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How do I make my website work for AI agents?

There is no separate agent version of your site to build. The work is making the site you already have unambiguous — and then checking, repeatedly, that a real agent can finish the journey.

Start with one journey

Pick the journey that matters commercially: find a product and buy it, get a quote, book an appointment, renew a plan. Optimising everything at once produces nothing. Optimising one path produces a measurable result.

The checklist

  • Price, availability and shipping cost in text, in the initial HTML — not in an image, not behind a click.
  • Structured data on product, offer, organisation and location.
  • Form fields with real labels and autocomplete attributes.
  • Errors written as text next to the field that caused them.
  • One clear primary action per screen; no two buttons with the same words doing different things.
  • A distinct URL for every meaningful step, including the confirmation page.
  • Modals and drawers that are reachable and dismissible without a hover.
  • A robots.txt policy you actually decided on, rather than inherited.

Then keep checking

Agents change faster than your website does. A journey that works this month can break next month because a model changed how it interprets a page — with nothing on your side having changed at all.

That is the argument for monitoring rather than a one-off audit. PlateTale runs the journeys on a schedule and tells you the moment one stops working.

See how agents handle your site.