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RA-WP-2026-01 · 8 October 2026

Onsite listicles still work (if your offsite game is solid)

262 AI answers, 2,413 citations. Engines named a company 86% of the time when citing its own service page and 44% when citing a 'best of' list on its own site.

Visibility indexes

17 October 2026

AI agent security vendor Visibility Index

How often ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name AI agent security vendors across 112 buyer questions. 447 vendors were named across the three engines; two were each named in roughly three answers in ten.
18 October 2026

AI SOC analyst vendor Visibility Index

How often ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name AI SOC analyst vendors across 112 buyer questions. Dropzone AI was named in 51.3% of answers and placed first on all three engines.
18 October 2026

AI governance software vendor Visibility Index

How often ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name AI governance software vendors across 112 buyer questions. Credo AI was named in 49.3% of answers and placed first on all three engines, with IBM second.

Case studies

October 2026

Can a new site become a source AI engines cite and recommend?

We launched a brand new site and measured whether AI engines would cite and recommend it. Within six weeks it was the site they cited most on small-business security questions, but each engine behaved very differently.

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