This benchmark reads the public sites of the leading technology and software companies, and measures how well the AI engines their own buyers use can describe what they do and who it is for.
Software is sold to people who research long before they ever fill in a form, and that research now happens inside an AI assistant. A buyer asks which tool solves their problem, what it integrates with and who it is built for. The engine answers from your site.
It is a hard irony that the companies building this technology are often the least legible to it: single-page apps that render only for a human, product copy that lives in scripts, and an identity spread across a dozen sub-brands. When a machine cannot resolve what you do, it recommends the competitor it could.
Queued for its first measured run
The constituent list for Technology and Software 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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In a category defined by the machines themselves, the software a machine can read is the software it will put forward first.
