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.
512 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
8th of 32 law firms
Closing balance

Named in

2of 60 answers

by 2 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Covington & Burling

AI assistants rarely name this law firm, mentioning it in 2 out of 60 answers. Its overall score is 37 out of 100, ranking 512th of 2,219 companies. Its website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Covington & Burling by name. AI assistants named it in 2 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 96th of 346 in its sector. The typical advisory or services firm is named in 0.0% 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
37Overall score
  • Visibility7
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness36
Summary of account
Named by AI in
3.3%
2 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
16.7%
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
59 of 346
by overall score, where the typical advisory or services firm scores 27

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Covington & Burling came up on 1 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01How to address slow communication from a legal team during a cross-border transaction?0/4
  2. 02Does hiring a global legal advisor make sense for resolving disputes involving U.S. and European regulations?0/4
  3. 03How can legal counsel assist companies with mergers and acquisitions spanning different countries?0/4
  4. 04Recommended sources for staying updated on international business law trends and policy alerts?0/4
  5. 05Multi-disciplinary law firms vs. specialized legal practices for government-related legal challenges?0/4
  6. 06Is it worth retaining an international law firm for ongoing multinational compliance management?0/4
  7. 07What should I do if a business deal faces legal delays due to differing international standards?0/4
  8. 08When should organizations seek legal guidance on government investigations involving multiple jurisdictions?0/4
  9. 09What are the top international law firms offering strategic counsel for cross-border corporate issues?0/4
  10. 10How are fees typically structured for high-stakes international legal representation?0/4
  11. 11Cheaper ways for organizations to get advice on evolving regulatory policy across borders?0/4
  12. 12Alternatives to large international law firms for handling transnational commercial disputes?0/4
  13. 13Average hourly rates for top-tier international law firms in the United States?0/4
  14. 14How do global law firms differ from boutique firms in handling international policy matters?0/4
  15. 15Best legal advisors for navigating complex business regulations in multiple jurisdictions?2/4
Total namedOpenAI: 0/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 0/15Gemini: 1/15All assistants: 2/60
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

“Best legal advisors for navigating complex business regulations in multiple jurisdictions?”

… Covington & Burling LLP: Covington & Burling is a leading law firm globally for regulatory advice, and assists clients around the world with matters related to international trade, public policy and global compliance issues such as data protection, antitrust and competition regulation.

Additional Leading Firms

Other highly-regarded firms include:

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP - globally renowned for corporate governance and securities law, frequently counseling clients on complex SEC reporting requirements

Latham & Watkins LLP - serves clients across numerous industri …

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
    Latham & Watkins LLP
    2
  2. 02
    Sidley Austin LLP
    1
  3. 03
    Covington & Burling LLP
    1
  4. 04
    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
    41.7%
  2. Covington & Burling
    16.7%
  3. Latham & Watkins LLP
    16.7%
  4. Sidley Austin LLP
    16.7%
  5. Arnold & Porter
    8.3%
  6. WilmerHale
    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
    worldmetrics.org
    7
  2. 02
    chambers.com
    7
  3. 03
    globallawexperts.com
    5
  4. 04
    harris-sliwoski.com
    4
  5. 05
    lexology.com
    4
  6. 06
    daeryunlaw.com
    4
  7. 07
    websiteclosers.com
    4
  8. 08
    americanbar.org
    3
  9. 09
    hklaw.com
    3
  10. 10
    wilmerhale.com
    3

Covington & Burling is in the study as a law firm.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

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

How Covington & Burling 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
7

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
100

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
36

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 advisory and services firms

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

Overall score
37
Ranks 59 of 346. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
3.3%
Ranks 96 of 346. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 38 of 346. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with law firms

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

Overall score
37
Ranks 7 of 32. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
3.3%
Ranks 12 of 32. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 3 of 32. 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. Covington & Burling 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.cov.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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