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Sweetgreen

sweetgreen.com · Travel · SG

Ranked 75 of 2,047 companies in the study

46Overall score
  • Visibility46
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment75
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness21
What this means for Sweetgreen

AI assistants name Sweetgreen in 36.7% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector. Sweetgreen has an overall score of 46 out of 100, ranking 75th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the travel market: none named Sweetgreen. AI assistants named it in 22 of 60 answers (36.7%). The typical travel company is named in 21.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Sweetgreen ranks 15 of 75 in its sector.

Named by AI in
36.7%
22 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
61.1%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
6 of 75
by overall score, where the typical travel company scores 37
How Sweetgreen 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
46

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
1

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

Sentiment
75

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

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 travel

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

Overall score46
Ranks 6 of 75. Typical company: 37
Named in answers37%
Ranks 15 of 75. Typical company: 22%
AI readiness21
Ranks 34 of 75. Typical company: 21
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“Best fast-casual meal options for a quick and nutritious office lunch”

For a quick and nutritious office lunch, fast-casual options that are both healthy and convenient are ideal. Many fast-casual restaurants offer freshly prepared, higher-quality food with counter service for speed. The key to a nutritious fast-casual meal is to look for a balance of lean proteins, whole grains, and fresh vegetables, while being mindful of hidden sugars, saturated fats, and sodium in dressings and add-ons.

Here are some excellent fast-casual meal options:

1. Salads and Grain Bowls

These are highly customizable and can be packed with nutrients.

Sweetgreen: Known for …

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

Also named
Just Salad5Saladworks2Fresh&Co1
Share of mentions

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

Sweetgreen
71.0%
Just Salad
16.1%
Saladworks
6.5%
Dig (formerly Dig Inn)
3.2%
Fresh&Co
3.2%
Chopt Creative Salad Co.
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude
7/15
Gemini
6/15
Perplexity
5/15
OpenAI
4/15
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 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.

To reach level 1:
  • 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
41 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

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

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapNot 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 DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

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

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    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%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    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 16 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.sweetgreen.com · 2,047 companies scanned

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

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 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%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.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
  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebotallowed
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • 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.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

justdial.com
21
eatthis.com
19
tastingtable.com
18
bbc.co.uk
14
eatbreadless.com
13
nrn.com
12
reddit.com
11
foodnetwork.com
11
atly.com
11
facebook.com
11

In the study as Consumer brands.

Every question, and where the company came up (9 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Best fast-casual meal options for a quick and nutritious office lunch
  • What should I do if my online fast-casual salad order arrives missing ingredients?
  • Is it worth paying extra for made-from-scratch salads at fast-casual restaurants?
  • How do fast-casual salad chains compare to traditional sit-down restaurants for healthy eating?
  • Typical price range for fresh salads and grain bowls at fast-casual healthy restaurants
  • What are some grocery store options for grab-and-go healthy salads and grain bowls?
  • Are grain bowls or salads a better option for post-workout meals?
  • Alternatives to fast-casual salad chains for convenient, healthy eating on the go
  • How can I find out which menu items at healthy fast-casual spots are safe for food allergies?
  • Are there affordable healthy wrap options at fast-casual spots under $15?
  • Where can I find convenient salads with high-protein toppings for athletes?
  • Are warm plates from health-focused fast-casual chains filling enough for dinner?
  • Best places to get fresh grain bowls made with whole produce in the US
  • Best meal delivery services for fresh salads and healthy bowls if there’s no fast-casual near me
  • What are the healthiest fast-casual salad options for quick lunches?
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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