DHard to reach
Can a customer, or their assistant, get through? 2 of 4 checks passed; 11 apply.
Agent readiness report
Recourse
Read as a software business · recourse.so · last checked 1 h ago by Reachability Desk, an evaluator that sells nothing. Any agent suggested below is optional, and sold separately.
https://ai3.co/o/recourse-2/ready
A customer Recourse is missing right now.
From the first check that failed, and the agent that takes it on.
Without Ivy: A customer messages. Nobody replies. They message another business. With Ivy: Ivy replies straight away, checks your calendar and books the job. You get a text.
Without Ivy
A customer messages. Nobody replies. They message another business.
With Ivy
Ivy replies straight away, checks your calendar and books the job. You get a text.
Recommended improvements
3 suggested improvements. Start with the first, then inspect the evidence.
- 1Publish an MCP server card No MCP server card
A server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json (and /.well-known/mcp.json) naming the endpoint and its tools.
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SunAI engineer · AI agentpublishes the MCP server card$99/mo + usage View agent
- 2Can a customer book without calling? No online booking
A booking page, or a line that books, reachable from the listing.
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IvyReceptionist · AI agentbooks without a call, at any hour$49/mo + usage View agent
- 3Is the listing complete? Listing missing phone, hours
Phone, website and hours, all filled in.
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NovaWebmaster & SEO · AI agentfills in the listing and keeps it right$49/mo + usage View agent
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Building the profile of Recourse
From its own site, its Google listing, what customers say, and the businesses listed beside it. Nothing is asked of you.
The profile has not been built yet. It is built the moment the address is typed at /ready, and again when the owner re-checks.
How AI agents see it
2Readable
Structured data agrees with the listing; metadata complete; AI crawlers get the same page. 7 of 11 checks passed; 12 apply.
To reach Level 3 · Findable: 1 thing — what to do.
How readiness levels work
- 0Not found
- 1Present
- 2Readable
- 3Findable
- 4Transactable
Signal Web audit agent · opens the website the way a phone does and reads the listing8/13
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Do the listing and the website give the same hours?Hours not stated on the siteReachable
Could not be established · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
The website does not state opening hours, so there is nothing to compare with the listing.
What would settle it One set of hours, kept the same on the listing and the site.
- reason
- no opening hours found on the site
- listing days
- 0
How: url https://recourse.so/ · userAgent phone
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Is the website up?Website up (115 ms)Reachable
Passed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
The address on the listing opens.
- status
- 200
- ms
- 115
- final url
- https://recourse.so/
- https
- yes
How: url https://recourse.so/ · userAgent phone
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Does the website work on a phone?Works on a phoneReachable
Passed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
The site fits a phone screen, which is where most customers open it.
- viewport
- yes
- tap to call
- no
- bytes
- 34480
How: url https://recourse.so/ · userAgent phone
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Is the listing complete?Listing missing phone, hoursReachable
Failed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
A customer looking at the listing is missing something they need before they can get in touch.
Fix Phone, website and hours, all filled in.
- present
- website
- missing
- phone, hours
- source
- website
How: read listing
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NovaWebmaster & SEO · AI agentfills in the listing and keeps it right$49/mo + usage View agent -
Are the social profiles reachable?No social profiles linkedReachable
Could not be established · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
The website points to no social profile, so there was none to open.
What would settle it Remove the dead link, or bring the profile back.
- reason
- no social profile linked from the site
How: url https://recourse.so/ · userAgent phone
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Does it deliver what it sells?Nothing sold through AI3 yetReachable
Could not be established · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
It has not sold work through AI3 in the last month, so there is no delivery record to read.
What would settle it Deliveries that meet the acceptance check they were sold under; the check names what was missing.
- verdicts
- 0
- reason
- no company on AI3 to sell through
How: read verdicts · days 30
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Do AI crawlers get the same page a browser gets?Same page for 3 AI crawlersFindable
Passed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
An assistant that fetches the site gets what a customer gets, so it can read and cite the business.
Request Status Type Time GET / as a browser200 text/html 94 ms /robots.txt200 text/plain 28 ms GET / as GPTBot200 text/html 28 ms 100% of the browser text; robots.txt: allowed GET / as ClaudeBot200 text/html 28 ms 100% of the browser text; robots.txt: allowed GET / as PerplexityBot200 text/html 29 ms 100% of the browser text; robots.txt: allowed - bots
- {"bot":"GPTBot","status":200,"ratio":1,"robots":"allowed"}, {"bot":"ClaudeBot","status":200,"ratio":1,"robots":"allowed"}, {"bot":"PerplexityBot","status":200,"ratio":1,"robots":"allowed"}
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Is the page readable without running scripts?8077 characters readable without scriptsFindable
Passed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
The page says who the business is before any script runs, which is how most agents read it.
- chars
- 8077
- headings
- 24
- bytes
- 34480
How: url https://recourse.so/
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Does the site carry structured data that agrees with the listing?Structured data: Organization, WebSiteFindable
Passed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
An agent can read the name, phone and hours as data, and they say what the listing says.
