- Visibility4
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality67
- AI readiness14
AI assistants rarely name American Electric Power, mentioning it in 1 of 60 answers. When named, they also mention Duke Energy and Entergy. The company's overall score is 24 out of 100, ranking 1,862nd of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the energy market: none named American Electric Power. AI assistants named it in 1 of 60 answers (1.7%). The typical energy company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, American Electric Power ranks 62 of 109 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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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.
109 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are the main types of electric utility companies serving residential customers in the U.S.?”
In the U.S., the electric utility industry is quite diverse, and the types of companies serving residential customers can be broadly categorized into three main types:
1. Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs):
Description: These are private, for-profit companies owned by shareholders. They are typically the largest and most geographically widespread utilities, serving millions of customers across multiple states or large regions within a state.
Regulation: They are heavily regulated by state public utility commissions (PUCs) or public service commissions (PSCs) regardin …
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 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPartly met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesNot 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 7 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.aep.com · 2,047 companies scanned
2 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%
- Not metllms.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.
- What factors influence residential electricity rates across different regions in the U.S.?
- How do investor-owned utilities compare to municipal electric companies in terms of service and pricing?
- Is it worth switching to a different electricity provider for better rates or service in my area?
- How can I resolve a billing issue with my utility company?
- What electricity solutions are available for industrial facilities with high energy demands?
- Are fixed-rate electricity plans better than variable-rate options for long-term budgeting?
- How do time-of-use rates impact the cost of electricity for households?
- What are the main types of electric utility companies serving residential customers in the U.S.?
- What are the best ways to start or stop electric service when moving in the U.S.?
- What are the alternatives to traditional electric utilities for home energy supply?
- Who should I contact if I experience frequent power outages in my neighborhood?
- How can businesses find reliable electricity providers for large-scale commercial operations?
- Where can I find up-to-date information on power outages and restoration times in my area?
- How does regulated electricity pricing differ from deregulated markets?
- What distributed generation options can supplement grid electricity for commercial users?
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.