- Visibility45
- Citations4
- Sentiment64
- Site quality80
- AI readiness29
AI assistants name Taco Bell in 55% of their answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector, which is named in 21.7% of answers. Taco Bell's overall score is 44 out of 100, ranking 120th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the travel market: none named Taco Bell. AI assistants named it in 33 of 60 answers (55.0%). The typical travel company is named in 21.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Taco Bell ranks 2 of 75 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.
75 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Difference between a quick-service Mexican-inspired restaurant and a traditional sit-down Mexican restaurant?”
The main differences between a quick-service Mexican-inspired restaurant and a traditional sit-down Mexican restaurant lie in their speed of service, menu authenticity, dining experience, and pricing.
Quick-Service Mexican-Inspired Restaurants
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs), often referred to as fast-food restaurants, prioritize speed, efficiency, and convenience.
Speed and Convenience: QSRs are designed for fast food service with minimal table interaction. Orders are typically placed at a counter, drive-thru, or through a mobile app, and food is prepared quickly, often in adv …
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 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPartly met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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 rulesNot 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 AuthCould not check
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogCould not check
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryCould not check
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceCould not check
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 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 11 of 100 · 65% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.tacobell.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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- Not metrobots.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%
- 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 Consumer brands.
- Difference between a quick-service Mexican-inspired restaurant and a traditional sit-down Mexican restaurant?
- What to do if you receive the wrong order from a Mexican-inspired quick-service restaurant?
- Best options besides quick-service Mexican-inspired restaurants for fast, flavorful meals?
- Alternatives to quick-service Mexican-inspired chains for affordable takeout?
- Is it worth getting a deluxe meal box at a quick-service Mexican-inspired restaurant?
- Are family combo deals at Mexican-inspired fast food chains a good value?
- Are value menus at Mexican-inspired fast food chains actually cheaper?
- Most popular quick-service Mexican-inspired dinner options in the US?
- How can you find vegetarian or vegan options at quick-service Mexican-inspired chains?
- What are convenient meal options for lunch-on-the-go from Mexican-inspired fast food chains?
- Quick-service Mexican-style fast food vs classic American burger chains: which is more affordable?
- Which Mexican-inspired quick-service foods are best for late-night cravings?
- What limited-time menu items are trending at Mexican-inspired fast food chains?
- What are the best quick-service Mexican-inspired meals for a fast lunch?
- How much do combo meals typically cost at quick-service Mexican-inspired restaurants in the US?
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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