Aisle Pro · Remediation packet
Every fix this scan flagged, one card at a time: ranked by points per effort, with copy-paste snippets, per-fix downloads, and a plan your AI coding agent can execute.
Discoverability
C
12 / 20
Machine Readability
C
11 / 20
Transactability
B
14 / 20
Agent Posture
D
6 / 15
Trust Signals
C
6 / 10
Agent-Native Content
D
7 / 15
Narrative
Brooklinen scores 56/100: a Shopify storefront with the plumbing agents need (Shop Pay, cart POST endpoints, open crawler policy, an llms.txt) but with the metadata layer that turns a browse into a booking almost entirely absent. Zero Product schema across nine sampled PDPs and a CAPTCHA sitting on the cart are the two findings that keep this out of the "agent-ready" tier.
Where the points went
| Problem | Points lost | What an agent hits |
|---|---|---|
| No Product/Offer JSON-LD on PDPs | 6 | Agent cannot extract a canonical price, SKU, or availability without scraping Shopify's inline JS |
| No structured product attributes | 6 | Color, size, and material must be inferred from label heuristics, not read from schema |
| Checkout flow opaque and account-gated | 4 | Guest purchase path is unclear; account walls block one-shot buys |
| CAPTCHA on cart and homepage | 4 | reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha fire on /cart, halting automated checkout |
| Weak sitemap and no stated agent policy | 4 | Only 5 sitemap URLs, no product routes, no lastmod; policy silent on automation |
The evidence
- Structured product data: 0/6. All 9 sampled PDPs (including
classic-duvet-cover,luxe-core-sheet-set,washed-linen-core-sheet-set) returnhasProduct: false, hasOffer: false. Prices exist only in embedded Shopify variant JSON ("price":16900), not in Schema.org markup. - Product attributes: 0/6. Only one PDP (
classic-duvet-cover) exposes any labeled attributes, and even there color, size, and material are labeled prose, notPropertyValuenodes. Zero URLs cleared the "two structured attributes" bar. - CAPTCHA prevalence: 0/4. Both reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha detected on
/cartand homepage, withtransaction_blocking: true. This is the single hardest wall for an autonomous agent. - Checkout structure: 2/6. Classifier notes cart shows "Sign In" and "Create Account" but no guest option, and
/checkoutreturned 403 to the scanner. Guest checkout is likely enabled by Shopify default but not surfaced. - Sitemap: 2/4.
sitemap.xmlreturns only 5 locs,has_product_urls: false, nolastmod. Agents crawling for a catalog get nothing usable.
What already works
- Crawler posture is fully open: ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Amazonbot all allowed in robots.txt, plus a live
llms.txt. - Payment rails are agent-grade: Shop Pay and ACH/Plaid detected at cart and homepage, alongside Apple Pay and PayPal.
- Product content is rich prose: 7 of 9 PDPs earned "high" on specification completeness (thread counts, GSM, OEKO-TEX certs, full dimension tables).
Fix first
- Enable Product + Offer JSON-LD with price, availability, and SKU on every PDP (+12 points across 1.2 and 2.2).
- Remove or bypass CAPTCHA on
/cartfor verified agent traffic (+4 points, unblocks transactions). - Regenerate
sitemap.xmlto include product URLs withlastmodtimestamps (+2 points).
The single biggest lever is Product schema: it unlocks discoverability, machine-readability, and price-stability signals in one deploy.
CDiscoverability
Robots, sitemap, agent endpoints. partial.
✓
AI crawler posture: 6/6
https://brooklinen.com/robots.txt
×
Structured product data coverage: 0/6
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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Sitemap quality: 2/4
https://brooklinen.com/sitemap.xml
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✓
Agent-specific endpoints: 4/4
https://brooklinen.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
CMachine Readability
Schema coverage, raw-HTML price, inventory, variants. partial.
✓
Price in raw HTML: 8/8
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
×
Product attributes structured: 0/6
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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Inventory signals: 2/5
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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Variant handling: 1/1
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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BTransactability
Checkout flow, guest, transparency, payment rails, cart API. mostly strong.
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Checkout flow structure: 2/6
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Guest checkout availability: 2/4
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✓
Price transparency signals: 4/4
✓
Machine-native payment rails: 3/3
✓
Cart API accessibility: 3/3
DAgent Posture
Bot detection, CAPTCHA, rate limiting, stated agent policy. patchy.
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Bot detection aggressiveness: 3/6
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×
CAPTCHA prevalence: 0/4
How to fixPro
✓
Rate limiting posture: 3/3
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Stated agent policy: 0/2
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CTrust Signals
Return policy, merchant verifiability, price history, third-party anchors. partial.
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Return policy machine-readable: 1/3
https://brooklinen.com/returns
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Merchant verifiability: 1/3
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✓
Price history signals: 2/2
✓
Third-party trust anchors: 2/2
DAgent-Native Content
Specs, descriptions, decision support, delivery, stability, absence of manipulation. patchy.
!
Specification completeness: 2/4
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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Conversational product descriptions: 1/2
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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Decision-support metadata: 1/3
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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Delivery date transparency: 1/2
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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Price stability signals: 0/2
sample · https://www.brooklinen.com/products/classic-duvet-cover
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✓
Absence of manipulation tactics: 2/2