mercury.com

agent readiness score · scanned Aug 18, 2026 · 7s · Payments & Fintech

#270 of 979 · #21 in category

58/ 100C-

Mercury provides online business banking services, including checking, savings, credit cards, spend management, payments, invoicing, and AI-powered financial intelligence, tailored for startups, small businesses, and scaling companies.

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Discovery 17.5/20

Access 20.2/30

Usability 10.5/40

Payments 10/10

Top fixes

  1. OpenAPI spec discoverable

    Publish your OpenAPI spec at /openapi.json and link it from docs — it's the single highest-leverage artifact for agent integration.

    +5
  2. llms.txt

    Add /llms.txt: an H1 with your name, a one-line blockquote summary, and H2 sections of curated links to docs, pricing, and API.

    +4.6
  3. MCP handshake & tools list

    MCP endpoint https://mercury.com/api#mercury-mcp failed handshake: Not a JSON-RPC endpoint. Support streamable HTTP with protocol version negotiation; if auth-gated, return RFC 9728 metadata in WWW-Authenticate.

    +4
  4. Markdown content negotiation

    Serve text/markdown when clients send `Accept: text/markdown` (or expose .md twins of key pages) — agents get far more signal per token.

    +3.5
  5. agents.md

    Add /agents.md: what agents may do on your site, key URLs, auth, rate limits, and who to contact.

    +3
  6. Docs quality

    Docs scored 1/5 on runnable examples. The documentation is a marketing page and does not contain any actual API reference or detailed instructions for integration.

    +3

1.Can an agent discover and trust you?

6/8

Whether agents can crawl you, find you in the registries and searches they check, and trust what they find.

  • Sitemap present & freshrequired4/4

    Sitemap at https://mercury.com/sitemap.xml: 151 entries, freshest <lastmod> 2026-08-17 (0 days ago)

    Resolved the sitemap from robots.txt or /sitemap.xml, validated XML, and checked lastmod freshness

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  • Brand search discoverabilityrequired2/4

    Search "Mercury payments fintech" cited mercury.com (https://mercury.com/, https://mercury.com/about, https://support.mercury.com/hc/en-us/articles/43480585431188-Send-and-receive-money), but search "Mercury" did not cite your domain

    fix → Your domain doesn't surface when agents search "Mercury". Strengthen brand pages, structured data, and third-party citations (docs portals, GitHub, directories).

    Ran clean brand-name web searches and checked whether your domain is cited in the results

  • MCP registry listingsrecommendedna

    No MCP server detected for this product

    Queried the official MCP registry, Smithery, Glama, and PulseMCP for servers matching your domain

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2.Do you welcome agents?

11/16

Whether your robots policy, bot protection, and agent guidance actively admit AI agents instead of blocking them.

  • robots.txt present & parseablerequired2/2

    /robots.txt parses: 1 User-agent group(s), 4 Sitemap line(s)

    Fetched /robots.txt and validated it parses as a robots policy

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  • AI crawler policyrequired5/5

    All 12 AI crawler user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, …) are allowed at / by robots.txt

    Evaluated robots.txt groups for the major AI agent user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, …)

  • Content Signals directivesemerging0/2

    No Content-Signal lines in robots.txt

    fix → Declare Content Signals in robots.txt (e.g. `Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no`) to express AI usage preferences machine-readably.

    Looked for Content-Signal lines in robots.txt

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  • Agent user-agent paritybetarequired4/4

    All three UAs get HTTP 200; bot bodies are ClaudeBot 100%, GPTBot 100% of the browser response (858330 bytes)

    Compared responses served to browser and AI-agent user-agents (informational while in beta)

  • agents.mdrecommended0/3

    No agents.md: https://mercury.com/agents.md → HTTP 404, https://mercury.com/AGENTS.md → HTTP 404

    fix → Add /agents.md: what agents may do on your site, key URLs, auth, rate limits, and who to contact.

    Fetched /agents.md and checked for substantive agent guidance

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3.Does an agent understand who you are and what you do?

