Your CPA firm result
From this report, answers captured October 2, 2026.
31 of 31
Cities where the answer is still open
No single CPA firm owns the AI answer there yet
5.6
CPA firms named in the average city answer
Everyone the answer leaves out is invisible to that buyer
132
CPA firms screened
Websites read by machine across 31 US cities
The findings
Four things the data actually shows.
Each one is something you can check on your own site in a minute. Every share is read from the 307 homepages we counted on October 2, 2026.
31 of 31
AI named CPA firms in every city
We asked Google AI Mode for the best CPA in 31 US cities. Every answer named firms, 3 at the fewest and 7 at the most, 174 names in all. A firm that wants in is joining a list, not starting one.
Source: KKV Labs, Google AI Mode answers captured October 2, 2026 in 31 cities.
41%
Four in ten robots.txt files block the AI training crawlers
117 of the 286 robots.txt files we read block GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot. 113 of them are sites built by one vendor, CPA Site Solutions, and every one of its sites we read does it. Those same files still let in the search crawlers that fetch a page when someone asks a question: OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot and Perplexity-User (re-read on 2 October 2026). Not one of the 286 files shuts out Google-Extended.
Source: KKV Labs crawl, 307 CPA firm homepages counted, October 2, 2026.
62% and 18%
The named firms describe themselves to machines
Structured data, the hidden labels that tell a machine what a page is about, sits on 62% of the named firms' homepages and 18% of the rest. The AccountingService type made for this trade is on 15% against 2%. It is the widest gap in this crawl, and a same day reading, not a cause.
Source: KKV Labs crawl, 307 CPA firm homepages counted, October 2, 2026.
474
The homepages say very little
The median CPA homepage carries 474 words, and 24% carry fewer than 300. Review proof is almost absent: 2% show a review widget or badge, and 2 of 307 print a review count.
Source: KKV Labs crawl, 307 CPA firm homepages counted, October 2, 2026.
The answers
How many firms make the answer.
In every city we typed the same thing into Google AI Mode: "best CPA in [City] [State]". All 31 answers named between 3 and 7 firms.
The list is the whole answer for that question on that day, in the order it was given. It is not a ranking and not a review of any firm.
5.6
Firms named, on average
Across 31 cities
7
Named in a single city answer, at most
Never fewer than 3 in any city
174
Firm names across every answer
In 31 city answers
Source: KKV Labs, Google AI Mode answers captured October 2, 2026 in 31 cities.
How long the list was, by city
- 3 named1 city
- 4 named2 cities
- 5 named9 cities
- 6 named15 cities
- 7 named4 cities
The stack
Who builds CPA firm websites.
Read from the homepage on October 2, 2026. One vendor, CPA Site Solutions, builds more of these sites than run on WordPress.
37%
of the CPA firm homepages we counted are built by CPA Site Solutions, 113 of 307 sites. Its pages do not name a platform our check knows, which is most of why "Custom or unknown" leads the list below.
Website platform, share of the sites we counted
- Custom or unknown56%172 sites
- WordPress27%82 sites
- Wix7%21 sites
- Duda3%9 sites
- Webflow3%8 sites
- Squarespace2%6 sites
- Joomla1%3 sites
- GoDaddy Website Builder1%3 sites
- Other or not detected1%3 sites
On WordPress sites we also read the page builder. As a share of every site counted: Gutenberg blocks 24%, Divi 7%, Elementor 5%, WPBakery 2% and Beaver Builder 1%.
Accounting website vendors named on the homepage, share of the sites we counted
- CPA Site Solutions37%113 sites
- Build Your Firm3%9 sites
- Thryv2%6 sites
- Thomson Reuters Web Builder or NetClient2%6 sites
- TaxBuzz1%3 sites
A website vendor we could recognise sits on 45% of the homepages, 32% of the named firms and 49% of everyone else.
Source: KKV Labs crawl of 307 CPA firm homepages, of 340 opened, October 2, 2026.
Portals, booking and payments
How a client gets in the door.
Client portals, scheduling links and payment tools, read off the homepage. A portal that only loads after a login click is not counted, so these shares are the floor.
