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GCI

gci.com · Telecom · GLIBA

Ranked 63 of 2,047 companies in the study

46Overall score
  • Visibility50
  • Citations11
  • Sentiment69
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness21
What this means for GCI

AI assistants name GCI in 65% of answers, much more often than the typical company in the telecom sector, which is named in 5%. Its overall score is 46 out of 100, ranking 63rd of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the telecom market: none named GCI. AI assistants named it in 39 of 60 answers (65.0%). The typical telecom company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, GCI ranks 2 of 41 in its sector.

Named by AI in
65.0%
39 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
28.3%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
3 of 41
by overall score, where the typical telecom company scores 30
How GCI compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
50

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
11

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

Sentiment
69

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with telecom

41 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score46
Ranks 3 of 41. Typical company: 30
Named in answers65%
Ranks 2 of 41. Typical company: 5%
AI readiness21
Ranks 21 of 41. Typical company: 21
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“Mobile hotspot solutions for traveling within Alaska”

Traveling within Alaska presents unique challenges for mobile hotspot solutions due to the state's vast wilderness and often limited cellular coverage. While consistent cellular service is available in major towns and cities, large areas of the state remain untouched by major carriers.

Here are the best mobile hotspot solutions for traveling within Alaska:

1. Satellite Internet (Starlink)

Overview: Satellite internet is the most reliable option for staying connected in remote, off-grid areas where cellular service is nonexistent. Starlink, by SpaceX, began rolling out in Alaska i …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Alaska Communications32AT&T24HughesNet8
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

GCI
29.3%
Alaska Communications
22.6%
Verizon Wireless
18.0%
AT&T
15.0%
HughesNet
8.3%
MTA Solutions
6.8%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
13/15
Perplexity
9/15
Claude
9/15
OpenAI
8/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, 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 buy here?

Not by itself. GCI publishes none of the purchase protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the checkout like a person.

  • UCPNot present
  • ACPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
80 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed

    SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

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

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

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

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 28 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.gci.com · 2,047 companies scanned

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

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 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: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • 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%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% 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.

Websites the AI used as sources

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

gci.com (its own website)
70
alaskacommunications.com
40
mtasolutions.com
36
cnet.com
28
allconnect.com
22
broadbandnow.com
21
highspeedinternet.com
17
reddit.com
16
att.com
16
wirefly.com
15

In the study as Consumer brands.

Every question, and where the company came up (13 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Mobile hotspot solutions for traveling within Alaska
  • Prepaid vs postpaid mobile plans—pros and cons for Alaskan users
  • Affordable substitutes to postpaid phone plans for Alaskan users
  • What is the best wireless internet option for rural areas in Alaska?
  • Why is my wireless internet speed slow during the evening in rural communities?
  • Is a bundled mobile and internet plan worth it for a small business in Alaska?
  • Satellite internet vs fiber internet for Alaskan households
  • Should I upgrade to a home fiber plan in Anchorage?
  • How can I improve mobile signal strength indoors in Alaska?
  • What are the typical installation fees for residential internet in Alaska?
  • Average monthly cost of unlimited 5G mobile plans in Alaska
  • Best internet plans for remote work in Alaska
  • Top unlimited mobile plans for families in Alaska
  • What are other options besides fiber optic for high-speed internet in Alaska?
  • Alternatives to traditional cable internet for off-grid homes
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

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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