Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard splits its own vote.
Perplexity named ‘Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C’ on 17 days and ‘Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard’ on 8 more, one firm, two names, divided against itself.
MARKET REPORT · CHICAGO, IL · SEPTEMBER 2026 · DATED RECORD
Who AI Recommends in Chicago, IL
Window, corrected 2026-10-05: this report counts September 1 to 28, 2026 (28 run days). Our Perplexity collection method changed on September 28. The full-month record (30 run days) is the September panel: /panels/chicago-il.html.
For 28 days we asked five AI engines the same buyer questions a Chicago, IL customer would ask, about personal injury attorneys, and wrote down every business they named. This is the dated record of what they said.
Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C was named on 17 of 28 days.
Most-named business in Chicago, IL, September 2026 · full table below
Key findings
Malman Law and TorHoerman Law win both engines.
Perplexity named Malman Law on 15 days and TorHoerman Law on 8; Google cited malmanlaw.com on 7 days and torhoermanlaw.com on 8. Few firms convert on both.
Anthropic named exactly 1 Chicago business in 28 days.
Gemini named 41 distinct businesses answering the same personal-injury questions. The engine you check changes the answer completely.
No firm runs away with Chicago.
After the top two, eight firms cluster between 5 and 9 days, Horwitz (9), Clifford (8), TorHoerman (8), Disparti (7), Staver (6), Briskman (5), Phillips (5), plus Salvi's second name (8). This market is wide open.
Most named by Perplexity
Businesses Perplexity named most often when asked Chicago, IL buyer questions, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28.
| Business | Niche | Days named | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C | personal injury attorneys | 17 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-26 |
| Malman Law | personal injury attorneys | 15 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-25 |
| Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates | personal injury attorneys | 9 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-23 |
| Clifford Law Offices | personal injury attorneys | 8 | 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-24 |
| Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard | personal injury attorneys | 8 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-24 |
| TorHoerman Law | personal injury attorneys | 8 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-22 |
| Disparti Law Group | personal injury attorneys | 7 | 2026-09-12 to 2026-09-18 |
| Staver Law | personal injury attorneys | 6 | 2026-09-12 to 2026-09-22 |
| Briskman & Briskman | personal injury attorneys | 5 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-25 |
| Phillips Law Offices | personal injury attorneys | 5 | 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-24 |
Most cited in Google results
Domains Google's results cited most often on the same questions.
| Business | Domain | Days cited | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Briskman & Briskman | briskmanandbriskman.com | 8 | 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-28 |
| TorHoerman Law | torhoermanlaw.com | 8 | 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-28 |
| Malman Law | malmanlaw.com | 7 | 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-28 |
| Disparti Law | dispartilaw.com | 6 | 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-23 |
| Walner Law | walnerlaw.com | 5 | 2026-09-17 to 2026-09-28 |
| Smith LaCien | smithlacien.com | 4 | 2026-09-20 to 2026-09-26 |
The engines disagree
Same questions, same days, different answers. That disagreement is the point: a check that skips an engine is guessing on your behalf.
| Engine | Days asked | Distinct businesses |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 28 | 1 |
| Gemini | 28 | 41 |
| Google SERP | 28 | 27 |
| OpenAI | 28 | 16 |
| Perplexity | 28 | 30 |
Days asked counts the days each engine received the questions. Gemini returned no business names after September 26, so its answered days are fewer than its days asked.
Anthropic answered all 28 days and named zero businesses; it returned buying criteria and directories instead of names. Perplexity named 30 distinct businesses. If your customer asks Perplexity and you're invisible there, the other four engines don't save you.
What this means if you run a Chicago, IL business
If you run a Chicago, IL business, this page is your competition's report card and yours. The engines were asked the same questions your customers ask, every day for a month, and their answers are dated above. The free 5-engine check runs the same test on your business specifically, all five engines, one dated transcript, no card.
See where your business stands on all five engines.
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Method
Same buyer questions asked to each engine once a day, every answer stored with
its date and file hash. Counts computed from the record; nothing estimated.
Dated record 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28,
28 run days, generated 2026-09-29 03:15:36 UTC from
Namebeam_E1_Dataset_LATEST.csv. 104 distinct businesses
tracked across 1 niches.
Full machine-generated panel: https://markets.namebeam.ai/panels/chicago-il.html. NameBeam's own public record: proof.namebeam.ai. NameBeam is an educational/marketing service; AI answers change over time and no rankings, traffic, or revenue are promised.