§ Vol. 14 · Q1 2026

AI Visibility Insights.

Monthly research on how AI platforms recommend brands. Category benchmarks, model behavior shifts, and the AEO playbook — straight from our team.

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§ 01 — Featured

This quarter's flagship.

Our largest field study to date — 12,000 buyer prompts across 80 categories, 5 engines, weekly captures.

Q1 2026 · Field Report · 18 min read

The State of AI Brand Recommendations: Q1 2026.

How buyers are using ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews to make purchase decisions — and what every category leader needs to know about replacement rates, citation graphs, and the new battleground for category dominance.

By the SearchDaddy, Inc. team·April 18, 2026

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All AEO Tactics Case Studies Platform Updates Research Reports Industry Benchmarks

Recent writing.

Platform Updates

How ChatGPT's October Update Changed Brand Mentions.

The shift in how GPT-5 surfaces brand recommendations — measured against our 12k-prompt index before and after the rollout.

9 min readApr 14, 2026

AEO Tactics

The 47-Point AEO Audit Methodology.

A line-by-line breakdown of every signal we measure when scoring a brand's AI visibility — and how each one is weighted.

14 min readApr 02, 2026

AEO Tactics

Why Schema Still Beats Content for AI Visibility.

A controlled study across 200 sites: how much movement comes from schema deployment alone, holding content constant.

11 min readMar 27, 2026

Case Studies

Case Study: How Brandon Ford 38×'d His SOV.

A 90-day teardown of how one mid-market SaaS brand climbed from 0% to 38% AI Share of Voice across all five engines.

16 min readMar 14, 2026

Industry Benchmarks

Category Report: SaaS AI Visibility Benchmarks.

How 80 SaaS categories actually score on AI Share of Voice — distribution, leaders, and the long tail of invisible brands.

22 min readMar 06, 2026

Research Reports

AI Engine Crawler Behavior — A 2026 Analysis.

Twelve months of crawler logs across 400 sites. How often each AI engine actually visits, what they fetch, and why it matters.

13 min readFeb 19, 2026