- Visibility25
- Citations3
- Sentiment71
- Site quality80
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name Cisco in 23.3% of answers, more often than the typical company in the technology sector, which is named in 10% of answers. Cisco's overall score is 39 out of 100, ranking 457th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 5 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named Cisco. AI assistants named it in 14 of 60 answers (23.3%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Cisco ranks 67 of 273 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.
273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Options for organizations seeking cloud-based network management tools”
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Here are some options and key considerations:
1. Comprehensive Cloud-Managed Network Platforms:
These solutions provide a centralized, web-based dashboard to oversee an entire network infrastructure, including routers, switches, access points, and firewalls. They offer unified visibility and control, si …
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
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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 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.txtPartly met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPassed
Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
- 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 37 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.cisco.com · 2,047 companies scanned
5 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%
- PassedExplicit 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 rules for 4 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*allowed
- ClaudeBot*allowed
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extended*allowed
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBot*allowed
- 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.
- Options for organizations seeking cloud-based network management tools
- Unified threat management vs standalone security appliances for corporate networks
- How can organizations troubleshoot slow enterprise Wi-Fi performance?
- Is it worth investing in AI-driven security for enterprise networks?
- How much do enterprise-grade networking solutions typically cost in the US?
- Are there affordable options for AI-powered network security for midsize enterprises?
- How can large organizations simplify management of distributed networks?
- What are effective solutions for securing remote access to corporate resources?
- Alternatives to MPLS for enterprise wide area networking
- Top AI infrastructure options for secure business networks
- What are reliable alternatives to traditional firewalls for business security?
- Cloud-managed network vs on-premises network: which is better for enterprises?
- What should I look for when choosing a secure networking platform for my business?
- What are the best enterprise networking solutions for large organizations?
- Best practices for resolving network security vulnerabilities in business infrastructure
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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