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California Resources

crc.com · Energy · CRC

Ranked 1,146 of 2,047 companies in the study

31Overall score
  • Visibility14
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness21
What this means for California Resources

AI assistants name California Resources in 5% of answers, which is a bit more often than the typical company in the energy sector. Its overall score is 31 out of 100, ranking 1,146th 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 energy market: none named California Resources. AI assistants named it in 3 of 60 answers (5.0%). The typical energy company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, California Resources ranks 44 of 109 in its sector.

Named by AI in
5.0%
3 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
27.3%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
45 of 109
by overall score, where the typical energy company scores 29
How California Resources compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
14

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
1

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

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

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 energy

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

Overall score31
Ranks 45 of 109. Typical company: 29
Named in answers5%
Ranks 44 of 109. Typical company: 3%
AI readiness21
Ranks 52 of 109. Typical company: 21
What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

“What are the best carbon capture and storage projects currently operating in California?”

Based on the search results, here's information about carbon capture and storage projects currently operating in California:

Carbon TerraVault I (CTV I)

Carbon TerraVault I, located at California Resources Corporation's (CRC) Elk Hills Field in Kern County, is now the state's first operational carbon capture and storage facility. The first CO2 injection at CTV I took place in May 2026.

The project captures carbon dioxide from CRC's cryogenic gas plant and injects it into depleted oil and natural gas reservoirs more than a mile below the surface for long-term storage. At full capacity, th …

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

Also named
California Resources Corporation2Aera Energy1
Share of mentions

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

California Resources
50.0%
Chevron (California operations)
33.3%
Aera Energy
16.7%
Occidental (Oxy) / Oxy Low Carbon Ventures
0.0%
Berry Corporation
0.0%
Carbon Clean
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude
1/15
Gemini
1/15
OpenAI
1/15
Perplexity
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
72 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPartly met

    Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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 DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    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
63 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPassed

    Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.

    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 CardCould not check

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardCould not check

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsCould not check

    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 manifestCould not check

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 38 of 100 · 79% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.crc.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 rules for 1 AI crawler by name. All others follow its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgent*blocked
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • 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.

Websites the AI used as sources

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

energy.ca.gov
18
iea.org
16
c2es.org
14
mdpi.com
10
energy.gov
10
svcleanenergy.org
10
finance.yahoo.com
10
en.wikipedia.org
9
ww2.arb.ca.gov
9
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
8

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (1 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What are the best carbon capture and storage projects currently operating in California?
  • What are common challenges faced during the implementation of large-scale carbon capture facilities?
  • Is investing in carbon capture and storage projects a good long-term strategy for sustainability-focused investors?
  • How much does it cost to integrate carbon capture storage with existing energy production infrastructure in the US?
  • What are the typical price ranges for sustainable energy production services in California?
  • Why might a carbon storage project struggle to meet California’s environmental standards?
  • Are sustainable energy production services in California worth the higher cost for businesses aiming to lower their carbon footprint?
  • How can industrial facilities benefit from integrating carbon capture solutions into their operations?
  • What are some alternatives to geological carbon storage for managing industrial CO2 emissions?
  • What are typical applications for captured CO2 in the energy sector?
  • What is the difference between point-source carbon capture and direct air capture technologies?
  • What other carbon mitigation strategies can businesses use besides carbon capture and storage?
  • Which energy producers in the US focus most on sustainable practices?
  • Which renewable energy sources are most commonly used as alternatives to fossil-fuel-based energy production in California?
  • How does natural gas compare to oil for reducing carbon emissions in energy production?
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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