Gates Enterprises laps the field on Perplexity.
Named on 24 of 28 days, nearly double runner-up Red Hawk Roofing's 13. Nobody else in Denver roofing is close on the AI's spoken answers.
MARKET REPORT · DENVER, CO · SEPTEMBER 2026 · DATED RECORD
Who AI Recommends in Denver, CO
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/denver-co.html.
For 28 days we asked five AI engines the same buyer questions a Denver, CO customer would ask, about residential roofing, and wrote down every business they named. This is the dated record of what they said.
Gates Enterprises was named on 24 of 28 days.
Most-named business in Denver, CO, September 2026 · full table below
Key findings
Cenco Roofing splits its own vote.
Perplexity named ‘Cenco Roofing’ on 6 days and ‘CENCO Roofing’ on 3 more, one company, two capitalizations, divided against itself.
Google's leaderboard is a different month.
Every top-cited roofing domain was first cited on September 19 or later, while Gates Enterprises led Perplexity's answers from day one, September 1.
Anthropic and OpenAI barely played in Denver.
Anthropic named 0 distinct businesses and OpenAI named 8 across 28 run days each, while Perplexity named 19.
Most named by Perplexity
Businesses Perplexity named most often when asked Denver, CO buyer questions, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28.
| Business | Niche | Days named | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gates Enterprises | residential roofing | 24 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-27 |
| Red Hawk Roofing | residential roofing | 13 | 2026-09-11 to 2026-09-28 |
| Hilltop Contracting | residential roofing | 10 | 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-26 |
| Roofcorp of Metro Denver | residential roofing | 8 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-19 |
| Cenco Roofing | residential roofing | 6 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-27 |
| Interstate Roofing | residential roofing | 6 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-13 |
| Core Roofing | residential roofing | 4 | 2026-09-23 to 2026-09-26 |
| CENCO Roofing | residential roofing | 3 | 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-25 |
Most cited in Google results
Domains Google's results cited most often on the same questions.
| Business | Domain | Days cited | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethos Roofing | ethosroofing.com | 6 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Gates Roofing | gatesroof.com | 6 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Metro City Roofing | metrocityroofing.com | 6 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Premier Roofing | premier-roofing.com | 6 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Team Dave Logan | teamdavelogan.com | 6 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Brazen Roofing | brazenroofing.com | 5 | 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-28 |
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 | 26 |
| Google SERP | 28 | 9 |
| OpenAI | 28 | 8 |
| Perplexity | 28 | 19 |
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 19 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 Denver, CO business
If you run a Denver, CO 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 03:15:38 UTC from
Namebeam_E1_Dataset_LATEST.csv. 60 distinct businesses
tracked across 1 niches.
Full machine-generated panel: https://markets.namebeam.ai/panels/denver-co.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.