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Research, experiments, and evidence on how AI systems choose which companies to recommend: Recommendation Topics, model behavior, and the market others call GEO or AI visibility.

I asked four AI models which authentication tool to use, then scanned the challengers. Auth0 and Okta own the answer. Here is who AI ignores.

Between 28 May and 3 June 2026 the Bersyn scan engine ran buyer Conversations across four AI Surfaces — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini — for ten companies

I asked four AI models which observability tool to use in 2026. They keep naming Datadog and Splunk, and never Better Stack.

We build Bersyn, a tool that tracks which products AI models name when someone asks for a recommendation in a category. So we run a lot of scans. This is the th

I asked four AI models where to deploy a SaaS app in 2026. Three of them never mention Railway, Render or Fly.

We build Bersyn, a tool that tracks which products AI models name when someone asks for a recommendation in a category. So we run a lot of scans. This week we r

I asked four AI models which database to use in 2026. Neon already won. Four challengers are invisible.

Every week I take one buyer category, ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity the five questions a real buyer would type, and count who gets named and who ge

I asked four AI models which notification infrastructure to use in 2026. Three of them still send you to Twilio.

We build Bersyn, a tool that tracks which products AI models name when someone asks for a recommendation in a category. This week's scan was notification infras

AI Visibility Tracked Over 60 Days — Real Data from a SaaS Product

Most companies have no idea how AI models represent their product. This case study tracks AI visibility on a real SaaS product — ImportKit — over 60 days using

Auth0 is AI's default answer in B2B SaaS auth — what 80 buyer Conversations show

On 28 May 2026 the Bersyn scan engine ran 80 buyer Conversations across four AI Surfaces — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini — for four modern auth and identi

Bersyn vs Ahrefs and Semrush: Which Tool for AI-Era Product Discoverability?

Traditional SEO platforms like Ahrefs and Semrush are built for Google search optimization. They excel at keyword research, backlink analysis, rank tracking, an

Bersyn vs AthenaHQ: An honest comparison of two GEO platforms

AthenaHQ and Bersyn both claim to solve the same problem: showing teams how AI assistants describe their product to buyers, and giving them a path to improve it

Bersyn vs Brandlight: An honest comparison of two GEO platforms

Brandlight and Bersyn both help companies see how AI systems describe their product to buyers. They sit at opposite ends of the market. Brandlight is the enterp

Bersyn vs Goodie AI: An honest comparison of two GEO platforms

Goodie AI and Bersyn both work the same core problem: showing companies how AI assistants represent their product to buyers, and giving them a way to improve th

Bersyn vs Otterly: An honest comparison of two GEO platforms

Otterly AI and Bersyn both claim to solve the same problem: showing B2B teams how AI assistants describe their product to buyers, and giving them a path to impr

Bersyn vs Peec.ai: An honest comparison of two GEO platforms

Peec.ai and Bersyn both claim to solve the same problem: showing teams how AI assistants describe their product to buyers, and giving them a path to improve it.

Bersyn vs Profound: An honest comparison of two GEO platforms

Profound and Bersyn both work on the same problem: showing companies how AI assistants describe their product to buyers, and giving them a path to improve it. T

Bersyn vs Scrunch: An honest comparison of two GEO platforms

Scrunch AI and Bersyn both help companies understand how AI assistants describe their product to buyers. They come at the problem from different angles, charge

Bersyn vs Trackerly: An honest comparison of two GEO platforms

Trackerly and Bersyn both help teams see how AI systems describe their product to buyers. They reach that problem from different angles. Trackerly competes on p

Bersyn Weekly Edition 1: Five SaaS companies AI is failing this week

Starting today, every Wednesday we publish a Bersyn Weekly edition — five public scans of B2B SaaS companies that AI assistants are getting wrong. Same methodol

Bersyn Weekly Edition 2: Five sales tools AI is getting wrong

Edition 2 of Bersyn Weekly. Same methodology as Edition 1 — twenty buyer Conversations across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, asked the kind of questio

