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Worthington Industries

worthingtonindustries.com · Industrial · WOR

Ranked 1,809 of 2,047 companies in the study

25Overall score
  • Visibility5
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality60
  • AI readiness36
What this means for Worthington Industries

AI assistants rarely name Worthington Industries when asked about the market, naming it in 1 of 60 answers. Its overall score is 25 out of 100, ranking 1,809th of 2,047 in the study and 217th of 246 in its sector. The company's website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named Worthington Industries. AI assistants named it in 1 of 60 answers (1.7%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Worthington Industries ranks 159 of 246 in its sector.

Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.

Named by AI in
1.7%
1 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
11.1%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
217 of 246
by overall score, where the typical industrial company scores 31
How Worthington Industries 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
5

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
60

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
36

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 score25
Ranks 217 of 246. Typical company: 31
Named in answers2%
Ranks 159 of 246. Typical company: 5%
AI readiness36
Ranks 6 of 246. Typical company: 21
What Perplexity actually said

An answer that names the company

“What are the best steel processing companies for custom metal fabrication in the US?”

For custom metal fabrication, the strongest US options in your results are the companies explicitly described as custom steel or metal fabricators, plus the higher-ranked steel processing firms that are likely to offer fabrication-related services.

Xometry — ranked #1 in Clutch’s 2026 US steel fabricators list; useful if you want a broad, sourcing-driven fabrication network rather than a single shop.

Real Steel Manufacturing — ranked #1 in Metoree’s 2026 US steel processing companies list.

Signal Metal Industries, Inc. — ranked #2 in Metoree’ …

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

Share of mentions

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

Worthington Industries
25.0%
Steel Dynamics, Inc.
25.0%
Nucor Corporation
25.0%
Steel Warehouse
25.0%
AK Steel (Cleveland-Cliffs)
0.0%
Olympic Steel
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Perplexity
1/15
Claude
0/15
Gemini
0/15
OpenAI
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 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced 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 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.worthingtonenterprises.com · 2,047 companies scanned

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

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 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%
  • PassedXML 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

justdial.com
13
thomasnet.com
12
thefabricator.com
11
iqsdirectory.com
9
customprocessingservices.com
6
steelfloai.com
6
alliancesteel.net
5
fhopepack.com
5
mdmetals.com
5
metalsupermarkets.com
5

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (1 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Alternatives to traditional flat-rolled steel for manufacturing lightweight components
  • What steel processing services are most suitable for appliance manufacturing?
  • Which industrial manufacturers offer advanced solutions for automotive supply chains?
  • What are sustainable alternatives to conventional steel processing for eco-friendly production?
  • Best options for custom steel solutions in renewable energy infrastructure projects
  • What are the best steel processing companies for custom metal fabrication in the US?
  • Who provides alternatives to in-house slitting and blanking for manufacturers aiming to lower overhead?
  • Is investing in value-added steel processing worth the extra cost for mid-sized manufacturers?
  • What are the key differences between hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel for construction projects?
  • How do coil processing services differ from traditional steel fabrication methods?
  • What are common issues in robotic welding for large-scale industrial projects?
  • How do I choose the right toll processing partner for high-volume production needs?
  • What factors affect the pricing tiers of steel processing services for small businesses?
  • Why might there be surface defects after steel slitting, and how can they be prevented?
  • How is the cost of precision blanking and cut-to-length steel calculated in the US?
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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