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Boll & Branch

bollandbranch.com · Retail

Ranked 265 of 2,047 companies in the study

42Overall score
  • Visibility14
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment90
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness50
What this means for Boll & Branch

AI assistants name Boll & Branch in 8.3% of answers, slightly more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 42 out of 100, ranking 265th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 7 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Boll & Branch. AI assistants named it in 5 of 60 answers (8.3%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Boll & Branch ranks 279 of 640 in its sector.

Named by AI in
8.3%
5 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
22.7%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
7/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
68 of 640
by overall score, where the typical retail company scores 34
How Boll & Branch 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
14

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
1

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

Sentiment
90

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
50

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 retail

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

Overall score42
Ranks 68 of 640. Typical company: 34
Named in answers8%
Ranks 279 of 640. Typical company: 7%
AI readiness50
Ranks 114 of 640. Typical company: 29
What OpenAI actually said

An answer that names the company

“Average price range for premium organic bedding sets in the US?”

Short answer

Premium organic sheets-only (queen): roughly $150–$300. (sleepfoundation.org)

Full premium organic bedding sets (duvet cover + shams ± sheets; queen): roughly $300–$700 (top luxury lines can exceed $700). (bollandbranch.com)

Notes and what I used to estimate this

Trusted reviewers that test sheets report high-quality organic sheet sets most commonly fall in the $150–$250 range for a queen sheet se …

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

Also named
Coyuchi3Brooklinen2The Company Store1
Share of mentions

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

Boll & Branch
29.4%
Coyuchi
29.4%
Brooklinen
23.5%
The Company Store
17.6%
Parachute Home
0.0%
Saatva (Saatva Dreams)
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
2/15
OpenAI
2/15
Perplexity
1/15
Claude
0/15
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
Can an AI agent buy here?

Yes. Boll & Branch 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 shop runs on Shopify.

Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
80 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 DiscoveryPassed

    SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.

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

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

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtPassed

    An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
63 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPassed

    Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.

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

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

The checks behind the AI readiness score

7 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%
  • Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • PassedExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI 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%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets rules for 5 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBot*allowed
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AI*allowed
  • Google-Extended*allowed
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBot*allowed
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbot*allowed
  • 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

thegoodtrade.com
34
forbes.com
17
sleepfoundation.org
15
justdial.com
14
tradeindia.com
13
goodhousekeeping.com
10
amazon.com
9
businessinsider.com
9
apartmenttherapy.com
8
bollandbranch.com (its own website)
8

In the study as US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.

Every question, and where the company came up (3 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Difference between sateen and percale weaves in premium bedding?
  • Average price range for premium organic bedding sets in the US?
  • Where can I find high-quality, ethically made comforters in the US?
  • Top-rated luxury bath towel sets made with natural fibers?
  • How do I prevent organic cotton towels from becoming stiff after washing?
  • What are the best organic bedding options for sensitive skin?
  • Are high-end organic sheet sets worth the extra cost?
  • Which features affect the price of luxury bath towels most?
  • Why do my luxury bed sheets wrinkle so much and how can I minimize it?
  • Alternatives to organic cotton for eco-friendly bedding?
  • Best bedding materials for people with allergies?
  • What type of sheets are most comfortable for hot sleepers?
  • Is it worth investing in Fair Trade Certified bedding for health benefits?
  • What are sustainable options if I want toxin-free towels but not cotton?
  • How do organic cotton sheets compare to linen sheets for breathability?
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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