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.

SWIFT47/60TRANSUNION46/60EXPERIAN42/60COINSTAR41/60NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION41/60ZELLE41/60BLOOMBERG L.P.38/60TRADINGVIEW38/60BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO37/60PAYPAL37/60VENMO37/60CHEXSYSTEMS33/60EQUIFAX33/60MORNINGSTAR32/60S&P GLOBAL31/60ALPACA MARKETS30/60COINBASE30/60PINWHEEL29/60STRIPE29/60XERO29/60ACORNS28/60AFFIRM28/60PAYFAST (PAYGATE)28/60PAYONEER28/60INTERACTIVE BROKERS26/60CHARLES SCHWAB19/60THE HARTFORD9/60MOODY'S21/60CME GROUP19/60ACCENTURE11/60CHUBB10/60MORGAN STANLEY6/60AMERICAN EXPRESS14/60SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL12/60FACTSET20/60NASDAQ19/60ALLSTATE11/60WELLS FARGO18/60PAYCHEX10/60ARES MANAGEMENT3/60
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AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026
Account holder

L.E.K. Consulting

lek.com

Consultancies and professional servicesAdvisers and services

Money20/20 attendee

Statement period
October 9 to 14, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
249 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
9th of 177 consultancies
Closing balance

Named in

6of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for L.E.K. Consulting

AI assistants name L.E.K. Consulting in 10% of answers, while in this sector, the typical company is not named at all. Its overall score is 40 out of 100, ranking 249th out of 2,219 companies. The website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned L.E.K. Consulting by name. AI assistants named it in 6 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 43rd of 346 in its sector. The typical advisory or services firm is named in 0.0% of answers.

Overall score
40Overall score
  • Visibility10
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness36
Summary of account
Named by AI in
10.0%
6 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
11.1%
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
21 of 346
by overall score, where the typical advisory or services firm scores 27

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

L.E.K. Consulting came up on 2 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01What are some in-house approaches to developing evidence-based business strategies?0/4
  2. 02Alternatives to hiring a traditional strategy consulting firm for complex business challenges0/4
  3. 03Examples of how strategic advisory services help drive value creation in healthcare or tech-enabled services0/4
  4. 04Best strategic advisory providers for sustained business growth in the US3/4
  5. 05Are strategy consulting services worth the investment for mid-size US companies?0/4
  6. 06How to handle disagreements between consulting partners and internal teams during a strategy project?0/4
  7. 07How can executive teams evaluate the value of strategic advisory firms before hiring?0/4
  8. 08Typical fee structures for high-impact strategy consulting engagements0/4
  9. 09How can a strategy consultant support a business going through digital transformation?0/4
  10. 10Strategy consulting vs management consulting: how do they differ for corporate leaders?0/4
  11. 11How does a boutique strategy consultancy compare to a large, global firm for industry expertise?0/4
  12. 12What factors influence the pricing of strategic advisory projects in the US?0/4
  13. 13What should I do if my current consulting engagement isn't delivering actionable results?0/4
  14. 14Peer advisory groups vs external consultants: which is better for strategic decision-making?0/4
  15. 15What are the top strategy consulting firms for evidence-based insights?3/4
Total namedOpenAI: 2/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 1/15All assistants: 6/60
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

“Best strategic advisory providers for sustained business growth in the US”

For sustained business growth in the US, the strongest shortlist is Bain & Company, BCG, McKinsey, Deloitte, EY-Parthenon, PwC, KPMG, Oliver Wyman, L.E.K. Consulting, and Simon-Kucher. The best choice depends on whether the priority is enterprise transformation, private-equity value creation, pricing, digital execution, or middle-market growth.

Provider · Best fit · Why consider it

Bain & Company · Growth strategy, private equity, executive alignment · Strong fit for decision-making, value creation, and translating strategy into execution; recent rankings identify …

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
    Bain & Company
    7
  2. 02
    McKinsey & Company
    7
  3. 03
    Oliver Wyman
    6
  4. 04
    Kearney
    3
  5. 05
    Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
    2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. McKinsey & Company
    27.8%
  2. Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
    22.2%
  3. Bain & Company
    20.4%
  4. L.E.K. Consulting
    11.1%
  5. Oliver Wyman
    11.1%
  6. Kearney
    7.4%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

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

  1. 01
    umbrex.com
    7
  2. 02
    linkedin.com
    6
  3. 03
    worldmetrics.org
    5
  4. 04
    consultingdemand.com
    4
  5. 05
    wiki.tinrate.com
    4
  6. 06
    rocketlane.com
    4
  7. 07
    zipdo.co
    4
  8. 08
    casebasix.com
    4
  9. 09
    consultfees.com
    3
  10. 10
    consulting.us
    3

L.E.K. Consulting is in the study as a consultancy.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

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

How L.E.K. Consulting 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
10

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

Citations
0

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

Sentiment
100

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 advisory and services firms

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

Overall score
40
Ranks 21 of 346. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
10.0%
Ranks 43 of 346. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 38 of 346. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with consultancies

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

Overall score
40
Ranks 8 of 177. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
10.0%
Ranks 15 of 177. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 15 of 177. 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. L.E.K. Consulting 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 9, 2026 · www.lek.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%
  • 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

  • PassedExplicit 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 rules for 13 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.

Training AI

  • GPTBot*blocked
  • ClaudeBot*blocked
  • Anthropic-AI*blocked
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgent*blocked
  • FacebookBot*blocked
  • Bytespider*blocked
  • CCBot*blocked
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibot*blocked

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBot*blocked
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBot*blocked
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbot*blocked
  • YouBot*blocked

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-User*blocked
  • 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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