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The AI Index is a public, citable record of what AI models recommend, with the receipts published. Everything you need to report on it is on this page, and the data is free.
The story in one paragraph
Buyers increasingly ask AI models, not search engines, what to buy, and each AI model answers with a short list of recommended brands. The CiteHawk AI Index measures those answers directly: every month, the 9 leading AI models are asked the question a real buyer asks across 240 categories (and 4 country editions where local answers differ), the verbatim answers are published as receipts, and brands are ranked by a fully published formula. Each refresh is frozen as an immutable record: what AI said, at a point in time, referenceable forever.
Fast facts
240
Categories ranked
9
AI models, every refresh
4
Country editions
Monthly
Immutable editions
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Perplexity · DeepSeek · Grok · Copilot · Google AI · Google AI Mode
How to cite the Index
Cite the frozen record, not the live page. Records never change after publication, so your citation can never drift:
“CiteHawk AI Index, July 2026 · CRM software” with the URL of the record page, e.g.
citehawk.com/leaderboards/editions/2026-07/crm-software
- Every record carries the full provenance: the question asked, the model version behind every answer, capture timestamps, and every verbatim answer.
- Every record has a machine-readable JSON download including the extracted data, so any score can be independently recomputed. Monthly editions also ship CSV.
- The data is free to use with attribution (a link to the record). No permission needed; rankings are computed from AI responses only and are never for sale.
Data access
The frozen record of every category, every month, with CSV downloads.
Current rankings, per-model splits, and the verbatim receipts on every category page.
The complete published formula, the model policy, and the dated changelog of every methodology change.
Bulk or programmatic access for research: email press@citehawk.com.
Get each edition when it freezes
One email per monthly edition: the frozen record links, the biggest movers, and the regional splits worth reporting. Nothing else, ever.
Press kit
Logos (wordmark and icon, light and dark), the boilerplate, fast facts, the citation format, and the full methodology PDF in one download.
Download press kitAbout CiteHawk
CiteHawk is an AI-visibility platform: it shows brands how AI models describe and recommend them, with the underlying answers kept as evidence, and helps them improve. The AI Index is CiteHawk’s public research program, run on the same measurement pipeline. CiteHawk is built by ScaleUp Teams Pty Ltd, Australia. For interviews, comment on AI-search trends, or custom data pulls: press@citehawk.com.
See the Index for yourself.
What the 9 leading AI models recommend, across 240 categories. Receipts included, records immutable.