53%
Say there is a secure client portal
Named firms 51%, everyone else 54%
18%
Show a client portal vendor we can detect
Named firms 22%, everyone else 17%
41%
Offer a way to book or schedule on the homepage
Named firms 49%, everyone else 39%
8%
Show an online payment tool
Named firms 14%, everyone else 7%
Client portal, practice and scheduling software, share of the sites we counted
- ShareFile6%18 sites
- Thomson Reuters NetClient or Onvio portal3%8 sites
- SmartVault2%7 sites
- SafeSend2%7 sites
- Drake portal or SecureFilePro2%6 sites
- TaxDome2%5 sites
- Calendly1%4 sites
- CCH Axcess or iFirm1%3 sites
- Canopy1%2 sites
- Liscio1%2 sites
Online invoice payment tools, share of the sites we counted
- CPACharge or LawPay8%24 sites
Form plugins, share of the sites we counted
- Contact Form 75%15 sites
- Gravity Forms3%10 sites
- WPForms3%8 sites
- Ninja Forms1%3 sites
A portal or upload page is linked from 37% of the homepages, 28% of the named firms against 40% of everyone else.
Source: KKV Labs crawl of 307 CPA firm homepages, of 340 opened, October 2, 2026.
The marketing stack
What CPA firms measure.
Analytics, ad and call tracking tags, and the social profiles each homepage links to.
Tracking and advertising tags, share of the sites we counted
- Google Analytics 414%43 sites
- Google Tag Manager8%24 sites
- Meta pixel2%6 sites
- Google Ads tag2%5 sites
- CallRail1%4 sites
Google Analytics 4 runs on 28% of the named firms and 10% of everyone else, and Google Tag Manager on 20% against 5%. Neither tag helps an AI answer by itself. Both usually mean somebody is looking after the site.
Social and map profiles linked from the homepage
- Facebook42%130 sites
- LinkedIn27%82 sites
- Google Maps24%75 sites
- Instagram5%15 sites
- YouTube4%11 sites
- Yelp1%4 sites
A LinkedIn link is on 45% of the named firms and 22% of the rest.
Source: KKV Labs crawl of 307 CPA firm homepages, of 340 opened, October 2, 2026.
Credentials and offers
What the homepage says about the firm.
Credentials, memberships, software and offers as the homepage states them. A claim counts when it is written on the page.
84%
Say CPA on the homepage
Named firms 86%, everyone else 84%
8%
Say the firm is an AICPA member
Named firms 11%, everyone else 7%
5%
Mention peer review
Named firms 8%, everyone else 4%
18%
State years in practice
Named firms 20%, everyone else 17%
Credentials and claims on the homepage, share of the sites we counted
- CPA stated84%259 sites
- Years in practice stated18%54 sites
- AICPA member8%24 sites
- Peer review stated5%15 sites
- State CPA society member4%11 sites
- IRS representation rights stated3%8 sites
- Other credential (CFP, CVA, CFE, CMA, PFS)3%8 sites
- Family owned or locally owned stated2%6 sites
- Spanish or bilingual stated1%3 sites
- Enrolled agent stated1%3 sites
Software named and offers made
47%
Name QuickBooks
Named firms 45%, everyone else 48%
4%
Say the firm is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor
Named firms 3%, everyone else 5%
28%
Offer a free consultation
Named firms 22%, everyone else 30%
A price of any kind, or a link to a page with prices, is on 2% of the homepages. Fees are almost never written down on these homepages.
Source: KKV Labs crawl of 307 CPA firm homepages, of 340 opened, October 2, 2026.
Named versus unnamed
What the named firms had that day.
A comparison on the day of the crawl, not a cause. It shows what the named firms happened to have, not what got them named.
| Signal | Named firms | Everyone else |
|---|---|---|
| Any JSON-LD structured data | 62% | 18% |
| Business or local business schema | 34% | 7% |
| A LinkedIn link | 45% | 22% |
| A Facebook link | 58% | 38% |
| Google Analytics 4 installed | 28% | 10% |
| Only boilerplate schema (WebSite or Organization, no business type) | 28% | 11% |
| Business tax returns stated | 31% | 15% |
| Google Tag Manager installed | 20% | 5% |
| AccountingService schema specifically | 15% | 2% |
| WordPress as the platform | 37% | 24% |
Named firms are the 65 crawled sites whose firm Google AI Mode listed in its own city's answer. Everyone else is the other 242, and 175 of those are firms in towns outside the index cities. Only rows with at least 8 sites behind them are shown, because one firm moves a named share by about 2 points.
