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

Named in

17of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Harmonic AI

AI assistants name Harmonic AI in 28.3% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in its sector at 1.7%. Its overall score is 32 out of 100, ranking 758th of 2,219 companies. The website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Harmonic AI by name. AI assistants named it in 17 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 26th of 574 in its sector. The typical financial technology and data company is named in 1.7% of answers.

Overall score
32Overall score
  • Visibility21
  • Citations5
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality67
  • AI readiness36
Summary of account
Named by AI in
28.3%
17 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
10.1%
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
229 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

Harmonic AI came up on 8 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01What should I do if a startup data platform isn’t showing the most recent funding rounds for a company?0/4
  2. 02What are effective ways to leverage a startup discovery platform for identifying acquisition targets?0/4
  3. 03Are there affordable options for accessing up-to-date startup databases for small investment firms?0/4
  4. 04Do premium startup discovery platforms provide significant advantages over free or basic versions for due diligence?0/4
  5. 05How can I troubleshoot inaccurate or outdated data in a startup discovery engine?0/4
  6. 06Which startup discovery solutions can be used instead of subscription-based databases?2/4
  7. 07Is it worth subscribing to a paid startup research database for sourcing new investment opportunities?1/4
  8. 08Are there free tools or public datasets that can be used for startup research and tracking?0/4
  9. 09Startup data platforms vs general business intelligence tools — which is better for tracking emerging companies?3/4
  10. 10What is the typical price range for comprehensive startup data platforms in the US market?1/4
  11. 11What is the best startup data platform for investors looking to discover promising new companies?3/4
  12. 12Which startup discovery tools offer the most comprehensive database for early-stage venture capital research?4/4
  13. 13How do startup discovery engines compare to manual company research methods in terms of depth and efficiency?0/4
  14. 14What are the best alternatives to large-scale startup data platforms for sourcing new companies?2/4
  15. 15How can venture capital analysts use startup databases to monitor industry trends and company growth over time?1/4
Total namedOpenAI: 2/15Claude: 5/15Perplexity: 5/15Gemini: 5/15All assistants: 17/60
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 is the best startup data platform for investors looking to discover promising new companies?”

Harmonic is likely the best choice for investors focused on discovering promising pre-seed, seed, stealth, and emerging companies. It is specifically designed for early-stage venture discovery, indexes stealth and pre-launch startups, and provides extensive company and founder data.

Best platform by investing objective

Best for early-stage discovery: Harmonic — strongest fit for finding companies before they become widely known, including stealth startups.

Best general-purpose database: Crunchbase Pro — broad coverage of private-company profiles …

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
    Crunchbase
    33
  2. 02
    PitchBook
    28
  3. 03
    Dealroom
    22
  4. 04
    CB Insights
    18
  5. 05
    Tracxn
    15

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Crunchbase
    26.2%
  2. PitchBook
    22.0%
  3. CB Insights
    16.1%
  4. Dealroom
    13.7%
  5. Tracxn
    11.9%
  6. Harmonic AI
    10.1%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

  1. 01
    crustdata.com
    22
  2. 02
    startupa.ge
    17
  3. 03
    harmonic.ai (its own website)
    14
  4. 04
    explodingtopics.com
    14
  5. 05
    qubit.capital
    11
  6. 06
    pitchbook.com
    8
  7. 07
    vcbeast.com
    7
  8. 08
    everythingstartups.com
    7
  9. 09
    growthequityinterviewguide.com
    6
  10. 10
    support.crunchbase.com
    4

Harmonic AI is in the study as a fraud and identity company.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

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

How Harmonic AI 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
21

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

Citations
5

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

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
67

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
32
Ranks 229 of 574. Typical company: 29
Named in answers
28.3%
Ranks 26 of 574. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 83 of 574. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with fraud and identity companies

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

Overall score
32
Ranks 78 of 171. Typical company: 30
Named in answers
28.3%
Ranks 4 of 171. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 35 of 171. Typical company: 36
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. Harmonic AI 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
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
50 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    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 26 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · harmonic.ai · 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%
  • PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • Not metMarkdown 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%
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