9/18

Whether your pages carry machine-readable identity: structured data, llms.txt, clear copy an agent can quote.

  • Homepage states what you arerequired3/3

    Homepage clarity rated 5/5 — an agent can confidently say what this company does (model's one-sentence read: "Mercury provides online business banking services, including checking, savings, credit cards, spend management, payments, invoicing, and AI-powered financial intelligence, tailored for startups, small businesses, and scaling companies.")

    An LLM read your homepage as an agent would and rated how confidently it could say what you do

  • OpenGraph / social metadatarecommended2/2

    Homepage has og:title, og:description, and og:image (twitter:card="summary_large_image" present)

    Parsed homepage og:title / og:description / og:image and twitter:card meta tags

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  • llms.txtrecommended0/4

    GET /llms.txt returned HTTP 410

    fix → Add /llms.txt: an H1 with your name, a one-line blockquote summary, and H2 sections of curated links to docs, pricing, and API.

    Fetched /llms.txt and validated it against the llmstxt.org shape (H1, summary, curated links)

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  • llms-full.txtbonusrecommended0/2

    GET /llms-full.txt returned HTTP 404

    fix → Add /llms-full.txt with expanded inline docs content so agents can load everything in one fetch.

    Fetched /llms-full.txt and checked for substantial inline markdown content

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  • JSON-LD structured datarequired4/4

    5 JSON-LD block(s) on homepage and pricing page (types: Organization, FinancialService, WebSite, MobileApplication, WebPage); Organization block is well-formed

    Extracted and validated application/ld+json blocks on the homepage and pricing page

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  • Markdown content negotiationrecommended0/3

    GET / with `Accept: text/markdown` returned HTTP 200 text/html; no .md twins found (2 probed)

    fix → Serve text/markdown when clients send `Accept: text/markdown` (or expose .md twins of key pages) — agents get far more signal per token.

    Requested key pages with Accept: text/markdown and probed .md twin URLs

4.Can an agent integrate with you?

watch →9.5/21

Whether the artifacts an agent needs to build on you — docs, API specs, SDKs, MCP servers — exist and are findable.

  • Developer resource discoverabilityrecommended3/3

    Search "Mercury API documentation" cited your own domain: https://docs.mercury.com/llms.txt, https://docs.mercury.com/docs/welcome, https://docs.mercury.com/changelog/welcome-to-mercury-api, https://docs.mercury.com/reference/cards

    Searched for your brand with developer-keyword suffixes and checked which official resources are cited

  • OpenAPI spec discoverablerequired0/5

    No OpenAPI spec found: checked docs-page links and /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /api/openapi.json, /docs/openapi.json, and api-subdomain locations

    fix → Publish your OpenAPI spec at /openapi.json and link it from docs — it's the single highest-leverage artifact for agent integration.

    Probed standard OpenAPI locations and docs links for a fetchable, parseable spec

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  • Docs discoverablerequired4/4

    Docs found at https://mercury.com/api (via path probe, 5670 chars of readable text)

    Followed homepage nav/footer links and probed /docs, /developers, docs.{domain}

  • MCP server discoveryrequired2.5/5

    MCP evidence found only as a mention in docs page (https://mercury.com/api): "https://mercury.com/api#mercury-mcp" — no well-known server card

    fix → Publish /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json describing your MCP endpoint so agents can autodiscover it. Evidence found: docs page (https://mercury.com/api).

    Probed /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, mcp.json, and docs mentions for an MCP endpoint

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  • npm SDKrecommended0/2

    No official npm SDK found: probed 6 candidate(s) (@mercury/sdk, @mercury/mercury, mercury, mercury-sdk, mercury-api, mercury-js) — found but not domain-verified: mercury, mercury-sdk

    fix → Publish an official npm SDK (suggest @mercury/sdk) with your domain in package.json homepage so agents can verify it's official.

