Optimly Research
See what AI is recommending—and what buyers are asking.
Optimly Research tracks how AI systems describe businesses and categories, along with the questions and demand patterns appearing across AI search.
AI Brand Index
See how AI understands businesses and markets — how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe a brand, its category, and its competitors.
27,420+ brand profiles indexed across the directory.
Weekly AI Search Trends
See what buyers are asking AI right now — which categories and brands AI systems are pulling pages about, published fresh every week with the limits stated.
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Research reports and methodology
- The State of AI Brand Representation 2026How accurately AI systems describe businesses across categories, and where the gaps cluster.
- The State of AI Brand Crawling — March 2026Which AI crawlers visit brand pages, how often, and what they collect while they are there.
- AI Brand Audit FindingsAggregate findings from thousands of brand audits: the recurring failures AI makes about businesses.
- MethodologyHow Optimly measures AI understanding, and the limits of every number we publish.