The checks that read the other way round
| Signal | Named firms | Everyone else |
|---|---|---|
| An accounting website or marketing vendor detected | 32% | 49% |
| A client portal or upload page linked | 28% | 40% |
| A newsletter or tax news section | 40% | 52% |
| Business formation or entity selection stated | 26% | 35% |
| A free consultation offered | 22% | 30% |
| Copyright year 2023 or older | 8% | 15% |
| Tax preparation stated | 65% | 72% |
| Individual tax returns stated | 31% | 37% |
12 checks sat within two points in both groups, among them a schedule or contact page linked; CPA stated; a services page linked. CPA Site Solutions, the vendor behind the robots.txt blocks, builds 25% of the named firms' sites and 40% of everyone else's.
Source: KKV Labs crawl of 307 CPA firm homepages, of 340 opened, October 2, 2026.
Schema and AI access
What a machine is allowed to read.
What the homepage tells a machine about the firm, and which AI crawlers the robots.txt file lets in.
41%
Of robots.txt files block GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot
117 of 286 files
113
Of those are CPA Site Solutions sites
The other 4 are other firms' sites
0%
Shut out Google-Extended
0 of 286 files
A robots.txt was reachable on 93% of the sites. The three blocked crawlers are the ones OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity use to collect pages. We did not test the separate agents some assistants send to fetch a page live while answering a question, so this is not proof a firm is invisible to ChatGPT.
27%
Carry structured data of some kind
Named firms 62%, everyone else 18%
5%
Use the AccountingService type
Named firms 15%, everyone else 2%
91%
Serve a sitemap a crawler can reach
Declared in robots.txt on 75%
Structured data on the homepage, share of the sites we counted
- Any JSON-LD structured data27%83 sites
- Only boilerplate schema (WebSite or Organization, no business type)15%45 sites
- Business or local business schema12%38 sites
- LocalBusiness schema6%18 sites
- AccountingService schema exactly5%16 sites
- Person schema3%10 sites
- FAQPage schema2%5 sites
15% of the homepages carry only a website record with no business type, and 12% say in the markup that this is a business at all. 13% serve an llms.txt file, 41 sites. Every Duda site we read has one, 9 of 9, written by the builder rather than the firm.
Source: KKV Labs crawl of 307 CPA firm homepages, of 340 opened, October 2, 2026.
Words and proof
How much the homepage says.
How much there is to read on a CPA firm's homepage, what it weighs, and which pages it links before anyone calls.
474
Words on the median homepage
Named firms 575, everyone else 461
24%
Have fewer than 300 words on the homepage
3% have more than 1,500
45 KB
Weight of the median homepage
307 homepages counted
7
Services named on the median homepage
Named firms 7, everyone else 7
Page weight, share of the sites we counted
- under 100 KB71%218 sites
- 100 to 300 KB19%58 sites
- 300 to 700 KB8%24 sites
- 700 KB to 1.5 MB2%6 sites
What the homepage links before anyone calls
73%
Link an about or team page
Named firms 82%, everyone else 71%
77%
Link a services page
Named firms 75%, everyone else 77%
57%
Link a tax tools or resources page
Named firms 58%, everyone else 57%
20%
Link an industries served page
Named firms 23%, everyone else 19%
Content and proof on the homepage, share of the sites we counted
- A schedule or contact page linked84%258 sites
- A services page linked77%236 sites
- An about or team page linked73%225 sites
- A click to call phone link67%207 sites
- A blog or articles section linked64%197 sites
- A tax tools or resources page linked57%175 sites
- A newsletter or tax news section50%153 sites
- An FAQ on the homepage43%133 sites
- A testimonials or reviews page linked21%63 sites
- An industries served page linked20%62 sites
- A video embedded on the homepage6%18 sites
- Copyright year 2026 in the footer35%107 sites
- Copyright year 2023 or older14%42 sites
Review proof is close to absent: 2% show a review widget or directory badge, 2 homepages print a review count and none prints a star rating. A video is embedded on 6%, and a newsletter or tax news section on 50%.
Source: KKV Labs crawl of 307 CPA firm homepages, of 340 opened, October 2, 2026.
The service list
What the homepage says the firm does.
A service counts when the homepage names it. A firm that does the work and does not write it down is counted as not offering it.
