AI Readiness benchmarks by industry
We have audited 30,309 domains against one deterministic AI Readiness rubric and kept every factor score. These pages report what that corpus says about each industry: the score distribution, and which rubric factors an industry fails more often than everyone else.
Across the whole corpus the median score is 41 out of 100, with the middle half falling between 36 and 49. The rubric scores 19 factors, and a page publishes a rate for one once 30 audits in that industry have scored it. All figures come from rubric version 2026-08-02.
Published industries
- Manufacturing / Industrial median 39/100 · 2,964 audited domains
- Food & Beverage / CPG median 40/100 · 1,796 audited domains
- Travel / Hospitality median 42/100 · 1,794 audited domains
- Consulting / Professional Services median 41/100 · 1,254 audited domains
- Automotive / Mobility median 40/100 · 1,017 audited domains
- DTC / Consumer Brands median 42/100 · 1,012 audited domains
- Publishing / News Media median 41/100 · 905 audited domains
- Gaming median 38/100 · 829 audited domains
- Streaming / Video median 39/100 · 756 audited domains
- Pharma / Biotech median 40/100 · 496 audited domains
- Restaurant Tech median 40/100 · 483 audited domains
- AI / Machine Learning median 56/100 · 474 audited domains
- IT Infrastructure / Cloud median 44/100 · 449 audited domains
- PropTech / Real Estate median 41/100 · 428 audited domains
- Telecom / Communications median 42/100 · 413 audited domains
- Banking / Neo-banking median 39/100 · 364 audited domains
- Supply Chain / Logistics median 39/100 · 362 audited domains
- Energy / CleanTech median 40/100 · 349 audited domains
- Construction Tech median 40/100 · 269 audited domains
- Healthcare Services median 40/100 · 230 audited domains
- Online Learning / Course Platform median 44/100 · 229 audited domains
- Marketplace median 40/100 · 211 audited domains
- Wealth Management / Investment median 41/100 · 209 audited domains
- FinTech / Payments median 39/100 · 201 audited domains
- MarTech / Marketing Platform median 54/100 · 197 audited domains
- HR Tech / Recruitment median 44/100 · 196 audited domains
- SaaS / Cloud Software median 53/100 · 191 audited domains
- Medical Devices median 42/100 · 186 audited domains
- Developer Tools / Platforms median 50/100 · 175 audited domains
- E-commerce Platform median 51/100 · 154 audited domains
- Data & Analytics median 55/100 · 145 audited domains
- Government / GovTech median 41/100 · 143 audited domains
- InsurTech / Insurance median 43/100 · 143 audited domains
- AdTech / Advertising median 44/100 · 139 audited domains
- Passenger Transport / Transit median 40/100 · 136 audited domains
- Digital Health / Health Tech median 54/100 · 126 audited domains
- IoT / Connected Devices median 46/100 · 120 audited domains
- Mental Health / Wellness median 48/100 · 118 audited domains
- Enterprise Software / ERP median 47/100 · 113 audited domains
- EdTech / LMS median 47/100 · 108 audited domains
- Cybersecurity median 52/100 · 106 audited domains
- Retail Tech / POS median 47/100 · 100 audited domains
11 further industries have been audited but are not published yet, covering 443 audited domains between them. We publish an industry once it reaches 100 audited domains and at least one rubric factor has been scored on 30 of those audits, because below that a median moves several points when a handful of sites change and a ranking of failed factors is mostly noise. Those industries appear here when the corpus catches up.
What these are, and are not
Each page reports the domains we have audited and classified into that industry. That is a sample, not a census of the industry, and it carries whatever bias our crawl selection has. We publish aggregates only and never name an individual audited company. This audit measures citation readiness: how easily AI engines can crawl, extract, and quote these pages. It cannot see the off-site brand footprint (mentions, reviews, third-party coverage) that gates whether AI engines retrieve a brand at all; Kuroma's visibility scans and off-site signals track that side. Read the full methodology.
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