The AI Readiness Benchmark

In August 2026 we scored the AI visibility of 90 top SaaS domains using our open-source engine. Here is exactly what we found - and how you can reproduce it.

62.7
Average score / 100
63
Median score
72%
Publish an llms.txt (65/90)
6.7%
Reached "Excellent" tier

Score distribution

TierRangeShare of domains
Excellent81-1006.7%
Good61-8050.0%
Fair41-6041.1%
Poor21-402.2%
Critical0-200%

Most SaaS domains are "Good" at the fundamentals. Very few are truly optimized for AI extraction - and almost none are invisible.

How we scored

Each domain was scored across six signals, each weighted to produce a 0-100 score:

SignalWeightWhat it measures
Schema completeness25%JSON-LD structured data (Organization, FAQPage, Article, etc.)
Entity consistency20%@id linkage, sameAs links, brand definition, OG/Twitter meta
Content structure20%Substantial text, FAQ-style questions, lists/tables, meta description
Technical structure15%H1/H2 hierarchy, nav/main landmarks, microdata
Crawlability10%AI crawler access (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) + robots.txt
llms.txt10%Dedicated llms.txt file for AI crawler discovery

The engine fetches each domain's homepage, robots.txt, and llms.txt, then scores the signals. The full source is open source (MIT) - the scoring code and the raw dataset are on GitHub.

What we learned

Schema is the biggest gap. The average schema score was 26.6/100 - by far the weakest signal. Most sites either have no structured data or use it inconsistently.

llms.txt is becoming standard. 72% of the domains we scanned publish one. It is cheap to add and directly signals AI crawlers.

Blocking AI crawlers is a real problem. 9 of the 100 domains we attempted were bot-blocked (403/406/429) and could not be scored. If your robots.txt blocks GPTBot and friends, you are invisible by choice.

Scope and honesty notes

We attempted 100 domains; 9 were bot-blocked and 1 was unreachable, leaving 90 scored. Scores reflect each domain's public homepage at scan time - they change as sites change. This is a snapshot, not a live feed, and not a ranking of "best" companies.

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