Answer engine citation of a small B2B automation consultancy: a 33 prompt panel across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews (July to October 2026)

How often do AI answer engines cite a small, young B2B website when buyers ask questions about business automation? We logged 1,160 answers from ChatGPT (search), Perplexity, Gemini (Google Search grounding) and Google AI Overviews to a fixed panel of 33 buyer prompts in 19 categories, across 26 run dates from 1 July to 31 October 2026. Key findings (non brand prompts): The site was cited in 18.4% of answers overall: Perplexity 39.9%, Gemini 16.5%, ChatGPT 14.9%, Google AI Overviews 9.4%. When ChatGPT and Gemini actually searched, they cited the site about as often as Perplexity (32 to 33%). Specificity drove citation: prompts naming a narrow vertical product were cited 45% of the time, generic hiring and strategy prompts 6%. The most cited domains alongside the site were youtube.com, zapier.com, reddit.com and appfolio.com; directories were rarely cited. Files: a 2 page report (PDF) and the full panel as CSV (one row per engine answer: date, engine, category, prompt, mentioned, cited, retrieval fired, cited domains). The study site is Rex Automaton, an AI automation consultancy.