Bersyn Weekly Edition 3: Five newsletter platforms AI can't tell apart

Edition 3 of Bersyn Weekly. Same methodology — twenty buyer Conversations across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. This week: newsletter and publishing p

Bersyn Weekly Edition 4: Five no-code builders AI is getting wrong this week

Every Wednesday we publish a Bersyn Weekly edition — five public scans of B2B SaaS companies that the AI Surfaces are getting wrong. Same methodology as the edi

Best AI Visibility Tools Compared (2026): How to Track What AI Says About a Product

AI visibility tools help companies monitor and improve how AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) represent their products. This is a growing category

What Is the Best Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Platform for SaaS Founders and Indie Developers?

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of improving how AI models represent your product when buyers ask for recommendations. Unlike traditional S

Best GEO platforms in 2026: an honest ranked review of 10 tools

Disclosure: Bersyn is our product. We have done the research below in good faith — pricing pulled from each vendor's public pages, features verified against doc

What Is the Best Tool for Tracking How Your Product Appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Other AI Search Engines?

When buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Gemini for product recommendations, they get one answer — not ten blue links. Either your product is in that ans

ChatGPT and Claude flatly disagree about which developer tools to recommend. I have the receipts.

There is a comfortable assumption behind most "AI visibility" thinking: that the four big AI models broadly agree, so if you are present in one you are roughly

Day 34 of trying to get 20 paying customers in 40 days. Still at 0. Here is what changed.

Three weeks ago I posted here on Day 7: I am building Bersyn, an AI visibility tool for B2B SaaS, trying to get 20 paying customers in 40 days, sitting at 0. I

How to Find Out If AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Gemini Recommend Your Product to Buyers

More buyers are skipping Google and asking AI directly: "What is the best tool for X?" If your product is not in that answer, you are losing deals you never kne

We reworded one buyer question and watched a shared inbox tool drop from 10 out of 10 to zero on ChatGPT

More and more buyers ask an AI model before they ever open Google. So we started measuring what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini actually say when someon

We ran Bersyn on Bersyn — what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini are saying about our own brand

Bersyn is a Generative Engine Optimization platform. The product measures how AI Surfaces — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini — describe a customer's product

We scanned 8 B2B SaaS companies across 5 categories. ChatGPT named the same 12 brands in every answer.

On 22 May 2026 the Bersyn scan engine ran 200 buyer Conversations across four AI Surfaces — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini — for eight B2B SaaS companies i

Bersyn — what the name means, where it came from, and what it is not

Bersyn is a Generative Engine Optimization platform based in Reykjavík, Iceland. The name is Icelandic in origin: *ber* (bare, exposed) and *sýn* (sight, vision

What Is AI Visibility and How to Measure It

AI visibility measures how accurately and frequently AI models recommend a product when buyers ask for solutions in a category. It covers presence in AI-generat

What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and How Does It Differ from Traditional SEO?

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of improving how AI models represent your product or brand when users ask for recommendations. While tradit

Why AI recommends the same tools every time, and which slots you can actually win

Last week I [tore down what four AI models recommend for databases](https://www.bersyn.com/blog/ai-recommends-neon-for-databases-specialists-invisible-2026): sa

We asked AI to recommend tools in three SaaS categories 20 times each, and the shape of the answers told us which ones a challenger can still win

More buyers now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini for a tool before they ever open Google. So we started measuring what those models actually say when

Why Is It So Hard to Control How AI Systems Like ChatGPT Describe Your Product to Potential Buyers?

When a buyer asks ChatGPT "what is the best tool for X," the model does not search Google in real time. It generates an answer from its training data — content

Why AI recommends Auth0 instead of Kinde

On 28 May 2026 we asked four AI assistants a question Kinde was built to win — which authentication tool a YC-stage startup should use — and Kinde was not the a