We Tracked 143,424 AI Citations. Nearly Half Point Back to the Vendors Being Recommended
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Why I started counting citations At Orbator we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok the same buyer-style questions — "best CRM for a 10-person startup," "best CI/CD tool for a monorepo" — across 271 software categories, every week. We don't just log the answer. We log every source each engine cites before it gives that answer. That's the AI Recommendation Index, and it's been running long enough now that the numbers stopped looking like noise and started looking like a pattern. The…
1Key Takeaways
- Why I started counting citations At Orbator we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok the same buyer-style questions — "best CRM for a 10-person startup," "best CI/CD tool for a monorepo" — across 271 software categories, every week.
- We log every source each engine cites before it gives that answer.
- That's the AI Recommendation Index, and it's been running long enough now that the numbers stopped looking like noise and started looking like a pattern.
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that why I started counting citations At Orbator we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok the same buyer-style questions — "best CRM for a 10-person startup," "best CI/CD tool for a monorepo" — across 271 software categories, every week.
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