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

Usio

usio.com

Payment processors, acquirers and point of saleCards and payments

Money20/20 attendee

Statement period
October 9 to 14, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
450 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
30th of 203 payment processors
Closing balance

Named in

1of 60 answers

by 1 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Usio

AI assistants rarely name this payment processor, mentioning it in 1 of 60 answers. In that answer, they also name Finix and Payrix. Usio's overall score is 38 out of 100, ranking 450th of 2,219 companies. Its website passes 7 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools, compared with the typical company in its sector.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Usio 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
38Overall score
  • Visibility4
  • Citations2
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness50
Summary of account
Named by AI in
1.7%
1 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
11.1%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
7/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
59 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

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

  1. 01Alternatives to payment automation for SaaS providers seeking to reduce manual billing tasks?0/4
  2. 02How do transaction fees for disbursements and bill payment services usually compare among different embedded solutions?0/4
  3. 03What are the key factors to consider when choosing a payment facilitation platform for financial services companies?0/4
  4. 04Embedded payments platforms vs traditional merchant accounts—what are the main differences for lenders?0/4
  5. 05What are the best embedded payments platforms for SaaS providers looking to automate payment processing?1/4
  6. 06Options for utilities needing secure payment processing without a full embedded system?0/4
  7. 07Why might bill printing and mailing services in an embedded payments platform fail to deliver statements on time?0/4
  8. 08Common issues businesses face when integrating ACH functionality into existing billing systems?0/4
  9. 09What are the benefits of offering card issuing features to lending platforms?0/4
  10. 10What are some alternatives to embedded payment platforms for nonprofits managing donor contributions?0/4
  11. 11What is the typical pricing structure for integrated payment facilitation platforms in the U.S.?0/4
  12. 12Which integrated payment solutions are recommended for nonprofits in the United States?0/4
  13. 13Is it worth investing in an all-in-one embedded payments solution for managing disbursements and billing?0/4
  14. 14How does ACH payments compare to card issuing for utility billing?0/4
  15. 15How can SaaS companies use payment automation to streamline customer billing and collections?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 embedded payments platforms for SaaS providers looking to automate payment processing?”

… Usio — combines payment acceptance, outbound disbursements, and invoice printing under one roof, accessible via easy-to-use APIs.

The right choice depends on your specific needs—whether you prioritize developer experience, vertical market focus, global reach, or control over payment economics.

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
    Finix
    5
  2. 02
    Payrix
    2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Finix
    55.6%
  2. Forte
    22.2%
  3. Usio
    11.1%
  4. Payrix
    11.1%
  5. Paystand
    0.0%
  6. Modern Treasury
    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
    stripe.com
    14
  2. 02
    bill.com
    9
  3. 03
    whop.com
    8
  4. 04
    airwallex.com
    5
  5. 05
    finix.com
    5
  6. 06
    fiska.com
    5
  7. 07
    betterworld.org
    5
  8. 08
    ramp.com
    4
  9. 09
    usio.com (its own website)
    4
  10. 10
    guideflow.com
    4

Usio 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 Usio 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
2

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
100

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
50

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
38
Ranks 59 of 375. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
1.7%
Ranks 133 of 375. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
50
Ranks 7 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
38
Ranks 25 of 203. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
1.7%
Ranks 64 of 203. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
50
Ranks 4 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. Usio 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
18 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 1.3%
  • OAuth discoveryPartly met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 6.3%
  • OAuth Protected ResourcePassed

    Metadata telling agents which authorization server to use.

    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 42 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · usio.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

7 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

  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 11.5%

API / Auth / MCP

  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 1.1%
  • PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 5.2%
  • PassedOAuth 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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