What does Google AI Mode visibility work involve?
Broadcastwell measures and fixes whether AI search engines name B2B software companies.
Run the free checkGoogle AI Mode visibility work means asking AI Mode your agreed buyer questions on their own line, apart from Google AI Overviews, keeping each answer and its sources, repairing the page or source behind a missing or wrong answer, and asking again on the same terms. It is part of every offer, never sold alone, and nothing we do can make AI Mode name a vendor.
Updated 9 November 2026.
We record ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, and the two Google products separately because they answer differently. AI Mode had the least stable answers of the five in our September 2026 Index.
Google AI Mode in the September Index
| Measure, September 2026 | Google AI Mode | All five engines |
|---|---|---|
| Valid target answers | 420 of 420 attempts | 2,095 of 2,100 attempts |
| Cited entries | 1,577 | 18,893 |
| Answers with no cited entry | 29 of 420, 6.9% (4.9% to 9.7%) | 39 of 2,095, 1.9% (1.4% to 2.5%) |
| Vendor sites in cited entries | 617 of 1,577, 39.1% (36.7% to 41.6%) | 5,766 of 18,893, 30.5% (29.9% to 31.2%) |
| Review platforms in cited entries | 123 of 1,577, 7.8% (6.6% to 9.2%) | 1,706 of 18,893, 9.0% (8.6% to 9.4%) |
| Checked-vendor names | 1,556 | 8,085 |
| Vendor-question cells named in one or two of three runs | 345 of 2,860, 12.1% (10.9% to 13.3%) | 1,259 of 14,192, 8.9% (8.4% to 9.4%) |
Measured. In 345 of 2,860 vendor-question cells with three valid runs, Google AI Mode named the vendor in only one or two of them, 12.1%, the highest share of the five engines. It also had the most valid answers without any cited entry, 29 of 420 (6.9%), and the fewest cited entries overall, 1,577. Vendor sites took 39.1% of those entries, the second highest share after ChatGPT. AI Mode produced 1,556 checked-vendor names.
Google AI Mode's most-named vendors by category
| Category | Valid Google AI Mode answers | Google AI Mode checked-vendor names | Named most by Google AI Mode | Top three share of Google AI Mode names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction software | 30 | 103 | Procore, Buildertrend, Contractor Foreman | 50.5% (41.0% to 59.9%) |
| CRM software | 30 | 93 | HubSpot CRM, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Pipedrive | 67.7% (57.7% to 76.4%) |
| Dealership software | 30 | 126 | CDK Global, DealerCenter, Tekion | 39.7% (31.6% to 48.4%) |
| Dental software | 30 | 156 | Curve Dental, Dentrix, Open Dental | 50.6% (42.9% to 58.4%) |
| Field service software | 30 | 108 | ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Workiz | 58.3% (48.9% to 67.2%) |
| Hotel software | 30 | 93 | Cloudbeds, Stayntouch, Little Hotelier | 49.5% (39.5% to 59.4%) |
| Insurance agency software | 30 | 121 | Applied Systems, EZLynx, HawkSoft | 56.2% (47.3% to 64.7%) |
| Legal practice software | 30 | 124 | Clio, 8am MyCase, Filevine | 49.2% (40.6% to 57.9%) |
| Loan origination software | 30 | 107 | nCino, MeridianLink, ICE Mortgage Technology | 45.8% (36.7% to 55.2%) |
| Project management software | 30 | 91 | Asana, ClickUp, Jira | 59.3% (49.1% to 68.9%) |
| Property management software | 30 | 105 | Buildium, AppFolio, DoorLoop | 55.2% (45.7% to 64.4%) |
| Radiology software | 30 | 103 | Intelerad, Sectra, Visage Imaging | 53.4% (43.8% to 62.7%) |
| Transportation software | 30 | 100 | Alvys, AscendTMS, SAP Transportation Management | 37.0% (28.2% to 46.8%) |
| Veterinary software | 30 | 126 | ezyVet, IDEXX (Cornerstone, Neo), DaySmart Vet | 48.4% (39.9% to 57.1%) |
Pooled category figures are on our industry benchmarks.
Google AI Mode in each offer
| Offer | Google AI Mode coverage |
|---|---|
| Live question, $19 once | AI Mode answers your question three times within the 15 planned answers, delivered within 24 hours of payment |
| Answer Repair, $490 once | One AI Mode answer at Ready, with any sources it gave, sits in the five-answer record |
| Agency Deadline Audit, $490 per client report | AI Mode contributes 30 of the 150 observations |
| Fix Sprint, $3,900 ($3,410 after the $490 credit) | AI Mode reported on its own at day 0 and day 30, never merged with Overviews |
| Care, $490 a month | Monthly AI Mode evidence, read across runs rather than from one answer |
| Program, $5,500 a month | AI Mode in each monthly measurement report |
Our operating framework quotes each clock and refund, and the service model lists the workstreams.
Google changes we track for AI Mode
Google posts dated 2 September and 13 October 2026 describe new models reaching AI Mode in Search, with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers named in the stated scope. Under our release annotation rules, a paid-plan scope tells us nothing about what our captures used, so we record the scope and infer nothing further. Google Analytics' default channel group, read 9 November 2026, counts visits from AI Overviews and AI Mode as Organic Search and excludes both from its AI Assistant channel, so AI Mode visits do not appear there.
Where Google AI Mode work starts
Reasoned. With one cell in eight changing across three runs, a single AI Mode answer is weak evidence in either direction. We judge an AI Mode absence across the repeats, and treat a change between captures as real only when the 95 percent intervals separate, as our published method requires.
Sources
- Broadcastwell, The Absence Index, release 2026-09, release record, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695; target answers captured 22 and 23 September 2026, published 23 September 2026.
- Broadcastwell, Google AI Mode rows of the answer citation bases, post-audit source classes, repeat disagreement, vendor concentration and excluded answers tables, report DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23804758. The names total sums the fourteen Google AI Mode rows of the concentration table.
- Google blog posts dated 2 September and 13 October 2026, as listed in our model release tracker, read 9 November 2026.
- Google Analytics Help, Default channel group, read 9 November 2026 (no date shown).
- Broadcastwell, Pricing and Methodology, read 9 November 2026.
Related: Google AI Overviews visibility, our Google AI answers, and the three measured rates.