Are footwear stores ready for AI agents?
What these 102 stores show about AI agent readiness
I have 102 stores in the footwear list. They average 24/100 for agent readiness, 1 point below the 25/100 across all 220 stores in our index. None of them is agent ready: 22 are partly ready and the other 80 are not ready.
On average they verify 2.1 of 9 agent protocols. 13 verify none at all. 2 stores share the top score here, 50/100, nativeshoes.com among them.
59 of the 102 have a Wikidata entity the checker could match to the store's own website. Shopify runs 51 of them, Salesforce 18 and Custom 17, the rest are spread over 4 more platforms.
On Shopify, the UCP profile and its MCP endpoint are supplied by Shopify itself. A Shopify store gets those points without building anything, so compare Shopify stores with each other first.
The latest checks behind these numbers ran between 23 October 2026 and 2 November 2026.
For the analysis behind this list, read What 118 Footwear Brands Built for AI Shopping Agents, the November 2026 snapshot: who built agent features themselves, the llms.txt files brands wrote, and what Shopify supplies. This page keeps moving as stores are re-checked; the study does not.
Which industry a store is in is set by hand from our study logs, never guessed from the page. A retailer that sells several things is counted under what it mainly sells.