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Day 2 · 2,997 prompts run to date

The State of Brands in AI · India Edition

The world's second-largest AI market,watched daily.

50 unaided buyer-language prompts. ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode. Every night at 21:00 IST. Across 10 of India's most-funded consumer categories. Share of voice, source pool, sentiment, day-over-day movement. Open methodology. Public data. Cite us when you use it.

ChatGPTGeminiAI Mode

10

Verticals tracked daily

27+

Brands across categories

2,997

Prompts run · day 2

21:00 IST

Every night · daily

Today's biggest story across all 10 verticals

Ather overtakes Ola Electric on AI for the first time in 2026.

For the first time this year, Ather is the most-cited electric 2-wheeler brand across all three engines combined, edging out Ola Electric 30.5% to 23.8%. The shift was driven by Gemini and AI Mode citing a refreshed 91Wheels ranking that promotes the Ather Rizta. ChatGPT still names Ola first, but its sources are heavily owned-domain plus a Reddit thread now carrying mixed sentiment about Gen 3 build issues.

Day 3 · top 5 movers across verticals

Mahindra BE 6

Electric Cars

3.4%

Plum

Health Insurance

2.4%

Ather

Electric 2-Wheelers

2.1%

Groww

Investing Apps

2.1%

Flipkart Minutes

Quick Commerce

1.8%

The 10 verticals

India's most-funded consumer categories, watched on AI every day.

50 prompts × 3 engines · daily

Methodology

The prompts. The engines. The math. All public.

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Unaided buyer prompts

50 prompts per vertical. Zero brand names inside the prompt itself. The kind of question a real buyer in India would type. Branded prompts corrupt share-of-voice math.

02

Three engines, every night

ChatGPT (gpt-5-5), Gemini 3 Flash, Google AI Mode. Same prompts. India location. Run daily at 21:00 IST via DataForSEO's LLM scraper endpoints.

03

Three primary metrics

Share of voice (% of prompts naming the brand). Source pool (cited domains, per engine). Sentiment (positive / neutral / cautious / negative).

04

Daily delta surfacing

Every brand's day-over-day movement is computed. Movements over 2pp trigger an editorial review for the daily 'what changed' narrative.

Questions

What people ask before they cite the index.

How often does the data update?
Every night at 21:00 IST. A daily scheduled job runs the full 50 prompts × 10 verticals × 3 engines on DataForSEO, parses the output, computes day-over-day deltas, writes the new day's editorial, and ships the page update. You can time-travel back to any past day via the date pills on each vertical page.
Why these 10 verticals?
Each is a category where (a) money has flowed in 2024-2026, (b) ChatGPT is actively answering shopping/decision queries today, (c) there's a clear category leader vs challenger structure that makes daily citation movement visible.
Why no Perplexity or Claude?
DataForSEO only offers programmatic scraping for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Mode at this scale and price. When Perplexity / Claude scraper endpoints become available, we'll add them.
Are the prompts public?
Yes. The full prompt set for every vertical is published on the methodology page and downloadable as JSON. The brand-detection regex and sentiment classifier are open source.
Can I get the index data for my brand?
If your brand is one of the 80+ we track, your row data is public on the vertical page. If you want a deeper audit on a custom 50-prompt set for your category, that's a Cite Solutions service.