- Visibility8
- Citations1
- Sentiment100
- Site quality53
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name Align Technology in 5% of answers, a little more often than the typical company in the healthcare sector. Its overall score is 32 out of 100, ranking 1,074th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the healthcare market: none named Align Technology. AI assistants named it in 3 of 60 answers (5.0%). The typical healthcare company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Align Technology ranks 44 of 105 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.
105 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are the top-rated intraoral scanners for dental professionals in the United States?”
Short answer — the intraoral scanners most often ranked “top” by U.S. dental practices in 2024–2026 are (in no particular numeric order):
3Shape TRIOS family (TRIOS 4 / TRIOS 5). (dentalreviewed.com)
Why clinicians choose it: excellent accuracy for single-unit and full‑arch work, lightweight ergonomic wands, strong open‑ecosystem support for labs and CAD software, and growing AI/scan‑assist features (especially on TRIOS 5). Good for restorative, implant, and mixed‑use practices. ([den …
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.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapNot 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 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 16 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.aligntech.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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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- PassedMarkdown 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%
This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-Userpartly
- Claude-Userpartly
- Perplexity-Userpartly
- DuckAssistBotpartly
- MistralAI-Userpartly
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- How do clear aligners compare to traditional braces for mild to moderate orthodontic cases?
- Which orthodontic solutions are most effective for teenagers needing discreet treatment options?
- Does upgrading to an advanced intraoral scanner offer real benefits for a busy dental practice?
- What should I do if my clear aligners are causing discomfort or not fitting as expected?
- How can dental professionals address common challenges with digital impressions in restorative dentistry?
- What are the main alternatives to clear aligner orthodontics for correcting crooked teeth?
- Who is a good candidate for orthodontic treatment with clear aligners?
- What options exist for practices that prefer traditional impressions over digital intraoral scanners?
- What factors influence the cost of clear aligner orthodontic treatment in the US?
- How are intraoral scanners used to improve accuracy in restorative dental procedures?
- What are the top-rated intraoral scanners for dental professionals in the United States?
- Is it worth investing in clear aligner treatment for minor teeth straightening needs?
- What are the best clear aligner systems available for adult orthodontic treatment in the US?
- Intraoral scanner vs traditional impressions: which is better for restorative dental procedures?
- How much does it typically cost for a dental practice to adopt digital intraoral scanning technology?
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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