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.

SWIFT47/60TRANSUNION46/60EXPERIAN42/60COINSTAR41/60NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION41/60ZELLE41/60BLOOMBERG L.P.38/60TRADINGVIEW38/60BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO37/60PAYPAL37/60VENMO37/60CHEXSYSTEMS33/60EQUIFAX33/60MORNINGSTAR32/60S&P GLOBAL31/60ALPACA MARKETS30/60COINBASE30/60PINWHEEL29/60STRIPE29/60XERO29/60ACORNS28/60AFFIRM28/60PAYFAST (PAYGATE)28/60PAYONEER28/60INTERACTIVE BROKERS26/60CHARLES SCHWAB19/60THE HARTFORD9/60MOODY'S21/60CME GROUP19/60ACCENTURE11/60CHUBB10/60MORGAN STANLEY6/60AMERICAN EXPRESS14/60SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL12/60FACTSET20/60NASDAQ19/60ALLSTATE11/60WELLS FARGO18/60PAYCHEX10/60ARES MANAGEMENT3/60
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AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026
Account holder

Afterpay

afterpay.com

Buy now, pay laterCards and payments

Statement period
October 9, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
161 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
3rd of 15 buy now, pay later providers
Closing balance

Named in

27of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Afterpay

AI assistants name the buy now, pay later provider Afterpay in 45% of answers, compared with 0% for the typical company in its sector. Afterpay's overall score is 41 out of 100, ranking 161st of 2,219 companies. Its website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Afterpay by name. AI assistants named it in 27 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 10th of 375 in its sector. The typical cards and payments company is named in 0.0% of answers.

Overall score
41Overall score
  • Visibility34
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment59
  • Site quality93
  • AI readiness21
Summary of account
Named by AI in
45.0%
27 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
18.4%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
31 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

Afterpay came up on 11 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01Why was my application for an installment payment plan declined?0/4
  2. 02Are installment payment options a smart way to handle holiday shopping costs?0/4
  3. 03Buy now, pay later vs traditional credit cards: which is better for managing spending?0/4
  4. 04How do buy now, pay later services work for shopping at popular fashion retailers?3/4
  5. 05Where can I find US stores that accept flexible installment payments at checkout?3/4
  6. 06What options do I have besides installment payments when buying furniture online?2/4
  7. 07How are payment schedules and late fees structured on buy now, pay later apps?1/4
  8. 08What are the best buy now, pay later options for online shopping in the US?4/4
  9. 09What are alternatives to splitting payments at checkout for online shopping?4/4
  10. 10Are there any hidden fees with most flexible payment platforms?1/4
  11. 11What happens if I miss a payment with a buy now, pay later service?2/4
  12. 12Is using a buy now, pay later app for large purchases worth it?0/4
  13. 13Which platforms let you split purchases into interest-free installments at checkout?4/4
  14. 14How do deferred payment services compare to layaway programs?1/4
  15. 15Can I use installment payment platforms for electronics or tech gadgets?2/4
Total namedOpenAI: 7/15Claude: 7/15Perplexity: 7/15Gemini: 6/15All assistants: 27/60
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 Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

Claudenamed the company

“What are alternatives to splitting payments at checkout for online shopping?”

I can provide you with alternatives to splitting payments at checkout for online shopping:

1. Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Services: Services like Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm, and PayPal Pay in 4 allow you to split purchases into installments without paying interest (if paid on time).

2. Store Credit Cards: Many retailers offer financing options through their branded credit cards, often with promotional 0% APR periods for qualifying purchases.

3. Traditional Credit Cards: Use a credit card and pay off the balance over time, though this may involve interest charges depending on your ca …

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
    Klarna
    36
  2. 02
    Affirm
    34
  3. 03
    Sezzle
    22
  4. 04
    PayPal Pay in 4
    15

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. PayPal Pay in 4
    21.8%
  2. Affirm
    19.0%
  3. Afterpay
    18.4%
  4. Klarna
    18.4%
  5. Sezzle
    12.9%
  6. Zip (formerly Quadpay)
    9.5%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

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

  1. 01
    paypal.com
    22
  2. 02
    cnbc.com
    12
  3. 03
    experian.com
    11
  4. 04
    klarna.com
    11
  5. 05
    miamiherald.com
    9
  6. 06
    shopify.com
    9
  7. 07
    affirm.com
    9
  8. 08
    chase.com
    7
  9. 09
    zip.co
    7
  10. 10
    splitit.com
    6

Afterpay is in the study as a buy now, pay later provider.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Perplexity
7/15
Claude
7/15
OpenAI
7/15
Gemini
6/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Afterpay 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
34

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
59

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
93

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

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
41
Ranks 31 of 375. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
45.0%
Ranks 10 of 375. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
21
Ranks 216 of 375. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with buy now, pay later providers

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

Overall score
41
Ranks 3 of 15. Typical company: 37
Named in answers
45.0%
Ranks 2 of 15. Typical company: 16.7%
AI readiness
21
Ranks 9 of 15. 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. Afterpay 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.txtNot present
  • 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
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.txtNot met

    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
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 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.afterpay.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

3 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%
  • 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%
  • 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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