- Visibility18
- Citations0
- Sentiment57
- Site quality67
- AI readiness14
AI assistants name Visa in 18.3% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in the finance sector at 3.3%. Visa's overall score is 29 out of 100, ranking 1,295th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 2 out of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the finance market: none named Visa. AI assistants named it in 11 of 60 answers (18.3%). The typical finance company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Visa ranks 29 of 205 in its sector.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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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.
205 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are common fees charged by digital payment networks for international transactions?”
Common digital payment network fees for international transactions usually fall into a few buckets: cross-border fees, foreign transaction fees, and currency conversion/FX fees.
Cross-border fees: often around 0.6% to 1.5% on card transactions, depending on the network and settlement currency.
Foreign transaction fees: commonly 1% to 3% of the transaction amount.
Currency conversion / FX fees: often about 0.5% to 2%, and sometimes higher depending on the provider.
Flat per-transaction fees: some networks …
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%SitemapNot 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 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 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 discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
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 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 7 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.visa.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%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- PassedHTTP 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 S&P 500.
- Is signing up for a digital payment network worth it for frequent online shoppers?
- How can I resolve issues with contactless payments not working at stores?
- Are premium tier digital payment cards really more rewarding than standard ones?
- Best ways consumers can use digital payment networks for safe peer-to-peer transfers
- What are common fees charged by digital payment networks for international transactions?
- What alternatives are there to digital payment networks for sending money online?
- What are the most secure digital payment solutions for online shopping in the US?
- Why might a digital payment transaction be declined at checkout?
- How does the annual cost of digital payment cards vary by tier and feature set?
- Other secure options besides digital cards for contactless in-store payments
- Best digital cards for everyday transactions and rewards
- What digital payment options offer the best fraud protection for consumers?
- How can businesses benefit from integrating a digital payment solution into their checkout process?
- Mobile wallets vs digital cards: which is better for travel overseas?
- How do digital payment networks compare to traditional banking for small businesses?
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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