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How do AI search engines decide which brands to recommend? We track 5 B2B SaaS categories weekly to find out.
Key findings
50%
Five AI engines, same question. Half the time they recommend different brands at #1.
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of AI citations come from third-party sites. Review platforms, Reddit, YouTube, documentation. Not your own website.
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Reddit URLs Grok cited in a single weekly scan. Perplexity and Claude cited zero. Ever.
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ChatGPT is the most likely engine to link to your own website. Grok: 8.5%. Claude: 6%.
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Perplexity has never recommended a startup at #1. Claude does it 44% of the time. Same query, opposite outcome.
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Cross-engine agreement on who deserves the #1 spot. Five engines, five different opinions.
Read moreHow we collect this data
Every week, we run the same natural-language queries across five major AI search engines. We record which brands get recommended, which sources get cited, and how answers change over time. The data covers 5 B2B SaaS categories: CRM, Project Management, Email Marketing, Analytics, and Dev Tools.
5 categories of B2B SaaS with mix of enterprise, midmarket, and startup brands
Natural-language queries matching real user behavior, not SEO keyword phrases
Weekly collection since March 2026 with monthly and quarterly aggregation
Latest findings
June 3, 2026
Most AI Citations Come from Third-Party Sites, Not Your Website
77% or more of AI citations come from third-party sites like Reddit, G2, YouTube, and editorial roundups. Only ChatGPT links to brand websites at a meaningful rate (~23%). Here's where the rest come from.
Read moreJune 3, 2026
ChatGPT Links to Brand Websites More Than Any Other AI Search Engine
ChatGPT links to brand websites in 22.9% of citations. Grok: 8.5%. Claude: 6.0%. Our data across 1,313 citation URLs shows ChatGPT is the only engine where your own website meaningfully drives AI citations.
Read moreJune 3, 2026
Perplexity Has a 0% Startup Citation Rate. Claude Is at 44%.
Perplexity cited zero startup brands across three consecutive weeks. Claude cited startups in 44% of its citations in the same period. Same queries, opposite outcomes. Here's what it means for startups.
Read moreJune 1, 2026
Loudmink Research: What the Data Shows About AI Search
Loudmink tracked 25 B2B SaaS brands across 5 AI search engines over multiple research cycles. Here is what the data shows about AI search citations, engine disagreement, and brand visibility.
Read moreMay 11, 2026
From Zero AI Citations to Every Search Engine in 3 Weeks
ActiveCampaign went from zero AI citations to universal citation across all five AI search engines in 3 weeks. The driver was not third-party reviews. It was brand-owned comparison content.
Read moreMay 11, 2026
2 B2B Brands Mentioned by Every AI Engine. Neither Got Cited.
Loudmink tracked 25 B2B brands across 5 AI search engines for 8 consecutive weeks. ClickUp and Google Analytics were mentioned by every engine in every cycle, yet neither received a single citation. The brands that do get cited publish comparison content on their own domains. Here is the playbook.
Read moreMay 4, 2026
We Lost One AI Engine. Reddit Citations Collapsed 91%.
When Grok went offline, Reddit URLs in AI search dropped from 35 to 3. A natural experiment proves Reddit visibility in AI is a single-engine phenomenon.
Read moreApril 29, 2026
One AI Engine Now Drives 77% of All Reddit Citations
Grok cited 27 Reddit URLs in Week 6 of Loudmink's citation study, a 440% increase from the previous week. Grok now accounts for 77% of all Reddit citations across five AI search engines.
Read moreApril 25, 2026
How Often Do AI Search Engines Agree? We Tracked 8 Weeks.
Loudmink tracked 5 AI search engines across 8 research cycles. Full agreement on the #1 recommendation jumped from 5% to 25% in a single week, proving that single-snapshot monitoring is even more unreliable than static disagreement.
Read moreApril 25, 2026
Grok Drives 60% of Reddit Citations in AI Search
Grok accounts for 60% of all Reddit citations across AI search engines. When Grok went offline, Reddit citations collapsed 91%. When it came back, Reddit bounced immediately. The causation is proven.
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