- Visibility6
- Citations2
- Sentiment50
- Site quality73
- AI readiness14
AI assistants name Cboe Global Markets in 5% of answers, which is a little more often than the typical company in the finance sector. Its overall score is 26 out of 100, ranking 1,639th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the finance market: none named Cboe Global Markets. 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, Cboe Global Markets ranks 71 of 205 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.
205 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Best marketplaces for accessing volatility indices and equity index products in the US?”
Short answer — for U.S. trading the main marketplaces are:
Cboe (Cboe Global Markets / Cboe Futures Exchange)
Primary home of volatility indices (VIX index) and SPX index options.
Trades VIX futures & options (via Cboe Futures Exchange, CFE) and index options such as SPX, RUT, and many VIX‑related products.
Widely used for volatility product price discovery and listed index options.
CME Group (CME)
Major venue for equity index futures (E‑mini S&P 500 / ES, Micro E‑mini / MES, Nasdaq‑100 / NQ, Russell futures historically via ICE/CME).
Also offers options on futures (i …
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 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapNot met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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 DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- 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.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- 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 AuthCould not check
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogCould not check
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryCould not check
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceCould not check
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 CardCould not check
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardCould not check
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsCould not check
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 manifestCould not check
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 24 of 100 · 65% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.cboe.com · 2,047 companies scanned
2 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%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.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 S&P 500.
- Decentralized venues for trading US-listed equities and ETFs: what are the options?
- How are real-time and historical US market data services priced for professional traders?
- Best marketplaces for accessing volatility indices and equity index products in the US?
- What are other ways to gain exposure to equity volatility without using standard index options?
- How do institutional investors use volatility indices to hedge portfolio risk?
- What can cause delays in clearing and settlement of futures contracts on electronic exchanges?
- Alternatives to centralized exchanges for trading cryptocurrency derivatives in the US
- Ways to access prediction markets for S&P 500 forecasts in the US
- Are advanced trading features on major US exchanges worth the higher fees for active traders?
- Is it cost-effective to purchase real-time market data feeds from national market infrastructure providers?
- What are the most reliable US options and futures trading platforms for institutional investors?
- Options vs futures trading: which is better suited for active retail investors?
- How do US electronic exchanges compare to traditional open outcry markets for equities trading?
- Why might my index options order not execute on a US trading venue?
- Typical fee structures for accessing options and futures trading platforms in the US
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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