Scan report ·

everlane.com

Mixed signal. Discovery holds up, but content falls short.

Category · fashion

C
58 / 100
Mixed signal
Evaluated coverage: 100/100 applicable points
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
A
18 / 20
Machine Readability
B
14 / 20
Transactability
B
13 / 20
Agent Posture
D
6 / 15
Trust Signals
C
6 / 10
Agent-Native Content
E
1 / 15

Narrative

Everlane sits at 58/100 because the plumbing is right but the surface is empty: schema, prices, variants, and payment rails all check out, yet the product pages tell an agent nothing beyond a title and a price. The store is technically legible and commercially transactable, but it fails as a source of the decision-support content agents actually need to recommend it.

Where the points went

ProblemPoints lostWhat an agent hits
Product pages carry no specs, description, or decision metadata11Agent cannot answer "is this silk machine washable" or "does it run small"
Checkout requires an initialized cart and hides guest path6Agent cannot simulate or complete purchase without a logged-in session
CAPTCHAs on cart and homepage4Automated add-to-cart trips reCAPTCHA/hCaptcha and dies
Inventory signals stop at binary in-stock text3Agent cannot promise ETA or shipping window to the shopper
No stated agent policy, no verifiable business address4Trust-scoring layers downrank the merchant by default

The evidence

  • Specification completeness (0/4) and conversational descriptions (0/2). Across 9 sampled PDPs, zero returned high signal and only the alpaca scarf reached medium. The classifier note on the 100% Human Crew is blunt: "no structured specifications such as material composition, dimensions, fit type, care instructions, size range."
  • Checkout structure (2/6) and guest checkout (2/4). The checkout page could not be rendered without an initialized cart; the classifier saw "CONTINUE TO CHECKOUT" but "SIGN UP / LOG IN" was the only account path visible. https://everlane.com/checkout returned 403 to the scanner.
  • CAPTCHA prevalence (0/4). Both reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha detected on the cart and homepage, with transaction_blocking: true. This is the single most hostile signal to any agent that gets past the schema.
  • Inventory signals (2/5). All 9 URLs had schema availability or text availability but zero carried shipping data or ETA; schemaHasShipping: false on every product.
  • Stated agent policy (0/2) and merchant verifiability (1/3). Terms and privacy are "silent" on automated access, and the footer exposes a business name but no physical address or registration ID.

What already works

  • Crawler posture is fully open: ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, and Amazonbot are all allowed in robots.txt, plus an llms.txt is published.
  • Machine-readable commerce core: 9/9 PDPs carry Product + Offer JSON-LD, 9/9 expose price in raw HTML via schema, and 7/8 variant products enumerate SKUs (up to 15 variants on the gift card).
  • Payment and cart rails: Shop Pay, PayPal, and Apple Pay are surfaced across product, cart, and homepage, and Shopify's /cart endpoint is directly POST-able.

Fix first

  1. Ship structured spec blocks and 2 to 3 sentence descriptions on every PDP (+7 points across 6.1, 6.2, 6.3).
  2. Remove or scope reCAPTCHA/hCaptcha off the cart and homepage (+4 points on 4.2).
  3. Expose a guest checkout entry point before the login wall (+2 points on 3.2, with knock-on for 3.1).

The biggest opportunity is content: Everlane has built an agent-ready pipe and is pushing empty product pages through it.

ADiscoverability

Robots, sitemap, agent endpoints. strong.

AI crawler posture: 6/6
https://everlane.com/robots.txt
1.1 · 6/6
Structured product data coverage: 6/6
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
1.2 · 6/6
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Sitemap quality: 2/4
https://everlane.com/sitemap.xml
How to fixPro
1.3 · 2/4
Agent-specific endpoints: 4/4
https://everlane.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
1.4 · 4/4

BMachine Readability

Schema coverage, raw-HTML price, inventory, variants. mostly strong.

Price in raw HTML: 8/8
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
2.1 · 8/8
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Product attributes structured: 3/6
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
2.2 · 3/6
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Inventory signals: 2/5
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
2.3 · 2/5
Variant handling: 1/1
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
2.5 · 1/1

BTransactability

Checkout flow, guest, transparency, payment rails, cart API. mostly strong.

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Checkout flow structure: 2/6
How to fixPro
3.1 · 2/6
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Guest checkout availability: 2/4
How to fixPro
3.2 · 2/4
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Price transparency signals: 3/4
How to fixPro
3.3 · 3/4
Machine-native payment rails: 3/3
3.4 · 3/3
Cart API accessibility: 3/3
3.5 · 3/3

DAgent Posture

Bot detection, CAPTCHA, rate limiting, stated agent policy. patchy.

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Bot detection aggressiveness: 3/6
How to fixPro
4.1 · 3/6
×
CAPTCHA prevalence: 0/4
How to fixPro
4.2 · 0/4
Rate limiting posture: 3/3
4.3 · 3/3
×
Stated agent policy: 0/2
How to fixPro
4.4 · 0/2

CTrust Signals

Return policy, merchant verifiability, price history, third-party anchors. partial.

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Return policy machine-readable: 1/3
https://everlane.com/policies/refund-policy
How to fixPro
5.1 · 1/3
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Merchant verifiability: 1/3
How to fixPro
5.2 · 1/3
Price history signals: 2/2
5.3 · 2/2
Third-party trust anchors: 2/2
5.4 · 2/2

EAgent-Native Content

Specs, descriptions, decision support, delivery, stability, absence of manipulation. broken.

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Specification completeness: 0/4
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.1 · 0/4
×
Conversational product descriptions: 0/2
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.2 · 0/2
×
Decision-support metadata: 0/3
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.3 · 0/3
×
Delivery date transparency: 0/2
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.4 · 0/2
×
Price stability signals: 0/2
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.5 · 0/2
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Absence of manipulation tactics: 1/2
How to fixPro
6.6 · 1/2