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

Burford Capital

burfordcapital.comBUR

Private equity and alternative investmentsInvesting and wealth

Also in the US AI Visibility Study

Statement period
September 23 to 25, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
347 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
6th of 74 private equity firms
Closing balance

Named in

3of 60 answers

by 3 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Burford Capital

AI assistants name Burford Capital in 5% of answers, which is higher than the typical company in its sector at 0.8%. It has an overall score of 39 out of 100, ranking 347th of 2,219 overall and 29th of 238 in its sector. Its website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Burford Capital by name. AI assistants named it in 3 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 58th of 238 in its sector. The typical investing and wealth company is named in 0.8% of answers.

Overall score
39Overall score
  • Visibility12
  • Citations8
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness21
Summary of account
Named by AI in
5.0%
3 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
37.5%
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
29 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

Burford Capital came up on 1 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01How are fees and returns structured in US legal finance agreements?0/4
  2. 02What is the difference between legal finance and traditional law firm loans?0/4
  3. 03What are the top litigation funding options for commercial disputes in the US?3/4
  4. 04What factors influence the cost of litigation funding for corporate clients?0/4
  5. 05Why might a litigation funding application get rejected?0/4
  6. 06How can legal finance help law firms manage the costs of complex commercial cases?0/4
  7. 07What should corporations consider before pursuing legal finance for ongoing disputes?0/4
  8. 08How do legal finance solutions support class action lawsuits?0/4
  9. 09How do corporate legal departments handle dispute financing without outside capital?0/4
  10. 10When are litigation funding agreements most beneficial for law firms?0/4
  11. 11What are some alternatives to litigation funding for managing legal expenses?0/4
  12. 12Is third-party litigation funding a good solution for companies facing high-value lawsuits?0/4
  13. 13Best practices for selecting a legal finance partner for commercial litigation in the US0/4
  14. 14Litigation funding vs contingency fee arrangements: Which is better for corporate legal departments?0/4
  15. 15What are common challenges when securing legal finance for commercial cases?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 0/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 1/15Gemini: 1/15All assistants: 3/60
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 litigation funding options for commercial disputes in the US?”

For commercial disputes in the US, the strongest litigation funding options are typically Burford Capital, Omni Bridgeway, Parabellum Capital, Therium, Delta Capital Partners, Lake Whillans Capital Partners, and Statera Capital; these firms appear in the US rankings from Legal 500 and are described as funding a wide range of commercial matters, including single cases, portfolios, enforcement, and claims monetization.

A practical short list by use case is:

Burford Capital — widely positioned as a leader in the US market, with capacity for signifi …

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
    Parabellum Capital
    2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Burford Capital
    37.5%
  2. Bentham IMF (now Omni Bridgeway)
    25.0%
  3. Parabellum Capital
    25.0%
  4. Therium Capital Management
    12.5%
  5. Harbour Litigation Funding
    0.0%
  6. Longford 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
    burfordcapital.com (its own website)
    41
  2. 02
    omnibridgeway.com
    18
  3. 03
    chambers.com
    16
  4. 04
    americanbar.org
    15
  5. 05
    amicuscapitalgroup.com
    12
  6. 06
    thinkbrg.com
    10
  7. 07
    legal500.com
    9
  8. 08
    lexshares.com
    9
  9. 09
    thomsonreuters.com
    7
  10. 10
    stout.com
    6

Burford Capital 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
1/15
Perplexity
1/15
Claude
1/15
OpenAI
0/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Burford Capital 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
12

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

Citations
8

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

Sentiment
100

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

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 investing and wealth companies

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

Overall score
39
Ranks 29 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
5.0%
Ranks 58 of 238. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
21
Ranks 140 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
39
Ranks 3 of 74. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
5.0%
Ranks 9 of 74. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
21
Ranks 45 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. Burford Capital 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
80 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 DiscoveryPassed

    SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.

    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 28 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.burfordcapital.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

  • 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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