- Visibility29
- Citations5
- Sentiment50
- Site quality80
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name Automatic Data Processing in 31.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 36 out of 100, ranking 704th of 2,047. The website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named Automatic Data Processing. AI assistants named it in 19 of 60 answers (31.7%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Automatic Data Processing ranks 11 of 246 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
246 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“US-based alternatives to automated HR, payroll, and benefits administration tools”
I'll search for current US-based alternatives to automated HR, payroll, and benefits administration tools.Based on current information, here are the main US-based alternatives for automated HR, payroll, and benefits administration:
Small to Mid-Sized Business Solutions
Gusto — A payroll and HR platform designed primarily for small to mid-sized businesses that want to consolidate payroll, compliance, and benefits in one system. Gusto highlights ACA reporting, HIPAA, and COBRA administration as included within its benefits administration offering.
Paychex — A flexible HR, payroll, …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 36 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.adp.com · 2,047 companies scanned
3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- How can automated payroll platforms simplify tax filings for accountants?
- Common errors when setting up employee benefits in cloud-based HR software
- US-based alternatives to automated HR, payroll, and benefits administration tools
- Payroll software vs manual payroll processing: which is more efficient for medium businesses?
- Is an all-in-one payroll, HR, and tax compliance system worth the investment for a growing business?
- Does using an online payroll platform make sense for startups with just a few employees?
- How do integrated HR and payroll platforms compare to separate solutions?
- Alternatives to cloud-based payroll platforms for businesses with unique compliance needs
- What are good options besides online payroll services for managing HR tasks?
- Best practices for onboarding seasonal workers using cloud-based HR solutions
- How do businesses handle late payroll runs with online payroll systems?
- What are the best payroll and HR platforms for small businesses in the US?
- Are there affordable payroll and HR options for nonprofits with under 20 employees?
- What’s the typical monthly cost for full-service payroll and HR software in the US?
- Top-rated online payroll solutions for midsize companies
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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