Research

One finding published alongside each edition, cut from answers already collected for it. Free, never sponsored, and never commissioned by a vendor.

• Research

  More than half of what AI reads about care software, the vendors wrote

  All 30,178 sources cited across the August 2026 edition, classified by who owns the page. The four engines do not read the same web.

• Research

  Ask AI like a person and it names a quarter fewer vendors

  An experiment run alongside The Named Index, August 2026. Same 400 buying questions, asked two ways.

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