- Visibility5
- Citations0
- Sentiment83
- Site quality33
- AI readiness14
AI assistants name TheStreet in 5% of answers, much less often than the typical media company, which is named in 15% of answers. Its overall score is 24 out of 100, ranking 1,858th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 2 out of 14 technical checks that measure how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the media market: none named TheStreet. AI assistants named it in 3 of 60 answers (5.0%). The typical media company is named in 15.0% of answers. By how often it is named, TheStreet ranks 66 of 99 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.
99 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Where can I find trustworthy business news focused on US companies?”
When looking for trustworthy business news focused on US companies, several highly reputable sources offer comprehensive and in-depth coverage:
Top-Tier Business News Publications & Agencies:
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is considered a premier source for current business, investing, and financial news, with extensive coverage of US markets, corporate news, and economic policy.
Bloomberg provides up-to-the-minute US and international news on financial markets, commodities, currencies, and company earnings. Their reputation is built on speed, accuracy, and a comprehens …
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.
This website turned most of our scan away, so it has no level. Only 46% of the checks could run. That reflects the website’s rules for automated visitors, and an AI agent arriving by itself meets the same rules.
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapCould not check
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersCould not check
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 negotiationCould not check
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 rulesPartly 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.mdCould not check
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%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 33 of 100 · 46% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · thestreet.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%
- 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%
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.
- GPTBotpartly
- 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 Consumer brands.
- What are the best sources for up-to-date financial news for individual investors?
- How much should I expect to pay for reliable financial news and analysis access?
- How does financial news differ from investing analysis content?
- Does subscribing to a financial news platform offer enough value for the cost?
- Why am I seeing conflicting stock analysis across different financial news outlets?
- Are there affordable options for in-depth business and investing news in the US?
- Is paying for premium investing analysis worth it for everyday investors?
- How can business professionals use financial news platforms to inform investment decisions?
- Where can I find trustworthy business news focused on US companies?
- Financial newsletters vs real-time news feeds: which is better for market updates?
- What are some alternatives to traditional financial news websites for market analysis?
- Alternative ways to stay updated on stock market trends without a premium subscription?
- What is the best way to use daily stock market analysis for portfolio management?
- Best platforms for expert stock market analysis and insights?
- What should I do if I notice delays in real-time market news updates?
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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