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

Variant

variant.fund

Venture capital and growth investorsInvesting and wealth

Money20/20 attendee

Statement period
October 9 to 14, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
746 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
17th of 59 venture capital firms
Closing balance

Named in

3of 60 answers

by 2 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Variant

AI assistants name this venture capital firm in 5% of answers, above the 0.8% for the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 33 out of 100, ranking 746th of 2,219 in the study. The website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Variant by name. AI assistants named it in 3 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 58th of 238 in its sector. The typical investing and wealth company is named in 0.8% of answers.

Overall score
33Overall score
  • Visibility8
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment67
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness29
Summary of account
Named by AI in
5.0%
3 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
14.3%
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
75 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

Variant came up on 2 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01How do carried interest terms differ for VCs investing in autonomy and agency tech?0/4
  2. 02What other funding sources exist besides tech-focused VC for early-stage startups?0/4
  3. 03What are common challenges when pitching to technology-focused venture capital firms?0/4
  4. 04Crowdfunding vs venture capital for companies developing user autonomy technologies—how do they compare?0/4
  5. 05What are the best venture capital firms investing in technology that expands user autonomy?1/4
  6. 06Which US venture capital firms are focused on markets and infrastructure for increasing user agency?2/4
  7. 07What type of tech products are venture capital funds in this space most likely to back?0/4
  8. 08What should founders look for in a VC specializing in user agency technology?0/4
  9. 09What are standard management fees for US technology-based venture capital funds?0/4
  10. 10Alternatives to venture capital for startups focused on increasing user agency?0/4
  11. 11Is partnering with a user autonomy-focused VC firm worth it for early-stage tech startups?0/4
  12. 12How can startups attract investment from VCs interested in expanding user autonomy?0/4
  13. 13How does a technology-focused venture capital firm compare to a traditional VC in terms of startup support?0/4
  14. 14User agency-focused venture firms vs generalist VCs—what are the key differences?0/4
  15. 15How do venture capital firms help startups building infrastructure for user agency?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 2/15Claude: 0/15Perplexity: 1/15Gemini: 0/15All assistants: 3/60
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

“Which US venture capital firms are focused on markets and infrastructure for increasing user agency?”

The clearest match is Variant, a New York-based US venture capital firm. Its stated thesis is investing in “markets, infrastructure, and applications that increase user agency,” specifically by expanding people’s access, knowledge, and ownership.

Variant invests primarily at the early stage and focuses on founders building in permissionless markets and software—especially areas such as:

Blockchain networks: Ethereum and Solana

Developer infrastructure: Blockaid, Turnkey, and Relay

Financial marketplaces: Uniswap, Morpho, and OpenFX

Consumer ownership and access: …

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
    Paradigm
    3
  2. 02
    Electric Capital
    3
  3. 03
    Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
    2
  4. 04
    Union Square Ventures
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
    33.3%
  2. Union Square Ventures
    19.0%
  3. Variant
    14.3%
  4. Paradigm
    14.3%
  5. Electric Capital
    14.3%
  6. Polychain Capital
    4.8%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

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

  1. 01
    qubit.capital
    14
  2. 02
    crv.com
    9
  3. 03
    rho.co
    7
  4. 04
    angelinvestorsnetwork.com
    6
  5. 05
    growthequityinterviewguide.com
    6
  6. 06
    vcbeast.com
    5
  7. 07
    linkedin.com
    5
  8. 08
    forbes.com
    4
  9. 09
    stripe.com
    4
  10. 10
    thefundlawyer.cooley.com
    3

Variant is in the study as a venture capital firm.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

OpenAI
2/15
Perplexity
1/15
Claude
0/15
Gemini
0/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Variant 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
8

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
67

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 investing and wealth companies

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

Overall score
33
Ranks 75 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
5.0%
Ranks 58 of 238. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 51 of 238. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with venture capital firms

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

Overall score
33
Ranks 15 of 59. Typical company: 26
Named in answers
5.0%
Ranks 11 of 59. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 10 of 59. 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. Variant 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
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 · variant.fund · 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

  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebotallowed
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • Claude-Userallowed
  • Perplexity-Userallowed
  • DuckAssistBotallowed
  • MistralAI-Userallowed

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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