CrawlDex
Preflight detail

bankrate.com

real_estate_moving.estimate_mortgage

degraded recipe://bankrate.com/real_estate_moving.estimate_mortgage/public-preflight-v1
Hold / Collect evidence first

Do not trust this route yet

The current evidence set is too thin for a confident agent decision.

Next: Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
69AES
69% outcome rate
Evidence and trust

low trust

32%
basisBased on 2 evidence samples from catalog reporters.2
sourceSources: public web observation.
nextTreat this as directional until trusted canaries or operator reports arrive.
Confidence low 28%
Evidence 2 public web observation
Freshness 0d fresh
Blockers 2 known friction
Recipe

Official mortgage information, calculator, or education page can be used to estimate affordability, payments, or loan options without starting an application.

active
recipe://bankrate.com/real_estate_moving.estimate_mortgage/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for Bankrate Mortgages: Official mortgage information, calculator, or education page can be used to estimate affordability, payments, or loan options without starting an application. Public source or help surface is visible.
  2. Check the listed blockers and policy constraints before entering account, payment, booking, or cancellation state. forced_account_creation, human_handoff_required, policy_parseable
  3. Stop before any irreversible or user-sensitive action and ask for explicit approval. User approval is captured before final action.
Human approval
Expect a human handoff or retention path. Summarize the state and wait for the user before continuing.
Do not cross
  • Do not submit loan applications, credit checks, SSNs, income documents, or personally identifying financial information.
  • Treat calculator output as educational and route preapproval or rate locks to a human-controlled session.
Success signals
  • Calculator or loan education page identified
  • Input assumptions and disclaimers visible
  • Application boundary identified
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 69
navigability 57
task completability 57
transactability 69
recoverability 57
policy parseability 69
trust safety 69
efficiency 45
Issue flags

Known blockers

forced_account_creationhuman_handoff_required
Policy notes
public pathOfficial mortgage information, calculator, or education page can be used to estimate affordability, payments, or loan options without starting an application.
task familycompare
seo angleBankrate Mortgages Mortgage Calculators: AI Agent Public Preflight
confidence noteOfficial public mortgage pages are suitable for education and rough estimates; credit decisions and preapprovals require user-present handling.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    Do not submit loan applications, credit checks, SSNs, income documents, or personally identifying financial information. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
  • mediumagent
    Capture handoff evidence and pause before accepting retention offers. Keeps user intent explicit during adversarial cancellation flows.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

real_estate_moving.estimate_mortgage
Before attempting real_estate_moving.estimate_mortgage on bankrate.com, check CrawlDex. Current verdict: Collect evidence first. Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
curl -sS -X POST /api/v1/preflight \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"site":"bankrate.com","task":"real_estate_moving.estimate_mortgage","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "bankrate.com",
  "task": "real_estate_moving.estimate_mortgage",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}