Drisya AI Readiness Index: how ready are Nepal's websites for AI?
We checked 22 commercial websites serving Nepal to see what an AI crawler could discover on their public homepages and at standard file locations. This edition excludes public agencies and state-controlled operators.
Key findings
Results from the public-page checks on 5 November 2026. Scores use Drisya’s rubric and describe this sample.
Average score out of 100 across the websites in this edition.
Highest score, shared by Yeti Airlines and Nabil Bank.
Sectors represented in the published sample.
Checks per website, grouped into six categories.
Ranking
Select a website for its full report and what to fix first.
What we check
- AI discovery (20%): robots.txt, rules for AI crawlers, sitemap, llms.txt
- Agent protocols (20%): MCP server, agent skills, API catalog, OpenAPI
- Nepal readiness (20%): legacy Preeti-style fonts, Unicode Nepali, information locked in PDFs, NPR prices, eSewa, Khalti and Fonepay
- Structured data (15%), content (15%) and security (10%)
How to read the scores
We checked each site's homepage and standard files such as robots.txt and llms.txt, the way an AI crawler would. A site can do better deeper inside.
Sector averages
- Insurance: 49
- Airlines: 48
- Telecom: 48
- Banking: 47
- Media: 45
- Payments: 45
- Commerce: 40
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