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What three AI answer engines cited on 24 September 2026.
On 24 September 2026 we captured 95 answers from 40 question prompts across Perplexity, Google AI Mode and ChatGPT, and recorded every domain each answer cited. This page is the public write-up of that run, including what it cannot tell you.
- Answers captured
- 95
- Question prompts
- 40
- Engines
- 3
- Run date
- 24 September 2026
Method
How we ran the baseline.
Forty question prompts covering the categories a buyer searches before shortlisting an AI implementation partner were put to three answer engines. Every answer was saved with its citation list. ChatGPT covered the vendor and brand subset; the other two engines covered all 40 prompts.
- Perplexity
- 40 answers
- Google AI Mode
- 40 answers
- ChatGPT
- 15 answers, a vendor and brand subset of the same prompts
Result
Outproduce was named in 2 of the 95 answers.
Both were brand queries, meaning the prompt already contained our name, and our site was cited as a source in 1 answer. Those counts establish the starting point for later checks.
- linkedin.com
- 33 answers
- youtube.com
- 24 answers
- reddit.com
- 21 answers
- clutch.co
- 3 answers
Not claimed
What this baseline does not establish.
- The sample is 95 answers from 40 question prompts, and the three engine samples are unequal.
- One run per prompt. A second run on the same day can return different answers and different citations.
- Google AI Mode was queried from a Latvian IP address, and the ChatGPT prompts ran in temporary signed-in chats. Both affect what an engine returns.
- Because the samples are unequal and single-run, these counts do not compare the engines against each other and say nothing about how often a domain is cited across the wider web.
- This is a starting measurement. It is not a promise that any later work will change how often a site is cited or where it ranks.
Start here
Show us the workflow.
Tell us what starts it, who owns the result, which tools carry it, and where it stalls. We will tell you whether it is ready to map.
The workflow repeats
One person owns the result
The records exist
Several tools carry the work