Research
Original datasets, not reviews
Research is where we publish measured data that is neither a benchmark of tools nor reported market news: probes we ran ourselves, behaviour we observed directly, published with method and machine-readable data.
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2026-10-30
How AI companies treat each other's crawlers
Measured robots policy and live HTTP behaviour for 8 AI vendor sites against 8 crawler identities, including the vendors' own crawlers.
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2026-10-07
Which AI tool vendors are machine-readable? All 69, measured
49 of 69 tracked vendors publish llms.txt and 64 name AI crawlers in robots.txt; Content-Signals and RFC 9727 headers remain rare.
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2026-10-07
What AI tools actually charge - tracked from source pages
Snapshot of 60 vendor pricing pages: observed price strings, page hashes, and how many pricing pages render no figures without JavaScript.
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2026-10-06
Do AI-agent vendors block AI agents? We measured 26
All 26 agentic-product vendors we measured serve the answer-engine crawlers; 23 of 26 market to AI agents, and zero do both while denying the agent channel.