- Visibility18
- Citations1
- Sentiment83
- Site quality80
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name Cargill in 10% of answers, more often than the typical company in consumer goods, which is named in 3.3% of answers. Its overall score is 39 out of 100, ranking 493rd of 2,047 companies. The website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the consumer goods market: none named Cargill. AI assistants named it in 6 of 60 answers (10.0%). The typical consumer goods company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Cargill ranks 36 of 118 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.
118 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Alternatives to large-scale distributor partnerships for sourcing food-grade agricultural products”
I'll search for current information about alternatives to large-scale distributor partnerships for sourcing food-grade agricultural products.Based on current research and industry trends, here are the main alternatives to large-scale distributor partnerships for sourcing food-grade agricultural products:
Food Aggregation & Hubs
Food hubs provide producers an entry into markets that will provide income and opportunities for scaling up their production by aggregating distribution and marketing channels. The number of local food aggregators, known as regional food hubs, increased by 288 perc …
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 headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- 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 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 38 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.cargill.com · 2,047 companies scanned
4 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%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken 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 Large private companies.
- Average costs of food supply chain management services for medium-sized businesses
- How can agricultural producers support decarbonization across the food supply chain?
- Differences between commodity trading services and contract farming in agriculture supply chains
- What are the best sustainable food supply chain solutions for reducing environmental impact?
- How to solve common bottlenecks in agricultural logistics for US-based food producers
- Alternatives to large-scale distributor partnerships for sourcing food-grade agricultural products
- Top agricultural supply partners for supporting food manufacturers in the US
- How does integrated food ingredient sourcing compare to using multiple specialized suppliers?
- Are food supply chain management services worth it for mid-sized food manufacturers?
- Is it beneficial for farmers to partner with large food supply networks?
- Ways food manufacturers can improve supply chain resilience during weather disruptions
- Best alternatives to traditional food supply chain models for local agribusinesses
- Options for food manufacturers seeking local or regional ingredient suppliers instead of global networks
- What factors affect the pricing of bulk food ingredients in the US market?
- What should I do if my food ingredients order is persistently delayed at the distributor level?
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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