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 25, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
1,162 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Closing balance

Named in

0of 60, its tower is dark

by 0 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Mercury Insurance Group

AI assistants do not name this auto and home insurer in any of their 60 answers, while they do mention companies like State Farm, Nationwide, and GEICO. Its overall score is 28 out of 100, ranking 1,162nd of 2,219 studied and 45th of 97 in its sector. Its website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Mercury Insurance Group by name. AI assistants named it in none of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 57th of 97 in its sector. The typical insurer is named in 1.7% 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
  • Citations0
  • 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: 3
Rank in its sector
45 of 97
by overall score, where the typical insurer scores 28

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Mercury Insurance Group came up on 0 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01Options for insuring personal property without a homeowner's policy0/4
  2. 02What type of insurance is best for freelance consultants with home offices?0/4
  3. 03Which insurance coverage provides the best value for families with teenage drivers?0/4
  4. 04Commercial auto insurance vs. personal auto insurance: what's the difference?0/4
  5. 05Is business insurance worth it for small retail store owners?0/4
  6. 06Who should consider bundled coverage for both auto and home insurance?0/4
  7. 07How does property insurance differ from renters insurance?0/4
  8. 08What steps should you take if you suspect your policy doesn't cover certain home repairs?0/4
  9. 09What factors affect the price of homeowner's insurance in high-risk wildfire areas?0/4
  10. 10Top-rated renters insurance options for people living in apartments0/4
  11. 11How can you lower the cost of your auto insurance premium in the US?0/4
  12. 12Do you really need comprehensive coverage on an older vehicle?0/4
  13. 13Alternatives to traditional business insurance for startups and gig workers0/4
  14. 14What are the best types of auto insurance policies for new drivers in the US?0/4
  15. 15How do you file a claim if your condo is damaged by a natural disaster?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 Gemini actually said

The company is not named in this answer

Geminidid not name the company

“What type of insurance is best for freelance consultants with home offices?”

Freelance consultants with home offices should consider a combination of insurance types to protect themselves from various risks. The best options often include professional liability, general liability, and home & contents insurance, with other types depending on specific needs.

Key insurance types for freelance consultants with home offices:

Professional Liability Insurance (Errors & Omissions - E&O) This is often considered the most crucial for consultants. It protects against claims of negligence, mistakes, or omissions in your professional services that cause a client financial …

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
    State Farm
    10
  2. 02
    Nationwide
    7
  3. 03
    GEICO
    4
  4. 04
    Allstate
    3
  5. 05
    Progressive
    3

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. State Farm
    33.3%
  2. Nationwide
    24.2%
  3. GEICO
    21.2%
  4. Progressive
    12.1%
  5. Allstate
    9.1%
  6. Mercury Insurance Group
    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
    allstate.com
    22
  2. 02
    nerdwallet.com
    19
  3. 03
    geico.com
    18
  4. 04
    statefarm.com
    16
  5. 05
    progressive.com
    15
  6. 06
    moneygeek.com
    15
  7. 07
    forbes.com
    14
  8. 08
    thezebra.com
    14
  9. 09
    libertymutual.com
    13
  10. 10
    cnbc.com
    13

Mercury Insurance Group is in the study as an auto and home insurer.

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 Mercury Insurance Group 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
0

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 insurers

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

Overall score
28
Ranks 45 of 97. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
0.0%
Ranks 57 of 97. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 22 of 97. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with auto and home insurers

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

Overall score
28
Ranks 13 of 22. Typical company: 29
Named in answers
0.0%
Ranks 12 of 22. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 8 of 22. 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. Mercury Insurance Group 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 5, 2026 · www.mercuryinsurance.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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