- Visibility19
- Citations3
- Sentiment64
- Site quality33
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name Medtronic in 8.3% of answers, more often than the typical company in healthcare. Its overall score is 26 out of 100, ranking 1,636th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 1 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the healthcare market: none named Medtronic. AI assistants named it in 5 of 60 answers (8.3%). The typical healthcare company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Medtronic ranks 32 of 105 in its sector.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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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.
105 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“How much do hospital-grade surgical stapling devices cost on average?”
Short answer: it depends a lot on the device type, but hospital-grade surgical stapling devices typically fall into these rough price ranges (U.S. market):
Disposable/skin staplers (single‑use, simple skin closure): about $10–$25 each. (subq-it.com)
Disposable internal linear staplers / single‑use transecting staplers (per device or per procedure reload): commonly about $80–$700 per stapler or reload depending on brand, size, and technology; many reloads used per case raise per‑case consumable cost. Typi …
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.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- 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 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.medtronic.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.
- Which digital health technologies are leading innovations for surgical care?
- Are advanced implantable neuromodulation devices cost-effective for pain management?
- How much do hospital-grade surgical stapling devices cost on average?
- Typical price range for smart glucose monitoring systems with digital connectivity in the US?
- What are some other solutions besides implantable cardiac defibrillators for managing arrhythmias?
- What should clinicians do if a connected insulin pump is not delivering medication as expected?
- In what scenarios is a digital surgical navigation system most beneficial?
- How can urinary urge incontinence be managed using implantable technology?
- Is investing in smart medical ecosystems for surgery worth it for large healthcare systems?
- Alternatives to robotic-assisted surgery for complex gynecological procedures?
- Cardiac rhythm management devices: implantable monitors vs external monitors—how do they compare?
- How to address connectivity issues with remote patient monitoring devices in hospitals?
- What are the best advanced medical devices for managing chronic diseases in the US?
- Robotic-assisted surgery vs traditional minimally invasive procedures: advantages and drawbacks?
- Non-implantable options for managing chronic bladder and bowel conditions?
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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