The companies with no machine-readable door at all

Newest sealed read: 2026-10-14. We read this source every day. We hold 119 sealed runs going back to 2026-06-11.

What this page is197,064 rows held · newest sealed read 2026-10-14

88 of the 276 companies had every one of the six buying files absent on 14 Oct 2026. A robot sent to buy from them has nothing to read.
Those 88 split two ways. 65 answered a plain 404 or 410 on all six. The other 23 answered 200 at least once with something that was not the file, which is still no door but is not a not-found, and the table says which.
58 companies served both an agent-instructions file and a checkout manifest that day, 34 served the instructions only, and 15 the manifest only.
A further 81 companies gave us no clear answer on any buying file, so they are on neither list. Guessing which side they belong on is exactly the thing this feed refuses to do.
79 of these 88 companies do serve a robots.txt. Having one has never meant a shop will sell to a machine, which is why it is not counted as a door here.

Real rows out of our sealed copies

These are rows we read out of dated copies we keep ourselves. The live source shows today only, so once a row moves, what it said before is gone from the place you would go to look.

88 of the 276 companies had every one of the six buying files provably absent on 14 Oct 2026. These are the 12 we have the cleanest run of reads for read 14 Oct 2026

Company	Serves a robots.txt	Agent-instructions file	Checkout manifest	Days we got a clear answer
1stdibs.com	yes	answered 404	answered 404	118 of 119
abercrombie.com	no	answered 404	answered 404	118 of 119
aliexpress.com	yes	answered 200, not the file	answered 200, not the file	118 of 119
apple.com	yes	answered 404	answered 404	118 of 119
article.com	yes	answered 404	answered 404	118 of 119
ashleyfurniture.com	yes	answered 200, not the file	answered 404	118 of 119
athleta.com	yes	answered 200, not the file	answered 404	118 of 119
bananarepublic.com	yes	answered 200, not the file	answered 404	118 of 119
bandcamp.com	yes	answered 404	answered 404	118 of 119
bedbathandbeyond.com	yes	answered 200, not the file	answered 200, not the file	118 of 119
chairish.com	yes	answered 404	answered 404	118 of 119
columbia.com	no	answered 404	answered 404	118 of 119

All 276 companies on the panel, on 14 Oct 2026 read 14 Oct 2026

On our newest read	Companies
Serves both an agent-instructions file and a checkout manifest	58
Serves an agent-instructions file only	34
Serves a checkout manifest only	15
Every buying file provably absent	88
We could not tell, on every buying file	81

What this page cannot tell you

Absent is not a judgement. Plenty of large shops sell perfectly well without any of these files, and several of the biggest names on the panel are on this list.
This is our newest read. Any company here can publish one of these files tomorrow, and the day it does is the row this feed exists to sell you.
A server answering 200 is not proof of a file. We count a file as there only when the body we saved really is that kind of file. On 14 Oct 2026 that test threw out 138 answers of 200 across 35 companies whose servers handed back a web page instead.
On 14 Oct 2026 we could not read one or more files at 87 of the 276 companies, because the server refused us, rate-limited us, timed out, or its robots.txt told us not to fetch. Those are shown as cannot tell. We never count a refusal as the file being gone.
The panel is a fixed list of 276 company websites, frozen before collection started. A company that is not on that list is not missing from this feed — we have never asked it anything. Email operations@ustechautomations.com with the companies you follow and we will tell you which of them we already hold.
There are 7 days in the window with no read at all: 19 Jun 2026, 4 Jul 2026, 15 Jul 2026, 8 Aug 2026, 18 Aug 2026, 19 Aug 2026, 20 Aug 2026. Where a file appeared across one of those gaps we give the two dates we actually hold, never a guessed one in between.

See the file we hold

You do not have to take our word for what is in the file. Here are 25 rows of the real thing, carrying all 8 of its columns, cut out of the dated copies we sealed ourselves. Nothing in it is made up and nothing in it is tidied up.

Open the 25 rows as a CSVA plain spreadsheet file. It saves to your machine rather than painting itself into a browser tab, and it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
The same 25 rows as JSONThe same rows again, laid out for reading with code.

Nothing on this page is for sale. The sample file is free to read, and so is every row on the page above it.

These 25 rows are a slice of the file, not the whole of it. What we cannot show you here is how far back it goes: the file goes back further than these rows do.

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