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.
372 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
24th of 203 payment processors
Closing balance

Named in

1of 60 answers

by 1 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Telpay

AI assistants rarely name this payment processor in answers about its sector, mentioning it in 1 out of 60 answers. Its overall score is 39 out of 100, which ranks it 372nd of 2,219 companies and 48th in its sector. Its website passes 6 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Telpay by name. AI assistants named it in 1 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 133rd 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
39Overall score
  • Visibility6
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness43
Summary of account
Named by AI in
1.7%
1 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
33.3%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
6/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
48 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

Telpay came up on 1 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01What alternatives are available to businesses that want to move away from paper checks for supplier payments?0/4
  2. 02What hidden fees should I look out for when choosing a digital business payments provider in the US?0/4
  3. 03Are there flexible electronic payment options for US companies that need to pay vendors in different currencies?0/4
  4. 04Cloud-based payment systems vs traditional bank wire transfers for business payments—what are the main differences?0/4
  5. 05How can accountants streamline bill payments for multiple clients using a digital B2B payments solution?0/4
  6. 06What are the best B2B electronic payment platforms for US-based businesses with Canadian vendors?1/4
  7. 07What are the best practices for US businesses to manage cash flow when paying Canadian suppliers electronically?0/4
  8. 08How can I resolve issues with recurring payroll transactions on a cloud-based payments platform?0/4
  9. 09How are pricing tiers typically structured for business-focused electronic payments platforms?0/4
  10. 10Accounts payable automation vs manual bill pay processes—what are the advantages of using digital tools?0/4
  11. 11Why are my cross-border business payments getting delayed using an electronic payment service?0/4
  12. 12How do cloud-based solutions help businesses manage payroll and bill payments across borders?0/4
  13. 13Do payment platforms that integrate directly with accounting software offer better value for finance teams?0/4
  14. 14Is investing in a business payments platform worth it for small to medium US companies dealing with Canadian clients?0/4
  15. 15Which B2B payment platforms are most trusted by US accountants and finance teams for handling international transactions?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 0/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 0/15Gemini: 0/15All assistants: 1/60
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 Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

Claudenamed the company

“What are the best B2B electronic payment platforms for US-based businesses with Canadian vendors?”

… Business bill payment platforms like Telpay and Plastiq are best for vendor payments, bills, accounts-payable workflows, and recurring payments.

Key Considerations

For recurring supplier payments in USD, a local USD account with ACH transfer is recommended for cost savings and predictable timing, while wire transfers typically cost $25–$50 with FX markups of 1.5%–3%.

Helcim's services are primarily focused on US and Canadian merchants, though it has slower payouts compared to alternatives.

The best choice depends on your payment volume, frequency, and whether you prioritize speed, cos …

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.

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. VersaPay
    66.7%
  2. Telpay
    33.3%
  3. Plooto
    0.0%
  4. Paystone
    0.0%
  5. Beanworks (now Quadient AP by Beanworks)
    0.0%
  6. Cheque Print Solutions
    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
    bill.com
    18
  2. 02
    wise.com
    18
  3. 03
    airwallex.com
    15
  4. 04
    quickbooks.intuit.com
    12
  5. 05
    tipalti.com
    11
  6. 06
    venn.ca
    7
  7. 07
    photonpay.com
    5
  8. 08
    stripe.com
    5
  9. 09
    docs.cloud.google.com
    4
  10. 10
    rillion.com
    4

Telpay is in the study as a payment processor.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

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

How Telpay 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
6

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
100

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
43

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
39
Ranks 48 of 375. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
1.7%
Ranks 133 of 375. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
43
Ranks 15 of 375. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with payment processors

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

Overall score
39
Ranks 18 of 203. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
1.7%
Ranks 64 of 203. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
43
Ranks 8 of 203. 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. Telpay 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

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
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
63 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPassed

    Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.

    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 43 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.telpay.ca · 2,200 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

AI readinessSection 10

The checks behind the AI readiness score

6 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

  • PassedExplicit 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 rules for 3 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.

Training AI

  • GPTBot*blocked
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extended*blocked
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBot*blocked
  • 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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