- Visibility2
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality67
- AI readiness7
AI assistants rarely name DAQO, mentioning it in 1 out of 60 answers. In that answer, Hemlock Semiconductor and REC Silicon are also named. DAQO has an overall score of 22 out of 100, ranking 1,980th of 2,047 companies, and typically, companies in its sector score higher. Its website passes 1 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named DAQO. AI assistants named it in 1 of 60 answers (1.7%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, DAQO ranks 159 of 246 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named
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
“Where can solar companies in the US source large volumes of polysilicon for module production?”
Short answer — at scale U.S. solar companies source polysilicon by one of three routes:
1) Direct from large global producers (long-term contracts or spot purchases). Major polysilicon suppliers that sell solar‑grade material include Daqo, Tongwei, GCL (China), OCI (Korea/Malaysia), and European players such as Wacker. Several of those firms also supply the U.S. market. (sec.gov)
2) From domestic U.S. producers/refiners (for reduced supply‑chain risk). The U.S. has operating polysilicon …
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%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.mdCould not check
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 · 98% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.dqsolar.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 US-listed.
- Which types of polysilicon are most commonly used in photovoltaic production?
- How does granular polysilicon compare to chunk polysilicon for solar cell efficiency?
- Polysilicon vs thin-film materials for large-scale solar PV projects—what are the pros and cons?
- How do contract and spot pricing work in the polysilicon market for PV manufacturers?
- What is the best polysilicon grade for creating high-efficiency solar panels?
- What are the current US market prices for solar-grade polysilicon per kilogram?
- What are some alternatives to traditional polysilicon for solar cell manufacturing?
- What are the best high-purity polysilicon suppliers for solar PV manufacturing in the US?
- What quality issues can affect polysilicon performance in solar cells?
- What factors should US manufacturers consider before sourcing polysilicon for solar applications?
- How is high-purity polysilicon used in the production of solar ingots and wafers?
- Where can solar companies in the US source large volumes of polysilicon for module production?
- Is it worth paying more for ultra-high purity polysilicon in module manufacturing?
- How do impurities in polysilicon impact the lifespan of photovoltaic modules?
- How do perovskite solar cells compare to polysilicon-based PV technology?
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.