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Tennant

tennantco.com · Industrial · TNC

Ranked 326 of 2,047 companies in the study

41Overall score
  • Visibility21
  • Citations6
  • Sentiment86
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness21
What this means for Tennant

AI assistants name Tennant in 18.3% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in the industrial sector at 5%. Tennant's overall score is 41 out of 100, ranking 326th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named Tennant. AI assistants named it in 11 of 60 answers (18.3%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Tennant ranks 33 of 246 in its sector.

Named by AI in
18.3%
11 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
26.2%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
2/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
22 of 246
by overall score, where the typical industrial company scores 31
How Tennant 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
21

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
6

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

Sentiment
86

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 industrial

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

Overall score41
Ranks 22 of 246. Typical company: 31
Named in answers18%
Ranks 33 of 246. Typical company: 5%
AI readiness21
Ranks 107 of 246. Typical company: 21
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“What type of floor cleaning machine is suitable for polished concrete surfaces?”

For polished concrete surfaces, the most suitable floor cleaning machines are automatic scrubbers, often referred to as auto scrubbers. These machines are designed for hard flooring surfaces like polished concrete and can effectively clean and maintain them.

Here's why auto scrubbers are recommended and some important considerations:

Efficiency and Effectiveness: Auto scrubbers combine scrubbing and vacuuming in one pass, making cleaning more efficient than traditional mopping. They are particularly effective for larger areas and can help prevent grime buildup, keeping the surface pri …

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

Also named
Kärcher27Nilfisk2
Share of mentions

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

Tennant
29.7%
Nilfisk
21.6%
Advance (A Nilfisk Brand)
18.9%
Kärcher
16.2%
Clarke (A Nilfisk Brand)
13.5%
Windsor Kärcher Group
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
5/15
OpenAI
3/15
Perplexity
2/15
Claude
1/15
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
0 of 100
  • robots.txtNot met

    Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.

    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
0 of 100
  • AI bot rulesNot 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 0 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.tennantco.com · 2,047 companies scanned

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

The checks behind the AI readiness score

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.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • Not metXML 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
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • 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.

Websites the AI used as sources

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

tennantco.com (its own website)
37
kaercher.com
19
psjanitorial.com
14
globalindustrial.com
12
justdial.com
12
tradeindia.com
10
gausium.com
9
scrubbershop.com
9
total-ind.com
8
giyoglobal.com
8

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (6 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • How can commercial floor cleaning equipment help maintain safety in high-traffic areas?
  • Walk-behind vs. ride-on floor scrubbers: which works better for retail stores?
  • What type of floor cleaning machine is suitable for polished concrete surfaces?
  • What are good alternatives to using large floor cleaning machines in tight spaces?
  • Why isn't my industrial floor sweeper picking up debris effectively?
  • What common problems should I check if my floor scrubber leaves streaks behind?
  • Which commercial floor scrubbers are popular for schools and universities?
  • Is investing in an autonomous floor scrubber worth it for a medium-sized business?
  • Are there budget-friendly industrial floor sweepers for small facilities?
  • How do sweeper-scrubbers compare to traditional mopping for large facilities?
  • How much does it usually cost to lease a commercial floor cleaning machine in the US?
  • What are the best industrial floor cleaning machines for large warehouses?
  • Which heavy-duty floor cleaning solutions work well in manufacturing plants?
  • Manual cleaning methods vs. automated floor equipment: which is more cost-effective for facilities?
  • What should I look for when choosing a commercial floor cleaning machine for hospitals?
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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