Dedica: Find Out If AI Agents Can Actually Use Your Website

If you have spent any time online lately, you have noticed the shift: people increasingly ask an AI assistant to do things for them instead of clicking around themselves. Find a product, compare plans, sign up, book the thing. That raises an awkward question for anyone who runs a website: when an AI agent shows up at your front door, can it actually get in? Dedica answers that question with a score, and it does not sugarcoat the result.

A score for the agent era

Dedica pitches itself with one line: "Can AI agents use your product?" You paste in your domain at https://getdedica.com and it runs 125 checks grouped into four layers: Discovery, Access, Usability and Payments. Then it hands you a score out of 100, a letter grade, and a list of what is broken, ordered by how much each fix would move your number.

The checks are the kind of thing most site owners never think about, because humans route around them without noticing. A bot check that turns every agent away at sign-up. A pricing page that is blank until JavaScript runs, so the agent sees nothing at all. No OpenAPI spec at the usual paths. No llms.txt file. No MCP server or manifest. Dedica's pitch is that an agent hitting one of these walls does not file a complaint. It just leaves, quietly, and recommends your competitor instead. Cheerful stuff.

The company cites two stats to explain why this matters: according to its homepage, only 6% of business websites are ready for AI agents, and businesses that are ready get recommended by agents 1.9 times more often. I would take the exact figures as marketing claims rather than settled science, but the direction feels right.

Putting Freewares through the scanner

The score is free and needs no signup to start, so for this article, Freewares.org itself went through the scanner. Watching the scan run is oddly humbling. It ticks through the four layers, then starts listing failures in a tone that is technically neutral and emotionally devastating.

Freewares scored 26 out of 100. Among the checks it failed: no NPM or PyPI SDK package (fair, we are a blog), no CLI tool (still a blog), no MCP server or manifest, and no markdown content negotiation, which is a way of serving a clean text version of pages to agents that ask nicely. Some of these simply do not apply to a small content site, and the report format makes it easy to tell which ones matter for your situation. It is also worth remembering what the number is: Dedica's own yardstick for full agent-readiness, not a universal diagnosis. A site without an MCP server or an SDK can still be perfectly usable by an agent that simply reads pages, so a low score is a to-do list, not a verdict. Still, 26/100 stings a little. My site apparently treats AI visitors the way a nightclub bouncer treats someone wearing flip-flops.

One honest caveat from the scan: the headline "no signup" claim covers getting the score, but the full detailed results ask for your email address before showing everything. The score screen itself, with the grade and a sample of failed checks, appears without one. Just know the gate exists before you start.

Free score, paid fix kit

Dedica's model is simple, and its pricing page is refreshingly explicit about it. The free check gives you the score, the grade, the four-layer breakdown and up to 20 example findings with evidence and short explanations.

If you want the full findings and the fixes, that is the fix kit: a one-time purchase per domain, not a subscription. It costs $30 USD at launch pricing through November 30, then $50 USD after that. The kit is a zip of instruction files, one per issue, written so you can hand them to a developer or paste them straight into a coding assistant like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or GitHub Copilot. Each file explains what to change and how to verify the fix worked, then you rescan and watch the checks pass. Payments run through Stripe, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee. The idea of buying bug reports for your own website, written for a robot to fix, is very 2026, and I am here for it.

Who should try it

If you run any kind of business site, a SaaS, a shop, anything with a sign-up or checkout, the free scan is a no-brainer. It takes under a minute, and the score alone tells you whether you have a problem. Developers will appreciate that the checks are concrete and technical, not vague SEO horoscope stuff. If the report surfaces real blockers, the fix kit looks like a reasonable one-time spend rather than another subscription quietly renewing until the heat death of the universe.

For a personal blog like this one, the free tier is probably enough: the scan shows exactly which agent-era boxes this one does not tick, and deciding whether to care is now an informed choice. Spoiler: 26 out of 100 is not a score, it is a dare.

Dedica is free to try at https://getdedica.com, with the optional fix kit as a one-time purchase per domain.