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.
766 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
21st of 62 consumer lenders
Closing balance

Named in

9of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for LendKey Technologies

AI assistants name this consumer lender in 15% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector, which is named in 3.3% of answers. LendKey Technologies has an overall score of 32 out of 100, ranking 766th of 2,219 companies. Its website passes 5 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned LendKey Technologies by name. AI assistants named it in 9 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 19th of 93 in its sector. The typical lending and credit company is named in 3.3% of answers.

Overall score
32Overall score
  • Visibility18
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness36
Summary of account
Named by AI in
15.0%
9 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
25.7%
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
42 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

LendKey Technologies came up on 4 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01Is refinancing student loans through an online lending marketplace a good idea?1/4
  2. 02How are interest rates determined for student loan refinancing on online lending platforms?0/4
  3. 03What are some alternatives to using an online marketplace for student or home improvement loans?0/4
  4. 04What should I do if my home improvement loan application gets denied online?0/4
  5. 05Are home improvement loans from online marketplaces worth it for large renovation projects?0/4
  6. 06Can homeowners with average credit qualify for home improvement loans through online marketplaces?0/4
  7. 07Who should consider using an online marketplace to shop for home improvement loans?0/4
  8. 08What are the best online marketplaces for finding student loan refinancing options?3/4
  9. 09Student loan refinancing vs. consolidation: What's the difference?0/4
  10. 10How can I resolve issues if my student loan refinancing process is delayed on an online platform?0/4
  11. 11How do private student loans compare to federal student loans for undergraduate borrowers?0/4
  12. 12Where can recent graduates compare options for refinancing their student loans?3/4
  13. 13What non-loan options exist for covering college tuition or renovating a home?0/4
  14. 14What factors influence fees and closing costs for online home improvement loans?0/4
  15. 15Which online loan platforms have the best reputation for serving student and home improvement borrowers?2/4
Total namedOpenAI: 2/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 4/15All assistants: 9/60
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

“Where can recent graduates compare options for refinancing their student loans?”

Recent graduates can compare student-loan-refinancing options through:

Credible — compares estimated rates and terms from multiple private lenders with one application.

LendKey — matches borrowers with participating credit unions and community banks, often allowing comparisons without an initial hard credit inquiry.

Student Choice — matches borrowers with credit unions based on location, work, and school information, then displays rate and repayment options.

Purefy — compares offers from lending partners in one place.

Independent comparison guides — s …

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
    SoFi
    10
  2. 02
    Earnest
    8
  3. 03
    Splash Financial
    3

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. SoFi
    34.3%
  2. LendKey Technologies
    25.7%
  3. Earnest
    25.7%
  4. Splash Financial
    14.3%
  5. College Ave Student Loans
    0.0%
  6. Laurel Road
    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
    nerdwallet.com
    23
  2. 02
    bankrate.com
    18
  3. 03
    cnbc.com
    16
  4. 04
    credible.com
    8
  5. 05
    educationdata.org
    7
  6. 06
    har.com
    6
  7. 07
    money.com
    6
  8. 08
    moneylion.com
    5
  9. 09
    lendingtree.com
    5
  10. 10
    financebuzz.com
    5

LendKey Technologies is in the study as a consumer lender.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
4/15
OpenAI
2/15
Perplexity
2/15
Claude
1/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How LendKey Technologies 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
18

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
73

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 lending and credit companies

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

Overall score
32
Ranks 42 of 93. Typical company: 31
Named in answers
15.0%
Ranks 19 of 93. Typical company: 3.3%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 9 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
32
Ranks 20 of 62. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
15.0%
Ranks 4 of 62. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 6 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. LendKey Technologies 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
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 36 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.lendkey.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%
  • 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

  • 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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