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15% -- share of ai voice increase for PE portfolio company GEO engagements (2026)
Portfolio company GEO programs often achieve a 15% to 35% increase in share of AI voice within the first 6 months.
- Reported as a range of typical increases within the first 6 months
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2026
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75
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60
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Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Skyfield Digital
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https://skyfielddigital.com/why-your-portfolio-companies-are-invisible-in-ai-search-and-what-its-cos… ↗
Source Article
Why Your Portfolio Companies Are Invisible in AI Search (And What It's Costing You) | Skyfield Digital
Last updated: April 30, 2026
12 min read
Private equity portfolio companies are invisible in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews because their websites are structured for 2015-era SEO, not for AI citation. AI engines cite content that answers specific questions in self-contained, at…
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Range 15-35%; midpoint extracted. Skyfield engagement data
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PE portfolio company GEO engagements: 15% share of ai voice increase. Source: Skyfield Digital (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/skyfield-share-of-ai-voice-gain
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