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

Merchant Advocate

merchantadvocate.com

Business payments and spend managementCards and payments

Money20/20 attendee

Statement period
October 9 and 10, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
1,370 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
23rd of 30 business payments providers
Closing balance

Named in

0of 60, its tower is dark

by 0 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Merchant Advocate

AI assistants do not name this business payments provider in any of the 60 answers reviewed. Merchant Advocate's overall score is 27 out of 100, ranking 1,370th of 2,219 companies in the study. Its website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Merchant Advocate by name. AI assistants named it in none of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 179th of 375 in its sector. The typical cards and payments company 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
27Overall score
  • Visibility0
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality80
  • 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
186 of 375
by overall score, where the typical cards and payments company scores 27

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

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

  1. 01How do pricing models work for credit card fee reduction consulting firms?0/4
  2. 02What technology tools are available to help businesses analyze and manage their credit card processing expenses?0/4
  3. 03Are there fee reduction consultants that offer pay-for-performance or success-based pricing?0/4
  4. 04What are some alternatives to using a credit card fee reduction consulting service for lowering payment processing costs?0/4
  5. 05Is it worth hiring a consultant to find and fix hidden credit card processing fees for my business?0/4
  6. 06How can merchants self-audit their credit card processing fees without outside consultants?0/4
  7. 07How does a credit card processing audit differ from a standard processor statement review?0/4
  8. 08Do most fee reduction consultants require businesses to switch payment processors?0/4
  9. 09Why am I seeing unexpected surcharges or errors on my credit card processing statements?0/4
  10. 10How do credit card fee reduction consultants help merchants save on payment processing costs?0/4
  11. 11What are the best strategies for reducing hidden credit card processing fees for small businesses?0/4
  12. 12What should I do if I discover inflated or incorrect fees in my merchant services account?0/4
  13. 13What types of businesses benefit most from credit card fee reduction consulting?0/4
  14. 14How can a credit card processing audit increase profits for retail stores and restaurants?0/4
  15. 15Credit card fee reduction services vs DIY negotiation: which is more effective for lowering processing expenses?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 Perplexity actually said

The company is not named in this answer

Perplexitydid not name the company

“What technology tools are available to help businesses analyze and manage their credit card processing expenses?”

Businesses can use several types of technology to analyze and control credit-card-related costs:

Payment-processor dashboards: Native portals from processors and merchant-acquiring banks provide transaction reports, fee summaries, refunds, chargebacks, and sales trends. Look for downloadable reports and real-time visibility.

Payment-statement analysis platforms: Tools such as Staitment and Fee Navigator use AI to parse processor statements, identify interchange and processor fees, uncover hidden charges, calculate total processing costs, and compare competing processor …

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
    Fee Navigator
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Cardfellow
    50.0%
  2. Fee Navigator
    50.0%
  3. Merchant Advocate
    0.0%
  4. Merchant Cost Consulting
    0.0%
  5. True Merchant Consulting
    0.0%
  6. Payment Depot Consulting (Cost Reduction Program)
    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
    businesssolutionsus.com
    25
  2. 02
    merchantcostconsulting.com
    19
  3. 03
    verisave.com
    14
  4. 04
    uschamber.com
    13
  5. 05
    stripe.com
    12
  6. 06
    weaudit.com
    11
  7. 07
    bams.com
    10
  8. 08
    clearlypayments.com
    9
  9. 09
    airwallex.com
    7
  10. 10
    limelightpayments.com
    7

Merchant Advocate is in the study as a business payments provider.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
0/15
Perplexity
0/15
Claude
0/15
OpenAI
0/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Merchant Advocate 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
80

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 cards and payments companies

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

Overall score
27
Ranks 186 of 375. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
0.0%
Ranks 179 of 375. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 106 of 375. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with business payments providers

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

Overall score
27
Ranks 20 of 30. Typical company: 29
Named in answers
0.0%
Ranks 17 of 30. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 13 of 30. 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. Merchant Advocate 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 · merchantadvocate.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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