Your website now has a second kind of visitor, and Elementor has just released tools to help you look after it.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to compare local businesses, find an opening time or check a price, the AI often sends a piece of software to read websites on their behalf. These are called AI agents. They don’t look at your design. They read the code underneath it, and if that code is cluttered, they can misread it or give up.
This is no longer a fringe issue. According to Cloudflare figures quoted by Elementor, automated traffic overtook human traffic in June 2026, at roughly 57% of requests for web pages. More people are getting their answer from an AI and never visiting the site at all. If the AI can’t read your site properly, your business is simply left out of that answer.
What Elementor has announced
Elementor 4.4, released as a beta on 26 October 2026, adds a new Agent Ready page to the Elementor menu in your WordPress dashboard. It brings together everything needed to help AI agents find, read and use your site, plus a free score showing where you stand today.
Three things are worth knowing straight away:
- It’s free. Agent Ready is part of the free Elementor plugin, not a paid add-on.
- It’s off by default. Nothing changes on your site until someone switches each feature on.
- It’s still in beta. Elementor’s estimated date for the full public release is 9 November 2026.
The same release also extends the Elementor MCP connection, which lets AI tools such as Claude help build and edit pages. That’s a separate topic for site builders; this article focuses on Agent Ready, because that’s the part that affects how your customers’ AI tools see your business.
The readiness score: a health check for AI visitors
The Agent Readiness Scanner runs a check on your site and gives it a score, grouped into three areas:
| Area | The question it asks |
|---|---|
| Find | Can an AI agent discover your site and work out what’s on it? |
| Read | Can it get at your content and understand it without tripping over menus, pop-ups and design code? |
| Act | Can it do something useful for the person who sent it, using tools your site offers? |
Each finding comes with a suggested fix. Some are a single switch in the settings. Others can be handed to Elementor’s built-in AI assistant, Angie, or given to an AI tool as a ready-written prompt. A few need hands-on work outside Elementor. Once the fixes are in, you scan again to see the new score.
One honest caveat, which Elementor makes itself: the score is a diagnostic. It does not measure how visible you are in AI answers, and a high score doesn’t guarantee recommendations, mentions or extra traffic. Think of it like an MOT for one part of your website, not a promise of more customers.
The five tools behind it, in plain English
A new Agent Access screen lets you switch each of these on or off with a single toggle. Elementor builds them from your existing content, so there’s nothing extra to write.
| Tool | What it is | Why it helps |
|---|---|---|
| llms.txt | A short index of your site at yoursite.co.uk/llms.txt, pointing AI tools to your key pages | Gives agents a quick map instead of making them guess |
| Markdown pages | Plain-text versions of your pages with the menus, layout and scripts stripped out | Agents read your actual words, faster and with fewer mistakes |
| Discovery files | Standard files that tell agents what your site offers and how to use it | Agents know where to look without trial and error |
| Bot access (robots.txt) | Your instructions on whether bots may use your content for search, for live AI answers, or for training AI models | You choose what’s allowed, bot by bot if you like |
| WebMCP tools | Four read-only tools built into your pages: business information, site search, site structure and page content | Compatible AI browsers can look things up accurately rather than scraping |
The WebMCP tools are read-only at this stage. An agent can look information up, but it can’t edit pages, submit forms or buy anything. Elementor says actions such as filling in forms will come later, starting with its new forms.
Two sensible safeguards are built in. Elementor never overwrites a file you already have, and if you edit the generated llms.txt by hand, it stops updating it automatically.
Agent ready doesn’t mean giving everything away
The most common worry we hear is “I don’t want AI taking my content”. That’s a fair concern, but making your site hard to read doesn’t actually stop it being used. Mostly it just leaves you out of the answers people now get instead of visiting.
Letting an AI read your site to answer a customer’s question, and letting an AI company train its models on your content, are two separate decisions. The new bot access settings let you say yes to one and no to the other. For most local businesses, “yes to search and live answers, no to training” is a sensible starting point.
It’s worth being clear about one limit: robots.txt is a request, not a lock. Reputable AI companies respect it, but a badly behaved bot can ignore it.
Should you switch it on today?
Not on your live site just yet. Beta software is for testing, and installing it means changing your Elementor version, which can affect how your pages behave. Our advice is to wait for the full release, expected around 9 November 2026, then switch features on one at a time and check your site after each change.
A few things are worth sorting out before you do:
- Clutter matters. Cookie banners, pop-ups and aggressive bot protection can block AI agents, so it’s worth checking they’re set up sensibly.
- Accessibility helps too. Agents that browse a site read the same structure a screen reader uses, so proper headings and real buttons help both disabled visitors and AI.
- Keep the message the same. What you show AI agents must match what people see. Trying to tell bots something different has backfired before, in the early days of SEO, and it will again.
How DotScott can help
The switches are simple. Knowing which ones to flip, and what to say yes or no to, is where most businesses get stuck. DotScott can set up and configure Agent Ready for you, so your site is ready for AI visitors without you having to learn the jargon.
What we’ll do:
- Check your site is ready to update, take a full backup, and test the new Elementor version safely before it touches your live site.
- Run the readiness scan and explain your score in plain English.
- Switch on the right features for your business: llms.txt, Markdown pages, discovery files and WebMCP, checked one at a time.
- Set your bot access preferences with you, so you decide what AI can use your content for.
- Fix the findings, including the ones that need hands-on work outside Elementor, such as cookie banners or accessibility gaps.
- Re-scan and report back, showing you the before and after.
If your website is built with Elementor, get in touch and we’ll take a look. If it isn’t, we can still review how AI tools see your site and tell you what’s worth doing.
DotScott: joining the dots on your AI journey.
Sources
- Elementor Editor v4.4 Beta Release announcement, Elementor on GitHub, 26 October 2026
- How the web is changing for agents, and what agent ready means, Elementor blog, 21 October 2026