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HubSpot

hubspot.com · Technology · HUBS

Ranked 23 of 2,047 companies in the study

49Overall score
  • Visibility48
  • Citations2
  • Sentiment78
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness36
What this means for HubSpot

AI assistants name HubSpot in 56.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in the technology sector at 10%. HubSpot's overall score is 49 out of 100, ranking 23rd of 2,047 companies studied. Its website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named HubSpot. AI assistants named it in 34 of 60 answers (56.7%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, HubSpot ranks 10 of 273 in its sector.

Named by AI in
56.7%
34 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
35.1%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
5/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
7 of 273
by overall score, where the typical technology company scores 36
How HubSpot 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
48

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
2

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

Sentiment
78

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
36

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 technology

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

Overall score49
Ranks 7 of 273. Typical company: 36
Named in answers57%
Ranks 10 of 273. Typical company: 10%
AI readiness36
Ranks 36 of 273. Typical company: 29
What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

“How do unified customer platforms support content management and email marketing for small businesses?”

I'll search for information about how unified customer platforms support these functions for small businesses.Based on the search results, here's how unified customer platforms support content management and email marketing for small businesses:

Unified Data and Customer Profiles

Unified customer platforms sync marketing and sales data into unified customer profiles, giving teams a complete picture of every interaction. This integration means small business owners can access all customer information in one place rather than switching between multiple systems.

Content Management Integr …

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

Also named
Salesforce12Zoho CRM8ActiveCampaign8
Share of mentions

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

HubSpot
37.0%
Salesforce
20.7%
Zoho CRM
17.4%
ActiveCampaign
10.9%
Keap (formerly Infusionsoft)
7.6%
Freshsales by Freshworks
6.5%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Perplexity
11/15
Claude
9/15
Gemini
7/15
OpenAI
7/15
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
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
75 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

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

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPartly met

    Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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
50 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

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

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtPassed

    An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.

    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%
  • WebMCPNot met

    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 36 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · www.hubspot.com · 2,047 companies scanned

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

The checks behind the AI readiness score

5 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%
  • PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Passedllms.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

salesforce.com
18
uschamber.com
13
zapier.com
13
insiderone.com
12
monday.com
12
blog.hubspot.com
11
creatio.com
10
larksuite.com
10
zendesk.com
9
hubspot.com (its own website)
9

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (13 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • How do unified customer platforms support content management and email marketing for small businesses?
  • How does an all-in-one business growth suite compare to standalone marketing or CRM solutions?
  • How do I resolve issues syncing sales data between CRM and marketing tools?
  • Is investing in a unified marketing, sales, and service platform worth it for a small business?
  • Typical cost range for small business CRM and marketing automation platforms in the US
  • What should I do if email automation features aren't working in my customer platform?
  • Are there comprehensive customer management suites with free or low-cost entry tiers?
  • What features should I look for in a CRM and business growth platform for startups?
  • Top tools for combining marketing, sales, and service in one platform for growing companies
  • Best way to automate lead management and nurturing in an integrated CRM setup
  • What are some lightweight options for CRM and customer engagement besides all-in-one platforms?
  • CRM platforms vs traditional sales software for managing the customer journey
  • How effective are customer platforms that include marketing, sales, and service tools for business growth?
  • Alternatives to unified customer platforms for sales, marketing, and service management
  • What are the best integrated customer platforms for small to medium-sized businesses in the US?
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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