Scan your website
The agent reads your site like a new hire and builds a brain from it.
Scanning teaches Bidirection your business. The agent reads your site the way a new hire would — pricing, policies, product pages — and builds a Business Brain it answers from. Every agent you create is built from a site's brain.
Run a scan#
From Home, press Run the scan if you have never scanned. Otherwise:
- Open Library · Sites.
- Press Add a site.
- Enter the Website address, including
https://. Name is optional and defaults to the address. - Press Add and scan to register it and start reading immediately, or Add only to register it without spending a crawl.
To scan a site you already added, select its card and press Scan now.
What happens while it reads#
A stepper shows eight stages in order:
- Reading pages
- Extracting pricing, forms and CTAs
- Filling the knowledge base
- Classifying pages
- Writing per-page briefs
- Connecting what it learned
- Checking your site against itself
- Compiling the tracking plan
A typical small site takes a few minutes. You can leave the page — nothing is lost, and the same live progress appears on Home ("Reading yoursite.com now"), on Library · Sites, and on the onboarding page. All three read one truth.
What you get#
Four numbers when it finishes:
| Tile | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Pages read | crawled and mapped |
| Facts learned | grounded assertions the agent can cite |
| Contradictions | places your site disagrees with itself |
| Site map | known URLs |
Below them, the per-page intelligence: each page's type and the regions Bidirection learned to track on it.
Contradictions#
If your site disagrees with itself — one page says 14-day refunds, another says 30 — the scan flags it and the agent holds on that topic until you decide. This is deliberate; it will not pick a side for you.
Resolve them on Home, where they arrive as a decision card. The Sites page shows you the pair and points you there.
Re-scanning#
Scan any time your site changes. Re-scanning is always safe: each site keeps its own brain, and scanning one site never overwrites another site's brain. That isolation is why adding a second property does not overwrite the first one's knowledge.
Deleting a site#
Deleting removes the site, its scans and everything learned from it. Agents built from it keep running, but cannot be re-scanned until you point them at another site. You can add the site again later and scan from scratch.