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vroom.com

vroom.com · Retail · VRM

Ranked 1,516 of 2,047 companies in the study

27Overall score
  • Visibility14
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness0
What this means for vroom.com

AI assistants name vroom.com in 13.3% of answers, about twice as often as the typical company in the retail sector. Its overall score is 27 out of 100, ranking 1,516th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 0 out of 14 technical checks, suggesting it may not be ready for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named vroom.com. AI assistants named it in 8 of 60 answers (13.3%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, vroom.com ranks 213 of 640 in its sector.

Named by AI in
13.3%
8 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
15.4%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
0/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
495 of 640
by overall score, where the typical retail company scores 34
How vroom.com 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
14

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
0

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

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
0

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 retail

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

Overall score27
Ranks 495 of 640. Typical company: 34
Named in answers13%
Ranks 213 of 640. Typical company: 7%
AI readiness0
Ranks 618 of 640. Typical company: 29
What OpenAI actually said

An answer that names the company

“Differences between peer-to-peer car sales and dealer-assisted online platforms”

Summary — what’s different (high level)

Parties: Peer-to-peer (P2P) = private seller and private buyer transact directly. Dealer-assisted online platforms = licensed dealer acts as the intermediary, often listing, marketing, handling paperwork and sometimes offering guarantees.

Role of dealer/platform: P2P — platform (if used) usually only lists/communicates/payments; no statutory dealer responsibilities. Dealer-assisted — dealer performs valuation, title transfer, paperwork, may offer financing, warranties, trade-ins, and takes legal responsibility for aspects of the sale.

Risk & protec …

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

Also named
Carvana15CarMax12Vroom5Driveway1
Share of mentions

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

Carvana
42.6%
CarMax
34.0%
vroom.com
17.0%
Driveway
6.4%
Shift
0.0%
AutoNation USA
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

OpenAI
4/15
Gemini
3/15
Claude
1/15
Perplexity
0/15
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
Can an AI agent buy here?

Not by itself. vroom.com publishes none of the purchase protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the checkout like a person.

  • UCPNot present
  • ACPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
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
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly 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 7 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.vroom.com · 2,047 companies scanned

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

The checks behind the AI readiness score

0 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
  • Not metrobots.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%
  • Not metToken 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%
Websites the AI used as sources

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

autotrader.com
37
consumerreports.org
19
edmunds.com
18
nerdwallet.com
17
cargurus.com
13
kbb.com
13
montway.com
11
reddit.com
11
cars.com
10
consumer.ftc.gov
9

In the study as Consumer brands.

Every question, and where the company came up (6 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Differences between peer-to-peer car sales and dealer-assisted online platforms
  • Is buying a used car online worthwhile compared to in-person shopping?
  • Safest ways to sell your car online from home
  • Online used car marketplace vs traditional dealership: pros and cons
  • What documents are usually required for selling a car online?
  • Are prices usually lower for used cars bought online than from local dealerships?
  • Typical fees and costs to expect when buying cars through online car marketplaces
  • What should I do if my vehicle shipment is delayed after buying online?
  • Best online platforms to buy used cars in the US
  • Other ways to purchase used vehicles without going through an online platform
  • How does the process work for trading in a car through an online platform?
  • How to handle missing paperwork after purchasing a used car online?
  • Options for shopping large selections of used vehicles with home delivery
  • Alternatives to online used car marketplaces for selling your vehicle
  • Are online used vehicle marketplaces safe for first-time buyers?
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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