Static website
Broadly accessible
Human-facing pages remain the public record, but an external agent must discover routes and assemble an answer itself.
Compare
More direct than a crawl. More accountable than a claim.
A Vendor Agent complements public documentation; it does not replace independent verification.
Generic chatbot
Usually human-oriented
A page widget may answer questions, but it is not necessarily advertised through machine-readable discovery or usable over a simple API.
Trunkline
Built for agent evaluation
A first-party endpoint, explicit discovery contract, vendor disclosure, conversation state, and evidence ladder form one testable system.
Boundary
Not an independent source
The Vendor Agent represents the company. Buyers and their agents should verify consequential claims elsewhere.