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
September 23 to 29, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
33 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
1st of 20 online brokerages
Closing balance

Named in

26of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Interactive Brokers

AI assistants name this online brokerage in 43.3% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector at 0.8%. It has an overall score of 46 out of 100, ranking 33rd of 2,219 companies. Its website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Interactive Brokers by name. AI assistants named it in 26 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 3rd of 238 in its sector. The typical investing and wealth company is named in 0.8% of answers.

Overall score
46Overall score
  • Visibility38
  • Citations5
  • Sentiment83
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness43
Summary of account
Named by AI in
43.3%
26 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
30.6%
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
2 of 238
by overall score, where the typical investing and wealth company scores 28

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Interactive Brokers came up on 10 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01How can financial advisors efficiently manage multiple client accounts online?0/4
  2. 02How can I resolve issues with margin requirements or buying power on a trading platform?0/4
  3. 03Are low-commission brokerage platforms reliable for frequent traders?2/4
  4. 04Why are my market orders not executing instantly on my online trading account?0/4
  5. 05Which trading platforms offer global market access for both stocks and options?4/4
  6. 06What are some non-brokerage options for trading currencies from the US?0/4
  7. 07What are typical commission rates for online trading platforms in the US for stocks and options?3/4
  8. 08What are the best online brokerage platforms for active traders seeking low commissions in the US?4/4
  9. 09What’s the best way to manage multiple securities across different global exchanges with one brokerage account?3/4
  10. 10What are the major differences between discount and full-service brokerage accounts for investors?0/4
  11. 11Is it worth using a brokerage platform that offers direct access to futures and currencies for US investors?2/4
  12. 12How do professional trading platforms compare to basic investing apps in terms of features and market access?2/4
  13. 13Which platforms outside of traditional brokerages support trading in prediction markets and alternative assets?1/4
  14. 14What are alternatives to online brokerage platforms for investing in international markets?1/4
  15. 15Are there online brokerages with transparent account fees and no inactivity charges?4/4
Total namedOpenAI: 5/15Claude: 4/15Perplexity: 10/15Gemini: 7/15All assistants: 26/60
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

“Which trading platforms offer global market access for both stocks and options?”

The clearest answer is Interactive Brokers: it offers broad global market access for both stocks and options, with access to 170+ markets worldwide and options trading on 30+ market centers.

Other platforms in the results also support a mix of global stocks and options, but with narrower international reach:

Derayah Global offers stocks in 46 global markets and also supports options trading.

IBKR GlobalTrader (Interactive Brokers) offers global stocks and options from a mobile-first app, including access to 90+ stock markets and …

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
    Charles Schwab
    12
  2. 02
    E*TRADE
    8
  3. 03
    TradeStation
    4
  4. 04
    TD Ameritrade
    1
  5. 05
    Fidelity Investments
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Interactive Brokers
    30.6%
  2. Charles Schwab
    25.9%
  3. Fidelity Investments
    17.6%
  4. E*TRADE
    12.9%
  5. TradeStation
    8.2%
  6. TD Ameritrade
    4.7%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

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

  1. 01
    interactivebrokers.com (its own website)
    33
  2. 02
    investopedia.com
    29
  3. 03
    forbes.com
    24
  4. 04
    schwab.com
    24
  5. 05
    fidelity.com
    18
  6. 06
    nerdwallet.com
    17
  7. 07
    stockbrokers.com
    16
  8. 08
    finder.com
    9
  9. 09
    fool.com
    8
  10. 10
    kiplinger.com
    8

Interactive Brokers is in the study as an online brokerage.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Perplexity
10/15
Gemini
7/15
OpenAI
5/15
Claude
4/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Interactive Brokers 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
38

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
83

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
43

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
46
Ranks 2 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
43.3%
Ranks 3 of 238. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
43
Ranks 4 of 238. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with online brokerages

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

Overall score
46
Ranks 1 of 20. Typical company: 36
Named in answers
43.3%
Ranks 2 of 20. Typical company: 10.0%
AI readiness
43
Ranks 1 of 20. 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. Interactive Brokers 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
25 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

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

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtPartly 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 31 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.interactivebrokers.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

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%
  • Not metHTTP 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%
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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