Of 60 answers

The most named companies in the study, and S&P 500 financials, with how many of their 60 AI answers named them.

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AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026
Account holder
Statement period
October 9, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
113 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
1st of 74 private equity firms
Closing balance

Named in

7of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Abry Partners

AI assistants name Abry Partners in 11.7% of answers, while the typical company in its sector is named in 0.8%. Its overall score is 43 out of 100, which ranks 113th of 2,219 companies. The website passes 6 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Abry Partners by name. AI assistants named it in 7 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 27th of 238 in its sector. The typical investing and wealth company is named in 0.8% of answers.

Overall score
43Overall score
  • Visibility26
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment79
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness43
Summary of account
Named by AI in
11.7%
7 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
70.0%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
6/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
9 of 238
by overall score, where the typical investing and wealth company scores 28

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Abry Partners came up on 2 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01What steps should business owners take if their partnership with a private equity firm isn’t meeting growth expectations?0/4
  2. 02What should a middle market company consider before accepting investment from a private equity fund?0/4
  3. 03How do sector-focused private equity firms differ from generalist private equity firms for middle market investments?0/4
  4. 04How can private equity help accelerate growth for a mid-sized media company?0/4
  5. 05What are the advantages of partnering with a private equity firm that specializes in communications and media versus one focusing on technology?0/4
  6. 06What fee structures do private equity firms typically use when investing in middle market businesses?0/4
  7. 07How do carried interest and management fees work in middle market private equity investments?0/4
  8. 08Which US-based private equity investors focus on business services and information sectors?3/4
  9. 09What are common ways private equity firms support succession planning in business services companies?0/4
  10. 10What are alternatives to private equity for communications companies seeking growth capital?0/4
  11. 11Which financing options are available for information sector businesses besides private equity investment?0/4
  12. 12What are the top private equity firms for middle market companies in the communications and media industries?4/4
  13. 13What are non-equity partnership models for mid-sized companies in the US business services industry?0/4
  14. 14Is partnering with a private equity firm for business expansion in the information sector worth it?0/4
  15. 15How can communication breakdowns between management teams and private equity investors be resolved?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 1/15Claude: 2/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 2/15All assistants: 7/60
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. Across the study, on 50% of the questions where a company is named, only one AI assistant names it.

Transaction detailSection 02

What Perplexity actually said

An answer that names the company

Perplexitynamed the company

“What are the top private equity firms for middle market companies in the communications and media industries?”

For U.S. middle-market communications and media companies, the strongest shortlist is:

ABRY Partners — One of the most specialized investors in media, communications, information, and business services; particularly relevant for companies spanning media, technology, and communications.

Searchlight Capital Partners — A leading investor in communications infrastructure, broadband, fiber, wireless, and related services; frequently identified as a fit for regional ISPs and network operators.

Coral Tree Partners — Focuses on growth-oriented companies in media, entertain …

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

PayeesSection 03

Where the mentions went

The companies these answers named, and how the mentions were split between this company and its peers.

Also named

CompanyTimes named
  1. 01
    GTCR
    1
  2. 02
    Crestview Partners
    1
  3. 03
    BV Investment Partners
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Abry Partners
    70.0%
  2. GTCR
    10.0%
  3. BV Investment Partners
    10.0%
  4. Crestview Partners
    10.0%
  5. The Jordan Company
    0.0%
  6. Genstar Capital
    0.0%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

  1. 01
    qubit.capital
    13
  2. 02
    privateequitylist.com
    10
  3. 03
    morganstanley.com
    8
  4. 04
    ctacquisitions.com
    7
  5. 05
    en.wikipedia.org
    6
  6. 06
    mergersandinquisitions.com
    6
  7. 07
    growthcapadvisory.com
    6
  8. 08
    linkedin.com
    6
  9. 09
    hamiltonlane.com
    5
  10. 10
    selectadvisorsinstitute.com
    5

Abry Partners is in the study as a private equity firm.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
2/15
Perplexity
2/15
Claude
2/15
OpenAI
1/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Abry Partners compares with all 2,219 companies

Every tower is a company in the study, taller for a higher overall score and lit where AI assistants named it. Its own group stays lit. Hover a tower to see it, and click to open it.

What makes up the score

Each part is scored out of 100.

Visibility
26

How often AI assistants name the company, and how that compares with its peers

Citations
1

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

Sentiment
79

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
43

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Against its sectorSection 07

Compared with investing and wealth companies

238 companies in this sector. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
43
Ranks 9 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
11.7%
Ranks 27 of 238. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
43
Ranks 4 of 238. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with private equity firms

74 companies in this category. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
43
Ranks 1 of 74. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
11.7%
Ranks 1 of 74. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
43
Ranks 2 of 74. Typical company: 29
AI agentsSection 09

Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and pay through, 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
Can an AI agent check out here?

Not by itself. Abry Partners publishes none of the agent payment protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the website like a person.

Agent payment protocols
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • ACPNot present
  • UCPNot present
Interfaces for AI agents
  • MCP Server CardNot present
  • A2A Agent CardNot present
  • Agent SkillsNot present
  • API CatalogNot present
  • llms.txtCould not check
  • WebMCPCould not check
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
72 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

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

    study: 86.1%
  • SitemapPartly met

    Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.

    study: 87.9%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 1.5%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryCould not check

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 4.3%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

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

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtCould not check

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 31.0%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

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

    study: 92.7%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 2.3%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

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

    study: 0.3%
APIs, auth and MCP
9 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

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

    study: 1.3%
  • OAuth discoveryPartly met

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

    study: 6.3%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceCould not check

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 5.3%
  • 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: 0.8%
  • 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: 1.0%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 0.0%
  • ARD manifestCould not check

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

    study: 0.2%

Score 32 of 100 · 78% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · abry.com · 2,200 companies scanned

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

AI readinessSection 10

The checks behind the AI readiness score

6 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: 85.1%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 79.4%
  • PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 28.1%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 97.3%

Bot Access Control

  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 11.5%

API / Auth / MCP

  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 1.1%
  • PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 5.2%
  • PassedOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 4.6%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.2%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 0.3%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.1%
AI crawlersSection 11

What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 86% 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.

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