AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026

Account holder

Industry Dive

industrydive.com

Research, news and media Advisers and services

Money20/20 attendee

Statement period: October 9 to 14, 2026; when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.: 1,935 of 2,219; its rank by overall score
Place in its category: 68th of 73 research and media companies

Closing balance

Named in

0of 60, its tower is dark

by 0 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Industry Dive

AI assistants do not name this research or media company in any of the 60 answers, while sometimes naming SmartBrief. Its overall score is 24 out of 100, ranking 1,935th of 2,219. The website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Industry Dive by name. AI assistants named it in none of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 149th 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

Visibility0
Citations0
Sentiment50
Site quality67
AI readiness29

Summary of account

Named by AI in: 0.0%; 0 of 60 answers
Share of mentions: 0.0%; of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness: 2/14; technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector: 281 of 346; by overall score, where the typical advisory or services firm scores 27

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Line items01

Every question, and where the company came up

Industry Dive came up on 0 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

01Are there free options for staying current on business trends as an executive?0/4
02Are professional news services for industry leaders a good investment?0/4
03Where can I find business news tailored for leaders in specific industries?0/4
04What are alternatives to traditional business news websites for industry analysis?0/4
05What is the typical subscription cost for high-quality B2B news publications?0/4
06How do business executives use sector-specific news publications to stay informed?0/4
07What are the best business news publications for industry leaders?0/4
08How do general business news sites compare to industry-specific news sources?0/4
09Which websites provide in-depth coverage of business trends for executives?0/4
10Can independent newsletters replace sector-focused business journalism?0/4
11Is it worth subscribing to a premium business journalism publication for industry insights?0/4
12What are common ways industry leaders leverage business journalism for decision-making?0/4
13What should I do if my industry newsletter isn't covering the latest sector news?0/4
14B2B news publications vs. mainstream business magazines: Which is better for industry updates?0/4
15How can I verify the reliability of business journalism sources?0/4

Total named0/150/150/150/150/60

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 detail02

What Perplexity actually said

The company is not named in this answer

Perplexitydid not name the company

“Are there free options for staying current on business trends as an executive?”

Yes. A strong zero-cost executive briefing system can combine newsletters, research, podcasts, and structured learning:
Daily business news: Subscribe to free briefings such as CEO Daily, Morning Brew, 1440, Reuters Power Up, or The Daily Upside. These provide short updates on markets, policy, technology, and leadership trends.
Strategy and management: Use free newsletters and articles from Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, and major consulting firms. HBR and McKinsey offer research-backed perspectives on leadership, transformation, and macroeconomic issues.[4 …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Payees03

Where the mentions went

The companies these answers named, and how the mentions were split between this company and its peers.

Named instead

CompanyTimes named

01
SmartBrief
2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare

Business Insider (Insider Inc. B2B unit)
44.4%
SmartBrief
33.3%
The Business Journals
22.2%
Industry Dive
0.0%
Bloomberg Industry Group
0.0%
Crain Communications
0.0%

Referrers04

Websites the AI used as sources

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

01
linkedin.com
10
02
leadershipbooks.com
4
03
smartbuy.alibaba.com
4
04
inspirefusion.com
3
05
differ.blog
3
06
digiday.com
3
07
allbusiness.com
3
08
globalinsightwire.com
2
09
mindtools.com
2
10
scribbright.com
2

Industry Dive is in the study as a research or media company.

By assistant05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude

0/15

Gemini

0/15

OpenAI

0/15

Perplexity

0/15

Market comparison06

How Industry Dive 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

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

Citations

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

Sentiment

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness

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 sector07

Compared with advisory and services firms

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

Overall score

Ranks 281 of 346. Typical company: 27

Named in answers

0.0%

Ranks 149 of 346. Typical company: 0.0%

AI readiness

Ranks 96 of 346. Typical company: 29

Against its category08

Compared with research and media companies

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

Overall score

Ranks 66 of 73. Typical company: 31

Named in answers

0.0%

Ranks 49 of 73. Typical company: 3.3%

AI readiness

Ranks 21 of 73. Typical company: 29

AI agents09

Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and pay through, on a scale of six levels.

0Not yet agent-ready
1Basic web presence
2Bot-aware
3Agent-readable
4Agent-integrated
5Agent-native

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. Industry Dive 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.industrydive.com · 2,200 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

AI readiness10

The checks behind the AI readiness score

2 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

Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.1%
Not metXML 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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All 2,219 companies How we measured this

Industry Dive

What this means for Industry Dive

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Every question, and where the company came up

What Perplexity actually said

Where the mentions went

Named instead

Share of mentions

Websites the AI used as sources

Which AI assistants named the company

How Industry Dive compares with all 2,219 companies

What makes up the score

Compared with advisory and services firms

Compared with research and media companies

Ready for AI agents

The checks behind the AI readiness score

Discoverability

Content Accessibility

Bot Access Control

API / Auth / MCP

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