We asked three AI engines who to buy for AI visibility agency, 12 different ways, 3 times each. Hamster Garage came back in 53% of them. More than two in three of the 123 vendors we measured came back in none of them.
Published · 123 vendors · 36 engine responses
of the 123 AI visibility agency vendors we measured were never named once, in any engine, across all 12 checks.
Buyers increasingly ask an AI engine before they ask a search engine. So we asked the engines directly: who should someone buy for AI visibility agency? We asked 12 different ways, across 3 engines, and repeated the whole thing 3 times to separate real results from model noise.
More than two in three of the 123 vendors were never named once. Not ranked low. Not mentioned in passing. Absent from every response, every time. Of those, 88 produced that same zero on every single repeat, which makes it a measurement rather than an unlucky sample.
We measured ourselves too, and we come out at 0 of 12. That zero reproduced on every repeat, so it is a measurement and not an unlucky sample. GlowCite has never been named once for AI visibility agency, by any engine, in any run.
We're including that because a ranking written by someone in the category is worth exactly as much as its willingness to publish an unflattering result. Every other list in this space puts its own author near the top. This one puts us at the bottom, because that's where the data puts us.
35 of 123 vendors in the sampling frame were named at least once. Ranked by how often, so the shape of who actually wins the category is visible at a glance. 27 of those have a score that reproduced on every repeat; 8 appeared in only one of 3 and are marked 'not reproduced'.
| Vendor | Named in | Rate | ShareVisibility | Reproducibility | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamster Garage# | 7 of 12 | 53% | noisy | Cited | |
| Onely# | 5 of 12 | 44% | noisy | Cited | |
| Victorious# | 5 of 12 | 42% | noisy | Cited | |
| iPullRank# | 5 of 12 | 39% | noisy | Cited | |
| Relevance# | 4 of 12 | 33% | noisy | Cited | |
| WebFX# | 3 of 12 | 31% | noisy | Cited | |
| Cintra# | 3 of 12 | 25% | stable | Cited | |
| NoGood# | 3 of 12 | 22% | noisy | Cited | |
| Ignite Visibility# | 2 of 12 | 19% | noisy | Cited | |
| Omniscient Digital# | 3 of 12 | 19% | noisy | Cited | |
| First Page Sage# | 2 of 12 | 17% | stable | Cited | |
| Found# | 3 of 12 | 17% | noisy | Cited | |
| Optimist# | 2 of 12 | 17% | noisy | Cited | |
| Animalz# | 2 of 12 | 14% | noisy | Cited | |
| Directive Consulting# | 2 of 12 | 14% | noisy | Cited | |
| Graphite# | 2 of 12 | 14% | noisy | Cited | |
| Growth Plays# | 2 of 12 | 14% | noisy | Cited | |
| Intero Digital# | 2 of 12 | 14% | noisy | Cited | |
| AISO# | 1 of 12 | 11% | noisy | Cited | |
| Digital Elevator# | 1 of 12 | 11% | noisy | Cited | |
| WebSpero# | 1 of 12 | 11% | noisy | Cited | |
| Minuttia# | 1 of 12 | 8% | noisy | Cited | |
| NP Digital# | 1 of 12 | 8% | noisy | Cited | |
| Seer Interactive# | 1 of 12 | 8% | stable | Cited | |
| Discovered Labs# | 1 of 12 | 6% | noisy | Cited | |
| Flow Agency# | 1 of 12 | 6% | noisy | Cited | |
| Siege Media# | 1 of 12 | 6% | noisy | Cited | |
| Amsive# | 0 of 12 | 3% | noisy | Not reproduced | |
| Conductor# | 0 of 12 | 3% | noisy | Not reproduced | |
| Delante# | 0 of 12 | 3% | noisy | Not reproduced | |
| Exposure Ninja# | 0 of 12 | 3% | noisy | Not reproduced | |
| Go Fish Digital# | 0 of 12 | 3% | noisy | Not reproduced | |
| Pixelmojo# | 0 of 12 | 3% | noisy | Not reproduced | |
| Single Grain# | 0 of 12 | 3% | noisy | Not reproduced | |
| Stratabeat# | 0 of 12 | 3% | noisy | Not reproduced |
The other 88 vendors never came up, not once, in 12 checks repeated 3 times. Collapsed here because a list of identical zeros isn't something to read row by row -- it's the shape of the finding. An asterisk marks a zero that reproduced on every single repeat, the strongest version of this claim.
