Research
What AI engines do when people ask about local businesses.
Original research from Cloute's dataset of AI answers, sources and crawler visits. Free to cite with a link, and the data is open on GitHub.
AI names a local business 84% of the time when it has read the business's own page. 16% when it has not.64,441 AI answers about local businesses: engines named the business 84% of the time after reading its own page, 16% without.Which AI crawlers read local business websites: 80,000+ visits from 19 crawlersServer-log data from 80,000+ AI crawler visits to local business pages in 2026: ClaudeBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot and more.Which AI visibility companies do AI engines recommend? The AEO Vendor Visibility Index, October 2026We asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity 37 questions about AEO and AI visibility tools, 444 answers. Which vendors they named, and how often.How Cloute measures AI visibilityHow Cloute collects, reads and counts AI answers, AI citations and AI crawler visits, and the rules that keep every published figure honest.
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