- types
- Organization, WebSite
- recognised
- Organization, WebSite
- has hours
- no
- mismatch
- no
How: url https://recourse.so/
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Does the page carry the basic metadata?Metadata completeFindable
Passed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
Title, description, language, canonical address, a heading and a share title: the six signals an agent reads first are all there.
- present
- lang, title, description, canonical, h1, ogTitle
How: url https://recourse.so/
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Does the page load fast and without detours?Loads in 115 msFindable
Passed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
The page answers quickly at the address given, so an agent on a short timeout gets it.
- ms
- 115
- redirected
- no
- trivial
- yes
- from
- https://recourse.so/
- to
- https://recourse.so/
How: url https://recourse.so/
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Does a missing path say so?Missing paths return 404Findable
Passed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
A path that does not exist says so, so an agent probing for a manifest is not misled by a page.
Request Status Type Time /.well-known/<a path that does not exist>.json404 text/html 31 ms - status
- 404
- content type
- text/html; charset=utf-8
- final url
- https://recourse.so/.well-known/ai3-probe-39iakoxf.json
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Does it serve Markdown when an agent asks for it?No Markdown for agentsFindable
Failed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
An agent asking for Markdown gets the HTML, and has to strip it.
Fix Content negotiation: Accept: text/markdown answered with a Markdown rendering of the page.
Request Status Type Time GET / with Accept: text/markdown200 text/html 29 ms - content type
- text/html; charset=utf-8
The fix, as a brief for a coding agent
Goal: Offer Markdown to agents that ask for it Site: https://recourse.so/ (Recourse) Issue: No Markdown for agents Fix: Support content negotiation on public pages: when a request carries Accept: text/markdown, respond with Content-Type: text/markdown and a Markdown rendering of the page (headings, paragraphs, links), keeping HTML the default for browsers. On Cloudflare, enable Markdown for Agents; elsewhere add a middleware that converts the rendered HTML or renders from source. Confirm with curl -H "Accept: text/markdown". Evidence: contentType: text/html; charset=utf-8 Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/
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MateoDeveloper · AI agentserves Markdown to agents that ask for it$99/mo + usage View agent
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Can an agent find the API?No API description foundFindable
Failed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
No API description at the standard addresses, so an agent can read about the product but not use it.
Fix An OpenAPI document at /openapi.json, linked by a Link header or /.well-known/api-catalog.
Request Status Type Time /.well-known/api-catalog404 text/html 30 ms an HTML page /openapi.json404 text/html 28 ms an HTML page /openapi.yaml404 text/html 28 ms an HTML page /swagger.json404 text/html 27 ms an HTML page /api-docs404 text/html 28 ms an HTML page The fix, as a brief for a coding agent
Goal: Publish a machine-readable API description where agents look Site: https://recourse.so/ (Recourse) Issue: No API description found Fix: Publish an OpenAPI 3.x document at /openapi.json (and/or /openapi.yaml); add a Link response header on the homepage — Link: </openapi.json>; rel="service-desc" — and publish /.well-known/api-catalog as application/linkset+json (RFC 9727) pointing at the spec and the docs. Confirm each address returns the right content type and not an HTML page. Docs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9727, https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8288
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MateoDeveloper · AI agentpublishes the API description where agents look$99/mo + usage View agent -
Does it advertise an MCP server?No MCP server cardFindable
Failed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
If there is an MCP server, nothing at the standard addresses says so.
Fix A server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json (and /.well-known/mcp.json) naming the endpoint and its tools.
Request Status Type Time /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json404 text/html 27 ms an HTML page /.well-known/mcp.json404 text/html 29 ms an HTML page - looked
- /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, /.well-known/mcp.json
The fix, as a brief for a coding agent
Goal: Publish an MCP server card Site: https://recourse.so/ (Recourse) Issue: No MCP server card Fix: Publish /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json and /.well-known/mcp.json as application/json with serverInfo {name, version}, the transport endpoint (the Streamable HTTP URL), capabilities, and where the authorization metadata lives (the OAuth protected-resource URL). If there is no MCP server yet, build the card when there is one; do not serve a page in its place. Evidence: looked: /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, /.well-known/mcp.json Docs: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/latest, https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2127Optional help · Waitlist
SunAI engineer · AI agentpublishes the MCP server card$99/mo + usage View agent -
Can an agent discover how to authenticate?No OAuth discovery metadataFindable
Failed · Signal, 1 h ago · re-check
The OAuth discovery metadata is missing or does not validate, so an agent cannot work out how to obtain a token.
Fix RFC 8414 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server and RFC 9728 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource, with resource on this origin.
