Room 09 of 09 · seven findings in plain English
The findings.
teas.co.uk is a working tea shop that writes down every AI system that reads it and every visitor those systems send back. The other rooms are the evidence. This page is what the evidence says, in seven findings.
Every number on this page is read from the shop's own records when the page is built, and each finding links to the room that proves it. Nothing is modelled or estimated. Read on 14 November 2026.
Who takes, and who gives back.
AI systems were served 151,533 pages from this shop and sent 2,755 visits back. A further 18,803 are logged against Amazonbot. That figure overstates what it received, earns no credit and is left out of the total; finding 7 says why. The exchange is very uneven between companies. Agents naming OpenAI, the largest reader, were served 45,003 pages and 1,043 visits came back from it: about 43 pages for each visit. Agents naming DuckDuckGo were served 2,342 pages and 934 visits came back: about 2.5.
| Family | Pages served to its agents | Visits it sent back | Pages served for each visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI agents: oai-searchbot, gptbot, chatgpt-user · visits from: chatgpt | 45,003 | 1,043 | 43 |
| Microsoft agents: bingbot · visits from: bing-ai, copilot | 41,284 | 583 | 71 |
| Perplexity agents: perplexitybot, perplexity-user · visits from: perplexity | 32,561 | 32 | too few to compare |
| Amazon agents: amazonbot | 18,803 | none recorded | withdrawn from credit |
| Anthropic agents: claudebot, claude-user, anthropic-ai, claude-web · visits from: claude | 15,031 | 5 | too few to compare |
| Meta agents: meta-externalagent, meta-externalfetcher | 9,896 | none recorded | no visit recorded |
| Google (AI agents only) agents: googleother, google-extended · visits from: gemini | 3,669 | 47 | too few to compare |
| DuckDuckGo agents: duckassistbot · visits from: ddg-ai | 2,342 | 934 | 2.5 |
| ByteDance agents: bytespider | 1,652 | none recorded | no visit recorded |
| Other named agents agents: ccbot, youbot, cohere, generic | 86 | none recorded | no visit recorded |
| Mistral agents: mistralai-user, mistral | 7 | none recorded | no visit recorded |
| xAI agents: grokbot, xai-grok · visits from: grok | 2 | 1 | too few to compare |
| Brave visits from: brave-ai | none recorded | 93 | no agent recorded |
| Kagi visits from: kagi | none recorded | 16 | no agent recorded |
| Alibaba Qwen visits from: qwen | none recorded | 1 | no agent recorded |
Pages: the citation log grouped by agent, 2 Jun 2026 to 14 Nov 2026; a page counts when the server answered 200 or 206 and sent bytes. Visits: the session table, 10 May 2026 to 14 Nov 2026; a browser session whose referring address or campaign tag named an AI surface. Live, read at this render.
What the visits bought.
2,755 visits arrived from AI answers, and the visit tracker recorded 5 completed orders among them. A small number, published because it is the true one.
Source: the session table, 10 May 2026 to 14 Nov 2026. Rule: sessions whose referring address or campaign tag named an AI surface; each step is counted on its own and never derived from the step above. Live.
The order count is a floor. Room 06 records that the visit tracker does not see every order, so no conversion rate is published anywhere in this study. Room 02 reads the order records themselves: of 161 paid orders since 10 May 2026, 5 arrived on a link an AI assistant showed, 1 was probably from an assistant and 1 was reported by the customer. Origin records begin on 10 May 2026. Since its first order on 18 November 2025 the shop has taken 236 paid orders in all, and Room 02 sets out what is known about the earlier ones. An order placed after reading an AI answer and then typing our address carries no AI evidence at all, so the true figure may be higher.
What feeding the machines costs.
This shop has sent 65.4 GB of content to 25 named machine agents. That is content shipped from our own server, measured in bytes, not a count of pages. It includes 7.1 GB logged against Amazonbot, which is withdrawn from credit.
| Agent | Pages served | Data sent (MB) |
|---|---|---|
| bingbot | 41,284 | 16,758.7 |
| perplexitybot | 32,560 | 11,478.9 |
| claudebot | 14,956 | 10,660.0 |
| amazonbot | 18,803 | 7,271.5 |
| oai-searchbot | 22,419 | 6,336.4 |
Source: the citation log grouped by agent, 2 Jun 2026 to 14 Nov 2026. Rule: the sum of bytes our server sent. Requests answered from the cache in front of the server never reach this log, so the figure is a floor. 1 GB = 1,024 MB. Live.
A checkout for assistants that nobody has paid through.
Since 4 October 2026 an AI assistant can search this shop, compare teas, fill a basket and hand its person a checkout link. Assistants have used the tools. In the last 30 days no paid order has come through them. We publish the empty result because it is the result.
Source: the service record of the teas.co.uk MCP server; completed UTC days; the shop's own tests are left out. Payment happens only on teas.co.uk, never inside an assistant. Live.
Our own analytics were blind.
Roughly a quarter of the visitors ChatGPT sent in September and October 2026 were never counted, and of 94 orders only 4 carried the shop platform's own record of where they came from. Most shops have the same gaps and do not know it.
Source: the corrections record in Room 06, where each entry is dated, kept in the main text and never removed.
Bots wearing famous names.
In September 2026 most requests to this server that called themselves GrokBot or MistralAI were scanners looking for passwords. They received an error and earned nothing. Anyone counting AI traffic by the name a request gives itself is counting these too.
This study records an agent under the name it gives and says so on every table: a name is a claim, not a verified company. What protects the figures is the rule that only a real page served is counted, and that an agent which breaks the published rules is withdrawn from credit with its history left in view.
Source: the mint record in Room 01 ("Borrowed names earn nothing") and the agent table in Room 03. Window: September 2026.
The crawler that ignored the rules.
Amazonbot ignored the limits this shop published. Our log holds 21,796 requests from it, 18,803 of them recorded as served. Every one is kept on the record and counts towards nothing.
We also got this wrong ourselves, twice, and Room 06 keeps both corrections. We described Amazonbot as blocked while our own server was still answering it. And many rows recorded after the block carry a status our tracker had predicted instead of the one the server returned, so the served figure above overstates what Amazonbot received. Those rows have not been edited. The cache in front of the server still answers some of its requests, so we do not claim the refusal is total.
Source: the citation log, Amazonbot rows, 2 Jun 2026 to 14 Nov 2026, and the corrections record. Rule: every logged request, none credited. Live.
Charts and data you can use.
Each chart is a 1,200 by 630 image with the date and this address printed on it. Use them in an article or a post; a link back to this page is all we ask. They carry the figures of the frozen November 2026 edition, read on 14 November 2026 at 03:13 UTC, not today's live numbers. The leaderboard chart shows Room 01 at the same reading.
findings.json holds the figures of the seven findings with their windows and rules, as read for this edition; findings.csv is the table in finding 1. The daily tape CSV holds one row for every closed day of the thank you mint, from the same ledger and rules as the tape in Room 01, which shows the latest 30 days. Live.
