AI readiness leaderboard · HR and payroll

AI readiness of greenhouse.com: 85/100

85/100

We checked greenhouse.com on 2026-10-18 with our free checker: six scored tests plus evidence for each finding. The score reflects the site on that date. The site may have changed after that date.

Test	Result	Points
llms.txt	No	0 of 15
JSON-LD schema on the homepage	Yes	20 of 20
Meta description	Yes	10 of 10
Text readable without JavaScript	Yes	20 of 20
Sitemap	Yes	10 of 10
AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt	8 of 8	25 of 25

Compared with HR and payroll

greenhouse.com ranks 13 of 18 hr and payroll sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 100. 10 of 18 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

Fixllms.txt found, with gaps

First line: "## Official Information About Greenhouse". 22 ## sections, 0 links, 20958 bytes.

Fix: First line should be a # heading with your site or company name. Add a one-line > summary under the heading. Only 0 markdown links. List your key pages as [name](url): notes.

Improve2 H1 headings

<h1>Hiring. Orchestrated.</h1>
<h1>Every candidate gets a real shot. You get a real signal.</h1>

Fix: Use one <h1> that states the main topic of the page.

FixServer responded in 2132 ms

Time to response headers from our checker, after 1 redirect. Final URL: https://www.greenhouse.com/

Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.

ImproveHTML size 464 KB, 47 script tags

3 render-blocking scripts in <head>: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.6.26/webfont.js

Fix: Large HTML slows crawlers and tools with size limits. Move inline data and scripts out of the HTML.

17 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_page=
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_page=
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_page=
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_page=
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_page=
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_page=
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_page=
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_page=
Group "*" has no rule for /.

NoteNo llms-full.txt

GET /llms-full.txt returned 404.

Fix: Optional: publish /llms-full.txt with the full text of key pages for tools that want more than a map.

PassJSON-LD: 1 block, types Organization, ImageObject

Every typed block has its required properties.

PassTitle, 26 characters

<title>Greenhouse | Hiring system</title>

PassMeta description, 144 characters

content="Greenhouse is more than a hiring platform or ATS. We’re a complete hiring ecosystem that brings employers and job seekers together in one place."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Greenhouse | Hiring system
og:description: Greenhouse is more than a hiring platform or ATS. We’re a complete hiring ecosystem that …
og:image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6668a687e71e2722fccb8357/6ace6fc70fd34fa058ef1a32_2-0_…

PassCanonical link set

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.greenhouse.com/">

PassLanguage declared: en-US

<html lang="en-US">

Pass9,227 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Greenhouse | Hiring system Skip to Content For employers Orchestrated Hiring Ecosystem Everything it takes to hire, in one place Sourcing Signal you can trust …"

PassSitemap found, 603+ URLs

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.greenhouse.com/sitemap.xml
GET https://www.greenhouse.com/sitemap.xml returned 200.

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Scoring: llms.txt 15, JSON-LD 20, meta description 10, readable text 20, sitemap 10, AI crawler access 25. Want this page changed or removed? Email [email protected].

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