Services and client types named on the homepage, share of the sites we counted
- Tax preparation70%216 sites
- Payroll66%203 sites
- Tax planning64%196 sites
- Bookkeeping54%165 sites
- Advisory or outsourced CFO42%129 sites
- Audit, review and compilation39%120 sites
- Nonprofit work38%118 sites
- Estate, trust or gift tax36%112 sites
- Individual tax returns36%110 sites
- Financial or retirement planning36%109 sites
- Business formation or entity selection33%102 sites
- IRS problems or back taxes30%93 sites
- QuickBooks setup or cleanup bookkeeping25%78 sites
- Audit representation23%70 sites
- Business tax returns19%57 sites
- Farm or agriculture clients6%19 sites
- Construction or contractor clients6%17 sites
- Sales tax5%15 sites
- Medical or dental practice clients2%7 sites
- International or expat tax2%6 sites
- Real estate investors2%5 sites
- Cost segregation or R&D credits1%3 sites
The service lines that separate the two groups furthest
Service
Named firms
Everyone else
- Business tax returns31%15%
- Audit, review and compilation48%37%
- Tax planning71%62%
- Bookkeeping60%52%
- Construction or contractor clients12%4%
- Estate, trust or gift tax42%35%
- Sales tax9%4%
- Nonprofit work42%38%
Business tax returns are written on 31% of the named firms' homepages and 15% of the rest, the widest service gap here. Rows with fewer than 8 sites are left out of the comparison.
Source: KKV Labs crawl of 307 CPA firm homepages, of 340 opened, October 2, 2026.
The city table
Every city, and who AI named.
CPA firm websites screened in each city, the firms the answer named, in the order it gave them, and the day it was captured. Biggest lists of candidates first. It is a dated snapshot of one answer, not a ranking and not a review of any firm's work.
| City | Who the answer named | Firms named | Sites screened | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Angelo, TX | Armstrong, Backus & Co., LLP, Oliver, Rainey & Wojtek, LLP, Jones, Hay, Marschall & McKinney, P.C., Cheri L. Gray, CPA | 4 | 7 | 2026-10-02 |
| La Crosse, WI | Hawkins Ash CPAs, Wipfli, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), Johnson Block CPAs, Engelson & Associates, Ltd., Hancock and Robinson CPAs, Kendle CPA, LLC | 7 | 6 | 2026-10-02 |
| Longview, TX | Kimberly Bagley CPA, Chaumont CPA Firm LLC, Phillip G. Sinclair, CPA, Tommy N Thomas and Associates, Henry & Peters, PC, Cooner & Cooner, P.C. | 6 | 5 | 2026-10-02 |
| Hickory, NC | David K. Blanton CPA PLLC, Richie D. Phillips Tax and Accounting, RLI-CPA, Certified Public Accountants, PC, Martin Starnes & Associates CPAs, Haney CPA, PLLC, Stephen P. Priestley, CPA, PLLC | 6 | 5 | 2026-10-02 |
| Traverse City, MI | JCaldwell Consulting, Manville & Schell / Padgett Traverse City, Pyramid Tax, Accounting & Consulting, Traverse Tax & Accounting, Grand Traverse Accounting Inc, Dennis, Gartland & Niergarth (DGN) | 6 | 5 | 2026-10-02 |
| Dothan, AL | Snellgrove & Associates CPA, Ferguson, Sizemore & Associates, Stephanie W. Brookins, CPA, McDaniel & Associates PC, ParsonsGroup, LLC, Carr, Riggs & Ingram (CRI), Jackson Thornton | 7 | 4 | 2026-10-02 |
| Gainesville, FL | James Moore & Co., Purvis, Gray & Company, Kattell and Company, P.L., Sexton & Schnoll, Carolyn Goddard CPA, Basant Agarwal CPA | 6 | 4 | 2026-10-02 |
| Lafayette, IN | Heath CPA & Associates, Devine CPA & Co, Girardot, Strauch & Co., Huth Thompson LLP, Thieme, Adair & Riley CPAs | 5 | 4 | 2026-10-02 |
| Lynchburg, VA | Davidson, Doyle & Hilton, LLP, Fraim, Cawley & Company, CPAs, Shelton & Company, CPAs, P.C., Tax Resolution Accounting | 4 | 4 | 2026-10-02 |
| Ocala, FL | Riley Vary CPA, PA, DeMeola Temple CPA Group, Sexton & Schnoll, Crippen & Co., Collier, Jernigan, Eastman & Zublick, P.A. | 5 | 4 | 2026-10-02 |
| Rock Hill, SC | Pitters Accounting & Tax Professionals, Peeler and Associates, LLC, Moore & Moore CPA, Knoble Ingle CPAs, LLP, BNA CPAs & Advisors, Robert Palmer & Associates, NewtonCPA, PLLC | 7 | 4 | 2026-10-02 |
| Valdosta, GA | Stevens & Keesling, Hughes & Associates: Accounting & Retirement Services, North Star CPA, Stout, Sheffield & Associates, PC, Aprio | 5 | 4 | 2026-10-02 |
