REViVE Marketing Partners owns Perplexity, but is invisible on Google.
Named by Perplexity on 20 of 28 days, the clear leader, yet its domain appears nowhere in Google's top-cited table.
MARKET REPORT · SAN FRANCISCO, CA · SEPTEMBER 2026 · DATED RECORD
Who AI Recommends in San Francisco, 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/san-francisco-ca.html.
For 28 days we asked five AI engines the same buyer questions a San Francisco, CA customer would ask, about digital marketing agency, and wrote down every business they named. This is the dated record of what they said.
REViVE Marketing Partners was named on 20 of 28 days.
Most-named business in San Francisco, CA, September 2026 · full table below
Key findings
Thrive Agency is the Google pick, and never cracks Perplexity's top table.
thriveagency.com was cited in Google's results on 8 days, the most of any agency, while Perplexity's spoken answers belong to REViVE.
The drop-off is brutal.
After Growth Marketing Pro's 12 days, no agency tops 6, Burst Digital at 6, then a cliff to 2s and 1s. Three agencies own this market's AI answers.
Anthropic named zero SF businesses; Gemini named 2.
Across 28 run days each, the two engines barely participated, while Perplexity named 9 distinct agencies.
Most named by Perplexity
Businesses Perplexity named most often when asked San Francisco, CA buyer questions, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28.
| Business | Niche | Days named | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|
| REViVE Marketing Partners | digital marketing agency | 20 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-24 |
| Metric Theory | digital marketing agency | 15 | 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-25 |
| Growth Marketing Pro | digital marketing agency | 12 | 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-24 |
| Burst Digital | digital marketing agency | 6 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-18 |
| Siege Media | digital marketing agency | 2 | 2026-09-24 to 2026-09-25 |
| Clear Digital, Inc | digital marketing agency | 1 | 2026-09-05 to 2026-09-05 |
| Jives Media | digital marketing agency | 1 | 2026-09-12 to 2026-09-12 |
| Major Tom | digital marketing agency | 1 | 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-09 |
| Verbz Marketing | digital marketing agency | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thrive Agency | thriveagency.com | 8 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| AMP Agency | ampagency.com | 7 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-28 |
| Improvado | improvado.io | 7 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| Jives Media | jivesmedia.com | 7 | 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-28 |
| Verbz Marketing | verbszmarketing.com | 5 | 2026-09-19 to 2026-09-24 |
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 | 2 |
| Google SERP | 28 | 12 |
| OpenAI | 28 | 9 |
| Perplexity | 28 | 9 |
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 9 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 San Francisco, CA business
If you run a San Francisco, 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 03:15:46 UTC from
Namebeam_E1_Dataset_LATEST.csv. 31 distinct businesses
tracked across 1 niches.
Full machine-generated panel: https://markets.namebeam.ai/panels/san-francisco-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.