Original AI Search Visibility Research

I do not ask you to trust a score. I show the prompts, competitors, sources, and gaps.

The research layer turns public evidence into practical market tests: who appears, which sources are repeated, what visible businesses have in common, and where a real company becomes difficult to verify.

The latest benchmark link appears only after a real dated report passes the evidence and limitations review.

Research Formats

Three formats. One purpose: make the decision visible.

The Recommendation Gap

A dated city-and-industry benchmark showing which businesses appear across a fixed set of buyer prompts and public AI/search surfaces.

Field Notes

Focused public teardowns explaining one visibility problem, competitor difference, or implementation lesson.

Decision Guides

Direct answers to buyer and operator questions, supported by public research, a practical test, and an implementation checklist.

Latest Research

No finished benchmark is being presented before the evidence exists.

Reports appear here only with a real market, test date, prompt set, evidence count, finding, method, and published limitations. Base2026 remains available for source-level research now.

Method Before Opinion

Every market report uses a visible test protocol.

  1. Choose one market and one industry.

  2. Define a fixed buyer-prompt set.

  3. Test the same public surfaces in the same window.

  4. Record who appears and which sources support the answer.

  5. Compare website, service-page, review, profile, and source signals.

  6. Publish limitations alongside findings.

Base2026 finds patterns. Market research tests them.

Base2026 is the broader public source-intelligence library. The Recommendation Gap and related field research use those patterns as hypotheses, then test them against real businesses, prompts, competitors, and public surfaces.

Choose a research path

Go from method to evidence—or from a market question to a focused first read.

The Recommendation Gap

See the fixed market-test protocol, publication requirements, and current evidence status.

Results & Case Notes

Inspect clearly bounded samples and verified implementation notes without invented attribution.

Industry starting points

Use buyer questions and public-source boundaries adapted to two reviewed service categories.

Practical Insights

Read decision guides that answer a specific visibility question and point to the next useful action.

Apply the Research

A market pattern is not yet a business-specific diagnosis.

To understand what the evidence means for one website, one market, and one set of competitors, start with the Free Snapshot or request a Diagnostic Audit.