AIGROW for journalists: data on how AI assistants recommend businesses
What AIGROW measures, the latest figures, how to cite them, the data files, the logo and the press contact.
AIGROW publishes measured data on how AI assistants recommend businesses. The AI Visibility Index (September 2026) counted 87,618 answers from 4 assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok) to buyer questions about 35 kinds of business in 108 places. The AI Source Map (October 2026) records which sites were read in 3,256 web answers.
Latest findings
Each figure is computed from the edition data and links to the page it comes from.
AI Source Map (October 2026)
Across 3,256 web answers, the assistants read 23,142 distinct sites, averaging 14.0 sites per answer.
Web answers (ChatGPT): 2,580 answers read 21,592 distinct sites, averaging 15.9 sites per answer.
Web answers (Claude): 676 answers read 2,273 distinct sites, averaging 6.6 sites per answer.
The most read source site was reddit.com, read in 71% of web answers.
At least one of the 5 most read source sites appeared in 2,565 web answers (79%).
AI Visibility Index (September 2026)
- Pages ranked
- 2,398 of 2,400 Source page
- Names per page, average
- 37 Source page
- Leader share, average
- 56% Source page
- Named again on a rerun
- 49% Source page
- Overlap between assistants
- 20% Source page
Datasets
Each dataset is updated monthly and published under CC BY 4.0. Quote it with a credit to AIGROW and a link to its page.
AI Visibility Index
- What it is
- Which businesses the assistants name when a buyer asks them for one, by kind of business and place, with the uncertainty of every share.
- Latest edition
- September 2026
- Updated
- Monthly
- Download
- Download every ranking as CSV
- License
- CC BY 4.0
AI Source Map
- What it is
- The sites the assistants read before they recommend a business, with web search on: by country and by kind of business.
- Latest edition
- October 2026
- Updated
- Monthly
- Download
- Download the data as JSON
- License
- CC BY 4.0
AI search statistics
- What it is
- Numbered findings computed from the AI Source Map, each linked to the table it comes from.
- Latest edition
- October 2026
- Updated
- Monthly
- Download
- Download the findings as JSON
- License
- CC BY 4.0
How to cite
One citation per dataset. Link to the page the figure comes from.
- AI Visibility Index
- AIGROW (2026). AI Visibility Index, September 2026 edition [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23082267
- AI Source Map
- Source: AIGROW AI Source Map, October 2026 https://aigrow.gg/ai-sources
- AI search statistics
- Source: AIGROW AI Source Map, October 2026 https://aigrow.gg/ai-sources/statistics
About AIGROW
AIGROW measures how AI assistants answer buyer questions about businesses and publishes the results as open data. It is operated by a company registered in the United States: PeakCore LLC. Founded in 2025. Founder: Guglielmo Paesano.
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