What Is Agentic Resource Discovery? How to Implement ai-catalog.json Before Your Competitors
On June 17, 2026, Google and ten major tech partners published the Agentic Resource Discovery spec. As of this writing, adoption is near zero — including among the companies that wrote it. Here is what ARD does, how ai-catalog.json works, and why moving early matters.
AI Agent Access Control: The Tiered Framework Every Site Needs in 2026
Most sites treat all AI bots the same. This four-tier access control framework separates training crawlers, search agents, and shopping bots — giving each the right policy while protecting and monetizing your traffic.
llms.txt in 2026: What It Is, What It Actually Does, and How to Implement It
Google Lighthouse 13.3 now audits for llms.txt as part of its Agentic Browsing category. This guide explains what the standard is, what it realistically does in 2026, and six concrete steps to implement it for agent readiness.
The Agent-Ready Website Checklist: 10 Steps for 2026
Ten concrete steps to make your website agent-ready — from AI traffic baselines and crawler policy to structured data, MCP endpoints, and verification.
Inside the Agent Readiness Score: 5 sub-metrics that matter
The Agent Readiness Score is a number from 0 to 100 that summarizes how well a site can be read, verified, and transacted with by an autonomous AI. This is the methodology.
What is the agentic web?
Half of the next decade's web traffic will be agents. Most sites can't tell any of them apart from humans. That's the agentic web problem in one sentence.
Why your site needs to be agent-ready
If your site is invisible to agents today, it will be invisible to a meaningful slice of buyers tomorrow. The math is changing fast.