AI0
Can AI agents act on you?CapabilitiesUse tools
0Identity & AccessTrust
0CommerceTransact
N/A▸ Priority findings
AI Visibility
FailCitable content blocksbeyond-spec
No sectioned content. AI answers cite concise, heading-led passages.
Discoverability
Failrobots.txt with AI policyAR-DISC-01 · MUST
robots.txt blocks AI crawlers (9). You’re invisible to them.
Capabilities
Fail/agents entry pointbeyond-spec
No /agents entry point. Agents have nowhere obvious to start.
Ranked #24 of 24 News & media sites →Last scanned June 15, 2026
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