This benchmark measures how cleanly AI engines read a car maker, dealer or supplier's own website, and whether they describe its models, stock and capabilities correctly.
A buyer weighing an electric SUV, a fleet manager comparing running costs, a procurement lead vetting a parts supplier: each now asks an AI engine before opening a brochure or booking a test drive, and the answer comes straight from your own website. If a machine cannot read your models, prices, stock or safety credentials cleanly, it fills the gap with a guess, a competitor, or a figure that has gone stale.
The cost is direct. A car returned with the wrong range, a dealer left out when a buyer asks who has a model nearby, a supplier passed over on a tender because its capabilities never registered. Being read correctly is now part of being considered at all.
Queued for its first measured run
The constituent list for Automotive is set. The Crane Index™ re-scans every cohort on the first of the month, and this page fills with the full ranked field, every company named and scored across the three reads, the moment the first scan lands. Follow it and you will be first to the numbers.
Each cohort is run through the three Crane Index™ scanners, AI Search Readiness (can the engines that read live sites resolve you and extract what you sell), Agent Readiness (can an automated agent get in and act) and Brand Representation (can a machine confirm who you are), against each organisation's home page. Every check is deterministic, sites that refuse or cannot serve an automated reader are reported as unmeasured rather than scored, and the full dated result sets are archived so each re-run publishes the movement. This is an on-page read of the home page, the part you control on the page: it does not crawl the whole site, and it does not watch AI answers or track whether an engine currently cites you. Any score can be re-measured in about a minute on the free scanners.
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The makers, dealers and suppliers a machine can read cleanly are the ones buyers will reach first.
