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Bentley Systems

bentley.com · Technology · BSY

Ranked 875 of 2,047 companies in the study

34Overall score
  • Visibility28
  • Citations4
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness21
What this means for Bentley Systems

AI assistants name Bentley Systems in 30% of answers, which is more frequent than the typical company in its sector, named in 10% of answers. Its overall score is 34 out of 100, ranking 875th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named Bentley Systems. AI assistants named it in 18 of 60 answers (30.0%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Bentley Systems ranks 47 of 273 in its sector.

Named by AI in
30.0%
18 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
25.7%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
157 of 273
by overall score, where the typical technology company scores 36
How Bentley Systems compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
28

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
4

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with technology

273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score34
Ranks 157 of 273. Typical company: 36
Named in answers30%
Ranks 47 of 273. Typical company: 10%
AI readiness21
Ranks 161 of 273. Typical company: 29
What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

“What are the top infrastructure engineering software solutions for large-scale public works projects?”

I'll search for information about the leading infrastructure engineering software solutions used for large-scale public works projects.Based on recent industry research, here are the top infrastructure engineering software solutions for large-scale public works projects:

Design & Modeling Software

Autodesk Civil 3D is comprehensive civil engineering software for designing, analyzing, and documenting infrastructure projects like roads, land development, and water systems. Civil 3D is Autodesk's BIM-enabled software for civil engineering and infrastructure design.

Bentley Systems i …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Autodesk24Trimble5
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Autodesk
38.5%
Bentley Systems
27.7%
Trimble
16.9%
ESRI
16.9%
Hexagon (Hexagon Geosystems & Hexagon PPM)
0.0%
Nemetschek Group
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

OpenAI
6/15
Gemini
5/15
Perplexity
4/15
Claude
3/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.bentley.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

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.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • 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%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

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.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • 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.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

autodesk.com
40
bentley.com (its own website)
26
esri.com
13
github.com
12
guideflow.com
11
g2.com
9
learn.g2.com
8
zipdo.co
8
en.wikipedia.org
7
gitnux.org
6

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (8 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What are the top infrastructure engineering software solutions for large-scale public works projects?
  • Applications of digital twins in managing high-risk infrastructure sites
  • What should I look for in infrastructure software for managing multi-disciplinary teams?
  • Alternatives to proprietary infrastructure modeling platforms for public sector projects
  • How much does professional infrastructure design software typically cost in the US?
  • Is advanced modeling software for infrastructure worth the investment for midsize engineering firms?
  • Why does my infrastructure design file keep crashing during rendering?
  • Common issues when importing GIS data into infrastructure engineering platforms
  • Open-source options for geotechnical analysis in infrastructure engineering
  • How can infrastructure engineering software help coordinate citywide road projects?
  • Best tools for collaborative design in civil engineering projects
  • Which infrastructure engineering tools offer the best integration with GIS data?
  • Civil engineering design software vs. construction planning platforms — what's the difference?
  • Geotechnical analysis software compared to general CAD solutions for infrastructure
  • Are there affordable options for 4D construction planning software for small engineering offices?
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

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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