Your next customer is an AI agent. Your best one is still a person.

Yes, and the curve is steep. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity all have checkout, and the agent protocols (UCP, Shopify's Storefront MCP) are live. The brands in the answer today are setting the default for the next five years.

One number out of 100. Forty points for what Google and the AI crawlers can read on your site: titles, schema, robots rules, sitemap, product content, speed. Sixty for what the AI engines say when a shopper asks about you: do they know you, link to you, recommend you, trust you, know what you sell. Agent readiness, whether an AI shopping agent can find, read and buy from you, is scored on its own out of 100.

ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI, each asked the same shopper questions in each market you sell in, in the local language. For agents: the UCP manifest, Shopify's Storefront MCP, the product feed, Meta's agent channel, policies, and whether variants, shipping, returns and reviews are readable without JavaScript.

Yes. On Shopify the app reads your catalogue directly from the admin. On any other platform you sign up at app.humanforward.io with an email, add your site, and the first run starts straight away. Storefront works from a product feed, and Community is independent of your stack.

Findability is free for the score, three engines and one run a month. Pro is $29 a month per site: all seven engines, three markets, a run every week, the fix kit, the twelve shopper questions, export to Google Sheets. Scale is $79: ten markets, a run every day, and the whole report inside Claude, ChatGPT, Muse or Gemini. Storefront and Community are priced on a call during early access. Sessions start free. No contracts.

The quick way into agentic commerce. You connect your product feed once and your catalogue, stock, prices, policies and events become one clean thing ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini can read, compare and buy from, while full UCP is built behind it. Months of work becomes an afternoon.

Your brand's own community app, white labelled, on iOS, Android, web and inside ChatGPT. Members find people near them, join tribes, turn up to events, post to a feed that is theirs, and pay for memberships and events through your own Stripe account. We host it and keep it running; your team runs it from one screen. It is the part of the business agents cannot take.

Those are rented. The members belong to Meta, the data sits with Meta, phone numbers change hands, and a group chat goes quiet past about forty people. On the platform tribes are private by default, no numbers are shared, it is GDPR compliant, the brand posts to members first, and a member who lands in another city opens the app and the local run is already there.

Through Stripe Connect on the Stripe account you already have, linked in about two minutes. Memberships, paid events and members first drops are charged by you: the money settles to you, the customers are yours, the receipts carry your name. We take a small platform fee per charge and nothing sits with us.

Pre built agents for paid media, SEO, answer engine optimisation, socials, CRM and email flows, accessibility and site health. They run on the policy and budget you set, inside your own Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini organisation, so the data and the bill stay with you. A person only sees exceptions. Opening in 2027.

A London company, Human Forward LTD, founded in 2026 by operators who ran digital, ecommerce, growth and community at some of the world's biggest brands. We build the software and we also do the work: sessions, launches, PR and community. Small on purpose. A person answers every message.