# Richard MacManus

> Probe-verified (tier 2 of 3). Last checked 2026-08-23. 4 of 5 capability checks passed.

- host: ricmac.org
- url: https://ricmac.org/
- category: technology analyst
- type: personal
- country: GB
- locations: United Kingdom
- language: en

## Probe-verified · tier 2 of 3

Probed live on 2026-08-23 against rubric v1. 4 of 5 checks passed.

- PASS — Markdown negotiation
- PASS — Markdown twin at a predictable URL
- fail — llms.txt
- PASS — API catalog
- PASS — MCP server answers

MCP tools (from tools/list on 2026-08-23): ask_ricmac, list_recent_content, search_recent_content

## Unverified actions

Read from the page's own content, with the wording each was drawn from. Inference is kept separate from tested facts; an agent completing the action is tier 3.

- **contact** — "To contact me about this work, email ricmac AT latent.space"
- **contact** — "For all other enquiries, please fill in this form" → `https://ricmac.org/contact/`
- **buy** — "Paperback, US$19.99: Amazon" → `https://www.amazon.com/Bubble-Blog-Outsider-Insider-Revolution/dp/B0DQKRB3P5?&linkCode=ll1&tag=richardmacman-20&linkId=b38f92f2c0bd2c9f05cda3a07413fd40&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl`
- **buy** — "eBook, US$9.99: Amazon Kindle Store" → `https://www.amazon.com/Bubble-Blog-Outsider-Insider-Revolution-ebook/dp/B0DQJQ4LJ9?&linkCode=ll1&tag=richardmacman-20&linkId=63e982f1c9d1ded8c83666d8b6917ff7&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl`
- **buy** — "eBook, US$9.99: Apple Books" → `http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6739734992`
- **buy** — "eBook, US$9.99: Google Play" → `https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Sug5EQAAQBAJ`

## Summary

Richard MacManus is a technology analyst and consultant offering editorial, advisory, and consulting services on AI and web trends.

## Context

322 sites in this index share the type "personal"; 66 are transactional.

## How we grade

- tier 1 — **Declared**: The site says agents are welcome in its robots.txt. A permission, not a capability.
- tier 2 — **Probe-verified** (this site): We fetched the site and tested each signal ourselves. Dated, repeatable, re-checked on a schedule.
- tier 3 — **Behaviourally verified**: An agent completed the action end to end — booked, bought, submitted — and it worked.

## About this record

Known-Good probes sites live and publishes what was tested and when.
Method: https://knowngood.sh/about.md · Rubric: https://knowngood.sh/benchmark