Anderson Collaborative dominates Maryland's AI answers.
Named by Perplexity on 23 of 28 days, well ahead of runner-up MGH Marketing & Advertising at 14.
MARKET REPORT · MARYLAND · SEPTEMBER 2026 · DATED RECORD
Who AI Recommends in Maryland
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/maryland.html.
For 28 days we asked five AI engines the same buyer questions a Maryland customer would ask, about marketing and brand strategy consultancy, and wrote down every business they named. This is the dated record of what they said.
Anderson Collaborative was named on 23 of 28 days.
Most-named business in Maryland, September 2026 · full table below
Key findings
MGH wins Google while Anderson wins Perplexity.
mghus.com was cited in Google's results on 9 days, while Anderson Collaborative's domain appears nowhere in Google's top-cited table. Different engines, different winners.
Mission Agency is the crossover.
Named by Perplexity on 8 days, with missionagency.com cited on 7 Google days, converting on both.
Anthropic and Gemini both scored zero here too.
Across 28 run days each, neither engine named a single Maryland consultancy, while OpenAI named 7.
Most named by Perplexity
Businesses Perplexity named most often when asked Maryland buyer questions, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28.
| Business | Niche | Days named | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Collaborative | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 23 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-27 |
| MGH Marketing & Advertising | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 14 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-21 |
| Mission Agency | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 8 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-21 |
| Black Propeller | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 7 | 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-26 |
| Bright Web Consulting | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 7 | 2026-09-16 to 2026-09-26 |
| Contrast & Co | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 4 | 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-26 |
| Dragonfly Digital Marketing | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 3 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-11 |
| Level Agency | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 3 | 2026-09-12 to 2026-09-19 |
| Thrive Agency | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 2 | 2026-09-11 to 2026-09-12 |
| Funnel Boost Media | marketing and brand strategy consultancy | 1 | 2026-09-27 to 2026-09-27 |
Most cited in Google results
Domains Google's results cited most often on the same questions.
| Business | Domain | Days cited | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| MGH | mghus.com | 9 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-28 |
| Thrive Agency | thriveagency.com | 9 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-28 |
| Plush Marketing Agency | plushmarketingagency.com | 8 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-28 |
| Mission Agency | missionagency.com | 7 | 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-28 |
| Maryland Local Marketing | marylandlocalmarketing.com | 5 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-28 |
| Dragonfly DM | dragonflydm.com | 4 | 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-25 |
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 | 12 |
| OpenAI | 28 | 7 |
| Perplexity | 28 | 10 |
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 10 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 Maryland business
If you run a Maryland 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 03:15:42 UTC from
Namebeam_E1_Dataset_LATEST.csv. 29 distinct businesses
tracked across 1 niches.
Full machine-generated panel: https://markets.namebeam.ai/panels/maryland.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.