This B2B Business Is Now the Brand AI Recommends First.
What six months of AI search work delivered.
We tracked 100 real buyer questions across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews and set out to make this B2B business the answer AI gives.
buyer questions where AI now names our client first, up from 9 in May.
October 1 to 19, 2026The numbers.
From 9 buyer questions to 70.
Prompts where AI names our client first, by month, since tracking began in May.
Out of 100 tracked buyer questions. October covers October 1 to 19.
From 4th to 1st.
First-place answers across the same 100 buyer questions and four AI engines. Each count is an AI answer that named that brand first. Competitor names are withheld.
August 2026
Our client in 4th place
- 1Industry leader285
- 2Competitor179
- 3Competitor161
- 4Our client94
October 1 to 19, 2026
Our client in 1st place
- 1Our client182
- 2Competitor13
- 3Competitor12
- 4Competitor10
Claude and Gemini now recommend them.
Two engines that barely knew our client in August now name them on most buyer questions.
Claude
50 at #1Named on 60 of 100 buyer questions in October, 50 of them in first place. In August it named them on none.
Gemini
18xNamed on 90 of 100 buyer questions in October, up from 5 in August.
What moved the numbers.
An AI-readable website
Structured data across the site plus an llms.txt file, so AI engines can read who the business is and what it sells.
Expert buyer guides
Practical guides built on the client's own expertise, answering the questions buyers actually ask.
A Wikipedia presence
A listing on a relevant Wikipedia article, a source AI engines lean on heavily.
Community answers
Helpful answers on Reddit and Quora, where AI engines look for real buyer conversations.
100-prompt tracking
100 buyer questions tracked across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, so every gain is measured.
An authority pipeline
Trade and university relationships that turn into credible, independent mentions over time.
See where you show up in AI.
We'll show you which buyer questions name you, which name a competitor instead, and what it would take to change that.
Source: Rankxa AI visibility tracking for this client, 100 buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, May 2026 through October 19, 2026. October figures are partial.