
- Visibility0
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality73
- AI readiness7
AI assistants do not name Willis Towers Watson in any answers to market questions, while they name companies like Aon. The company has an overall score of 23 out of 100, ranking 1,974th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the finance market: none named Willis Towers Watson. AI assistants named it in none of 60 answers. The typical finance company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Willis Towers Watson ranks 135 of 205 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.
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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.
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“Alternatives to in-house broking for managing corporate insurance portfolios”
Here are practical alternatives to running an in‑house broking function for managing a corporate insurance portfolio, with brief descriptions, pros/cons, and guidance on when each makes sense.
1) External retail broker (full-service)
What: A national/international brokerage firm (e.g., Marsh/Willis/Aon or regional brokers) handles placement, renewal negotiation, policy wording, claims advocacy and market access.
Pros: broad market access, scale, technical expertise, regulatory/compliance support, often global programme capability.
Cons: fee or commission costs; potential conflict of int …
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
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPartly 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 24 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · wtwco.com · 2,047 companies scanned
1 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%
- 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%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- How much should a medium business expect to budget for HR consulting solutions annually?
- Typical pricing models for corporate risk management services in the US
- How to address low employee engagement despite offering comprehensive benefits packages
- How does broking differ from direct insurance placement for organizations?
- What are some options besides third-party consulting for optimizing employee benefits?
- What should organizations look for in a partner to support both risk and employee benefit needs?
- Are advanced people analytics solutions worth the investment for HR departments?
- How do organizations use data-driven insights to make better decisions about workforce planning?
- Why might a customized risk management program fail to mitigate business threats?
- Is outsourcing human capital management cost-effective for growing businesses?
- Alternatives to in-house broking for managing corporate insurance portfolios
- Corporate risk analytics vs traditional risk assessment—what's more effective for large companies?
- Best practices for integrating risk and capital management strategies in multi-national corporations
- What are the key considerations when selecting a corporate risk management consultant in the United States?
- Best ways to improve employee benefits strategies for mid-sized 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.