| Abilene, TX | Condley and Company, L.L.P., Wolfe and Company, P.C., Jerry Love CPA, Borden Duffel PC, Randy L Crews CPA PLLC, Kingdom Bookkeeping & Business Services | 6 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Bowling Green, KY | Hilliard CPA Group, Taylor Polson & Co CPAs, Bowling Green Bookkeeping, Payroll & Taxes LLC, Shelton CPAs, LLP, Hensley & Throneberry, CPAs, Forvis Mazars, LLP | 6 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Findlay, OH | Coward, Pinski & Associates LLC, Bosse Financial Services, Gilmore Jasion Mahler, LTD (GJM) | 3 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Frederick, MD | DeLeon & Stang, CPAs & Advisors, Monocacy CPAs and Advisors, Mercer Flanagan, Hildebrand Limparis & Associates, Cornerstone Accounting Services | 5 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Johnson City, TN | Johnson City CPA, Todd Mussard, CPA, Eddy, CPA PC, Blackburn, Childers & Steagall (BCS), Knob Creek Professional Accounting, Salt of the Earth CPA | 6 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Muncie, IN | Whitinger & Company LLC, Estep Burkey Simmons, LLC, Cardinal CPA Group, LLC, Swift & Associates, Miller & Company Accounting & Tax Services, T & L Waters Accounting | 6 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Owensboro, KY | Alexander & Company CPAs PSC, Ebelhar Whitehead, PLLC, ATA (formerly Vernon E. Wathen CPA), Evolution Accounting, Integrative Accounting Solutions, PLLC | 5 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Panama City, FL | Lark Group CPAs, Weymer & Associates, CPA, Lemasters, Beacon Accounting, Howell CPA Group | 5 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Saginaw, MI | Yeo & Yeo CPAs & Advisors, Gardner, Provenzano, Thomas & Luplow, P.C., Roberts Boehler & Fisher PC, Norton & Kidd CPAs, P.C., Nivison & Associates, Scioli & Associates | 6 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Stillwater, OK | FSW&B CPAs, Duncan, Onley & Watkins, P.C., CBEW, Stillwater Tax Service, Sloan Business Advisory and Tax Solutions, Steven F. Cundiff, CPA, Julie A. Ward, CPA | 7 | 3 | 2026-10-02 |
| Jonesboro, AR | M & S Financial, Tinsley Tax, LLC, The Ledger Company, NEA Financial Services, LLC, Landmark CPAs, Quraishi Law Firm & Wealth Management | 6 | 2 | 2026-10-02 |
| Joplin, MO | A.Z. Professionals, Davis CPA Group, Jordan CPA Services, Hardy Wrestler & Associates, AOE Bookkeeping & Accounting Services, Chris D. Churchwell, CPA | 6 | 2 | 2026-10-02 |
| Midland, MI | Stephen A Midcalf PC, Yeo & Yeo CPAs & Advisors, Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC (AHP), Litherland Tax & Accounting Services, McDonald & Associates CPAs, Lisa M. Whyte, CPA | 6 | 2 | 2026-10-02 |
| St. Joseph, MO | Goff Accounting & Tax Services, LLC, Liechti & Gawatz, LLC, Sumner, Carter, Hardy & Schwichtenberg, PC, Martin & Hanway CPA's, P.C., W. Douglas Everett CPA | 5 | 2 | 2026-10-02 |
| Tyler, TX | Henry & Peters, PC, Gollob Morgan Peddy (GMP), Squyres & Co., LLP, Jacob George, CPA, PC, Joseph George, CPA, PLLC, Massing & Elliott CPA's PLLC | 6 | 2 | 2026-10-02 |
| Wichita Falls, TX | Freemon, Shapard & Story, MWH Group, PC, Schultz & Co., CPA's, Cremeens, Harris, Cavett & Co., LLP, Welch Sanders & Associates LLP, Lucus McCord & Orsak CPAs | 6 | 2 | 2026-10-02 |
| Columbia, MO | Columbia CPA Group, LLC, Accounting Plus, Joel Eisleben, CPA, Squires Tax Planning, Wassman CPA Services LLC | 5 | 1 | 2026-10-02 |
| Conway, AR | JSA Accounting Solutions, Strategic Tax Planning, PLLC, CH Sanders, PLLC, Blueprint Tax Advisors, The Mackey Firm, Allison Smith & Associates | 6 | 1 | 2026-10-02 |
| Morgantown, WV | Melissa Powers CPA & Associates PLLC, Premier Tax Consulting, LLC, Hardesty & Associates, AC, Gray, Griffith & Mays Morgantown, PLLC, Keestone Tax Services, LLC | 5 | 1 | 2026-10-02 |
Source: KKV Labs screening and Google AI Mode answers captured October 2, 2026. 31 cities, 174 firm names. Download the city data (CSV). What we do for CPA firms. How we measure this is the method behind this index and every other one on this site: the question, the tier rules and the limits.
