- Visibility42
- Citations3
- Sentiment50
- Site quality93
- AI readiness14
AI assistants name S&P Global in 51.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 41 out of 100, ranking 272nd of 2,047 companies. The website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the finance market: none named S&P Global. AI assistants named it in 31 of 60 answers (51.7%). The typical finance company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, S&P Global ranks 4 of 205 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.
205 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Are there specialized analytics providers focused on ESG and sustainability data?”
I'll search for information about specialized ESG and sustainability analytics providers.Yes, there are numerous specialized analytics providers focused on ESG and sustainability data. Here are some of the key players:
Rating and Analytics Providers:
Sustainalytics, a subsidiary of Morningstar, supplies ESG data and ratings to institutional investors and companies
Moody's offers sustainability scoring and climate risk factors, combining ESG data with socioeconomic and environmental metrics, and credit risk analysis
S&P Global offers ESG solutions providing financially relevant analy …
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
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
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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 CardCould not check
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardCould not check
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsCould not check
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 manifestCould not check
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 47 of 100 · 66% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · www.spglobal.com · 2,047 companies scanned
2 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%
- 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%
- Not metToken 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.
- GPTBot*allowed
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- 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 S&P 500.
- Why might real-time financial data feeds be delayed or incomplete?
- Are there specialized analytics providers focused on ESG and sustainability data?
- Which services offer in-depth credit rating information for large corporations?
- How do financial professionals use credit ratings in investment decision-making?
- What are good alternatives to traditional financial analytics platforms?
- Are there affordable options for accessing global market data as a small institutional investor?
- Do advanced analytics and global market data services provide enough value for their price?
- What are the best financial analytics platforms for institutional investors?
- What are the main applications of market analytics tools in corporate finance strategy?
- How to resolve issues accessing institutional credit ratings databases?
- What is the difference between market analytics services and economic forecasting tools?
- How do financial information providers compare to credit rating agencies in terms of data depth?
- What is the typical price range for enterprise-level financial information services in the US?
- Where can I find open-source or free financial information services for market research?
- Is subscribing to a comprehensive financial data platform worth it for a mid-sized investment firm?
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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