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Dropbox

dropbox.com · Technology · DBX

Ranked 43 of 2,047 companies in the study

47Overall score
  • Visibility49
  • Citations5
  • Sentiment71
  • Site quality77
  • AI readiness36
What this means for Dropbox

AI assistants name Dropbox in 61.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in the Technology sector. Dropbox has an overall score of 47 out of 100, ranking 43rd of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named Dropbox. AI assistants named it in 37 of 60 answers (61.7%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Dropbox ranks 8 of 273 in its sector.

Named by AI in
61.7%
37 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
28.9%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
5/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
13 of 273
by overall score, where the typical technology company scores 36
How Dropbox 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
49

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
5

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

Sentiment
71

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
77

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
36

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 technology

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

Overall score47
Ranks 13 of 273. Typical company: 36
Named in answers62%
Ranks 8 of 273. Typical company: 10%
AI readiness36
Ranks 36 of 273. Typical company: 29
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“Top file storage options that make team workflows more efficient”

For teams aiming to optimize their workflows, several file storage options offer features designed to enhance collaboration, security, and accessibility. The "best" choice often depends on a team's specific needs, such as the existing software ecosystem, priority for privacy, or the nature of the files being managed.

Here are some of the top file storage options that boost team efficiency:

Google Drive (Google Workspace): Ideal for teams that heavily rely on browser-based collaboration and the Google ecosystem (Docs, Sheets, Slides). It excels in real-time co-authoring, offers seamle …

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

Also named
Box39Sync.com19pCloud4
Share of mentions

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

Dropbox
30.1%
Google Drive
30.1%
Microsoft OneDrive
25.2%
Sync.com
12.2%
pCloud
2.4%
Box
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

OpenAI
13/15
Gemini
8/15
Perplexity
8/15
Claude
8/15
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
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
50 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtPassed

    An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.

    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 AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
10 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

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

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryPassed

    OpenID Connect or OAuth metadata agents can use to sign in.

    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 CardNot met

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

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

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

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    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 manifestNot met

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

    study: 0.1%

Score 40 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.dropbox.com · 2,047 companies scanned

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

The checks behind the AI readiness score

5 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%
  • Passedllms.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%
  • PassedOAuth 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

dropbox.com (its own website)
30
cloudwards.net
24
viasocket.com
18
filecloud.com
16
zapier.com
14
techradar.com
13
learn.microsoft.com
12
pcmag.com
10
microsoft.com
9
thedigitalprojectmanager.com
9

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (13 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Top file storage options that make team workflows more efficient
  • Why are my files not syncing properly on my cloud storage platform?
  • What are the best cloud storage solutions for secure file sharing and collaboration for small businesses?
  • What should you look for when choosing a secure online storage platform for confidential files?
  • How do remote teams stay organized using cloud-based file storage and sharing tools?
  • Are there affordable online file storage options with unlimited user access?
  • How much does business cloud storage typically cost per user in the US?
  • What are practical ways nonprofits use online file storage platforms to organize team documents?
  • How do you fix file version conflicts in online collaboration tools?
  • How does online file storage compare to using external hard drives for business collaboration?
  • What alternatives are available for teams looking for secure file storage beyond traditional cloud services?
  • How can creative agencies use cloud-based storage for managing large design files and client feedback?
  • Is investing in a business-focused cloud storage service worth it for a growing company?
  • Best tools for online file collaboration if you want something other than standard cloud storage platforms
  • Cloud-based document management vs. traditional network drives for remote teams
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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