AI visibility blog: how AI picks the companies it names
Your customers ask AI who to buy from. Each article answers one question about how AI picks, with runs we did ourselves and the method shown.
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Questions people ask
Why not me
What is the Nenn blog?
The Nenn blog answers one question per article about how AI tools like ChatGPT pick the companies they name. Nenn (nenn.io) is an AI visibility tool from Hamburg. Each article starts with the short answer and shows data from runs we did ourselves. Then it says what to check on your own site.
Pick a topic about AI answers
Pick the topic that matches your question. Each article sits in one of four.
All articles about AI answers
Newest first. Each line says what the article answers, so you can see if it fits before you click.
How do we test what AI answers?
We ask an AI model typical buying questions many times. Then we count what it names and cites, and write down where the method stops.
115 runs · 1-2 Nov 2026
Scheme: 13 software questions sent to an OpenAI model with web search, 115 runs counted, 1 and 2 November 2026.
Real runs, counted
Our current data set has 115 runs of 13 buying questions about software, asked on 1 and 2 November 2026.
The engine is named
The runs use an OpenAI model via Codex CLI with web search, not the ChatGPT app. Every article prints this note.
A date on every number
Each number has a source line and the date we checked it.
Limits said out loud
AI answers change from run to run, and all 13 questions are about software. When our runs cannot answer a question, the article says so.
AI changes every month. Can a blog article still be right?
Yes, if it shows its dates. Every article prints when we ran the questions and when we last updated it.
- Dates you can check
- The run dates sit next to every number from our runs. The Updated date sits under the title.
- New runs, new numbers
- When we run a question again, the new numbers replace the old ones and the Updated date changes.
- No promise of a mention
- An article shows what AI read and named in our runs. Nobody can promise that AI will name your company, Nenn included.
How does Nenn answer these questions for your company?
Nenn does this for your own customer questions, on 3 AI engines, every week. Each topic has a part of the app.
Why not me: see if AI names you
For each customer question and each engine, you see if your company is named.
How AI picks sources: see who AI names instead
A ranked list of the companies AI names for your questions, and the websites it cited.
Measuring: follow the number each week
How often AI names you, split by engine and topic, with a trend from the second check.
Get named: get the page that is missing
Nenn drafts it from what AI answers and cites. You approve it and copy it into your site, or publish it in one click on Growth and higher plans.
Questions about the Nenn blog and AI answers
Where does ChatGPT get its information about my company?
When search is on, ChatGPT can read the web before it answers. Without search, it answers from what it learned in training. Our own runs used an OpenAI model with search on, and it searched in most of them. It then cited the pages it read, often on company websites. Our article on getting recommended shows which page types it cited most.
How can I see what AI says about my company today?
Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google a few questions your customers would ask, and write down who is named. Here is how to check AI answers by hand, with a log sheet. In the trial, Nenn asks for you and keeps the full answers.
Are the articles only about ChatGPT?
Not only, but most of our own numbers are. Our research runs so far use an OpenAI model. Each article names the engine behind every number. Nenn itself checks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews every week.
Do you take money to mention a company in an article?
No. We do not sell mentions or links in articles. A company appears in an article only when it came up in our runs.
Can I quote your numbers in my own article?
Yes, with a link to the article and the run date. Please keep the engine note, because our runs did not use the ChatGPT app.
See your own company in AI answers
The articles show patterns across many companies. The trial shows yours: your customers' questions, the answers of 3 AI engines and the names in them.
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