Agentic Customer Experience

Your next customer
might not be human.

AI agents are beginning to discover, compare, recommend and act on behalf of customers. How does your business perform when the customer is an AI?

Test your Agentic Customer Experience. See how effectively AI can discover, understand, evaluate and act on your business.

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Customer intent

“I need a waterproof coating for a leaking garage roof that I can apply myself.”

Human · Leeds, UK
AI AGENT
Agent journey
  1. 01Discover
  2. 02Understand
  3. 03Choose
  4. 04Trust
  5. 05Act
Customer outcomePARTIAL
The CX shift

Customer experience
was designed for humans.

That's changing.

For decades, businesses have optimised websites, funnels and customer journeys around one assumption:

The customer is the person navigating the experience.

Now AI is beginning to sit between customer intent and businesses.

Human

“I need…”

AI Agent
Research
Compare
Decide
Act
Business

Your digital customer is changing.

The internet journey
Search→
Website→
Browse→
Compare→
Buy
The agentic journey
Intent→
AI Agent→
Discover→
Understand→
Choose→
Act→
Transaction

Your website is no longer only communicating with people.

It increasingly needs to communicate with machines acting for people.

A new layer of customer experience

Agentic
Customer
Experience.

Agentic Customer Experience (ACX) is the experience an AI agent has when discovering, understanding, evaluating and interacting with a business on behalf of a customer.

UX
User Experience
CX
Customer Experience
ACX
Agentic Customer Experience
Evidence

The shift is already happening.

35%

of UK consumers surveyed had already used AI assistants to help them shop online.

Adobe Analytics UK consumer survey (2,000 respondents), reported by FashionNetwork · March 2025
+1,200%

increase in traffic from generative AI tools to UK retail websites over the past year.

Adobe Analytics H1 2025 Online Spending Report, reported by eCommerceNews UK · July 2025
39%

of consumers are already using AI for product discovery.

More than half of Gen Z already use AI for product discovery.

Salesforce Connected Shoppers Report · July 2025
$750BMcKinsey projection

Research populations and methodologies differ. Statistics are shown to illustrate the broader shift toward AI-assisted discovery and shopping rather than predict individual business outcomes.

Your customers are already changing how they search.

The question isn't whether customers will use AI.

It's what AI experiences when it reaches your business.

Getting found is only the beginning.

Search
AEO

Can AI find you?

ACX

Can AI successfully do business with you?

Commerce

AEO helps AI find you.

ACX determines what happens next.

What's your ACX Score?

Your Agentic Customer Experience
0/100
ACX SCORE
Discover18 / 20
Understand15 / 20
Choose9 / 20
Trust16 / 20
Act4 / 20

Sample report. Biggest opportunity: Act — agents cannot complete a purchase path.

Methodology

Five dimensions of the agentic customer journey.

01
Discover

Can AI find and correctly identify you?

02
Understand

Can AI understand what you actually sell?

03
Choose

Can AI match customer intent to the right option?

04
Trust

Can AI establish enough confidence to recommend you?

05
Act

Can AI move the customer toward a transaction?

We don't just scan your website.

We send AI customers through it.

Customer 014

“I have an old flat roof that's started leaking. I want something I can apply myself rather than replacing the roof. What should I use?”

Discover
Understand
Choose
Trust
Act
AI CUSTOMER LOST
Reason

The agent could identify suitable products but could not confidently determine which product was appropriate for this use case.

Commercial consequence

The customer is likely to continue researching alternatives.

See what AI customers experience on your website

Can't I just ask ChatGPT?

Yes.

And you should.

A single AI conversation can give you a useful snapshot.

But it doesn't systematically test the complete customer journey.

Asking ChatGPT
  • 1 prompt
  • 1 customer question
  • 1 interaction
  • 1 point in time
  • No benchmark
ACX
  • Multiple customer intentions
  • Structured journey simulation
  • Five-stage methodology
  • Evidence
  • Consistent scoring
  • Prioritised issues
  • Repeatable testing
  • Benchmarking over time

The value isn't asking AI a question.

It's measuring the experience you provide to AI customers.

You don't need to rebuild everything.

Start by understanding what AI sees.

01
Measure

Know your current ACX.

02
Structure

Make your business understandable.

03
Optimise

Remove points of confusion.

04
Enable

Create machine-accessible actions.

05
Monitor

Track the experience as agents evolve.

Transparency

Built on evidence,
not hype.

  • ACX uses publicly accessible website information only.
  • Customer scenarios are simulated, not real customers.
  • Scores use a consistent five-stage ACX methodology.
  • Findings link back to the evidence on your pages.
  • ACX does not claim to reproduce every AI agent.
  • Results do not guarantee rankings or revenue.

Start measuring.
Then improve.

Fix it yourself with clear recommendations — or bring in an ACX specialist when you want help.

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  • 5 Benchmark AI Customers
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  • First 2 Improvement Plan actions
  • Baseline history
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THE ACX INDEX

Tracking how prepared businesses are for the agentic customer.

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Retail68
Travel61
Financial Services54
Utilities47
Home Services43

Illustrative preview — live benchmark coming soon. Figures are not real measurements.

The agentic customer
is already emerging.

Let's find out whether your business is ready.

Your next customer

Experience your business
through the eyes of AI.