B Evidence Grade B Graded accuracy verified by the review judge Safe to Cite Current

25 -- count of companies cited on only one engine for B2B SaaS companies (Q2 2026)

Name: Count Of Companies Cited On Only One Engine Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-30

Q2 2026 · n=100 · AnswerManiac

25 out of 100 tested B2B SaaS companies appeared on only one AI search engine across 42 buyer-intent queries.

Single snapshot observation; AI responses are non-deterministic
Tested across only two engines (ChatGPT and Perplexity)

Cite this stat Share How we verify

Attribution: AnswerManiac View source

Lighthouse Research Team

Last verified: 2026-09-30 · How we verify data →

Source verified Evidence graded

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

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

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 ChatGPT (GPT-4o) and Perplexity (Sonar Pro)

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrysaas

Cite this stat

Plain Text

B2B SaaS companies: 25 count of companies cited on only one engine. Source: AnswerManiac (Q2 2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/companies-on-one-ai-engine-2026

HTML Embed

<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/companies-on-one-ai-engine-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>25</strong> -- count of companies cited on only one engine for B2B SaaS companies<br><small>Source: AnswerManiac (Q2 2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/companies-on-one-ai-engine-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>

Share on X Share on LinkedIn

Use this data in your work

Copy the citation, embed the widget, or explore thousands more verified marketing statistics -- all free.

Copy citation Explore similar stats →