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AI Visibility Index — India · November 2026

Which software do AI assistants name for Indian startups?

Buyers now ask an AI assistant “which payroll software should an Indian startup use?”. Every month we ask 3 assistants 150 such questions across 30 categories and publish who they name.

Asked on 9 November 2026 through the APIs · from memory: Claude Haiku (Anthropic) and GPT-4o mini (OpenAI), with no web search · searching the web: Claude Haiku + web search (Anthropic), one search per answer, asked 10 November 2026 · Answers change from day to day and month to month; this is one run.

The AI Visibility Index — India records which software Claude Haiku and GPT-4o mini and Claude Haiku + web search name when an Indian founder asks for a tool. On 9 November 2026 we asked 150 buyer questions across 30 categories through their APIs, once from memory and once searching the web: 450 answers. Each category page shows which tools were named, how often, and which were not.

How we tested, 9 November 2026: each of the 150 questions went once to Claude Haiku and GPT-4o mini and Claude Haiku + web search through their APIs, with no company named in the question — from memory: Claude Haiku (Anthropic) and GPT-4o mini (OpenAI), with no web search · searching the web: Claude Haiku + web search (Anthropic), one search per answer, asked 10 November 2026. One run, not a ranking.

The 30 categories

Each card: the three tools from our directory named in the most of that category’s 5 questions.

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How it works, in plain words

  • The questions. 5 per category, written the way a founder types them (“best CRM for a 20-person B2B startup in India?”). No question names a company. All 150 are on the category pages.
  • The assistants, two ways. Asked through their APIs on 9 November 2026: 450 answers. From memory: Claude Haiku (Anthropic) and GPT-4o mini (OpenAI), no web search and no tools — each answers from what it learned in training. Searching the web: Claude Haiku + web search (Anthropic), allowed one web search per answer, results from India — closer to what the ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity apps do. Every page shows both columns.
  • What we count. For each tool in our directory: in how many of the 5 questions it was named from memory, in how many when searching the web, how many answers per assistant, and the middle place it was mentioned at. There is no score beyond these counts. Every company named gets its own page: companies A–Z.
  • Who is in the list. The tools our directory covers in that category. Names an answer gave that we do not list are shown separately, never ranked.
  • Answers change. The same question asked twice can get different names. This is one run a month; read it as a snapshot, not a ranking.

Run cost this month: $1.86. This is the first month.