    Searched the npm registry for an official, domain-verified SDK package

  • PyPI SDKrecommended0/2

    No official PyPI SDK found: probed 4 candidate(s) (mercury, mercury-sdk, mercuryapi, mercury-python) — found but not domain-verified: mercury, mercury-sdk, mercury-python

    fix → Publish an official Python SDK (suggest "mercury") with your domain in the project URLs so agents can verify it's official.

    Searched PyPI for an official, domain-verified SDK package

5.Is your integration well-built?

watch →0/5

Whether your specs, docs, and tools are complete and descriptive enough for an agent to use them without guessing.

  • OpenAPI validity & qualityrecommendedna

    No OpenAPI spec found — nothing to lint

    Linted the spec: descriptions, operationIds, securitySchemes, servers

  • Docs qualityrecommended0/3

    Docs at https://mercury.com/api scored clarity 3/5, completeness 2/5, runnable examples 1/5, agent-friendliness 3/5 (mean 2.3/5)

    fix → Docs scored 1/5 on runnable examples. The documentation is a marketing page and does not contain any actual API reference or detailed instructions for integration.

    An LLM rated your docs for clarity, completeness, runnable examples, and agent-friendliness

  • Quickstart / getting startedrecommended0/2

    Quickstart link https://support.mercury.com/hc/en-us/sections/28736349558420-Getting-Started on https://mercury.com/api returned HTTP 403

    fix → Fix the quickstart link so it resolves to a 200 page with a runnable code example.

    Looked for a quickstart/getting-started guide containing code blocks

  • MCP tool qualityrecommendedna

    No tools listed by the MCP endpoint — nothing to lint

    Linted listed tools for descriptions, typed input schemas, and naming

6.Can an agent use you reliably in production?

watch →3/4

Response hygiene, TLS and redirect discipline, and security contact channels agents depend on at runtime.

  • TLS & redirect hygienerequired2/2

    http://mercury.com/ upgrades to https in 1 hop(s), 1 redirect(s) total, final HTTP 200; HSTS present

    Checked http→https redirect behavior, chain length, and TLS health

  • Response speed & weightrequired1/1

    Homepage TTFB 102ms, payload 838KB, Content-Encoding: br

    Measured homepage TTFB, payload size, and compression

  • security.txtrecommended0/1

    https://mercury.com/.well-known/security.txt returned HTTP 404

    fix → Publish RFC 9116 /.well-known/security.txt with a Contact and a future Expires.

    Fetched /.well-known/security.txt and validated Contact + Expires

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7.Can an agent authenticate to you?

watch →2/7

Whether agents can discover your auth model machine-readably (OAuth metadata) and follow documented steps to credentials.

  • OAuth authorization server metadatarecommended0/3

    Neither /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server nor /.well-known/openid-configuration resolved (HTTP 404 / HTTP 404)

    fix → Serve RFC 8414 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server with PKCE (S256) and a registration_endpoint so agents can self-onboard.

    Fetched /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (and openid-configuration fallback)

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  • OAuth protected resource metadatarecommended0/2

    No RFC 9728 metadata: https://mercury.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource → HTTP 404

    fix → Serve RFC 9728 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource naming your authorization servers so agents can discover how to authenticate.

    Fetched /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource

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  • Auth documentationrecommended2/2

    Auth documentation found at https://docs.mercury.com/reference/welcome-to-mercury-api (linked from https://mercury.com/api) with code examples

    Looked for /auth.md or an authentication docs page with code examples

8.Can an agent transact with you?

watch →10/15

Whether pricing is discoverable and machine-readable, and whether you support agent payment protocols.

  • Pricing discoverablerequired5/5

    Pricing page found at https://mercury.com/pricing (via homepage link) with legible price signals ("$0/mo — with more plans availa").

    Followed nav/footer links and probed /pricing for a page with legible price signals

  • Machine-readable pricingrecommended5/5

    LLM extracted 3 numerically-priced plan(s) from https://mercury.com/pricing at confidence 1.00: Mercury $ 0/month; Mercury Plus $ 29.9/month; Mercury Pro $ 299/month.

