What Ready Check returns: findings, not drafts

Ready Check inspects one inbound email and returns structured specialist data. It does not write a reply, a rewrite, or any other draft. Your own agent can turn the findings into a message in your employer’s style, with your review before it is sent. This page explains the result shape, how kinds work, and what is not included. The full field list and examples are on the Ready Check facts page.

Findings only

A successful check makes at most one model inspection call. Legacy request options such as draft, write_reply, and generate_draft are ignored; they cannot enable writing. The response has no draft body and no placeholder fields. needs_reply, when present, is an advisory boolean, not a generated reply.

If model inspection is unavailable or returns invalid output, the API returns rule-only findings, model_status is not completed, and credit_charged is 0. Rule-only results do not claim the email is safe. A successful inspection, including a correctly identified likely scam, is charged the amount returned as charged_checks and charged_usd (one or two checks). That charged amount is never increased afterward.

What a result contains

Typical fields include:

• kind and verdict (and optional kind_verdict)
• scam_score, spam_score, and caution
• checks_fired: name, source, points, and a short detail for each named rule that fired
• what_it_looks_like, watch_for, and related specialist fields
• nothing_sent: always true
• charged_checks, charged_usd, credit_charged, and credit_remaining
• request_id, for billing support

The checks are a sorting aid. A careful scammer can pass every check, and a real sender can trip one. Read the findings before you act, especially on money, credentials, sign-in links, and attachments.

Kinds and price

Shared sender, file-name, link, and wording checks always run. Send kind when you want specialist labels, for example:

• inbox or lead_followup (a real-estate profile is available for those two)
• form_lead, guest_post, sponsorship, key_request
• podcast_guest, cold_pitch, pr_pitch, security_report

A standard check costs $0.0025. Longer emails may count as two checks ($0.005). The amount charged is returned as charged_checks and charged_usd. The body may be up to 16,000 characters. Oversized input is rejected before the model runs, at no charge.

Ready Check does not include Freelancer Inquiry Qualifier, fake job-offer checks, or live YouTube channel lookup. Security reports are classified; the service does not visit a supplied URL or execute a reproduction command. Lead follow-up works on a thread you paste in; Ready Check does not watch an inbox or keep count of your follow-ups.

Putting it to work

Generate a key, buy a pack, and call the API as described in How to buy Ready Check credit and reuse a prepaid key and How an AI agent can call Ready Check to triage inbound email. Reuse the same key. Unused credit never expires. Credit packs are not refundable once any credit has been used; billing errors and duplicates are refunded by hand, as stated in the Terms. An agent-readable version of this guide is at Ready Check for agents: what a result contains.

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