This benchmark measures how cleanly the AI engines that applicants, parents and training buyers now consult can read each provider's own website and describe its courses, requirements and standing.
A prospective student, a parent weighing schools, or a company choosing a training partner increasingly starts with a question typed into an assistant, not a search of your own site. The engine reads whatever it can parse and answers in a sentence or two: which course fits, whether a qualification is recognised, how you compare.
When your pages are built so a machine can read them cleanly, that answer is yours and it is accurate. When they cannot, the engine fills the gap from a ranking table, a forum thread or a rival, and the enquiry is gone before anyone reaches your admissions or sales team.
Queued for its first measured run
The constituent list for Education 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.
Score your own domain now. The free AI Search Readiness scanner is the same instrument behind this benchmark and takes about a minute.
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The providers a machine can read cleanly are the ones it will recommend, quote and send the next applicant to.
