- Visibility15
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality73
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name CSX in 6.7% of answers, a bit more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 28 out of 100, ranking 1,397th of 2,047. The company's website passes 1 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named CSX. AI assistants named it in 4 of 60 answers (6.7%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, CSX ranks 97 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
“What are the best rail transportation solutions for high-volume freight shipments in the eastern United States?”
I'll search for information about the best rail transportation solutions for high-volume freight shipments in the eastern United States.Based on my research, here are the best rail transportation solutions for high-volume freight shipments in the eastern United States:
Major Class I Railroads
CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway operate most of the trackage in the Eastern United States, making them the primary options for high-volume freight:
Norfolk Southern Railway
Norfolk Southern is a major Class I freight railroad that serves the eastern United States and is a major p …
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
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.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- 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 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%WebMCPNot met
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 0 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · csx.com · 2,047 companies scanned
1 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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- Not metrobots.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%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- Options for businesses seeking eco-friendly freight shipping besides traditional rail transport
- How can rail logistics help reduce carbon footprint for companies shipping goods nationwide?
- Is it worth switching from long-haul trucking to an intermodal logistics provider for regular shipments?
- How can a business optimize shipping costs using rail and intermodal logistics for agricultural products?
- What factors should businesses consider when choosing a rail transportation partner for bulk goods?
- What affects pricing for combined rail and truck transload services in logistics contracts?
- Alternatives to intermodal logistics for long-distance bulk freight transportation
- Best transportation solution for moving oversized industrial equipment across several states
- What should I do if my freight shipment is delayed during intermodal transportation?
- How do intermodal logistics streamline supply chains for large-scale shippers?
- What are the best rail transportation solutions for high-volume freight shipments in the eastern United States?
- Rail transport vs truck shipping for cross-state freight: which is more cost-effective for businesses?
- Difference between direct rail shipping, intermodal services, and transloading for freight transport?
- Average cost per mile for freight rail shipping in the eastern United States
- Common issues when scheduling rail-to-truck transload services and how to resolve them
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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