- Visibility21
- Citations1
- Sentiment75
- Site quality87
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name Johnson Controls in 16.7% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 40 out of 100, ranking 394th of 2,047. The company's website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named Johnson Controls. AI assistants named it in 10 of 60 answers (16.7%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Johnson Controls ranks 42 of 246 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.
246 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are the most effective integrated building management solutions for large commercial properties?”
Effective integrated building management solutions for large commercial properties combine various building systems into a single, centralized platform to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, improve occupant comfort and safety, and facilitate data-driven decision-making. These systems move beyond basic automation to offer comprehensive control and insights across an entire portfolio of buildings.
Key aspects and features of effective integrated building management solutions include:
Centralized Control and Monitoring An integrated BMS (IBMS) acts as the "brain" of a property, connecting …
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
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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.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- 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%WebMCPCould not check
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 43 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.johnsoncontrols.com · 2,047 companies scanned
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.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- PassedExplicit 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%
This website sets rules for 4 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*allowed
- ClaudeBot*allowed
- Anthropic-AIallowed
- Google-Extended*allowed
- Applebot-Extendedallowed
- Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
- FacebookBotallowed
- Bytespiderallowed
- CCBotallowed
- Diffbotallowed
- Omgilibotallowed
- OAI-SearchBotallowed
- Claude-SearchBotallowed
- PerplexityBotallowed
- Applebotallowed
- Amazonbotallowed
- YouBotallowed
- ChatGPT-User*allowed
- 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.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- How can integrated building management platforms help improve occupant comfort and air quality?
- Alternatives to centralized building management for older properties with legacy systems?
- How can facility managers quickly resolve security system integration issues in building management platforms?
- What are the main options for integrating independent HVAC, security, and safety systems without a full automation overhaul?
- What features should enterprises prioritize when selecting a building management platform for data-driven operations?
- Building-wide fire safety solutions vs single-system fire alarms—what are the pros and cons?
- How does building automation compare to traditional HVAC controls in terms of efficiency and user experience?
- What are the most effective integrated building management solutions for large commercial properties?
- Why might a building automation system fail to connect with HVAC or lighting equipment?
- Are there affordable options for building control systems suitable for small office buildings?
- Which building automation systems work best for optimizing energy efficiency in office buildings?
- Do fully integrated building automation solutions provide measurable ROI for multi-site enterprises?
- Is investing in an advanced building management system worth it for mid-sized commercial buildings?
- What is the typical cost range for implementing a comprehensive building automation and fire safety system in the US?
- Best practices for using data-driven automation to reduce energy costs in industrial facilities?
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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