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The dated record of who AI names
MARKET REPORT · KANSAS CITY, MO · SEPTEMBER 2026 · DATED RECORD
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/kansas-city-mo.html.
For 28 days we asked five AI engines the same buyer questions a Kansas City, MO customer would ask, about health insurance brokerage, health insurance brokers, marketing agency, and wrote down every business they named. This is the dated record of what they said.
Eight of Perplexity's ten most-named Kansas City businesses sell health insurance. NuLight Consulting was named on 23 of 28 days (Sept 1 to 27), FD Insurance Agency on 22. In this market, the AI answer for insurance questions is an independent broker, not a carrier.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (bluekc.com) and Hub International were cited in Google's results on 9 days each, but Perplexity's spoken answers went to smaller independents like NuLight, FD, and Jeff David Insurance. The giants win the citation; the independents win the answer.
Perplexity named “AIS Health Insurance Advisors” on 17 days and “AIS Health Advisors” on 16 days (aishealthadvisors.com). That is almost certainly one business splitting its own vote across two names. Every inconsistent business name is a day the AI might have named you and didn't.
EAG Advertising & Marketing is the crossover act: named by Perplexity on 19 days and cited by Google (eagadv.com) on 6. No other KC business shows up strongly on both. Being findable in two engines at once is the whole game.
Businesses Perplexity named most often when asked Kansas City, MO buyer questions, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28.
| Business | Niche | Days named | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| NuLight Consulting | health insurance brokerage | 23 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-27 |
| FD Insurance Agency | health insurance brokers | 22 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-27 |
| EAG Advertising & Marketing | marketing agency | 19 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-26 |
| AIS Health Insurance Advisors | health insurance brokerage | 17 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-28 |
| Jeff David Insurance | health insurance brokers | 16 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-27 |
| BBS Insurance | health insurance brokers | 14 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| Signal Theory | marketing agency | 12 | 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-27 |
| Apollo Health Insurance | health insurance brokers | 11 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-26 |
| Moss Marketing Group | marketing agency | 8 | 2026-09-11 to 2026-09-22 |
Domains Google's results cited most often on the same questions.
| Business | Domain | Days cited | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City | bluekc.com | 9 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| Hub International | hubinternational.com | 9 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| Benefit Services of Kansas City | health-insurance-kansas-city.com | 7 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| NerdWallet | nerdwallet.com | 7 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| 2A Marketing | 2amarketing.com | 6 | 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-28 |
| AIS Health Insurance Advisors | aishealthadvisors.com | 6 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-26 |
| EAG Advertising & Marketing | eagadv.com | 6 | 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-28 |
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 | 46 |
| Google SERP | 28 | 41 |
| OpenAI | 28 | 42 |
| 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.
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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 03:15:40 UTC from
Namebeam_E1_Dataset_LATEST.csv. 168 distinct businesses
tracked across 3 niches.
Full machine-generated panel: https://markets.namebeam.ai/panels/kansas-city-mo.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.