AI Agents Are Already Buying. The Question Is Whether They Buy From You.
When a buyer delegates purchasing to an AI assistant, the agent surfaces three to five vendors, transacts on the spot, and never visits your website. ACRA scores your business against the protocols that control that shortlist. ASC builds you into it.
Your ACRA report grades your business across nine scored pillars covering the three protocols that govern agentic discovery, trust, and checkout, plus the authority signals AI models use to rank sources within the shortlist. The output is a letter grade, a pillar-by-pillar breakdown with exact gaps identified, and a remediation roadmap sorted by revenue impact.
Agentic shortlist
Sources selected by buying agents before most prospects ever reach a website.
UCP readiness: whether an AI agent can discover your offerings, parse your service catalog, and extract pricing without ambiguity or inference
ACP compliance: whether a buying agent can initiate and complete a transaction with your business programmatically, without a human handoff
AP2 trust score: whether the decentralized trust layer AI models consult marks your domain as a verified, transactable entity worth surfacing
The Buying Decision Happens Before the Buyer Arrives
Forty-four percent of online buyers now build their shortlist inside AI assistants, according to Bain and Company, 2026. By the time a prospective client visits your site or takes your call, the agent has already ranked, compared, and in many cases transacted. OpenAI's 800 million weekly ChatGPT users can check out without leaving the chat window. A business that is not readable by the buying agent never enters consideration, regardless of its reputation, pricing, or ad spend. The shortlist for any given buyer need contains three to five sources. Compliance is the entry ticket. Everything else is ranking.
Most businesses have no UCP schema, no ACP endpoint, and no AP2 trust signal. The agent skips them entirely and surfaces a competitor who does.
Fifty-three percent of consumers have already completed a purchase recommended entirely by generative AI (Capgemini Research Institute, 2025). This is not an emerging behavior. It is the current market.
Every compliant competitor that enters the shortlist narrows the door further. The window to establish protocol authority before the category consolidates is closing.
The Market Has Already Moved. The Numbers Confirm It.
These are not projections. They are current-year measurements from the research arms of the firms that advise Fortune 500 procurement teams. For a business that becomes one of those three to five sources, capturing demand its competitors cannot reach, the upside in many cases is a doubling of the revenue it books from buyers who never speak to a human.
of consumers have completed a purchase recommended entirely by generative AI
Capgemini Research Institute, 2025
of online buyers now build their shortlist inside AI assistants, and a brand that misses the shortlist loses the pipeline before it starts
Bain and Company, 2026
of AI-enabled US consumers use AI to compare brands, models, and prices at the deciding moment
McKinsey and Company, 2026
weekly ChatGPT users, now able to check out inside the chat
OpenAI, 2025
What ACRA Measures, Section by Section
Your ACRA report grades your business across nine scored pillars covering the three protocols that govern agentic discovery, trust, and checkout, plus the authority signals AI models use to rank sources within the shortlist. The output is a letter grade, a pillar-by-pillar breakdown with exact gaps identified, and a remediation roadmap sorted by revenue impact.
UCP readiness: whether an AI agent can discover your offerings, parse your service catalog, and extract pricing without ambiguity or inference
ACP compliance: whether a buying agent can initiate and complete a transaction with your business programmatically, without a human handoff
AP2 trust score: whether the decentralized trust layer AI models consult marks your domain as a verified, transactable entity worth surfacing
Authority signals: citation presence, entity consistency across the web, machine-readable schema coverage, and AI-native content signals that determine your ranking inside the shortlist
SEO, AEO, and GEO have to work together.
ACRA separates the technical foundation, answer visibility, and authority graph so clients can see which layer is holding back AI recommendations.
AEO
Show answer engines why a business deserves to be surfaced first.
GEO
Connect authority signals so generative systems can trust the answer.
SEO
Make the technical foundation crawlable, structured, and easy to verify.
Report Pricing and Partner Access
ACRA Pro lists at $2,499 per year and covers ongoing monitoring plus a full implementation credit. Single reports under the Ten Looks package list at $299. Partners in the ASC program qualify for preferred pricing on both, along with two complimentary reports to run on qualified clients before committing. All ACRA report fees are credited dollar-for-dollar toward ASC implementation services, so clients pay for the assessment against the work that fixes what it finds.
Make Agentic Commerce Readiness Your Next Revenue Line
Your clients are already being filtered out of AI buying shortlists. You can be the firm that identified the gap, scored it, and delivered the fix, or you can wait until a competitor does. The ACRA partner program gives you assessment access at partner rates, a co-delivery option with ASC's implementation team, and a credentialed service line you can attach to any client engagement in any vertical.
Two complimentary ACRA reports to qualify your best-fit clients before any commitment (code TRY2)
Preferred partner pricing against the $2,499 annual list and $299 single-report price, with margin structure or pass-through at your discretion
Co-delivery option available: ASC handles UCP, ACP, and AP2 implementation while you own the client relationship and the implementation credit
Questions before you start
What exactly does ACRA score?
ACRA scores your business across nine pillars grouped under three agentic commerce protocols: UCP (Unified Commerce Protocol) for AI-driven discovery, ACP (Agent Commerce Protocol) for programmatic checkout, and AP2 (Agent Permission Protocol) for decentralized trust verification. Each pillar is scored individually, assigned a letter grade, and tied to specific, prioritized remediation steps. The report also measures live AI visibility across six platforms so you can see exactly where and how you are currently surfaced.
Is there a lighter or free version of the report?
No. ACRA has no free or abbreviated tier. Every report is a complete nine-pillar assessment with live AI measurement, a letter grade, and a remediation roadmap. The assessment is a professional deliverable built for business decisions, not a summary designed to generate leads.
What does the three-to-five shortlist mean in practice?
When a buyer instructs an AI agent to find and transact with a vendor, the agent scores candidates against protocol compliance, authority signals, and trust verification, then returns a short list. Current research and practitioner evidence consistently places that list at three to five sources. A business without at least the discovery layer of UCP implemented does not appear in that list regardless of its ad spend, brand reputation, or organic search ranking.
What happens after the ACRA report is delivered?
The report includes a prioritized remediation roadmap. ASC offers full implementation of UCP schema, ACP endpoints, and AP2 trust signals as a separate engagement. ACRA report fees are credited dollar-for-dollar toward implementation, so the assessment cost rolls directly into the project cost for clients who move forward. There is no duplicate billing.
Can I resell ACRA reports to my clients at my own margin?
Yes. Partner pricing gives you a 1,499 per year cost with code PARTNER. You set your own end-client rate. ASC does not publish partner pricing publicly, contact your clients directly, or interfere with your client relationship without your authorization. The co-delivery arrangement is opt-in, not a requirement for partner access.
How long does the report take and what format is the deliverable?
Reports are delivered within two to three business days of order confirmation. The deliverable is a full digital report with pillar scores, a composite letter grade, AI-measured visibility across six platforms, and an itemized remediation checklist ranked by impact. Partners receive a shareable link formatted for client presentation, with ASC branding options available on request.
The Shortlist Forms Without You If You Wait
Every month a business operates outside the agentic commerce protocols is a month its compliant competitors capture that buyer without a sales conversation. ACRA identifies exactly what is missing and ranks it by revenue impact. Partners start with two complimentary reports to validate fit before any annual commitment.
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