- Visibility3
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality80
- AI readiness29
AI assistants rarely name RC Willey Home Furnishings, doing so in 1 of 60 answers. In that answer, they also name Nebraska Furniture Mart. Its overall score is 27 out of 100, ranking 1,561st of 2,047 companies. The website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named RC Willey Home Furnishings. AI assistants named it in 1 of 60 answers (1.7%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, RC Willey Home Furnishings ranks 431 of 640 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
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.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What price ranges should I expect for brand-new bedroom furniture sets at major retailers?”
At major retailers, brand-new bedroom furniture sets commonly fall into the $500 to $2,000 range, with many mainstream options clustering around $800 to $1,500 and premium collections reaching $2,500 to $5,000+.
A practical way to think about it:
Budget / entry-level: about $150 to $500 at big-box retailers, with some sets listed under $500 and even in the low hundreds.
Mid-range: about $500 to $2,000, which appears to be the broadest and most common band across major stores such as Wayfair, Lowe’s, NFM, Macy’s, and IKEA.[ …
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
Not by itself. RC Willey Home Furnishings 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
- MPPCould not check
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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.txtCould not check
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.mdCould not check
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 37 of 100 · 84% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.rcwilley.com · 2,047 companies scanned
4 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%
- Not metllms.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 1 AI crawler by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*allowed
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- 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.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- What options exist for finding discounted yet quality flooring and mattresses without using specialty superstores?
- How do financing options and monthly payment plans usually work for furniture and appliance purchases?
- Are mattress and flooring bundles a smarter investment than buying each separately?
- What are good options for single-stop shopping to furnish a whole house quickly?
- How do furniture outlet stores compare to specialty appliance retailers for selection and savings?
- What should I do if my new appliance from a home furnishings retailer arrives damaged?
- What are alternative ways to furnish a home if I want to avoid big-box furniture stores?
- Is it worth purchasing a living room furniture set with bundled electronics and appliances?
- Where can I find home furnishings stores that offer both in-store and online shopping?
- What are the best places to buy furniture and appliances for a new home in the United States?
- How do I handle delayed delivery on large furniture orders from multi-category home stores?
- Furniture superstore vs. local boutique: which is better for a full-home refresh?
- Which home furnishing stores cater best to renters looking for budget-friendly living room upgrades?
- What price ranges should I expect for brand-new bedroom furniture sets at major retailers?
- Are there good alternatives to traditional appliance and home electronics stores if I'm shopping on a budget?
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.