- Visibility13
- Citations0
- Sentiment70
- Site quality87
- AI readiness14
AI assistants name Angie's List in 13.3% of answers. This is more often than the typical company in its group, which is named in 3.3% of answers. Its overall score is 34 out of 100, ranking 895th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market: none named Angie's List. AI assistants named it in 8 of 60 answers (13.3%). The typical company in its group is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Angie's List ranks 15 of 61 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.
61 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Home services marketplace vs hiring a local contractor directly — which is better for homeowners?”
Choosing between a home services marketplace and directly hiring a local contractor involves weighing various factors. Each option presents distinct advantages and disadvantages for homeowners.
Home Services Marketplaces
Home services marketplaces act as intermediaries, connecting homeowners with service professionals. Popular platforms include Angi (formerly Angie's List), HomeAdvisor, Houzz, Thumbtack, and Porch. Some focus on matching you with a single professional, while others gather competitive quotes.
Advantages of Home Services Marketplaces:
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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
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
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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 headersCould not check
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 negotiationCould not check
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 30 of 100 · 81% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.angi.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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- Passedrobots.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%
- Not metToken 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 US-listed.
- Home services marketplace vs hiring a local contractor directly — which is better for homeowners?
- How do I choose a trustworthy pro for major home projects like roofing or remodeling?
- What should I do if I’m not satisfied with the work done by a professional I found online?
- Is it worth using a home services marketplace to find electricians or plumbers?
- How much do cleaning or painting services typically cost when booked through an online platform?
- What are the best ways to find reliable home service professionals for repairs and maintenance?
- Can I use home service marketplaces to book specialized services like tree removal or concrete work?
- What types of routine maintenance can I schedule through a home services platform?
- What are good local options for hiring home improvement professionals besides online directories?
- How can I find affordable home maintenance help without using major online marketplaces?
- What alternatives exist for homeowners who prefer not to use an online home services platform?
- How can I verify the credentials of a home service pro before hiring them?
- Are there extra fees associated with using a home services marketplace compared to booking directly?
- Are online marketplaces a good option for urgent home repairs?
- Review-based home service platforms compared to traditional word-of-mouth recommendations — what are the pros and cons?
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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