The agent assembled a comprehensive overview of Autodesk's business, products, pricing model, and competitive position by combining direct site visits with external web searches, working around significant navigation and content-loading barriers on the main site. The website itself proved poorly agent-readable—most pages returned JavaScript scaffolding with minimal rendered text—forcing the agent to rely heavily on prior knowledge (44%) and external sources (55%) to answer the task. The agent succeeded in answering all four questions (what they do, who it's for, pricing, and differentiation), though actual pricing numbers and subscription details came entirely from external sources, not Autodesk's official pages.

• ›Direct site fetches ([1], [2], [6], [10], [14], [17]) returned mostly HTML boilerplate and preload directives with minimal readable content; the agent could confirm product names and existence but not extract substantive details like pricing, bundles, or business model from the rendered responses.
• ›The agent attempted `/pricing` directly ([4]) and `/why-autodesk` ([7])—both returned 404s—indicating Autodesk does not publish centralized pricing or positioning pages, forcing users to drill into individual product pages or search externally.
• ›Pricing and competitive data came entirely from web search results ([11], [12]) and third-party sources (autodesksaudits.com, gappsy.com, Gartner) cited in the final response, not from Autodesk's own site; this indicates Autodesk's site does not surface pricing in a machine-readable, discoverable way.
• ›The agent correctly identified key product categories (AEC, manufacturing, animation) and the subscription-only model from its prior knowledge and the product page structure, but had to explicitly note that 'real content is loaded dynamically' and pricing 'requires interactive clicks/form submission,' limiting the site's accessibility to agents.
• ›The agent acknowledged explicit gaps: subscription structure clarity, total cost of ownership for teams, student/non-profit pricing, and the perpetual-license sunset policy—all significant business questions unanswered by the official site's public pages.