March 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Performance Beverage

Recess and Kin hold default positions across 58 data points. The Energy/Focus cluster is the most fragmented and the largest open opportunity in the category. ChatGPT and Gemini are returning significantly different brand sets for the same prompts.

March 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Olive Oil

California Olive Ranch and Graza hold default positions. The two most-recommended brands in the dataset are now owned by the same company. No brand has achieved balanced visibility across both ChatGPT and Gemini.

April 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Mindful Drinking

Lyre's, Seedlip, Ritual Zero Proof, and Monday appear in the top five of all five clusters. The #4 brand outpaced #5 by nearly 350 mentions. Claude is a systematic blind spot for emerging craft brands. Perplexity is functioning as a leading indicator for brands whose content is too recent for training-data models.

May 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Better-For-You & Grain-Free Cereal

Kashi leads three of five clusters. Nature's Path has 645 total mentions and only 1 Perplexity mention — the most structurally anomalous finding in this dataset. One Degree leads the Clean Ingredient cluster despite minimal mainstream recognition, built on named farmer sourcing AI systems can find and cite.

May 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Functional & Premium Protein Bars

ALOHA is the only brand with dual-cluster leadership — first in both Health and Clean Ingredient. Claude ranks last by platform volume for the first time in this research series. David Bar launched in 2024 and has zero mentions on Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini — visible only through Perplexity's live retrieval.

April 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Third Wave Coffee Roasters

Onyx Coffee Lab leads at 2,051 total mentions — the only roaster with balanced, high-volume presence across all four platforms. Perplexity is the dominant gap platform across the entire category. The DTC cluster operates on entirely separate content logic from the other four.

April 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Specialty Bakery

Milk Bar leads three of five clusters but ranks 5th in Retail & In-Store despite locations in five major cities. Levain Bakery owns the delivery conversation. Perplexity underperformance is the category's most consistent and addressable platform risk.

April 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Chicago Fine Dining

Alinea dominates with 990 total mentions across four platforms. Kasama generates 105 of its 169 mentions from Gemini alone. Neighborhood queries outside West Loop and River North are effectively unclaimed.

April 2026

AI Visibility Audit: San Francisco Fine Dining

Quince leads at 752 total mentions and three of five clusters — the only SF restaurant AI systems can recommend confidently for destination dining, private events, and special occasions simultaneously. Perplexity is the market's most significant platform gap, affecting even the most acclaimed restaurants.

May 2026

AI Visibility Audit: NYC Fine Dining

The Modern leads at 1,361 total mentions — but 55% come from Gemini alone. Jean-Georges ranks 9th overall with 303 mentions and surfaces only 6 times on Perplexity. New York is the most AI-contested fine dining market in the country.

May 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Los Angeles Fine Dining

Providence leads at 711 mentions — the only restaurant in the top ten with genuine cross-platform balance. Hayato holds a Michelin two-star and receives 7 ChatGPT mentions against 193 on Gemini. The most geographically diffuse fine dining market audited, with 500+ distinct establishments surfaced.

June 2026

AI Recommendation Patterns: National Italian Fine Dining

Osteria Mozza is the only true cross-platform default at 403 total mentions. Del Posto and Spiaggia — both closed in 2021 — together account for 298 mentions, ranking 7th and 9th overall. RPM Italian generates 53 of its 59 total mentions from ChatGPT alone.

June 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Wine Country Dining

Auberge du Soleil leads at 892 total mentions with balanced cross-platform coverage. Claude generated 2,173 mentions versus Gemini's 3,870 — a structural gap across the mid-tier, not isolated cases. Enclos has 330 Gemini mentions but only 23 Claude, the most extreme imbalance in the top tier.

April 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Napa Valley Wineries

Long Meadow Ranch & Farmstead leads at 440 total mentions — its culinary cluster result of 304 is nearly three times the next property. Silver Oak holds 111 Perplexity mentions and only 2 Claude — the starkest platform concentration example in the wine country dataset.

April 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Sonoma County Wineries

A named group of Sonoma properties show strong visibility on Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity with zero presence on Gemini — an addressable content gap, not a reputation problem. The Boutique Discovery cluster rewards winemaker identity and terroir storytelling over marketing spend.

April 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Willamette Valley Wineries

Domaine Serene, Soter, and Stoller lead overall visibility, but ChatGPT and Gemini surface meaningfully different brand sets across the same queries. No single winery dominates cross-platform — making Willamette Valley the most competitively open wine country dataset in the series.

May 2026

AI Visibility Audit: Identity-Forward California Wine

Ridge leads with presence across all five clusters — the only brand with true cross-cluster authority. No identity-forward Black-owned California wine brand currently operates with multi-cluster AI visibility. Every platform concentration gap in this audit points to Perplexity.