USE CASE:
SaaS companies and the cost of agent readability
Here is how agent readability for SaaS companies actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Agent Accessibility Auditor is the one pointed at SaaS companies.
Where this starts
SaaS companies and agent readability: the shortcuts stop working, for one specific reason. SaaS companies sell to other businesses and publish almost nothing about their own numbers, and agent readability inherits that. Worth knowing about SaaS companies, since agent readability inherits it: headcount flatters them, because contractors and alumni linger on a company page for years. If you would rather try it than read about it, Agent Accessibility Auditor does agent readability for SaaS companies today.
What is at stake
If pages at SaaS companies render entirely in JavaScript, what gets reported back is whatever the model already believed.
Doing it end to end
- Start with one of SaaS companies you already know, so a wrong agent readability answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Agent Accessibility Auditor across your list of SaaS companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for agent readability.
- Read ten rows of agent readability on SaaS companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- G2, for SaaS companies. Categories and review counts, free to read, and it only covers vendors that asked to be listed.
- Google's Rich Results Test. Free and authoritative on structured data, which is a large part of this. It says nothing about the AI crawlers specifically.
- Screaming Frog or a crawler. Crawls the site the way a bot does and shows what a bot sees. Built for SEO, and this question is close enough that it mostly works.
- Asking an assistant about your product. The crudest test and the most convincing one. If the answer is wrong, you have your finding.
- Read your own robots.txt and disable JavaScript. Two checks, ten minutes. Open robots.txt and look for the AI crawler rules, then load your key pages with JavaScript turned off and see what survives.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Agent Accessibility Auditor1 preconfigured task on this page's job.