- Visibility24
- Citations3
- Sentiment85
- Site quality93
- AI readiness64
AI assistants name Bards & Cards in 16.7% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in the retail sector at 6.7%. Its overall score is 47 out of 100, ranking 59th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 9 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Bards & Cards. AI assistants named it in 10 of 60 answers (16.7%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Bards & Cards ranks 173 of 640 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.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are the best places in San Diego to find a wide selection of board games and RPG books?”
I'll search for the best places in San Diego to find board games and RPG books.Based on my search, here are some of the best places in San Diego to find board games and RPG books:
Top Recommendations:
1. Bards & Cards - Located at 936 5th Avenue in Downtown San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, this shop offers Magic: The Gathering, board games and Warhammer, along with trading card games, RPG books, dice and hobby supplies. It's a downtown/Gaslamp tabletop hub with broad inventory and regular events, and is the best fit if you're downtown or want one shop that covers TCGs, board games, RPGs, …
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
Yes. Bards & Cards publishes a UCP profile, a file that tells an AI agent how to buy, and it includes checkout.
- UCPPublished
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
The page also offers an agent tools inside the browser: add to cart, proceed to checkout, update cart lines.
The shop runs on Shopify.
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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 headersPassed
HTTP Link headers on the homepage that point agents at machine readable resources.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationPassed
Requests sent with Accept: text/markdown receive a markdown version of the page.
- 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 CatalogPassed
A linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog listing APIs, specs and docs.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryPassed
OpenID Connect or OAuth metadata agents can use to sign in.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourcePassed
Metadata telling agents which authorization server to use.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardPassed
A server card describing the MCP server, its transport and capabilities.
- 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%WebMCPPassed
Tools registered in the browser through navigator.modelContext.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 74 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · bardsandcards.com · 2,047 companies scanned
9 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%
- PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- PassedMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- PassedAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- PassedOAuth 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.
- GPTBotallowed
- ClaudeBotallowed
- Anthropic-AIallowed
- Google-Extendedallowed
- Applebot-Extendedallowed
- Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
- FacebookBotallowed
- Bytespiderallowed
- CCBotallowed
- Diffbotallowed
- Omgilibotallowed
- OAI-SearchBotallowed
- Claude-SearchBotallowed
- PerplexityBotallowed
- Applebotallowed
- Amazonbotallowed
- YouBotallowed
- ChatGPT-Userallowed
- Claude-Userallowed
- Perplexity-Userallowed
- DuckAssistBotallowed
- MistralAI-Userallowed
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 retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- Is shopping at a local tabletop game store worth it for experienced collectors?
- How do prices for Magic singles at local game stores compare to prices online?
- Where can I go to meet other board game enthusiasts and join regular tabletop play sessions?
- How can I find out about upcoming events or tournaments at a local board game and card retailer?
- How do specialty tabletop shops compare to big box stores for finding hard-to-find RPG materials?
- What are the best places in San Diego to find a wide selection of board games and RPG books?
- Are there online US-based marketplaces for purchasing hard-to-find board games and RPG materials besides a local shop?
- Best local spots in downtown San Diego for playing and browsing RPG books?
- Are local game shops good places for beginners to buy their first trading card deck?
- What should I do if a shop is out of stock on a specific Magic single I need for my deck?
- Board game stores vs. online retailers: which is better for trying out new games in person?
- What are some alternatives to brick-and-mortar shops for buying trading card singles in the San Diego area?
- If I'm looking for community game nights, what alternatives exist beyond traditional game stores?
- Are there minimum purchase amounts for free shipping when ordering tabletop games in the US?
- Where can I discover local shops offering Magic singles and other trading card games?
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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