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.
1,158 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
33rd of 62 consumer lenders
Closing balance

Named in

0of 60, its tower is dark

by 0 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for LendingUSA

AI assistants do not name this consumer lender in any of the 60 answers about the lending and credit market. Its overall score is 28 out of 100, placing it 1,158th of 2,219 companies. The website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned LendingUSA by name. AI assistants named it in none of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 56th of 93 in its sector. The typical lending and credit company is named in 3.3% 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
28Overall score
  • Visibility0
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality87
  • 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
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
52 of 93
by overall score, where the typical lending and credit company scores 31

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

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

  1. 01What’s the difference between in-store consumer financing and buy now, pay later services for merchants?0/4
  2. 02What are the best point-of-sale financing options for businesses looking to boost customer purchasing power?0/4
  3. 03What are common issues businesses face with funding speed in consumer financing programs?0/4
  4. 04What types of businesses can benefit most from offering on-the-spot financing to customers?0/4
  5. 05Why might a merchant get a low approval rate with a point-of-sale financing provider?0/4
  6. 06How can merchants offer personal loans to customers for major life events?0/4
  7. 07Are there non-credit-based options for US merchants to help customers pay over time?0/4
  8. 08How do customer financing platforms impact sales for service-based businesses?0/4
  9. 09How can dental offices or medical practices integrate consumer financing at the point of care?0/4
  10. 10What are alternatives to personal loan-based financing for customers at the point of sale?0/4
  11. 11Are there setup or monthly costs for merchants to add customer financing at checkout?0/4
  12. 12Which industries commonly use consumer financing solutions to increase average transaction size?0/4
  13. 13What are typical merchant fees for point-of-sale consumer financing services in the US?0/4
  14. 14Is offering point-of-sale financing to customers worth it for small businesses?0/4
  15. 15How does deferred-interest financing compare to installment loan solutions at checkout?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 0/15Claude: 0/15Perplexity: 0/15Gemini: 0/15All assistants: 0/60
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 Claude actually said

The company is not named in this answer

Claudedid not name the company

“How can dental offices or medical practices integrate consumer financing at the point of care?”

I'll search for current information on how dental offices and medical practices can integrate consumer financing at point of care.Based on current industry practices, here are the main ways dental offices and medical practices can integrate consumer financing at the point of care:

Key Integration Methods

Third-Party Financing Partnerships

Financing partnerships can give independent dental practices access to payment options at the point of care without requiring dedicated staff or their own financing infrastructure. Dental practices can partner with a third-party lender to offer patie …

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.

Named instead

CompanyTimes named
  1. 01
    CareCredit
    2
  2. 02
    Sunbit
    1
  3. 03
    Financeit
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. CareCredit
    60.0%
  2. Sunbit
    20.0%
  3. Financeit
    20.0%
  4. LendingUSA
    0.0%
  5. GreenSky
    0.0%
  6. United Credit
    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
    withcherry.com
    13
  2. 02
    chargeafter.com
    13
  3. 03
    finmkt.io
    8
  4. 04
    shopify.com
    8
  5. 05
    crestmontcapital.com
    6
  6. 06
    paypal.com
    5
  7. 07
    mckinsey.com
    5
  8. 08
    carecredit.com
    5
  9. 09
    zip.co
    4
  10. 10
    lendingusa.com (its own website)
    3

LendingUSA is in the study as a consumer lender.

By assistantSection 05

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 comparisonSection 06

How LendingUSA 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
0

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

Citations
1

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
29

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 lending and credit companies

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

Overall score
28
Ranks 52 of 93. Typical company: 31
Named in answers
0.0%
Ranks 56 of 93. Typical company: 3.3%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 24 of 93. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with consumer lenders

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

Overall score
28
Ranks 29 of 62. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
0.0%
Ranks 34 of 62. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 16 of 62. 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. LendingUSA 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 · lendingusa.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%
  • 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%
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

  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebotallowed
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • Claude-Userallowed
  • Perplexity-Userallowed
  • DuckAssistBotallowed
  • MistralAI-Userallowed

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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