Every response above came from somewhere. Across all 36 responses for this category, these are the pages the engines cited most, ranked by how often each was pulled from (214 citations captured).
| Source | Cited | Example |
|---|---|---|
| nyreport.com | 35× | Top 7 Top AI Visibility Agencies - The New York Report |
| reddit.com | 26× | What Are the Top 5 AI Visibility Agencies in 2026? - Reddit |
| hamstergarage.com | 24× | AI Visibility Agency: 10 Picks With Pricing From $5K to $150K |
| jasonjkhoo.com | 12× | Best AI Visibility Agencies: 2026 Rankings & Guide - Jason Khoo |
| ekamoira.com | 12× | Best AI Visibility Agencies 2026: Pricing, Types & How to Choose |
| scalenut.com | 12× | Who Are The Best AI Visibility Service Providers In 2026? - Scalenut |
| gtm8020.com | 12× | Frequently Asked Questions |
| zupo.co | 12× | Best 10 AI Visibility Agencies in 2026 - Zupo |
| tryprofound.com | 12× | 18 Best AI visibility tools for marketing agencies [2026 comparison] |
| trustsignals.com | 10× | The Top PR and Marketing Agencies for AI Visibility in 2026 |
This section exists so the numbers can be checked rather than trusted. Anything that could not be reproduced is labelled as such and is not quoted as a figure anywhere on this page.
All 123 vendors came from one published category list. Nothing was removed for looking like a weak fit. Filtering a sampling frame after seeing it turns a census into an opinion.
Perplexity (sonar, live web search); ChatGPT (gpt-4o-search-preview, live web search); Gemini (Flash, grounded with Google Search). Each performs live web search rather than answering from training data.
Every query ran 3 times. These models are non-deterministic, so a single run is an anecdote. Every row below carries its reproducibility: a score marked stable held across all 3 runs, and one marked noisy did not. Treat a noisy score as a range, not a number, and note that no headline figure on this page rests on one.
The vendor is named in the engine's answer to a buyer question. We never ask about a vendor by name, because that only proves the model has heard of them.
Buyer-style questions, not brand searches. Asking an engine about a company by name proves only that it has heard of them.
This measures one category on one date, from one published list. AI answers change as the web changes, so these numbers describe August 2026 and not a permanent state. Vendors absent from the source list are absent here too, which is a property of the frame and not a judgment. Exact non-zero counts drift by a check or two between runs, which is why reproducibility is published per row instead of hidden.
Hamster Garage. We asked 3 live-search AI engines (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini) 12 different buyer-style questions, 3 times each, on August 15, 2026. Hamster Garage was named in 53% of those checks.
More than two in three of the 123 vendors we measured were never named once, in any engine, across all 12 checks. That is not ranking low. It is being absent from every answer, every time.
3 AI engines with live web search enabled (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini), 12 buyer-style questions per vendor, and the entire run repeated 3 times to separate a real result from model noise. The sampling frame was 123 vendors. Exact queries and limitations are published on this page.
Because these engines answer from the sources they can cite, not from a vendor's own marketing. A company can rank well in Google, publish constantly, and still be absent from every AI answer if it is not present in the pages those engines actually quote. This is a citation gap, not a content gap.
Left: every vendor AI named at least once, tallest first. Right: the 88 that were never named, shown as one block because 88 identical zeros carry a single fact. Two panels, not one axis.
The Watchlist is the same measurement, re-run monthly, with the parts a one-off study cannot show you: who moved, which pages the engines started quoting, and which of those a competitor owns.
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