// readiness checklist
The Headless Readiness Checklist for SaaS CEOs.
What your company needs before AI agents can discover, evaluate, and use your product.
§ what agents need
Agents need a surface they can parse, price, trust, and call.
01
Identity Surface
Who you are, what you do, who you serve, and what agents should understand about your product.
02
Service Surface
The services, workflows, and capabilities your product exposes.
03
Action Surface
The actions agents can take: search, query, create, update, purchase, route, analyze, export, or trigger.
04
Schema Surface
The input/output contracts, OpenAPI definitions, JSON schemas, examples, and constraints.
05
Pricing + Permission Surface
What it costs, who can call it, limits, auth, payment rules, and risk boundaries.
06
Trust Surface
Health, conformance, reputation, safety constraints, verification, provenance, and operational reliability.
07
Routing Surface
Nitrograph profile, ranking signals, call cards, service comparisons, and monitoring.
§ common gaps
The failure modes repeat.
Product category is clear to humans but ambiguous to agents.
API docs exist, but workflows are not mapped to agent actions.
Pricing is readable on a page but not machine-readable.
Auth, limits, and risk boundaries are not exposed as structured metadata.
No service profile, call card, or operational memory exists for routing.