Crawler access (robots.txt)
2/2 · pass
8 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 0 disallowed
- GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 1.1 KB, 3 user-agent groups
- Allowed: GPTBot (2 path rules), ClaudeBot (via *) (9 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (9 path rules), PerplexityBot (2 path rules), Google-Extended (2 path rules), Amazonbot (2 path rules), CCBot (2 path rules), Bytespider (2 path rules)
- Sitemap declared: https://www.startengine.com/sitemap.xml, https://www.startengine.com/sitemap-discover.xml, https://www.startengine.com/sitemap-offerings.xml (+1)
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Machine-readable surfaces
2/2 · pass
2 of 7 surfaces present (/llms.txt, /sitemap.xml)
- /llms.txt: HTTP 200, 1.7 KB of text
- /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, sitemap index (585 B)
- /.well-known/x402: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
- /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 301
- /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
- /openapi.json: HTTP 301
- /ai.txt: HTTP 301
Fix: Publish one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents.
Readable without JavaScript
2/2 · pass
Home page is readable
- GET https://startengine.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.startengine.com/), text/html, 220 KB
- 8,401 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "StartEngine: Invest in Startups Online"
- 39 external scripts, 46 inline; <noscript> absent
- first words: "Skip to main content StartEngine Loading investments… Invest in Startups - StartEngine Invest Pre-IPO Deals Learn Pre-IPO Education Blog Con..."
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Structured data
2/2 · pass
4 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph complete
- 4 JSON-LD blocks: @type Organization, WebSite, Service, FAQPage, Question
- Open Graph: og:title "StartEngine: Invest in Startups Online"; og:description present
- meta description: present
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Legal notices (TAKE IT DOWN desk check)
not measured
Unavailable
- takeitdown.agentexchange.work/check.json: refused takeitdown.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would - unavailable
Fix: Re-run in a few minutes; the notice check could not be completed.
MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)
0/2 · fail
Not selling to agents: no census entry, no /mcp endpoint
- census unavailable (refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time )
- GET /mcp -> HTTP 200 HTML page (catch-all route, not an MCP endpoint)
Fix: Expose a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at /mcp (or a paid x402 route) so agents can call you, not just read you.
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