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

Plastiq

plastiq.com

Business payments and spend managementCards and payments

Money20/20 attendee

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

Named in

6of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Plastiq

AI assistants name this business payments provider in 10% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector. Plastiq scores 34 out of 100 overall, ranking 685th of 2,219 companies in the study. Its website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Plastiq by name. AI assistants named it in 6 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 73rd of 375 in its sector. The typical cards and payments company is named in 0.0% of answers.

Overall score
34Overall score
  • Visibility12
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment75
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness29
Summary of account
Named by AI in
10.0%
6 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
17.6%
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
97 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

Plastiq came up on 3 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01How can a payment platform help with managing recurring vendor payments?0/4
  2. 02What are some options for automating invoice payments without using a payment platform?0/4
  3. 03How do I resolve failed ACH transfers on a business payment platform?0/4
  4. 04Are domestic or international wire transfers cheaper on business payment platforms compared to banks?0/4
  5. 05Why isn't my vendor receiving payments from my business payment platform?0/4
  6. 06Other ways to extend business cash flow without relying on payment automation platforms?0/4
  7. 07Top payment platforms that let you pay vendors by credit card even if they don't accept cards4/4
  8. 08How does an automated payables platform compare to traditional wire transfer services?0/4
  9. 09What are the best business payment platforms for small businesses to manage cash flow?0/4
  10. 10Does using a third-party business payment platform help extend cash flow for medium-sized businesses?0/4
  11. 11Alternatives to payment platforms that let you pay by credit card for business expenses1/4
  12. 12Is it worth using a payment service to automate accounts payable for a small business?0/4
  13. 13Business payment platforms vs. manual invoice processing: advantages and drawbacks0/4
  14. 14Best ways to pay contractors or suppliers who only accept checks using a digital payment service1/4
  15. 15What fees can I expect when using a payment platform to pay business expenses with a credit card?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 1/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 2/15All 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

“Top payment platforms that let you pay vendors by credit card even if they don't accept cards”

The leading U.S. options are Plastiq, Melio, BILL, Ramp, and Zil Money. They charge your credit card, then pay the vendor by ACH, check, wire, or another method—even when the vendor does not accept cards.

Platform · Typical card fee · Vendor receives · Best for

Melio · About 2.9% · ACH, check, wire, virtual card, or instant payment · Small businesses, contractors, and routine bills

Plastiq · About 2.99%, plus delivery fees · ACH, check, or domestic/international wire · One-off payments, international vendors, and broad payment-method flexibili …

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
    Melio
    11
  2. 02
    Ramp
    6
  3. 03
    Bill.com
    6
  4. 04
    Stampli
    1
  5. 05
    Payoneer
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Bill.com
    32.4%
  2. Melio
    29.4%
  3. Plastiq
    17.6%
  4. Ramp
    14.7%
  5. Payoneer
    2.9%
  6. Stampli
    2.9%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

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

  1. 01
    bill.com
    26
  2. 02
    stripe.com
    18
  3. 03
    ramp.com
    18
  4. 04
    wise.com
    17
  5. 05
    melio.com
    11
  6. 06
    quickbooks.intuit.com
    11
  7. 07
    brex.com
    10
  8. 08
    highradius.com
    6
  9. 09
    rho.co
    6
  10. 10
    medius.com
    6

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

How Plastiq 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
12

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
75

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

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
34
Ranks 97 of 375. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
10.0%
Ranks 73 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
34
Ranks 9 of 30. Typical company: 29
Named in answers
10.0%
Ranks 8 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. Plastiq 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

The website runs on WooCommerce.

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 · plastiq.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

  • 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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