- Visibility18
- Citations2
- Sentiment68
- Site quality87
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name Cleveland-Cliffs in 16.7% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector, named in 5%. Its overall score is 36 out of 100, ranking 727th of 2,047 companies. The company’s website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named Cleveland-Cliffs. AI assistants named it in 10 of 60 answers (16.7%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Cleveland-Cliffs ranks 42 of 246 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.
246 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Sustainable or recycled options for flat-rolled steel supply in the United States?”
The United States steel industry is increasingly focusing on sustainable and recycled options for flat-rolled steel. This shift is largely driven by the adoption of Electric Arc Furnaces (EAFs) and the development of "green steel" initiatives.
Here's a breakdown of sustainable and recycled flat-rolled steel options in the U.S.:
1. Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Steel Production:
Dominant and Sustainable: EAFs are the predominant steelmaking method in the U.S. and are considered a more sustainable alternative to traditional blast furnaces.
Recycled Content: EAFs primarily use …
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.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPartly 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 rulesNot 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 7 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.clevelandcliffs.com · 2,047 companies scanned
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.
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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%
- 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%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US-listed.
- How do contract pricing structures work for large-scale flat-rolled steel purchases?
- How is flat-rolled steel typically used in the automotive supply chain?
- What are the main differences between hot-rolled and cold-rolled flat steel for automotive use?
- Common issues with flat-rolled steel used in automotive production and how to prevent them?
- Flat-rolled steel vs. plate steel—what are the pros and cons for industrial applications?
- Sustainable or recycled options for flat-rolled steel supply in the United States?
- Does domestic flat-rolled steel offer better long-term value compared to imported options?
- Key factors to consider when specifying flat-rolled steel for industrial fabrication?
- What price trends are expected for flat-rolled steel in the US next year?
- Is investing in premium flat-rolled steel for manufacturing worth the higher cost?
- What are the best sources for flat-rolled steel for automotive manufacturing in the United States?
- What are viable substitutes for iron ore-based flat steel in heavy industry?
- What causes surface defects in flat-rolled steel coils and how can they be minimized?
- Best flat-rolled steel options for large-scale industrial projects in the US?
- Alternatives to flat-rolled steel for structural components in automotive manufacturing?
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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