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.

Back to the study
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.
581 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Closing balance

Named in

3of 60 answers

by 3 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for DealMaker

AI assistants name this fintech infrastructure company in 5% of answers, more often than the typical company in its sector at 1.7%. Its overall score is 36 out of 100, ranking 581st of 2,219 companies and 181st of 574 in its sector. The website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned DealMaker by name. AI assistants named it in 3 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 192nd of 574 in its sector. The typical financial technology and data company is named in 1.7% of answers.

Overall score
36Overall score
  • Visibility5
  • Citations8
  • Sentiment83
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness29
Summary of account
Named by AI in
5.0%
3 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
5.8%
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
181 of 574
by overall score, where the typical financial technology and data company scores 29

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

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

  1. 01What are some approaches besides online portals for completing regulatory-compliant funding rounds?0/4
  2. 02What are common issues founders face when managing a large investor pool from an online offering?0/4
  3. 03How can startups raise funding from everyday investors online in the US?0/4
  4. 04Does using an online capital raising portal affect company ownership or founder control?0/4
  5. 05Can startups use an online fundraising platform to reach both accredited and non-accredited investors?0/4
  6. 06What types of companies benefit most from conducting a Reg D raise online?0/4
  7. 07What are alternatives to using an online portal for managing a Reg A funds raise?0/4
  8. 08Is it worth using an online platform to raise capital for a growth-stage company?0/4
  9. 09How much do online capital raising services typically cost for startups in the United States?0/4
  10. 10What are the main differences between online capital raising portals and traditional broker-dealers for startups?0/4
  11. 11What are the best online platforms for raising capital through Reg A offerings?3/4
  12. 12Why might an online capital raise through a Reg CF platform stall or fail to reach its target?0/4
  13. 13How can founders connect with a large base of everyday investors without using a digital capital raising platform?0/4
  14. 14How does raising capital online via Reg A compare to using Reg CF or Reg D platforms?0/4
  15. 15Are there platforms that offer all-in-one capital raising solutions at a flat fee?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 1/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 1/15Gemini: 0/15All 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 best online platforms for raising capital through Reg A offerings?”

The strongest online options for Regulation A (Reg A+) offerings are DealMaker, StartEngine, Republic, Issuance, and Rialto Markets. The best choice depends on whether you prioritize a turnkey compliance platform, a large retail-investor audience, tokenized securities, or secondary-market functionality.

Platform · Best for · Key strengths

DealMaker · Turnkey Reg A+ campaigns · Investor onboarding, compliance workflows, payments, cap-table tools, and campaign infrastructure; commonly used for larger “mini-IPO” offerings.

StartEngine · Broad retail- …

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
    Republic
    11
  2. 02
    StartEngine
    10
  3. 03
    Wefunder
    9
  4. 04
    SeedInvest
    4

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Republic
    30.8%
  2. Wefunder
    26.9%
  3. StartEngine
    25.0%
  4. SeedInvest
    11.5%
  5. DealMaker
    5.8%
  6. EquityNet
    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
    sec.gov
    23
  2. 02
    dealmaker.tech (its own website)
    22
  3. 03
    qubit.capital
    12
  4. 04
    linkedin.com
    6
  5. 05
    carta.com
    6
  6. 06
    startengine.com
    5
  7. 07
    lenderkit.com
    5
  8. 08
    invown.com
    5
  9. 09
    sourceforge.net
    5
  10. 10
    startups.com
    5

DealMaker is in the study as a fintech infrastructure company.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

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

How DealMaker 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
5

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
83

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 financial technology and data companies

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

Overall score
36
Ranks 181 of 574. Typical company: 29
Named in answers
5.0%
Ranks 192 of 574. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 224 of 574. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with fintech infrastructure companies

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

Overall score
36
Ranks 78 of 315. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
5.0%
Ranks 85 of 315. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 117 of 315. 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. DealMaker 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.dealmaker.tech · 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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