A firm scorecard from the VC Agent-Readiness Census — 25 firms, five doors each, checked 2026-11-01. Official site: www.firstround.com
open_api)Verdict: The only firm whose robots.txt affirmatively disallows named AI crawlers site-wide — agent access is not merely absent but refused.
Each intent is scored with one door-state, assessed from public official sources on 2026-11-01. Scoring: open_api 4 · partner_gated 2 · aggregator_only 1 · human_only 0 · unverified 0 (flagged).
| Intent | State | Route | Note | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research | human_only | Public website (human-readable only) | Who We Back states seed-stage founder criteria and 500+ early teams backed, and team/how-we-work pages are in the sitemap, but robots.txt disallows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User, CCBot and other AI crawlers for /, so there is no sanctioned machine-readable agent route. | firstround.com/who-we-back checked 2026-11-01 |
| Pitch | human_only | — | No pitch/application portal or form found on the official site or sitemap (who-we-back, how-we-work, team, news, angel-track); founder access is via the firm's network and partners. | firstround.com/ checked 2026-11-01 |
| Diligence | human_only | First Round Review (official publication) | Review publishes prose guidance on partner-meeting expectations and Pitch Assist is a portfolio-only program; no public structured diligence checklist, template, required-metrics list or data-room standard was found (data-room building is listed as a portfolio support service). | review.firstround.com/heres-what-you-can-re... checked 2026-11-01 |
| Schedule | human_only | — | No public self-serve booking for office hours, events or intro calls; events and community programming described on the site are for portfolio founders. | firstround.com/how-we-work checked 2026-11-01 |
| Track | unverified NOT A VERIFIED ZERO | — | No applicant portal, dashboard, status page or response SLA is publicly documented, and no application portal exists from which to infer one. | firstround.com/ checked 2026-11-01 |
Unverified means the state could not be established from public documentation — for most firms that is the track door, where firms rarely publish post-submission mechanics. It is reported as a documentation gap, not as proof that no door exists, and it is never presented as a verified closed door.
| Signal | What the census recorded |
|---|---|
| llms.txt | No — none found (checked 2026-11-01) |
| MCP server | None documented (checked 2026-11-01) |
| Public API | None documented (checked 2026-11-01) |
| Structured data | Team directory organized by function (investing, operating, board partners) in the sitemap and the First Round Review publication; portfolio is presented as named company logos, with no structured portfolio table found |
| RSS / sitemap | sitemap.xml present and declared in robots.txt, listing team, who-we-back, how-we-work, angel-track and news pages |
| Robots posture | Explicit 'Disallowed AI Bots' block: Disallow: / for GPTBot, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent and others |
Access gaps. robots.txt disallows named AI crawlers site-wide, so agent access is not sanctioned despite public human-readable pages; no llms.txt, pitch portal, founder booking route or applicant status mechanism found.
Agent Outposts research, published 2026-11-01. Agent Outposts is not affiliated with First Round Capital. This is a published census scorecard, not an Outpost: Agent Outposts operates no demand registry for venture firms and collects no intents on this page. Door-states are assessed from public sources; every state above links its evidence and carries its check date. Methodology, rubric and scoring formula: the VC Agent-Readiness Census. Companion research: the Agent Readiness Census of 43 consumer brands.
Agent Outposts — the agent-readiness registry. Agent Outposts is not affiliated with the firms listed in this census. Door-states are assessed from public sources; every state links its source and carries its assessment date.