Research · Feb – Sep 2026
Experiment: how a new brand gets cited in AI search
I launched Civoryx from scratch and tracked it across top AI search engines to isolate the exact mechanics behind LLM citations.
- 165prompts daily
- 5AI engines
55× more mentionsAI answers were 55× more likely to mention the brand when referencing third-party websites articles rather than standalone pages (16.0% vs 0.29%).
74.9%of answers to questions that named Civoryx cited its own site by September, up from 18.7% in February.
18.7%
44.3%
60.8%
60.2%
65.2%
72.4%
74.9%
February: only the brand’s own site was live. Publishing ended March 31, and nothing changed after that.
8.0%of answers to category questions mentioned Civoryx by September. It stayed around 1% from April through July.
~1%
~1%
~1%
~1%
4.0%
8.0%
Questions without the brand name, like “What is the best global fraud index?” Note the 0–10% scale.
30.6%of category answers on Perplexity named Civoryx in September, the most of the five. Asked by name, every engine mentioned it in 89% to 99% of answers.
Asked by nameAsked about the category
Perplexity
94.5%30.6%
ChatGPT
97.9%8.3%
AI Overviews
94.1%0.6%
Gemini
89.1%0.6%
AI Mode
99.2%0.0%
Share of answers mentioning the brand, September 2026.
