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Burford Capital

burfordcapital.com · Finance · BUR

Ranked 504 of 2,047 companies in the study

39Overall score
  • Visibility12
  • Citations8
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness21
What this means for Burford Capital

AI assistants name Burford Capital in 5% of answers, slightly more often than the typical company in the finance sector. Its overall score is 39 out of 100, ranking 504th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the finance market: none named Burford Capital. AI assistants named it in 3 of 60 answers (5.0%). The typical finance company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Burford Capital ranks 71 of 205 in its sector.

Named by AI in
5.0%
3 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
23.1%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
31 of 205
by overall score, where the typical finance company scores 29
How Burford Capital compares with all 2,047 companies

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This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
12

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
8

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

Sentiment
100

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 finance

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

Overall score39
Ranks 31 of 205. Typical company: 29
Named in answers5%
Ranks 71 of 205. Typical company: 3%
AI readiness21
Ranks 82 of 205. Typical company: 21
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“What are the top litigation funding options for commercial disputes in the US?”

For businesses in the US facing commercial disputes, litigation funding has emerged as a significant and growing option to finance legal costs. This type of funding involves a third-party providing capital for legal expenses in exchange for a portion of the settlement or judgment if the case is successful. It's typically non-recourse, meaning if the case is lost, the litigant doesn't repay the funder.

Here are some of the top litigation funding options and key players in the US for commercial disputes:

Leading Litigation Funding Companies:

Many firms specialize in commercial litigation …

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

Also named
Parabellum Capital2
Share of mentions

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

Burford Capital
37.5%
Bentham IMF (now Omni Bridgeway)
25.0%
Parabellum Capital
25.0%
Therium Capital Management
12.5%
Harbour Litigation Funding
0.0%
Longford Capital
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
1/15
Perplexity
1/15
Claude
1/15
OpenAI
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
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
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 28 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.burfordcapital.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
  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebotallowed
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed
Answering questions
  • 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.

Websites the AI used as sources

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

burfordcapital.com (its own website)
41
omnibridgeway.com
18
chambers.com
16
americanbar.org
15
amicuscapitalgroup.com
12
thinkbrg.com
10
legal500.com
9
lexshares.com
9
thomsonreuters.com
7
stout.com
6

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (1 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • How are fees and returns structured in US legal finance agreements?
  • What is the difference between legal finance and traditional law firm loans?
  • What are the top litigation funding options for commercial disputes in the US?
  • What factors influence the cost of litigation funding for corporate clients?
  • Why might a litigation funding application get rejected?
  • How can legal finance help law firms manage the costs of complex commercial cases?
  • What should corporations consider before pursuing legal finance for ongoing disputes?
  • How do legal finance solutions support class action lawsuits?
  • How do corporate legal departments handle dispute financing without outside capital?
  • When are litigation funding agreements most beneficial for law firms?
  • What are some alternatives to litigation funding for managing legal expenses?
  • Is third-party litigation funding a good solution for companies facing high-value lawsuits?
  • Best practices for selecting a legal finance partner for commercial litigation in the US
  • Litigation funding vs contingency fee arrangements: Which is better for corporate legal departments?
  • What are common challenges when securing legal finance for commercial cases?
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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