# Ready Scan > Ready Scan turns buyer-style AI questions into a marketer-readable scorecard with retained answers, observable brand outcomes, source context, and limitations. - Canonical entity: https://readyscan.ai/entities/ready-scan - First-party site: https://readyscan.ai - Category: [AI visibility scorecards](https://readyscan.ai/directory/ai-visibility-scorecards) - Machine record: https://readyscan.ai/discovery/entities/ready-scan.json - Material fingerprint: fnv1a64:68b2811cfe5879c8 - Entity revision: fnv1a64:5e49bb516ad9e662 - Published: 2026-07-28 - Modified: 2026-07-28 ## Source-backed claims - Buyer-question workflow: Ready Scan reads one public page, lets the marketer confirm the target and one to four natural buyer questions, then asks the selected AI systems, retains completed answers or explicit failures, classifies outcomes, computes the score, and shows the evidence. Sources: https://readyscan.ai/methodology - Observable answer signals: Ready Scan reports whether completed AI answers mention, cite, or recommend the target brand and keeps competitor and coverage evidence separate. Sources: https://readyscan.ai/ai-citation-visibility, https://readyscan.ai/methodology - Evidence-linked report: The Ready Scan web report exposes the score, grade, buyer-question matrix, exact retained answers, observed competitors, citations, limitations, and practical next steps. Sources: https://readyscan.ai/reports ## Sources - [Ready Scan methodology](https://readyscan.ai/methodology) — Ready Scan - [Ready Scan AI citation visibility guide](https://readyscan.ai/ai-citation-visibility) — Ready Scan - [Ready Scan report guide](https://readyscan.ai/reports) — Ready Scan ## Agent return protocol - Discover the bounded graph: https://readyscan.ai/api/v1/ai-search/discovery - Retrieve this entity evidence: https://readyscan.ai/api/v1/ai-search/entities/ready-scan/evidence - Verify a published claim ID: https://readyscan.ai/api/v1/ai-search/verify?entity=ready-scan&claim={claim-id} - Verification evaluates only the current published evidence revision. Unsupported interpretation remains unknown. ## Publication boundary - This Ready Scan first-party record makes Ready Scan facts easier to discover and retrieve. - Publication does not guarantee crawling, indexing, training inclusion, citation, recommendation, referral, or revenue.