claim_id,claim_as_circulated,traces_to,original_url,platform_surface,query_population,denominator,visibility_outcome,collection_window,model_versions,geography,transparency_score,freshness_status,volatility_class,ivris_verdict,last_verified
C01,Third-party sources supply 79.0% of B2B product-query citations,BeVisibleIQ B2B SaaS AI Citation Study,https://bevisibleiq.com/ai-citations-study-2026/,"Perplexity sonar-pro, Gemini 2.5-flash, Claude haiku-4.5 (API)","75 B2B SaaS buyer prompts, 5 buyer stages","Citations (2,020 total)",Visible citation,28 Mar 2026 (single day),Disclosed,Not disclosed,6,Ageing,V3,Usable as stated,2026-07-24
C02,ChatGPT pulls 74.6% of product-query citations from vendor sites,BeVisibleIQ B2B SaaS AI Citation Study,https://bevisibleiq.com/ai-citations-study-2026/,ChatGPT GPT-5.4 (API),Same 75-prompt set,Citations,Visible citation,28 Mar 2026 (single day),Disclosed,Not disclosed,6,Ageing,V4,Usable as stated,2026-07-24
C03,Third-party share rises 65.9% -> 81.7% -> 93.7% by prompt class,BeVisibleIQ B2B SaaS AI Citation Study,https://bevisibleiq.com/ai-citations-study-2026/,"Perplexity, Gemini, Claude pooled",best-X / head-to-head / decision-pricing,Citations,Visible citation,28 Mar 2026,Disclosed,Not disclosed,6,Ageing,V3,Usable as stated,2026-07-24
C04,Brand-owned domains supply 10.15% of citations,Foundation Marketing x AirOps,https://foundationinc.co/lab/foundation-marketing-airops-report,"ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews","50 B2B brands, 7 verticals",57.2M citations / 5.1M responses,Visible citation,Dec 2025 - Feb 2026,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,5,Stale snapshot,V3,Usable as stated,2026-07-24
C05,Brand content in 77.6% of branded-query responses vs 2.2% of unbranded citations,Foundation Marketing x AirOps,https://foundationinc.co/lab/foundation-marketing-airops-report,Five engines pooled,Branded vs category-level prompts,Responses / citations (differs by side),Answer inclusion + citation,Dec 2025 - Feb 2026,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,5,Stale snapshot,V2,Usable as stated - note the two sides use different denominators,2026-07-24
C06,86% of AI citations come from brand-managed sources,Yext,https://www.yext.com/about/news-media/ai-citations-release,"ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity","Retail, financial services, healthcare, food service; branded/unbranded x objective/subjective",6.8M citations / 1.6M responses,Visible citation,1 Jul - 31 Aug 2025,Not disclosed,Worldwide,6,Archival,V3,"Usable with qualification - brand-managed includes listings on third-party domains; population is local/consumer, not B2B SaaS",2026-07-24
C07,About 11% of cited domains appear across multiple engines,Yext (17.2M citation study),https://www.yext.com/about/news-media/ai-citations-release,"ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity",Not disclosed,17.2M citations,Visible citation,Jan 2026,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,4,Stale snapshot,V2,Usable with qualification - query population undisclosed,2026-07-24
C08,Median enterprise B2B brand cited in 3.0% of relevant AI Overviews; 4.6% never cited,Walker Sands B2B AI Search Visibility Benchmark,https://www.walkersands.com/b2b-ai-search-visibility-hub/,Google AI Overviews only,"828 enterprise B2B companies, 14 industries, 45M+ keywords",Eligible AI Overviews,Citation inclusion rate,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,5,Unknown,V3,"Usable with qualification - one surface only, window undisclosed, full report gated",2026-07-24
C09,LinkedIn is the second most-cited source at 0.53%; YouTube leads at 1.52%,Meltwater x LinkedIn,https://www.meltwater.com/en/blog/linkedin-ai-visibility-study,"ChatGPT 5, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini 3.5 Pro, Copilot, Claude Sonnet 4","B2B categories (14 published, 16 in secondary coverage)",9.5M citations,Normalised citation share,"Four weeks, dates not disclosed",Disclosed,Not disclosed,5,Ageing,V3,Usable with qualification - rank 2 equals 0.53%; co-produced with LinkedIn,2026-07-24
C10,Earned media distribution produces a 239% median citation lift,Stacker x Scrunch,https://stacker.com/resources/how-earned-distribution-drives-ai-search-citations,8 AI platforms,"87 stories, 30 clients","2,600+ prompts",Visible citation (with comparison condition),"30 days, published 16 Mar 2026",Not disclosed,Not disclosed,5,Stale snapshot,V2,"Usable as stated - one of the few designs with a comparison condition and a reported p-value (p<0.006, in the accompanying release)",2026-07-24
C11,Reddit fell from ~60% to ~10% of tracked ChatGPT responses,"Semrush, The Most-Cited Domains in AI",https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-cited-domains-ai/,"ChatGPT Search, Google AI Mode, Perplexity","230,000+ prompts, population not characterised",Response prevalence (100M+ citations tracked),Response prevalence,14 Jul - 12 Oct 2025,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,5,Archival,V4,"Usable with qualification - response prevalence, NOT citation share",2026-07-24
C12,Only 12% of AI-cited URLs also rank in Google's top 10,Ahrefs,https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-search-overlap/,"ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity","15,000 long-tail queries, multilingual",AI-cited URLs,Ranking overlap,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,5,Unknown,V2,"Usable with qualification - long-tail and multilingual, not a B2B sample; Perplexity is an outlier at ~1 in 3",2026-07-24
C13,Trustpilot is the fifth most-cited site on ChatGPT,Reported for Jan 2026; attributed to Peec AI in secondary coverage,https://ahrefs.com/blog/most-cited-domains-in-chatgpt/,ChatGPT,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,Domain ranking,January 2026,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,1,Archival,V4,"DO NOT REPEAT - Peec's published ChatGPT top five is Wikipedia, Reddit, Forbes, TechRadar; Ahrefs placed Trustpilot 35th at 1.0% mention share in July 2026",2026-07-24
X01,"85% of B2B AI citations come from review sites, not brand websites",Attributed to Rampiq via trade coverage,https://rampiq.agency/blog/b2b-content-ai-cites/,Not disclosed,Broad B2B category queries,Not disclosed,Visible citation,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,1,Unknown,V3,"DO NOT REPEAT AS SOURCED - figure does not appear on Rampiq's own published page, which reports ~82% for a narrower branded-opinion query set",2026-07-24
X02,85% of AI visibility does not come from your website,Nobori.ai internal analysis,https://nobori.ai/blog/85-percent-of-ai-visibility-does-not-come-from-your-website,"ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, AI Overviews","200,000+ commercial prompt runs",Not stated,AI visibility (undefined),Not disclosed,Not disclosed,Not disclosed,2,Unknown,V3,"CONTEXT ONLY - no dates, model versions, geography or public dataset",2026-07-24
X03,96% of B2B companies are effectively invisible in AI discovery,Published as a '2026 composite',https://www.madx.digital/learn/ai-search-statistics,n/a,n/a,None,n/a,None,n/a,n/a,0,Unknown,V4,DO NOT REPEAT - no underlying study exists; now repeated by Google's AI Overview as fact,2026-07-24