The agent worked around inaccessibility of DoorDash's own website (all direct fetches returned 403 Cloudflare blocks) by assembling a comprehensive overview from web search results and third-party explainer sites. It successfully answered all four dimensions of the task — what DoorDash does, who it's for, how it's priced, and how it differs from competitors — but had to rely entirely on external sources rather than DoorDash's own published materials. The site proved almost completely inaccessible to direct navigation, forcing reliance on search-indexed third-party content and prior knowledge.

• ›All three direct attempts to fetch doordash.com URLs ([1], [2], [3]) returned 403 Cloudflare challenge pages, indicating the domain actively blocks automated access. The agent pivoted to web search without retrieving a single byte of DoorDash's own content.
• ›The agent's final answer cites five external sources ([5] Cozymeal explainer, [6] Splitty fees guide, [7] search results from competitor comparison, [12] DashPass support article from help.doordash.com) plus one uncited source (FourWeekMBA). Steps [5], [6], and [10] were successfully fetched and returned 200 responses; step [12] search results were used to populate the answer but the help.doordash.com article itself was not re-fetched.
• ›The final answer contains specific, structured data (fee ranges $1.99–$5.99, DashPass $9.99/month, market share 57-65%, driver pay $15.95/hr median, competitor fee $5.79) that came from aggregating search results and third-party sources, not from DoorDash's own website or API. Pricing information was sourced from Splitty's 2026 fee breakdown ([10]), which curated DoorDash's fee structure into a comparable format.
• ›The agent explicitly flagged what it could NOT find ([9] response was truncated, but the agent noted missing details about fee transparency, restaurant markups, the July 2026 fee change mechanics, customer support ratings, and geographic availability). These gaps reflect the site's inaccessibility, not the agent's search strategy.
• ›DoorDash's own help center ([12] search result for help.doordash.com/en-us/consumers/article/what-is-dashpass) was discoverable via search but not directly fetched in the trajectory, suggesting help pages may be more accessible than the main domain, but the agent did not validate this.
• ›The agent sourced 40% of the answer from prior knowledge (per metadata), 40% from web search, and 20% from previous artifacts, indicating heavy reliance on external curation rather than primary source material.