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

Ascend Bank

ascend.bank

Regional and community banksBanking

Money20/20 attendee

Statement period
October 9 to 14, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
480 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
19th of 148 regional and community banks
Closing balance

Named in

6of 60 answers

by 3 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Ascend Bank

AI assistants name Ascend Bank in 10% of answers, while the typical company in its sector is not named in any answers. Ascend Bank's overall score is 37 out of 100, ranking 480th of 2,219 companies. Its website passes 4 of 14 technical checks, showing some readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Ascend Bank by name. AI assistants named it in 6 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 77th of 394 in its sector. The typical banking company is named in 0.0% of answers.

Overall score
37Overall score
  • Visibility15
  • Citations5
  • Sentiment75
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness29
Summary of account
Named by AI in
10.0%
6 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
27.3%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
72 of 394
by overall score, where the typical banking company scores 28

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Ascend Bank came up on 4 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01What are some alternatives to community banks for personal savings accounts in Connecticut?1/4
  2. 02What are common reasons people in Connecticut choose community banks for home loans?0/4
  3. 03What options do small businesses have besides community banks for business loans in Connecticut?0/4
  4. 04What are typical fees for business checking accounts at local community banks in Connecticut?0/4
  5. 05What are the best community banks in Connecticut for small business checking accounts?1/4
  6. 06What should you do if your community bank's online banking is down?0/4
  7. 07How can a community bank support local entrepreneurs starting a new business?0/4
  8. 08How does a community bank differ from a credit union for personal banking needs?0/4
  9. 09Are community banks a good choice if you want personalized service in Connecticut?1/4
  10. 10Where can you find community banks in Connecticut with 24/7 online and mobile banking services?3/4
  11. 11Community banks vs regional banks – which is better for small business lending in Connecticut?0/4
  12. 12Is it worth switching from a national bank to a local community bank for everyday banking?0/4
  13. 13Why might a community-based loan approval take longer than at a larger bank?0/4
  14. 14How do community bank loan rates compare with national averages in Connecticut?0/4
  15. 15Which Connecticut community banks offer strong personal savings account rates?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 0/15Claude: 3/15Perplexity: 1/15Gemini: 2/15All assistants: 6/60
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

“Where can you find community banks in Connecticut with 24/7 online and mobile banking services?”

Connecticut community banks offering 24/7 online and mobile banking include:

Ascend Bank — based in Guilford, with Connecticut locations and online/mobile access for bill pay, mobile check deposits, transfers, and account management.

Connecticut Community Bank — a local community bank serving areas including Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, New Canaan, Norwalk, and Westport; its website provides online banking access.

For a broader list of state-chartered and authorized banks, the Connecticut Department of Banking maintains an official directory of banks operating in Connec …

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
    Liberty Bank
    6
  2. 02
    Ion Bank
    2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Liberty Bank
    31.8%
  2. Ascend Bank
    27.3%
  3. Ion Bank
    22.7%
  4. Dime Bank
    13.6%
  5. Chelsea Groton Bank
    4.5%
  6. Essex Savings Bank
    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
    ccbankonline.com
    14
  2. 02
    ascend.bank (its own website)
    11
  3. 03
    crestmontcapital.com
    11
  4. 04
    monitorbankrates.com
    8
  5. 05
    portal.ct.gov
    8
  6. 06
    locators.bankofamerica.com
    7
  7. 07
    unionsavings.com
    6
  8. 08
    firstcountybank.com
    6
  9. 09
    fdic.gov
    5
  10. 10
    bankrate.com
    4

Ascend Bank is in the study as a regional or community bank.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude
3/15
Gemini
2/15
Perplexity
1/15
OpenAI
0/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Ascend Bank 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
5

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

Sentiment
75

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

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 banking companies

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

Overall score
37
Ranks 72 of 394. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
10.0%
Ranks 77 of 394. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 82 of 394. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with regional and community banks

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

Overall score
37
Ranks 19 of 148. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
10.0%
Ranks 16 of 148. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 25 of 148. Typical company: 21
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. Ascend Bank 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 · ascend.bank · 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%
  • 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%
  • 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

  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebotallowed
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • Claude-Userallowed
  • Perplexity-Userallowed
  • DuckAssistBotallowed
  • MistralAI-Userallowed

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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