- Visibility18
- Citations7
- Sentiment86
- Site quality80
- AI readiness64
AI assistants name The Black Tux in 15% of answers, which is more frequent than the typical company in the retail sector. It has an overall score of 44 out of 100, ranking 149th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 9 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named The Black Tux. AI assistants named it in 9 of 60 answers (15.0%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, The Black Tux ranks 194 of 640 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.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Affordable options for formalwear if you need a suit on short notice”
If you need a suit on short notice, here are practical, affordable options ranked by speed and likelihood of success — with quick tips so you get something that fits and looks good.
Best immediate (same‑day) options
Buy off‑the‑rack at a nearby department store or value retailer
Where: Macy’s, Nordstrom, Kohl’s, H&M, Zara, Target (Goodfellow & Co.) and similar stores usually carry affordable ready‑to‑wear suits and allow in‑store shopping or buy‑online‑pick‑up‑same‑day in many locations. If you need it today, call the nearest store to confirm stock and sizes. (macys.com …
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
Yes. The Black Tux publishes a UCP profile, a file that tells an AI agent how to buy, and it includes checkout.
- UCPPublished
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
The page also offers an agent tools inside the browser: add to cart, proceed to checkout, update cart lines.
The shop runs on Shopify.
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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.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- 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 discoveryPassed
OpenID Connect or OAuth metadata agents can use to sign in.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourcePassed
Metadata telling agents which authorization server to use.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
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%WebMCPPassed
Tools registered in the browser through navigator.modelContext.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 51 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · theblacktux.com · 2,047 companies scanned
9 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%
- PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- PassedMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.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%
- PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- PassedOAuth 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 5 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extended*blocked
- Applebot-Extended*blocked
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespider*blocked
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- 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.
- How to handle minor damages or stains on rented formalwear before returning it
- Affordable options for formalwear if you need a suit on short notice
- What are the most popular suit styles for formal events?
- What should I do if my rented suit doesn't fit perfectly when it arrives?
- What accessories should I include when renting a tuxedo for a gala?
- Is renting a premium suit for a special occasion worth the cost?
- What are some alternatives to renting a tuxedo for a formal event?
- Best options for renting a tuxedo online for a wedding in the US
- Best formalwear options for groomsmen at a summer wedding
- Typical price ranges for renting a full suit ensemble online in the US
- Renting a tuxedo vs buying a suit for a one-time black tie event
- Where can I find inspiration for formal outfits for special occasions?
- How does renting formalwear differ from purchasing in terms of fit and convenience?
- Are formalwear rental services reliable for last-minute events?
- Is it more affordable to rent or buy a tuxedo for prom?
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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