What do we do about Perplexity visibility?
Broadcastwell measures and fixes whether AI search engines name B2B software companies.
Run the free checkFor Perplexity visibility we do what every offer does for each engine, with Perplexity reported apart: put your agreed buyer questions to Perplexity, keep each answer and every source it cites, repair the page or outside source behind a wrong or missing answer, and re-check. No offer covers Perplexity alone, and we cannot make Perplexity include you.
Updated 9 November 2026.
Our captures ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode the same questions. Perplexity stood out in the September 2026 Index by the sheer number of sources it cited, and by how few of them were vendor websites.
Perplexity in the September Index
| Measure, September 2026 | Perplexity | All five engines |
|---|---|---|
| Valid target answers | 420 of 420 attempts | 2,095 of 2,100 attempts |
| Cited entries | 8,298 | 18,893 |
| Answers with no cited entry | 0 of 420, 0.0% (0.0% to 0.9%) | 39 of 2,095, 1.9% (1.4% to 2.5%) |
| Vendor sites in cited entries | 1,599 of 8,298, 19.3% (18.4% to 20.1%) | 5,766 of 18,893, 30.5% (29.9% to 31.2%) |
| Review platforms in cited entries | 979 of 8,298, 11.8% (11.1% to 12.5%) | 1,706 of 18,893, 9.0% (8.6% to 9.4%) |
| Checked-vendor names | 1,642 | 8,085 |
| Vendor-question cells named in one or two of three runs | 200 of 2,860, 7.0% (6.1% to 8.0%) | 1,259 of 14,192, 8.9% (8.4% to 9.4%) |
Measured. Perplexity cited 8,298 entries across 420 valid answers, more than ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode together. Vendor sites were the smallest share of any engine, 19.3%, while review platforms (11.8%), directories and listicles (7.9%) and news and trade media (6.2%) each took a larger share than on ChatGPT. Half of its entries, 50.4%, sat in "other". Its answers carried 1,642 checked-vendor names in all.
Perplexity's most-named vendors by category
| Category | Valid Perplexity answers | Perplexity checked-vendor names | Named most by Perplexity | Top three share of Perplexity names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction software | 30 | 115 | Procore, Contractor Foreman, Buildertrend | 47.0% (38.1% to 56.0%) |
| CRM software | 30 | 103 | HubSpot CRM, Pipedrive, Salesforce Sales Cloud | 64.1% (54.5% to 72.7%) |
| Dealership software | 30 | 122 | DealerCenter, CDK Global, Tekion | 39.3% (31.1% to 48.2%) |
| Dental software | 30 | 146 | Open Dental, Curve Dental, Dentrix | 44.5% (36.7% to 52.6%) |
| Field service software | 30 | 124 | Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, FieldPulse | 41.9% (33.6% to 50.7%) |
| Hotel software | 30 | 123 | Cloudbeds, Stayntouch, Hotelogix | 39.8% (31.6% to 48.7%) |
| Insurance agency software | 30 | 120 | Applied Systems, EZLynx, HawkSoft | 54.2% (45.3% to 62.8%) |
| Legal practice software | 30 | 125 | Clio, 8am MyCase, PracticePanther | 50.4% (41.8% to 59.0%) |
| Loan origination software | 30 | 109 | nCino, MeridianLink, Abrigo | 39.4% (30.8% to 48.8%) |
| Project management software | 30 | 85 | Asana, ClickUp, Wrike | 60.0% (49.4% to 69.8%) |
| Property management software | 30 | 129 | Buildium, AppFolio, DoorLoop | 45.7% (37.4% to 54.3%) |
| Radiology software | 30 | 116 | Sectra, Intelerad, Visage Imaging | 40.5% (32.0% to 49.6%) |
| Transportation software | 30 | 112 | AscendTMS, Alvys, Infios (MercuryGate) | 29.5% (21.8% to 38.5%) |
| Veterinary software | 30 | 113 | ezyVet, IDEXX (Cornerstone, Neo), DaySmart Vet | 47.8% (38.8% to 56.9%) |
Pooled figures for each category are on our industry benchmarks; this table is Perplexity alone.
Perplexity in each offer
| Offer | The Perplexity part |
|---|---|
| Live question, $19 once | Perplexity's three runs are 3 of the 15 planned answers, each saved with all of its cited sources, within 24 hours of payment |
| Answer Repair, $490 once | The Ready record keeps Perplexity's answer and its full source list; the fix may be an outside source rather than your page |
| Agency Deadline Audit, $490 per client report | Perplexity accounts for 30 of the 150 observations in the client report |
| Fix Sprint, $3,900 ($3,410 after the $490 credit) | Perplexity is a separate row in the day 0 and day 30 evidence |
| Care, $490 a month | Monthly Perplexity evidence and corrections on the review, directory and news pages it cites |
| Program, $5,500 a month | Perplexity in the monthly measurement report and the source-change log |
Each clock and refund term is quoted in our operating framework; the service model maps the offers to their workstreams.
Perplexity changes we track
The Perplexity changelog, read 9 November 2026, names models it added in entries dated 27 July to 5 October 2026, including one dated 21 September 2026, the day before our capture. Perplexity offers models from other providers inside its product, and the changelog does not say which model answers a signed-out search, so we mark the date and infer nothing. The model release tracker keeps the full list.
Where Perplexity work starts
Reasoned. Since vendor sites were under a fifth of Perplexity's citations, a page on your own site is rarely the whole repair. Care and Program work the outside pages Perplexity cites for your category, each change reported with its receipt, and Answer Repair can target an outside source when the evidence points there. That is a reading of this record, not a result.
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, Perplexity 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 Perplexity rows of the concentration table.
- Perplexity changelog, entries dated 27 July to 5 October 2026, read 9 November 2026.
- Broadcastwell, Pricing and Methodology, read 9 November 2026.
Related: our Perplexity answers, the study of who appears in the sources of B2B software answers, and Claude visibility.