    Looked for Offer JSON-LD, then had an LLM attempt structured extraction of your plans

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  • x402 payment supportbonusrecommended0/2

    /.well-known/x402 returned HTTP 404. No x402 support detected (bonus check — absence costs nothing).

    fix → Support x402: serve payment requirements at /.well-known/x402, or answer unauthenticated API calls with HTTP 402 plus an x402 payment-requirements payload (x402Version, accepts[]).

    Probed /.well-known/x402 and API endpoints for HTTP 402 payment-required envelopes

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  • AP2 readinessemerging0/1

    No AP2 hints found — scanned docs page (https://mercury.com/api); /.well-known/ap2 returned HTTP 404.

    fix → Adopt AP2 to accept delegated agent payments — see https://ap2-protocol.org.

    Scanned fetched artifacts and well-known paths for AP2 hints

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  • Agentic Commerce Protocolemerging0/1

    No Agentic Commerce Protocol hints found — scanned docs page (https://mercury.com/api); /.well-known/acp returned HTTP 404.

    fix → Adopt the Agentic Commerce Protocol so agent checkouts can complete against your store — see https://developers.openai.com/commerce.

    Scanned docs and specs for agentic checkout endpoints

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  • Other agent payment protocolsbonusemerging0/1

    No UCP/MPP hints found — scanned docs page (https://mercury.com/api).

    fix → Track emerging agent payment protocols (UCP, MPP) and adopt the ones your buyers' agents use.

    Scanned fetched artifacts for UCP/MPP protocol hints

9.Can a user act through an agent?

0/4

Whether an end user's agent can operate on their behalf: working MCP tools, published skills, agent configs.

  • Agent skill publishedbonusemergingna

    Requires the analysis phase — not yet evaluated

    Checked /skill.md, /.well-known/skills/, and skills.sh for published agent skills

  • MCP handshake & tools listrequired0/4

    MCP endpoint https://mercury.com/api#mercury-mcp failed handshake: Not a JSON-RPC endpoint

    fix → MCP endpoint https://mercury.com/api#mercury-mcp failed handshake: Not a JSON-RPC endpoint. Support streamable HTTP with protocol version negotiation; if auth-gated, return RFC 9728 metadata in WWW-Authenticate.

    Performed a streamable-HTTP initialize + tools/list against the MCP endpoint

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  • Agent configs in public repobonusemergingna

    Requires the analysis phase — not yet evaluated

    Checked your public GitHub org's main repos for AGENTS.md / .claude / .cursor configs

10.Can an agent operate your website directly?

5.5/9

Whether the site itself is legible to non-rendering and browser agents: semantic HTML, no JS walls, accessibility.

  • NLWeb endpointemerging0/1

    No NLWeb endpoint detected: /.well-known/nlweb.json returned HTTP 404 (text/html); GET /ask?query=hello returned HTTP 404 (text/html)

    fix → Consider exposing an NLWeb /ask endpoint (and /.well-known/nlweb.json) for conversational access to your content.

    Probed /.well-known/nlweb.json and the /ask endpoint

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  • Semantic HTML structurerequired1.5/3

    3/6 semantic signals present on the homepage (missing: <header>/<footer>, no heading-level skips, text-to-markup ratio ≥ 0.10)

    fix → Add the missing structure: <header>/<footer>, no heading-level skips, text-to-markup ratio ≥ 0.10. Agents parse structure, not pixels.

    Scored landmark elements, heading hierarchy, and text-to-markup ratio on the homepage

  • Content readable without JavaScriptrequired2/2

    Homepage raw HTML contains 8022 chars of visible text without JavaScript

    Measured visible text in the raw, unrendered homepage HTML

  • Accessibility basicsrequired2/2

    Homepage accessibility: 4/5 checks passed — failing: labeled inputs (1/2 unlabeled)

    Static checks: lang attribute, title, alt coverage, labeled inputs, landmarks

  • WebMCPemerging0/1

    No WebMCP evidence on homepage: no application/webmcp script and no navigator.modelContext reference

    fix → Consider WebMCP to expose page actions as tools to browser agents.

    Looked for WebMCP script declarations on the homepage

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