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.
154 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
8th of 203 payment processors
Closing balance

Named in

5of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for ACI Worldwide

AI assistants name ACI Worldwide in 8.3% of answers, while the typical company in its sector is named in 0% of answers. Its overall score is 42 out of 100, ranking 154th of 2,219 overall and 23rd of 375 in its sector. The website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned ACI Worldwide by name. AI assistants named it in 5 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 80th of 375 in its sector. The typical cards and payments company is named in 0.0% of answers.

Overall score
42Overall score
  • Visibility15
  • Citations3
  • Sentiment93
  • Site quality93
  • AI readiness29
Summary of account
Named by AI in
8.3%
5 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
31.3%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
23 of 375
by overall score, where the typical cards and payments company scores 27

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

ACI Worldwide came up on 2 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01How much do payment orchestration solutions typically cost for enterprise clients in the US?0/4
  2. 02Are there good open-source options for fraud management platforms?0/4
  3. 03What should I do if my payment orchestration engine isn’t updating payment methods in real time?0/4
  4. 04What pricing models are common for cloud-based fraud management software for banks?0/4
  5. 05Do integrated fraud management tools provide better value than standalone options for large billers?0/4
  6. 06How do merchants use payment orchestration platforms to streamline multi-processor setups?0/4
  7. 07Top fraud management solutions for banks handling real-time payments?4/4
  8. 08What are the best alternatives to all-in-one payment and fraud management solutions for merchants?0/4
  9. 09What’s the process for integrating real-time fraud prevention into existing billing systems?0/4
  10. 10What are alternatives to real-time payment orchestration software for small financial institutions?0/4
  11. 11Is comprehensive payment orchestration software worth it for a midsize ecommerce retailer?0/4
  12. 12What are the best payment orchestration platforms for large merchants in the US?1/4
  13. 13Payment orchestration vs standard payment gateway: what’s the difference for enterprise merchants?0/4
  14. 14Fraud detection software vs fraud prevention platforms: which is better for reducing chargebacks?0/4
  15. 15How can banks address false positives in automated fraud management systems?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 1/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 1/15All assistants: 5/60
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 best payment orchestration platforms for large merchants in the US?”

For large US merchants, the strongest shortlist is Primer, Spreedly, ACI Worldwide, CellPoint Digital, PPRO, and Checkout.com. The best choice depends on whether the priority is multi-PSP flexibility, enterprise reliability, global/local payment coverage, or an integrated acquiring relationship.

Platform · Best fit · Main strengths · Watch-outs

Primer · Enterprise commerce teams wanting configurable workflows · No-code/low-code payment flows, multi-provider connectivity, routing, retries, and strong operational controls; especially suitable when non-engineers n …

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
    Fiserv
    2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. ACI Worldwide
    31.3%
  2. ACI (formerly Vesta)
    31.3%
  3. FIS (Worldpay)
    25.0%
  4. Fiserv
    12.5%
  5. NCR Voyix
    0.0%
  6. Diebold Nixdorf
    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
    solidgate.com
    17
  2. 02
    fraud.net
    12
  3. 03
    stripe.com
    11
  4. 04
    aciworldwide.com (its own website)
    11
  5. 05
    github.com
    11
  6. 06
    dodopayments.com
    9
  7. 07
    primer.io
    9
  8. 08
    fraudio.com
    8
  9. 09
    whop.com
    7
  10. 10
    seon.io
    6

ACI Worldwide is in the study as a payment processor.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

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

How ACI Worldwide 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
15

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

Citations
3

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

Sentiment
93

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
93

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
29

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 cards and payments companies

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

Overall score
42
Ranks 23 of 375. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
8.3%
Ranks 80 of 375. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 106 of 375. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with payment processors

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

Overall score
42
Ranks 7 of 203. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
8.3%
Ranks 30 of 203. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 59 of 203. 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. ACI Worldwide 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.txtPublished
  • WebMCPCould not check
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: 86.1%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced 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 DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

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

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

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtPassed

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

    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
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

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

    study: 1.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

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

    study: 6.3%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    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 manifestNot met

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

    study: 0.2%

Score 36 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.aciworldwide.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

4 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%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Passedllms.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%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 5.2%
  • Not metOAuth 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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