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
September 23 and 24, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
957 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
26th of 74 private equity firms
Closing balance

Named in

1of 60 answers

by 1 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Hamilton Lane

AI assistants rarely name this private equity firm, with its name appearing in 1 of 60 answers. Its overall score is 29 out of 100, ranking 957th of 2,219, which is similar to the typical company in its sector. Its website passes 3 of the 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Hamilton Lane 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
29Overall score
  • Visibility6
  • Citations3
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness21
Summary of account
Named by AI in
1.7%
1 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
33.3%
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
97 of 238
by overall score, where the typical investing and wealth company scores 28

Get the full report on Hamilton Lane as a PDF

Enter your work email to download it.

We’ll use your email to follow up about this report. Privacy policy

Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

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

  1. 01Is it better to invest in a single private market fund or a diversified multi-strategy solution?1/4
  2. 02Evergreen funds vs traditional closed-end funds in private markets: pros and cons0/4
  3. 03Private credit vs private equity — what's the difference for investors?0/4
  4. 04How can high-net-worth individuals access unique private market opportunities?0/4
  5. 05Common challenges with private markets data and reporting, and how to address them0/4
  6. 06Secondaries vs direct investments in private markets: which is better for portfolio diversification?0/4
  7. 07How can private markets investments help achieve long-term financial goals for institutions?0/4
  8. 08What are the best private markets investment strategies for institutional investors?0/4
  9. 09Are private markets investments worth the higher fees compared to public markets?0/4
  10. 10Best practices for integrating private market assets into an overall portfolio allocation0/4
  11. 11How to manage illiquidity risks in private market portfolios0/4
  12. 12Alternatives to private markets for achieving non-correlated investment returns0/4
  13. 13What should I evaluate before committing capital to a private markets manager?0/4
  14. 14Top considerations when choosing a private markets solutions provider0/4
  15. 15What fee structures are typical for private markets investment managers in the US?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 0/15Claude: 0/15Perplexity: 1/15Gemini: 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 Perplexity actually said

An answer that names the company

Perplexitynamed the company

“Is it better to invest in a single private market fund or a diversified multi-strategy solution?”

… What the sources consistently say is that private markets should be sized and structured around liquidity, return, and risk, not just expected upside. UBS and Hamilton Lane both emphasize that diversification across managers, strategies, geographies, and vintage years is critical in private markets. BBH also notes that a single private fund is not a mature private markets portfolio and that successful allocators need consistency across vintage years and asset classes.

A practical rule of thumb:

Choose a single fund if you have strong conviction in a specific man …

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.

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Hamilton Lane
    33.3%
  2. Adams Street Partners
    33.3%
  3. Partners Group
    33.3%
  4. HarbourVest Partners
    0.0%
  5. Pantheon
    0.0%
  6. StepStone Group
    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
    blackrock.com
    33
  2. 02
    schroders.com
    18
  3. 03
    am.jpmorgan.com
    16
  4. 04
    mercer.com
    15
  5. 05
    hamiltonlane.com (its own website)
    15
  6. 06
    morganstanley.com
    11
  7. 07
    spglobal.com
    10
  8. 08
    wealth.blueowl.com
    10
  9. 09
    russellinvestments.com
    10
  10. 10
    icapital.com
    10

Hamilton Lane 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

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

How Hamilton Lane 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
6

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

Citations
3

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

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

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
29
Ranks 97 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
1.7%
Ranks 98 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
29
Ranks 25 of 74. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
1.7%
Ranks 22 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. Hamilton Lane 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
72 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 86.1%
  • SitemapPartly met

    Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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 24 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.hamiltonlane.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.

Take it with you

Get the full report on Hamilton Lane as a PDF

Every number on this page in a PDF you can keep and share with your team. Enter your work email to download it.

We’ll use your email to follow up about this report. Privacy policy

Next step

Want AI assistants to name your company?

Book a 30-minute demo to see Rezolve Ai in action and what it can do for your business.

Request a demo