Thrive Internet Marketing Agency owns the AI answer in LA.
Named by Perplexity on 20 of 28 days, with thriveagency.com cited in Google's results on 7 days, the clearest dual-engine winner in this market.
MARKET REPORT · LOS ANGELES, CA · SEPTEMBER 2026 · DATED RECORD
Who AI Recommends in Los Angeles, CA
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/los-angeles-ca.html.
For 28 days we asked five AI engines the same buyer questions a Los Angeles, CA customer would ask, about AI marketing agency, and wrote down every business they named. This is the dated record of what they said.
Thrive Internet Marketing Agency was named on 20 of 28 days.
Most-named business in Los Angeles, CA, September 2026 · full table below
Key findings
Anthropic and Gemini both scored zero.
Across 28 run days each, neither engine named a single LA business, while Perplexity named 14 distinct businesses answering the same AI-agency questions.
Lumo splits its vote.
Perplexity named ‘Lumo AI Agency’ on 7 days and ‘Lumo AI’ on 2 more, one brand, two names.
Tack Media faded out.
Named on 10 days, but last named on September 18. The leaderboard moved on without it.
Most named by Perplexity
Businesses Perplexity named most often when asked Los Angeles, CA buyer questions, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28.
| Business | Niche | Days named | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thrive Internet Marketing Agency | AI marketing agency | 20 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-27 |
| Hawke Media | AI marketing agency | 16 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-26 |
| Tack Media | AI marketing agency | 10 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-18 |
| Lumo AI Agency | AI marketing agency | 7 | 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-24 |
| Brenton Way | AI marketing agency | 2 | 2026-09-23 to 2026-09-24 |
| Lumo AI | AI marketing agency | 2 | 2026-09-11 to 2026-09-25 |
| Siege Media | AI marketing agency | 2 | 2026-09-24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| eMarketed | emarketed.com | 7 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| M1 Project | m1-project.com | 7 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Terra | terrahq.com | 7 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Thrive Agency | thriveagency.com | 7 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Blaze AI | blaze.ai | 6 | 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-28 |
| Be Omniscient | beomniscient.com | 4 | 2026-09-19 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 | 0 |
| Google SERP | 28 | 11 |
| OpenAI | 28 | 24 |
| Perplexity | 28 | 14 |
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 14 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 Los Angeles, CA business
If you run a Los Angeles, CA 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 03:15:41 UTC from
Namebeam_E1_Dataset_LATEST.csv. 48 distinct businesses
tracked across 1 niches.
Full machine-generated panel: https://markets.namebeam.ai/panels/los-angeles-ca.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.