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Cummins

cummins.com · Industrial · CMI

Ranked 313 of 2,047 companies in the study

41Overall score
  • Visibility28
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment88
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness7
What this means for Cummins

AI assistants name Cummins in 21.7% of answers, more often than the typical company in the industrial sector, which is named in 5% of answers. Cummins has an overall score of 41 out of 100, ranking 313th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named Cummins. AI assistants named it in 13 of 60 answers (21.7%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Cummins ranks 23 of 246 in its sector.

Named by AI in
21.7%
13 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
37.1%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
1/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
22 of 246
by overall score, where the typical industrial company scores 31
How Cummins 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
28

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
1

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

Sentiment
88

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
7

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 industrial

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

Overall score41
Ranks 22 of 246. Typical company: 31
Named in answers22%
Ranks 23 of 246. Typical company: 5%
AI readiness7
Ranks 228 of 246. Typical company: 21
What OpenAI actually said

An answer that names the company

“What is the typical price range for heavy-duty industrial generators in the US?”

Short answer

New heavy-duty industrial diesel or natural‑gas generators in the U.S. typically range roughly:

20–100 kW: about $20,000–$100,000. (gsaadvantage.gov)

200–500 kW: about $95,000–$250,000. (acepowerparts.com)

500–1,000 kW (0.5–1 MW): roughly $150,000 up to $500,000+, depending on configuration. (generac.com …

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

Share of mentions

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

Cummins
43.3%
Caterpillar Inc.
26.7%
Perkins Engines (a Caterpillar company)
13.3%
MTU (Rolls-Royce Power Systems)
10.0%
Detroit Diesel (Daimler Truck North America)
3.3%
Volvo Penta
3.3%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude
4/15
Perplexity
4/15
Gemini
3/15
OpenAI
2/15
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

The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.

Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

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

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced 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
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    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 AuthCould not check

    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 CatalogCould not check

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryCould not check

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceCould not check

    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%
  • WebMCPNot met

    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 35 of 100 · 68% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.cummins.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

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.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • Not metXML 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%
  • Not metToken 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 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.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • 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

depco.com
11
midamericaengine.com
9
generac.com
8
justdial.com
8
cat.com
7
wpowerproducts.com
7
prismecs.com
6
powergenenterprises.com
5
generatorsource.com
5
cummins.com (its own website)
5

In the study as S&P 500.

Every question, and where the company came up (6 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What is the typical price range for heavy-duty industrial generators in the US?
  • How do natural gas engines compare to diesel engines for standby generator use?
  • Common industrial engine issues and how to diagnose them
  • Most reliable engine technologies for construction equipment
  • How do maintenance costs compare between large diesel and natural gas engines?
  • What are the best diesel engines for commercial vehicles in the US?
  • What can cause power systems to underperform in colder climates?
  • Top power generation systems suited for industrial applications
  • Options for replacing older industrial engines in commercial fleets
  • Best engine configurations for long-haul trucking operations
  • Is investing in a new industrial engine worth it for a mid-sized manufacturing business?
  • Gas vs. diesel power systems for heavy equipment—pros and cons
  • Are hybrid power solutions cost-effective for commercial fleets?
  • Recommended power systems for backup electricity in hospitals
  • Alternatives to diesel power systems for marine applications
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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