Arrington Roofing is Dallas's most-named business.
Perplexity named Arrington Roofing on 24 of 28 days, named straight through September 28, the final run day.
MARKET REPORT · DALLAS, TX · SEPTEMBER 2026 · DATED RECORD
Who AI Recommends in Dallas, TX
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/dallas-tx.html.
For 28 days we asked five AI engines the same buyer questions a Dallas, TX customer would ask, about personal injury attorneys, residential roofing, and wrote down every business they named. This is the dated record of what they said.
Arrington Roofing was named on 24 of 28 days.
Most-named business in Dallas, TX, September 2026 · full table below
Key findings
Roofing beats law on Perplexity.
The top roofer (Arrington, 24 days) outranks the top firm (Grossman Law Offices, 22), and four of the top six most-named businesses are roofers.
Zehl & Associates wins both engines.
Named by Perplexity on 19 days, with zehllaw.com cited in Google's results on 5 days, the rare Dallas firm converting on both.
Anthropic named zero Dallas businesses in 56 answers.
Gemini named 66 distinct businesses answering the same questions. The engine you ask is the answer you get.
Most named by Perplexity
Businesses Perplexity named most often when asked Dallas, TX buyer questions, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28.
| Business | Niche | Days named | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrington Roofing | residential roofing | 24 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| Grossman Law Offices | personal injury attorneys | 22 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-26 |
| T Rock Roofing | residential roofing | 19 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-27 |
| Zehl & Associates | personal injury attorneys | 19 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-23 |
| Blue Hammer Roofing | residential roofing | 15 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-27 |
| New View Roofing | residential roofing | 14 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-28 |
| Bert Roofing | residential roofing | 8 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-22 |
| Frank Branson | personal injury attorneys | 8 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-18 |
| Lon Smith Roofing | residential roofing | 8 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-21 |
| Lyons & Simmons | personal injury attorneys | 8 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-26 |
Most cited in Google results
Domains Google's results cited most often on the same questions.
| Business | Domain | Days cited | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Crump | bencrump.com | 5 | 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-27 |
| Cedur | cedur.com | 5 | 2026-09-22 to 2026-09-28 |
| Herrman & Herrman | herrmanandherrman.com | 5 | 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-27 |
| Montgomery Firm | montgomeryfirm.com | 5 | 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-27 |
| Mullen & Mullen | mullenandmullen.com | 5 | 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-27 |
| Zehl Law | zehllaw.com | 5 | 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-27 |
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 | 0 |
| Gemini | 28 | 66 |
| Google SERP | 28 | 46 |
| OpenAI | 28 | 36 |
| Perplexity | 28 | 41 |
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 41 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 Dallas, TX business
If you run a Dallas, TX 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.
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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 03:15:37 UTC from
Namebeam_E1_Dataset_LATEST.csv. 183 distinct businesses
tracked across 2 niches.
Full machine-generated panel: https://markets.namebeam.ai/panels/dallas-tx.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.