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 and 10, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
2,194 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
27th of 27 investment banks
Closing balance

Named in

2of 60 answers

by 2 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for RBC Capital Markets

AI assistants rarely name this investment bank, mentioning it in 2 out of 60 answers, often alongside Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley. Its overall score is 17 out of 100, ranking 2,194th of 2,219 companies studied. Its website passes 1 out of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned RBC Capital Markets by name. AI assistants named it in 2 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 82nd of 238 in its sector. The typical investing and wealth company is named in 0.8% 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
17Overall score
  • Visibility4
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality33
  • AI readiness7
Summary of account
Named by AI in
3.3%
2 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
6.7%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
1/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
236 of 238
by overall score, where the typical investing and wealth company scores 28

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

RBC Capital Markets came up on 1 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01When should a government entity seek project finance support from capital markets specialists?0/4
  2. 02Other options for institutional investors besides capital markets services0/4
  3. 03Alternatives to traditional investment banking for raising capital0/4
  4. 04Common pitfalls to avoid when seeking underwriting for a new IPO0/4
  5. 05Debt capital markets vs equity capital markets — how do they compare for raising funds?0/4
  6. 06Best capital markets firms for government bond issuance?2/4
  7. 07What is the difference between investment banking and corporate advisory services?0/4
  8. 08Private placements vs public offerings: which is better for midsize companies?0/4
  9. 09How do financial advisory services help with restructuring debt for corporations?0/4
  10. 10How are investment banking charges structured for large-scale acquisitions?0/4
  11. 11What are the top investment banking services for large corporations in the US?0/4
  12. 12Are investment banking services worth it for mergers and acquisitions?0/4
  13. 13Is it cost-effective for institutional investors to use capital markets advisory?0/4
  14. 14Why might a corporate loan syndication deal get delayed in investment banking?0/4
  15. 15Typical fees for financial advisory and capital raising services in the US market?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 0/15Claude: 0/15Perplexity: 1/15Gemini: 1/15All assistants: 2/60
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

“Best capital markets firms for government bond issuance?”

… For a U.S. state, city, agency, or other municipal issuer, add Jefferies, Wells Fargo, RBC Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and KeyBanc Capital Markets. KeyBanc specifically operates a fixed-income platform supporting debt-capital-markets and municipal transactions.

Best choice by issuer type

Issuer · Strongest candidates

U.S. Treasury or federal agency · J.P. Morgan, BofA, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi

U.S. state or municipality · J.P. Morgan, BofA, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, RBC, Jefferies, KeyBanc …

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
    Goldman Sachs
    8
  2. 02
    Morgan Stanley
    8
  3. 03
    J.P. Morgan
    3

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. J.P. Morgan
    23.3%
  2. Goldman Sachs
    23.3%
  3. Morgan Stanley
    23.3%
  4. Citigroup (Citi)
    16.7%
  5. RBC Capital Markets
    6.7%
  6. Bank of America Merrill Lynch
    6.7%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

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

  1. 01
    institutional.fidelity.com
    10
  2. 02
    investopedia.com
    9
  3. 03
    papermark.com
    6
  4. 04
    ctacquisitions.com
    6
  5. 05
    jpmorgan.com
    6
  6. 06
    wallstreetprep.com
    5
  7. 07
    investorreadycapital.com
    5
  8. 08
    mnacommunity.com
    5
  9. 09
    dfinsolutions.com
    4
  10. 10
    en.wikipedia.org
    4

RBC Capital Markets is in the study as an investment bank.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
1/15
Perplexity
1/15
Claude
0/15
OpenAI
0/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How RBC Capital Markets 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
4

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
33

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
7

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 investing and wealth companies

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

Overall score
17
Ranks 236 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
3.3%
Ranks 82 of 238. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
7
Ranks 219 of 238. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with investment banks

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

Overall score
17
Ranks 27 of 27. Typical company: 29
Named in answers
3.3%
Ranks 16 of 27. Typical company: 5.0%
AI readiness
7
Ranks 27 of 27. 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 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.

To reach level 1:
  • 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Can an AI agent check out here?

Not by itself. RBC Capital Markets 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
41 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 86.1%
  • SitemapNot met

    Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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 16 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.rbccm.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

1 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%
  • Not metXML sitemapstudy: 79.4%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 28.1%
  • Not metToken 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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