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AI Visibility Report: Surfer

What the AI assistants actually recommend, measured across 8 engines and 16 B2B categories. Snapshot 2026-06-19. This measures engine output on a dated capture, not product quality, and the rankings are not for sale.

Surfer is the AI’s top pick in 1 of 16 measured B2B categories and invisible in 14. Even where it leads, the engines do not agree: at best 1 of 8 name it first.fragile

12.1
AI Visibility Score
Position-weighted, 0 to 100, across all engines and categories.
2 / 16
Categories present
Where at least one engine names it.
1
Categories it leads
Where at least one engine ranks it #1.
14
Categories invisible
Where no measured engine surfaced it.
The variance is the headline, not a footnote.

Where Surfer is a top pick, on average only 13% of the engines that answered agree on it. This report grades that as fragile. A single-engine tracker would show you one of those views and call it your score. In this dataset, across all 16 categories, no tool is the unanimous pick of all 8 engines. The disagreement is not noise to average away; it is the real state of your AI visibility, and it is what every single-number tracker quietly hides.

Where Surfer leads, and which engines disagree

Each row is a category where at least one engine ranks Surfer first. The dissent column is the honest part: the engines that recommend a competitor instead, on the same date.

CategoryEngines that agreeEngines that pick something else
GEO / AI visibility1 of 8Llama 3.3 70B via Groq picks Ahrefs
Cohere Command-A picks Ahrefs
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite picks Ahrefs
Perplexity picks Siftly
ChatGPT picks Profound
Llama 4 Scout picks Ahrefs
Qwen 3.6 picks None

Where the AIs rank a competitor above Surfer

These are categories Surfer genuinely competes in, where the engines list it but put someone else first. This is the gap a buyer asking an AI sees before they ever reach your site.

CategoryYour rankRanked ahead of you
GEO / AI visibility#7Ahrefs, BrightEdge, SEMrush
SEO tools#3Ahrefs, SEMrush

Categories where Surfer is invisible to the AIs

AI chatbotsAI copywritingCRMCustomer supportEmail marketingLanding page buildersLead generationMarketing automationProduct analyticsProject managementSales engagementSchedulingSocial media managementSurvey / forms

In these 14 categories, no measured engine surfaced Surfer at all. Some may be outside your market; the ones inside it are pure lost recommendation share.

The number the trackers hide

Across all 16 categories, no single tool is the #1 pick of every engine. The "AI visibility" number a single-engine tracker shows Surfer is one engine’s view on one date; this report shows all 8.

This snapshot is free. The tracker is the moving picture.

This report is one dated capture, given to you at no cost. AI recommendations move every run and every week. The AI Visibility Tracker keeps score for you:

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How this was measured

Each of 8 AI engines (Llama 3.3 70B via Groq, Cohere Command-A, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Llama 4 Scout, GPT-OSS 120B, Qwen 3.6) answered the same buyer questions across 16 B2B and go-to-market software categories. Every recommendation is a recorded model output, canonicalized and scored by position-weighted frequency. Capture window 2026-06-19 to 2026-07-08.

The full dataset is published open under CC-BY-4.0 with DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20767878. This report states what the engines returned on the capture date. It does not judge product quality, and no vendor can buy a better number; the rankings are unpurchasable by design.