Is there a print edition of our research?
Broadcastwell measures and fixes whether AI search engines name B2B software companies.
Run the free checkYes. The print edition of Study 1, The Shortlist Gap, is a free 22-page PDF on US Letter paper: one cover sheet with the citation, print settings and the original file's checksum, followed by the unchanged 21-page report of 26 September 2026. Print it at home or at any print shop. This page and our research report list also print cleanly.
Updated 9 November 2026.
We publish the edition as a print-ready file rather than posting copies, so anyone can hold the same pages without an order, a form or a wait.
The file
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Download | The Shortlist Gap, print edition, 9 November 2026 (PDF) |
| Pages | 22: one cover sheet and the 21 report pages |
| Paper | US Letter, portrait |
| Size | 826 KB |
| Report inside | Study 1, version 1.0, published 26 September 2026 |
| Original report SHA-256 | 21d03ff5eb70575ca59ad548b2930919bf1aeb3ad5e760621ac307cc73e8e881 |
| License | CC BY 4.0, with attribution to Broadcastwell |
The study counts which of 286 checked software vendors ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode named in 2,095 valid answers to 140 buyer questions, captured 22 to 23 September 2026. Its first page reports that 46 of the 286 vendors, 16.1 percent (95 percent interval 12.3 to 20.8 percent), were never named.
How the edition was made, and how to check it
We placed one new cover sheet in front of the published report and changed nothing else. Every report page carries the same page content as the original PDF, and the file has two bookmarks, one for the cover and one for the report.
To check it yourself:
- Open the edition and confirm it has 22 pages and that page 2 is the report's first page.
- Download the original report and compute its SHA-256 value; it should match the value printed on the cover sheet and in the table above.
- Compare any page of the edition with the same page of the original, one page later in the edition.
The checksum list records the SHA-256 value of the edition file itself as well.
Print settings
- Scale: actual size, 100 percent. Fit-to-page scaling shrinks the text.
- Sides: two-sided, flip on the long edge. The 22 pages print on 11 sheets.
- Order: keep the cover sheet first, so the citation and checksum stay with the copy.
Printing our web pages
This page, our research report list and any page that links the same stylesheet print with a print stylesheet of 9 November 2026. It sets US Letter margins, removes the site header, navigation, search and footer, keeps tables and figures from splitting across pages, and prints the address of each outside link after its text, so a printed page still shows where every source lives. You can read the stylesheet itself.
How to cite the printed copy
Cite the report's DOI record, not the print file: Broadcastwell Research (2026), The Shortlist Gap: which of 286 software vendors AI engines name when buyers ask, across 14 categories and five engines, version 1.0, 10.5281/zenodo.22982426. Our citation page gives the same record in APA, Chicago, BibTeX and RIS, and our open data catalog lists the release files the study is built from.
Sources
- Broadcastwell Research, Study 1, The Shortlist Gap, version 1.0, published 26 September 2026, PDF, first-page figures read 9 November 2026.
- Broadcastwell, Absence Index release 2026-09, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.
- Broadcastwell, print edition and print stylesheet, both dated 9 November 2026.
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