Compare · Do it yourself

You could do this yourself. Here's what it takes.

Plenty of teams start by grepping logs for GPTBot, reading robots.txt and asking ChatGPT to try their checkout. It's a good way to learn. It's hard to keep doing every day, across every release, bot rule and site.

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At a glance

Ghost Agent Lab and doing it yourself, side by side

Question	Ghost Agent Lab	Doing it yourself
Identify AI agents in logs	1,500+ agents, kept up to date	Your own list of user agents
Check agents are genuine	Every request, against published IP ranges and DNS	By hand, for the ones you think of
Test journeys with AI agents	Scheduled, three runs each, with replays	Ad hoc, one run, no record
Catch a release or bot rule that breaks agents	Alerts within the hour on Growth	When someone notices
Readiness checks	AgentScore across four categories, ranked	A checklist and a spreadsheet
Report to leadership	Weekly report, written for you	Assembled by hand
Cost	From $99 a month	Engineering and analyst time

The difference

One afternoon versus every day

Doing it yourself

Great for a first look
Knowledge lives with one person
Hard to repeat after every release
No history to show progress

            Ghost Agent Lab
            The same checks, every day, on every site
Shared with marketing, e-commerce and engineering
Re-tests every fix you ship
History and trends from day one

          

Better together

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FAQ

Questions

What would I need to build?

A log pipeline, an up-to-date list of agents and their IP ranges, verification, a way to run AI agents through journeys safely, scoring, alerts and reports. How AgentScore works shows the scoring alone.

Is it safe to point an AI agent at my live checkout?

Only with guardrails. Ghost Agents stop at the payment form, never enter card details and refuse buttons that place orders. See what they will and won't do.

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