- Visibility49
- Citations2
- Sentiment60
- Site quality87
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name DoorDash in 61.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector at 3.3%. DoorDash has an overall score of 43 out of 100, ranking 157th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 1 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the consumer goods market: none named DoorDash. AI assistants named it in 37 of 60 answers (61.7%). The typical consumer goods company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, DoorDash ranks 1 of 118 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.
118 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“How can I find a service to deliver groceries and retail items from nearby stores?”
To find a service that delivers groceries and retail items from nearby stores, you have several excellent options:
Popular Grocery and Retail Delivery Services:
Instacart: This service allows you to order from your favorite local grocery stores, and personal shoppers will buy and deliver the items to your door. Instacart partners with most major grocery chains like Publix, Aldi, Stop & Shop, and Costco, though store availability may vary by location.
Shipt: Similar to Instacart, Shipt offers delivery from various local and national stores, including Target and Cost …
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
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.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.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly 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 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.doordash.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.
- How can I find a service to deliver groceries and retail items from nearby stores?
- How can I resolve frequent late deliveries when using on-demand grocery platforms?
- What should I do if my order from a local delivery app is missing items?
- Can I order both dinner and household essentials for delivery at the same time from one app?
- What are the best apps for fast same-day delivery from local restaurants in the US?
- How can freelance drivers find alternative gig platforms for local delivery jobs?
- Do on-demand delivery services justify the added fees for food and retail items?
- What alternatives exist to using delivery apps for getting groceries delivered?
- How do on-demand food delivery platforms compare to traditional restaurant takeout for convenience?
- Is it worth using a same-day delivery app for small orders?
- What’s the average tip for on-demand food delivery drivers in the US?
- Grocery delivery vs restaurant delivery services—what’s the difference in fees and speed?
- Are there other ways to get retail essentials delivered quickly besides on-demand platforms?
- Are there platforms that let small businesses sign up to offer fast local delivery?
- How are delivery fees calculated for same-day restaurant and grocery delivery services?
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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