generated: '2026-09-12'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live probes of www.aessensegrows.com, aessensegrows.com and www.aessensefresh.com on
  2026-09-12, plus the company's own press room and Technical Document Library.
note: >-
  AEssenseGrows publishes no API contract, so there is no specification to assert
  contract-level conformance against. What can be asserted is the small set of
  web-standard documents the company does and does not serve, and one domain-standard
  observation. Domain standards were considered: controlled-environment agriculture has
  candidate interchange standards an equipment vendor could adopt — ISO 11783 (ISOBUS),
  AgGateway ADAPT, OGC SensorThings API for sensor telemetry, MQTT Sparkplug B for
  industrial device namespaces — and AEssenseGrows declares none of them in any public
  artifact. The one regulated machine interface the company is on record as touching is
  Metrc, California's cannabis seed-to-sale track-and-trace system, which Guardian Grow
  Manager was licensed to integrate. That is a CONSUMED third-party regulatory API, not a
  contract AEssenseGrows publishes, and it is recorded here as a consumption signal only.
  Reward-only rubric: nothing below is scored as a failure for a vendor whose market has
  no adopted machine-readable interchange standard.
standards:
- id: rfc9116
  name: security.txt
  conforms: false
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensegrows.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
    detail: >-
      No RFC 9116 document on any company host. www.aessensefresh.com returns
      Squarespace's own {"message":"security.txt not found"} JSON stub with a 404.
- id: llms-txt
  name: llms.txt
  conforms: false
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensegrows.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
    detail: No agent-facing site index is published on any company host.
- id: robots-txt
  name: robots.txt
  conforms: true
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensegrows.com/robots.txt
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Valid robots.txt that declares the sitemap and disallows only HubSpot preview and
      preference-center paths. No AI-crawler directives — general crawlers and agents are
      allowed the whole marketing site.
- id: sitemaps-org
  name: sitemaps.org XML sitemap
  conforms: true
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensegrows.com/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Complete sitemaps.org 0.9 urlset with lastmod dates covering every public page,
      declared from robots.txt. It is the only crawlable machine-readable index the
      company publishes, and it contains no developer, API or reference URL.
- id: robots-ai-directives
  name: robots.txt AI-crawler directives
  conforms: true
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensefresh.com/robots.txt
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      The AEssenseFresh brand site carries Squarespace's default AI-crawler block list —
      AI2Bot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, GPTBot, CCBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider,
      Amazonbot, Meta-ExternalAgent and others — and disallows /api/ (Squarespace platform
      internals, not a company API). The two company hosts therefore take OPPOSITE agent
      postures: aessensegrows.com is fully open to agents, aessensefresh.com blocks the
      major AI crawlers by platform default.
- id: openapi
  name: OpenAPI
  conforms: false
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensegrows.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
    detail: >-
      No OpenAPI, Swagger, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, Protobuf, WSDL or Postman collection is
      published at any probed location on any company host.
domain_standards:
- id: metrc-seed-to-sale
  name: Metrc (California cannabis track-and-trace)
  role: consumed
  conforms: false
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensegrows.com/en/news-and-events/aessensegrows-software-delivers-40-faster-growth
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Company press release dated 2018-02-18 states verbatim "AEssenseGrows has been
      licensed to integrate California's Metrc system into the software, meaning users
      will soon have 'seed-to-sale' visibility end-to-end for their operations." This
      makes Guardian Grow Manager a CONSUMER of a state-mandated regulatory API. No
      contract, field mapping or schema for that integration is published, so it earns no
      domain_standard_conformance credit — it is recorded as a consumption fact.
- id: iso-11783-isobus
  name: ISO 11783 (ISOBUS)
  role: none
  conforms: false
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensegrows.com/en/resources/document-library
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Technical Document Library walked in full: brochures and UL/CE product datasheets
      only. No ISOBUS, AgGateway ADAPT, OGC SensorThings or Sparkplug declaration
      anywhere on the estate.
certifications:
- id: ul-ce
  name: UL / CE product safety marking
  scope: hardware
  evidence:
    url: https://www.aessensegrows.com/en/resources/document-library
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      UL-CE datasheets are published for the AEtrium-2.1, AEtrium-4, Double Deck
      AEtrium-4 and the AEtrium Automated Dosing Unit. These are electrical-equipment
      safety markings for physical hardware, NOT an information-security or data
      compliance program (no SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA or FedRAMP is claimed anywhere),
      so no `Compliance` or `TrustCenter` pointer is emitted in apis.yml.