Research franchise
AI Recommendation Index
A repeated-prompt study of which companies, products and sources AI assistants name when asked category questions, and how stable those names are across runs.
- Research question
- When an AI assistant is asked a category question, which names appear, how often, and how much does the answer move between identical runs?
- Cadence
- Quarterly, with weekly collection
- Led by
- Nathaniel "Nate" Whitaker, edited by Dr. Annika Holm, PhD
- Next release
- Q4 2026 data release, November 2026
Editions
Methodology release
AI Recommendation Index — Q4 2026
The founding release publishes the prompt set, the repetition protocol and the scoring formula for the AI Recommendation Index before any results are reported.
Published 2026-09-16 · Methodology v1.0