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47 -- count of companies cited at least once for B2B SaaS companies (Q2 2026)

Name: Count Of Companies Cited At Least Once Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-30

Q2 2026 · n=100 · AnswerManiac

47 out of 100 tested B2B SaaS companies were cited at least once across ChatGPT and Perplexity.

Single snapshot / non-deterministic AI responses without repeated runs
ChatGPT tested with web browsing disabled; Perplexity tested in default live mode
Only 2 AI search engines tested

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Value

Unit

Count

Data Vintage

Q2 2026

Entity

B2B SaaS companies

Sample Size

100

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

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Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

AnswerManiac Primary Tier A

https://www.answermaniac.ai/research/state-of-ai-search-b2b-saas ↗

Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: Q2 2026 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

State of AI Search: B2B SaaS — Q2 2026 Report

Original Research

AnswerManiac · Original study ↗

Methodology

42 buyer-intent queries across two AI search engines, fieldwork April 28 – May 12, 2026

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrysaas

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B2B SaaS companies: 47 count of companies cited at least once. Source: AnswerManiac (Q2 2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/b2b-saas-cited-at-least-once-2026

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