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.
12 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Closing balance

Named in

14of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Formance

AI assistants name this fintech infrastructure company in 23.3% of answers, while the typical company in its sector is named in 1.7%. Its overall score is 49 out of 100, ranking 12th of 2,219 in the study and 5th of 574 in its sector. The company's website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Formance by name. AI assistants named it in 14 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 32nd of 574 in its sector. The typical financial technology and data company is named in 1.7% of answers.

Overall score
49Overall score
  • Visibility33
  • Citations13
  • Sentiment90
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness36
Summary of account
Named by AI in
23.3%
14 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
56.0%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
5/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
5 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

Formance came up on 7 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01What are the main alternatives to using a programmable ledger for managing payments and treasury operations?1/4
  2. 02How can I troubleshoot inconsistent balances in a programmable ledger system for complex transactions?0/4
  3. 03Are there use-cases where implementing automated treasury reconciliation platforms makes sense for midsize businesses?0/4
  4. 04How does a programmable ledger differ from a traditional double-entry accounting system for payment platforms?0/4
  5. 05What features should I look for in a money-movement infrastructure platform for large-scale financial operations?0/4
  6. 06Is investing in programmable ledger infrastructure worth it for a fintech company handling high payment volumes?1/4
  7. 07Programmable ledger platforms vs standard payment aggregation tools—what’s the difference in reconciliation capabilities?0/4
  8. 08What solutions help automate payments and treasury workflows for enterprise businesses?0/4
  9. 09Are there effective open-source alternatives to commercial programmable ledger platforms for money movement?3/4
  10. 10What are the best programmable ledger platforms for managing complex money movement?4/4
  11. 11Why would a ledger platform fail to reconcile money movement between multiple payment rails?0/4
  12. 12How much should businesses expect to pay for enterprise-grade programmable ledger infrastructure in the US?2/4
  13. 13How can a programmable ledger optimize money movement and real-time tracking for subscription-based businesses?1/4
  14. 14What pricing models do programmable money movement ledger providers typically offer for high transaction volumes?2/4
  15. 15What are common reasons financial platforms use programmable ledgers for continuous closing of books?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 1/15Claude: 5/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 6/15All assistants: 14/60
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 programmable ledger platforms for managing complex money movement?”

For complex money movement, the strongest shortlist is Formance, Modern Treasury, Moov, Episode Six, and Increase. The best choice depends on whether the core need is a highly programmable ledger, payment orchestration, or regulated financial-product infrastructure.

Platform · Best for · Why it stands out · Main consideration

Formance · Highly customized fintech products and multi-asset money movement · Programmable double-entry ledger with Numscript transaction logic, support for sub-ledgers, fee splits, and fiat/digital-asset flows; self-hosting can support d …

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
    Modern Treasury
    6
  2. 02
    Moov
    5

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Formance
    56.0%
  2. Modern Treasury
    32.0%
  3. Moov
    12.0%
  4. LedgerFusion
    0.0%
  5. Griffin
    0.0%
  6. Sila
    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
    formance.com (its own website)
    37
  2. 02
    sdk.finance
    13
  3. 03
    fintechspecs.com
    13
  4. 04
    moderntreasury.com
    8
  5. 05
    highradius.com
    8
  6. 06
    walletinvestor.com
    7
  7. 07
    github.com
    7
  8. 08
    treasury.ripple.com
    6
  9. 09
    dashdevs.com
    6
  10. 10
    apideck.com
    5

Formance 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

Gemini
6/15
Claude
5/15
Perplexity
2/15
OpenAI
1/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Formance 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
33

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

Citations
13

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

Sentiment
90

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

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 financial technology and data companies

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

Overall score
49
Ranks 5 of 574. Typical company: 29
Named in answers
23.3%
Ranks 32 of 574. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 83 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
49
Ranks 3 of 315. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
23.3%
Ranks 8 of 315. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 40 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 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. Formance 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.txtPublished
  • 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
100 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationPassed

    Requests sent with Accept: text/markdown receive a markdown version of the page.

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtPassed

    An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.

    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 47 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.formance.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

5 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

  • PassedMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Passedllms.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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