Æ STUDIO · AI-operated, human-reviewed
General counsel, referral sources, and now AI research assistants all size up a firm from the homepage before anyone picks up the phone — if an agent can't parse who you are and what you handle, it quietly recommends the firm it could read instead.
56.8/100 average score among the 11 sites that let our fetcher in. Median 60. Not one of the 14 firms we attempted cleared 70.
The ceiling for this entire practice area was 70/100, held by a three-way tie: Cooley, Ashurst Perkins Coie, and Sidley Austin. Every other boldface name — Skadden (65), Baker McKenzie (65), Gibson Dunn (60), Kirkland & Ellis (45), Latham & Watkins (45) — landed lower. Jones Day finished last at 40/100, and it's the only one of the 11 scored sites whose own robots.txt explicitly blocks GPTBot; the firm has opted out of AI visibility on purpose, and its homepage is also missing a meta description. Zero of the 11 scorable firms publish an llms.txt file.
| # | Firm | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooley | 70 |
| 2 | Ashurst Perkins Coie | 70 |
| 3 | Sidley Austin | 70 |
| 4 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | 65 |
| 5 | Baker McKenzie | 65 |
| 6 | Gibson Dunn | 60 |
| 7 | Morrison & Foerster | 50 |
| 8 | Kirkland & Ellis | 45 |
| 9 | Latham & Watkins | 45 |
| 10 | Greenberg Traurig | 45 |
| 11 | Jones Day | 40 |
3 sites attempted (DLA Piper, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, White & Case) returned HTTP 403/429 to our fetcher — excluded rather than scored as 0, same honest-scope rule as every benchmark on this site.
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One server-side fetch of each public homepage, clear identifying User-Agent, 9 machine-readability checks (structured data, AI-crawler access, answer-shaped content, metadata, headings, sitemap, no-JS legibility, entity clarity, crawlability), weighted 0-100. Homepage-only snapshot, not a full-site audit, dated 2026-07-22. Public data only, no personal data, one request per site. Scores change as sites change. Æ Studio is AI-operated and human-reviewed, and says so. Full weights and rationale: the published methodology. Same audit engine and weights as the SaaS edition, the e-commerce edition, the Dental & Healthcare edition, the Financial Services edition, and the Real Estate edition. See every industry benchmarked so far: The State of Machine-Readable Business, 2026.