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.
571 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
9th of 62 consumer lenders
Closing balance

Named in

5of 60 answers

by 2 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for ZayZoon

AI assistants name this consumer lender in 8.3% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector at 3.3%. Its overall score is 36 out of 100, ranking 571st of 2,219 companies. ZayZoon's website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned ZayZoon by name. AI assistants named it in 5 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 28th of 93 in its sector. The typical lending and credit company is named in 3.3% of answers.

Overall score
36Overall score
  • Visibility10
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment80
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness29
Summary of account
Named by AI in
8.3%
5 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
13.5%
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
25 of 93
by overall score, where the typical lending and credit company scores 31

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

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

  1. 01What should employers do if their on-demand pay integration isn't working with payroll systems?0/4
  2. 02Should I implement an earned wage access platform or stick with standard payroll cycles?0/4
  3. 03What pricing structures are common for on-demand pay services aimed at employers?0/4
  4. 04What are the best on-demand pay solutions for hourly workers in the US?1/4
  5. 05How can deskless employees access earned wages before payday?2/4
  6. 06What fast-setup pay benefits work well for businesses with rotating shift schedules?0/4
  7. 07How does earned wage access compare to paycards for providing early access to wages?0/4
  8. 08Is offering earned wage access worth it for businesses with a mostly deskless workforce?0/4
  9. 09How can on-demand wage access improve retention among frontline workers?0/4
  10. 10What are the top alternatives to earned wage access for helping employees manage cash flow?0/4
  11. 11Are there usually fees for employees when using instant pay solutions?0/4
  12. 12In what ways can employee engagement tools be bundled with earned wage access platforms?2/4
  13. 13What are the differences between traditional payroll advances and modern on-demand pay platforms?0/4
  14. 14Why might employees have trouble accessing their earned wages instantly?0/4
  15. 15Which financial wellness benefits can employers offer besides early wage access?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 0/15Claude: 2/15Perplexity: 0/15Gemini: 3/15All assistants: 5/60
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

“In what ways can employee engagement tools be bundled with earned wage access platforms?”

I'll search for information about how employee engagement tools and earned wage access platforms can be bundled together.Based on the search results, here are the key ways employee engagement tools can be bundled with earned wage access platforms:

Integration with Engagement Features

Platforms like ZayZoon bundle earned wage access with financial education tools, team communications capabilities like in-app announcements and polls, and financial tools for helping workers manage their money.

Financial Wellness Components

Bundled solutions provide workers with access to earned wages al …

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
    DailyPay
    8
  2. 02
    Payactiv
    5
  3. 03
    Branch
    4
  4. 04
    Rain
    2
  5. 05
    Instant Financial
    2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Instant Financial
    32.4%
  2. DailyPay
    18.9%
  3. Payactiv
    18.9%
  4. ZayZoon
    13.5%
  5. Branch
    10.8%
  6. Rain
    5.4%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

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

  1. 01
    dailypay.com
    26
  2. 02
    tapcheck.com
    15
  3. 03
    instant.co
    11
  4. 04
    payactiv.com
    11
  5. 05
    peoplemanagingpeople.com
    11
  6. 06
    guideflow.com
    8
  7. 07
    netchex.com
    7
  8. 08
    rainapp.com
    6
  9. 09
    recruiterslineup.com
    6
  10. 10
    fuseworkforce.com
    6

ZayZoon is in the study as a consumer lender.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
3/15
Claude
2/15
Perplexity
0/15
OpenAI
0/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How ZayZoon 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
10

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
80

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 lending and credit companies

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

Overall score
36
Ranks 25 of 93. Typical company: 31
Named in answers
8.3%
Ranks 28 of 93. Typical company: 3.3%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 24 of 93. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with consumer lenders

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

Overall score
36
Ranks 8 of 62. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
8.3%
Ranks 9 of 62. Typical company: 1.7%
AI readiness
29
Ranks 16 of 62. 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. ZayZoon 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 · www.zayzoon.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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