UCP readiness audit

The UCP Readiness Audit checks if AI shopping agents can use your website. This page explains what the audit checks, how the readiness score works, and how to run the audit. The audit does these steps:

• It crawls the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) configuration of your store.
• It gives a score for how ready your store is.
• It does the same check on your tracked competitors. Thus, you can compare the agent readiness side by side.

If the concept is new for you, start with Agentic Commerce Readiness to learn why it is important.

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Why a UCP readiness audit is important

AI shopping agents can recommend and buy only from stores that they can read. The audit changes the question “are we ready?” from a guess into a concrete score that you can repeat. It shows you exactly which parts of your UCP configuration cause problems. The audit also gives a score to your competitors. Thus, you can see if agent readiness is an advantage that you can get or a gap that you must close.

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What the UCP Readiness Audit checks

The audit checks three items. The sequence is the same as the sequence in which an agent finds your store:

1. Manifest completeness. The audit crawls the /.well-known/ucp manifest of your site. Agents use this manifest as the entry point to find your store. The audit checks that the manifest exists. It also checks that the manifest has the information that an agent needs to continue.
2. Catalog feed quality. The audit follows the link from the manifest to your product or catalog feed. It checks if the feed is available. It also checks if the data is sufficiently complete for an agent to compare and select products.
3. Live-endpoint probes. The audit then probes the live endpoints in your configuration. It makes sure that they are available and that they reply. An agent needs endpoints that work to check details and do actions.

Together, these checks follow the path of an agent: find the manifest, read the catalog, call the endpoints.

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How the UCP readiness score works

The audit compares your store with a set of rules, with the labels U1 to U7. These rules are for the three areas above:

• Rules for the presence and completeness of the manifest.
• Rules for the availability and quality of the catalog feed.
• Rules for the availability of the live endpoints.

Each rule adds to a general readiness score. The dashboard shows the result on a UCP page, as a readiness card. The card gives a summary of your position. It also highlights the rules that you fail. Thus, you know what to correct first.

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How to run the UCP Readiness Audit

You do not have to run the audit manually each time. The audit runs again automatically after you edit your website. Thus, the score shows your latest changes with no more work.

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Score history and drift

The audit keeps a score history. Thus, you can see how your readiness changes over time. The history helps you find regressions. For example, a change to the site can break your manifest by accident, or it can stop an endpoint. Then the readiness score decreases, and you see the decrease in the history. Thus, you find the problem before the agents stop their recommendations of your store.

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Compare your UCP readiness with competitors

The audit does not give a score only to your brand. It does the same checks on the competitors that you track in Genezio. Thus, you can compare the agent readiness directly. The audit helps you answer these questions:

• Are my competitors already ready for UCP, and I am not?
• Can I get agent readiness as an advantage before they do?
• Which rules do my competitors pass that I fail?

For more about how Genezio finds and tracks the brands that you compare with, refer to Competitors.

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Related pages

• Agentic Commerce Readiness: the concept, and why agent readiness is important
• Competitors: how Genezio tracks the brands that you compare with
• Knowledge Base: the source of truth that Genezio makes about your brand

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In the API

Start an e-commerce audit runs the audit. The newest e-commerce audit, the history of the audit, and the audit of the competitors give the results.