- Visibility22
- Citations1
- Sentiment75
- Site quality67
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name Gartner in 16.7% of answers, more often than the typical technology company, which is named in 10% of answers. Its overall score is 34 out of 100, ranking 890th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 1 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named Gartner. AI assistants named it in 10 of 60 answers (16.7%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Gartner ranks 98 of 273 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Where can executives find objective data and tools for critical business decision-making?”
Short answer — from a mix of authoritative public data, independent research providers, and robust analytics tools. Executives should combine high-quality raw data sources with trusted market/industry research and rigorous analytical tools, then apply governance to keep insights objective.
Where to find objective data (categories + examples)
Government and intergovernmental data (free, high-quality): U.S. Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), SEC EDGAR (financial filings), Federal Reserve (FRED), Eurostat, World Bank, OECD. Good for macro, labor, trade …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPassed
Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%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: 0.1%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: 33.7%WebMCPNot met
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 31 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · www.gartner.com · 2,047 companies scanned
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.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- Where can executives find objective data and tools for critical business decision-making?
- What are alternatives to subscribing to a full-service business advisory membership?
- How can executive teams use research and advisory guidance to prioritize digital transformation initiatives?
- How can businesses evaluate the reliability of advisory insights before following them?
- Ways leaders leverage business research services to navigate market disruption
- How do business research consultancies differ from management consulting firms?
- Business analysis advisory services vs industry intelligence providers—what's the difference?
- What are the top business research and advisory services for executive decision-making?
- Best sources for actionable business insights to support organizational leaders
- What should I do if my advisory service reports don’t address my organization’s specific needs?
- Other ways to access actionable business insights for strategic planning
- Are professional advisory services for executives worth the investment?
- Are there flexible pricing options for companies seeking executive advisory services?
- Is it beneficial for organizations to subscribe to business research services?
- How much do business research and advisory memberships typically cost in the US?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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