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Citation
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Download the city data (CSV). Every city, every firm the answer named, and the date.
- The city sample
- 31 US cities across 18 states. We found 105 CPA firm websites in them, 1 to 7 per city, and the screener opened and read 101. That is the sample behind the city table.
- The AI answers
- One question per city, "best CPA in [City] [State]", asked in Google AI Mode from a fresh logged out session on October 2, 2026. We wrote down every firm the answer named, in the order it named them. Answers change, so this is a dated snapshot, not a ranking.
- The homepage crawl
- On the same day we opened 340 CPA firm homepages and counted 307. 132 are firms in the 31 index cities, including the named firms' own sites. The other 175 come from a list of CPA firms we built in July 2026, in towns outside those cities, added to widen the crawl. 9 sites turned the crawler away and 23 gave back nothing we could use.
- What the crawler reads
- The homepage HTML and the robots.txt file: known scripts, links, markup and words. A firm can use a tool without it showing here, so every share is a floor. A site is counted only when its own words or links show accounting work, which dropped 1 of 308.
- Named versus unnamed
- The named group is the 65 counted sites whose firm Google AI Mode listed in its own city's answer. The other 242 are everyone else. The comparison shows what the named group happened to have. It does not show why they were named, and this page never says it does.
- How a city was coloured
- By the length of the answer alone: three or more firms named is open. All 31 cities named three or more, so every city in this index is open.
Caveats
What this data cannot tell you.
Read these before you quote a number from this page. They are the limits of the run, printed here so nobody has to find them later.
- A same day comparison, not a cause
- Firms get named for reasons a homepage crawl cannot see: their Google profile, reviews elsewhere, years in town, size and who links to them. Nothing on this page is a ranking factor, and nothing on it is about the quality of any firm's work.
- Everyone else includes firms outside the index cities
- 175 of the 242 unnamed sites are firms in other towns, from our July 2026 list. Nobody asked AI about their towns, so they were never in a position to be named. They make the crawl bigger and the comparison looser.
- The robots.txt reading has limits
- We record whether a robots.txt names a crawler in a rule that shuts it out. For the CPA Site Solutions sites we also re-read every robots.txt on 2 Oct 2026: each one lets in OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot and Perplexity-User and shuts out the crawlers it does not name. We did not run that second check on the other sites.
- 108 named firms have no website we could match
- The answers gave 174 firm names. We matched a website to 66 of them and read 65 distinct sites. The rest stay in the city table, which is built from names, and are left out of the named versus unnamed comparison, which is built from websites.
- 25 matches were thrown out before we published
- Every matched site was checked by hand against the name the answer gave. A match was removed when it was a different firm, or when the page could not be read to check it. We never kept a guess we could not confirm.
- A few names appear in more than one city
- 3 of the 174 names repeat a name already given in another city of the same state: Henry & Peters, PC in Longview and Tyler; Sexton & Schnoll in Gainesville and Ocala; Yeo & Yeo CPAs & Advisors in Midland and Saginaw. The page counts names across answers, not separate firms.
- Small bases on some rows
- The named group is 65 sites, so one firm moves a named share by about 2 points. Quote the shares with their site counts, and never as twice as likely.
Cite this report
KKV Labs (2026). The Accountant AI Visibility Index, October 2026 edition. KKV Labs LLC. https://www.kkvlabs.com/research/accountant-ai-visibility-index-2026
Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Data
31 US cities, crawled October 2, 2026, 307 CPA firm homepages read. Columns: cityState, state, sitesScreened, noSchema, noViewport, staleCopyright, firmsNamed, namedFirms, tier, aiCheckedOn.
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