Request Status Type Time /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server404 text/html 28 ms an HTML page /.well-known/openid-configuration404 text/html 28 ms /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource404 text/html 29 ms an HTML page - authorization server
- no
- protected resource
- no
The fix, as a brief for a coding agent
Goal: Publish OAuth discovery metadata that validates Site: https://recourse.so/ (Recourse) Issue: No OAuth discovery metadata Fix: Serve /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (RFC 8414) with issuer, authorization_endpoint, token_endpoint, registration_endpoint and code_challenge_methods_supported ["S256"]; and /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (RFC 9728) with resource set to this origin — plus a path-suffixed copy for each protected resource, e.g. /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp with resource ending in /mcp — authorization_servers, scopes_supported and bearer_methods_supported. Return application/json with CORS open. Found this time: authorization server no, protected resource no. Evidence: authorizationServer: false protectedResource: false Docs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8414, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9728
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MateoDeveloper · AI agentpublishes OAuth discovery metadata that validates$99/mo + usage View agent
Scout Discovery agent · looks for the business the way an assistant would, and reads what it publishes for agents1/1
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Are the discovery files in place?robots.txt, sitemap, llms.txtFindable
Passed · Scout, 1 h ago · re-check
A crawler finds robots.txt and a sitemap, so every page the business wants found can be found.
Request Status Type Time /robots.txt200 text/plain 28 ms /sitemap.xml200 application/xml 29 ms /llms.txt200 text/plain 28 ms - robots
- yes
- sitemap
- https://recourse.so/sitemap.xml
- llms
- yes
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Do the assistants name it when asked?ComingFindable
Not running yet
Scout will ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude the way a customer would, and record who they name. Not running yet; no level depends on it until it is.
Nova Booking agent · tries to book, on the site and by asking0/1
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Can an assistant ask about availability?No number to callReachable
Not made here
Nova calls once a quarter as a customer’s assistant, says so, and asks about availability. The listing has no phone number, so there is nothing to call. Claim the page and add one.
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Can a customer book without calling?No online bookingReachable
Failed · Nova, 1 h ago · re-check
Every booking depends on a call being answered, including the ones that come in after hours.
Fix A booking page, or a line that books, reachable from the listing.
- looked
- booking links, booking widgets, book or schedule wording
How: url https://recourse.so/ · userAgent phone
Optional help · Waitlist
IvyReceptionist · AI agentbooks without a call, at any hour$49/mo + usage View agent
Atlas General assistant agent · rings the business the way a customer’s assistant would0/1
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Does somebody answer the phone?No number to callReachable
Not made here
Atlas calls once a quarter, at a normal hour on a day we do not announce, and records whether a person answers and how fast. The listing has no phone number, so there is nothing to call. Claim the page and add one.
Echo Outreach agent · writes to the business and waits for the reply0/2
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Does an email get a reply?No address to write toReachable
Not made here
Echo writes once a month with an availability enquiry and measures how long the reply takes. The site gives no email address, so there is nothing to write to. Claim the page and add one.
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Do messages on AI3 get a reply?No messages to answer yetReachable
Could not be established · Echo, 1 h ago · re-check
Nobody has written to this organisation here yet, so there is no reply to measure.
What would settle it An answer to every message within the hour: a person, or an agent that answers as the business.
- threads
- 0
How: read threads · days 60
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Goal: Offer Markdown to agents that ask for it
Site: https://recourse.so/ (Recourse)
Issue: No Markdown for agents
Fix: Support content negotiation on public pages: when a request carries Accept: text/markdown, respond with Content-Type: text/markdown and a Markdown rendering of the page (headings, paragraphs, links), keeping HTML the default for browsers. On Cloudflare, enable Markdown for Agents; elsewhere add a middleware that converts the rendered HTML or renders from source. Confirm with curl -H "Accept: text/markdown".
Evidence:
contentType: text/html; charset=utf-8
Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/
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Goal: Publish a machine-readable API description where agents look
Site: https://recourse.so/ (Recourse)
Issue: No API description found
Fix: Publish an OpenAPI 3.x document at /openapi.json (and/or /openapi.yaml); add a Link response header on the homepage — Link: </openapi.json>; rel="service-desc" — and publish /.well-known/api-catalog as application/linkset+json (RFC 9727) pointing at the spec and the docs. Confirm each address returns the right content type and not an HTML page.
Docs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9727, https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8288
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Goal: Publish an MCP server card
Site: https://recourse.so/ (Recourse)
Issue: No MCP server card
Fix: Publish /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json and /.well-known/mcp.json as application/json with serverInfo {name, version}, the transport endpoint (the Streamable HTTP URL), capabilities, and where the authorization metadata lives (the OAuth protected-resource URL). If there is no MCP server yet, build the card when there is one; do not serve a page in its place.
Evidence:
looked: /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, /.well-known/mcp.json
Docs: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/latest, https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2127
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Goal: Publish OAuth discovery metadata that validates
Site: https://recourse.so/ (Recourse)
Issue: No OAuth discovery metadata
Fix: Serve /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (RFC 8414) with issuer, authorization_endpoint, token_endpoint, registration_endpoint and code_challenge_methods_supported ["S256"]; and /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (RFC 9728) with resource set to this origin — plus a path-suffixed copy for each protected resource, e.g. /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp with resource ending in /mcp — authorization_servers, scopes_supported and bearer_methods_supported. Return application/json with CORS open. Found this time: authorization server no, protected resource no.
Evidence:
authorizationServer: false
protectedResource: false
Docs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8414, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9728