Does answer-first hurt the writing?

It reorders it. The story and the nuance stay; they come after the sentence that answers. Readers skimming for the point prefer it too.

Why is this not judged on the free check?

Judging whether a paragraph answers its heading takes a model reading the prose. The free check is structural and spends no model; the full check does the reading.

Do your pages open with the answer?

check 3.1Page contentagent writes it

What the check looks at

The check reads the first paragraph under each heading and asks whether it states the answer to the heading's question before context, story or setup. Answer-first sections are what AI quotes; sections that circle the point are not.

Why it matters

AI answers are assembled from passages. A passage that states its point in the first sentence is quotable on its own; one that gets there in sentence four is skipped for a competitor's that did not. Same facts, different order, different outcome.

How to see it on your own site

Read your first sentence under each H2. Does it answer the heading? If a reader who only saw that sentence would know the answer, it is answer-first.

How to fix it

Open every section with the direct answer in one sentence, then the context.
Make the H2 a question or a claim the first sentence resolves.
Lead the page itself with a one-paragraph definition of what it is about.

What the agent does: the agent writes an answer-first opening for a page and publishes it the moment you approve the words — as a revision you can undo.

Related checks

Part of the 23 checks · group: Page content — text without JavaScript, response time, internal links, answer-first structure, self-contained sections, headings/dates/authorship.