Index
AIsubtext · Annual Benchmark · 2026

The AI
Index

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Brands Tracked
Categories Analyzed
Brands Losing the Battle
Best Category Average
The Index

Recommendation Share by Category

The AI Index ranks who holds the largest share of AI recommendations in every category. Click any sector to see the leaders, find the gaps, and discover where your brand stands.

Index Finding

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Most brands don't know
their Recommendation Share.

Run a free audit to measure how often ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, and Mistral recommend you, and how that compares to your category leaders.

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Methodology

The Methodology

The Index score is a direct-recall check, not the full audit framework used in client reports — it tells you whether AI engines know your brand exists, not whether they'd recommend you unprompted.

01
Direct Query

Each engine is asked directly about the company by name: what it does and who its customers are.

02
4-Engine Testing

Each query runs across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Mistral so we can compare how different systems describe the same brand.

03
Mention Scoring

The score is the share of engines that produced a substantive answer naming the brand — a recall check, not a ranked-recommendation score.

Scores reflect AI outputs observed during the current index cycle · The full 6-engine, unprompted-recommendation audit (used in paid client reports) is a separate, deeper methodology · hello@aisubtext.ai

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about your brand?

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