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 to 14, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
1,878 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
65th of 74 private equity firms
Closing balance

Named in

1of 60 answers

by 1 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Clearhaven Partners

AI assistants rarely name this private equity firm, with only 1 mention out of 60 answers. The overall score is 24 out of 100, ranking 1,878th of 2,219 companies. Its website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Clearhaven Partners by name. AI assistants named it in 1 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 98th of 238 in its sector. The typical investing and wealth company is named in 0.8% of answers.

Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its peers.

Overall score
24Overall score
  • Visibility4
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality60
  • AI readiness29
Summary of account
Named by AI in
1.7%
1 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
11.1%
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
202 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

Clearhaven Partners came up on 1 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01Is private equity a good choice for software companies at a strategic inflection point?0/4
  2. 02Common challenges when negotiating terms with private equity for lower middle market software firms0/4
  3. 03What should software company founders consider before partnering with a private equity firm?0/4
  4. 04Best strategic partnership options for software companies that don’t want to give up equity0/4
  5. 05Why might a software business struggle to attract private equity interest despite strong revenue?0/4
  6. 06How can software company owners find value-focused investment partners?0/4
  7. 07What are the best private equity options for lower middle market software companies looking to scale?1/4
  8. 08Ways private equity firms support scaling of hybrid infrastructure software businesses0/4
  9. 09What drives valuation multiples for software companies in US private equity deals?0/4
  10. 10How does private equity for application software differ from infrastructure software investments?0/4
  11. 11Alternatives to private equity for software companies seeking growth capital0/4
  12. 12Private equity vs venture capital for software companies: which is better for growth-stage businesses?0/4
  13. 13How can private equity help software companies expand into new markets?0/4
  14. 14What are other non-dilutive funding options for software businesses besides private equity?0/4
  15. 15Typical investment sizes and structures for lower middle market software companies seeking private equity0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 1/15Claude: 0/15Perplexity: 0/15Gemini: 0/15All assistants: 1/60
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 OpenAI actually said

An answer that names the company

OpenAInamed the company

“What are the best private equity options for lower middle market software companies looking to scale?”

… Software‑specialist firms — they understand SaaS metrics, customer economics, product development cadence, and common playbooks (PLG, land‑expand, enterprise sales). Example firms that advertise LMM software focus: Clearhaven Partners, Bloom Equity, PeakEquity, Diversis Capital. Choose these when you need operating playbooks and sector expertise. (clearhavenpartners.com)

Growth‑equity firms experienced with SaaS ARR scaling and international expansion — helpful when you want minority capital but operational scale support (e.g., customer acquisition …

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
    TA Associates
    2
  2. 02
    JMI Equity
    1
  3. 03
    Mainsail Partners
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. TA Associates
    44.4%
  2. JMI Equity
    22.2%
  3. Clearhaven Partners
    11.1%
  4. Mainsail Partners
    11.1%
  5. Five Elms Capital
    11.1%
  6. Silversmith Capital Partners
    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
    ctacquisitions.com
    19
  2. 02
    bdo.com
    13
  3. 03
    bain.com
    11
  4. 04
    aventis-advisors.com
    8
  5. 05
    softwareequity.com
    7
  6. 06
    axial.net
    7
  7. 07
    qubit.capital
    7
  8. 08
    privateequitylist.com
    6
  9. 09
    rho.co
    5
  10. 10
    bcg.com
    5

Clearhaven 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

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

How Clearhaven 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
4

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

Citations
0

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

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
60

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 investing and wealth companies

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

Overall score
24
Ranks 202 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
1.7%
Ranks 98 of 238. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 51 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
24
Ranks 65 of 74. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
1.7%
Ranks 22 of 74. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 14 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 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.

To reach level 1:
  • 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Can an AI agent check out here?

Not by itself. Clearhaven 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.txtNot present
  • WebMCPCould not check
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
36 of 100
  • robots.txtNot met

    Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.

    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 15 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.clearhavenpartners.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%
  • 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%
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