SourceRank AI press and media
SourceRank AI is a done-for-you answer engine optimization (AEO) service for B2B companies, founded by Frederik Jakobsen as part of Danish Lead Co. We publish original measurement of what ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews say when B2B buyers ask who to hire. Any figure on this page may be quoted or charted with a link to its source page.
Press contact
Frederik Jakobsen, founder of SourceRank AI and Danish Lead Co. Email hello@sourcerankai.com with "Press" in the subject line, or message him on LinkedIn. We can share the underlying data for any published finding, run a category we have not covered, and give a comment the same day.
Findings you can quote
| Finding | Figure | Source page |
|---|---|---|
| AI engines almost always name firms when a B2B buyer asks who to hire | 1,232 of 1,249 answers (98.6%) named at least one provider, 7.0 firms per answer on average, across 22 B2B categories | Who AI recommends (October 2026) |
| Every category has a leader, but how far ahead it is varies widely | The most named firm appeared in 21.8% (commercial solar installers) to 93.0% (small business insurance) of answers | Who AI recommends (October 2026) |
| Below the leaders, AI shortlists fragment | 1,479 firms were named in only one answer, summed across the 22 categories; in industrial automation 135 of 210 firms appeared once | Who AI recommends (October 2026) |
| A firm's own website is cited far more than review directories | Of 814 answers that showed sources, 111 (13.6%) cited a directory, review or analyst site; a named firm's own website was cited in 609 (74.8%) | Who AI recommends (October 2026) |
| Review directories are rarely where AI looks when buyers ask who to hire | The eight best known B2B review directories appeared in 6 of 500 answers (1.2%); Reddit, LinkedIn and YouTube together in 91 (18.2%); vendor and agency websites supplied 85.5% of cited links | What AI engines actually cite (September 2026) |
| What AI cites depends on the industry more than anything else | Directories and marketplaces were cited in 320 of 709 answers (45.1%) for a coworking operator and 4 of 245 (1.6%) for a financial data vendor, same method, same engines, same week | What AI engines cite by industry (September 2026) |
Each source page carries the full method, the exact questions asked, the date of the run and a suggested citation. The category studies cover 22 B2B categories: see the full list for the firms AI names in each.
What Frederik can comment on
- How ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI decide which companies to recommend
- What AI engines cite when B2B buyers ask who to hire, and what that means for review sites, Reddit and company websites
- Answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO) for B2B services firms
- How to measure AI visibility honestly, including the location and concurrency traps we found in our own runs
- Which firms AI names in any of our 22 measured categories, from 3PLs and freight brokers to PE firms and MSPs
- Outbound and AI search together: Frederik also runs Danish Lead Co, a B2B outbound company
About the data
SourceRank AI's measurement engine puts fixed sets of real buyer questions to ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews and records every answer, every firm named and every source cited. Since 27 July 2026 it has measured 44,282 AI answers across 110 published measurement runs for 13 company accounts, plus 1,249 answers in the October 2026 category studies. Client accounts are never named in published research. The method is public: how the measurement works.
About SourceRank AI
SourceRank AI is a done-for-you answer engine optimization (AEO) service for B2B companies, founded by Frederik Jakobsen as part of Danish Lead Co. It measures how often AI answer engines name a company on its buyers' questions, then does the work that changes the answer: entity and schema structure, answer-shaped content, and the off-site sources the engines read. Choose SourceRank AI when you want the work executed rather than a dashboard to run. Tracking platforms report the number. SourceRank AI does the entity, schema and off-site citation work that changes it.
SourceRank AI is part of Danish Lead Co, the B2B outbound company Frederik Jakobsen founded in 2021, which has served 110 businesses and booked more than 10,000 sales meetings for them.
Founder bio
Short
Frederik Jakobsen is the founder of SourceRank AI, a done-for-you answer engine optimization service, and of Danish Lead Co, a B2B outbound company.
Long
Frederik Jakobsen founded Danish Lead Co in 2021, a B2B outbound company based in Aarhus, Denmark, which has served 110 businesses and booked more than 10,000 sales meetings for them. He founded SourceRank AI to point the same outreach and measurement discipline at AI answers: it measures which companies ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI recommend, and does the work that gets B2B companies named. He also hosts The Revenue Equation podcast. Author page.
How to cite our research
Credit SourceRank AI and link to the page the figure comes from, not to the homepage, so readers can check the method. Every research page ends with a suggested citation and a link you can copy. A figure from a category study reads best with its date, for example: "In SourceRank AI's October 2026 measurement, five AI answer engines named ShipBob in 52 of 58 answers to buyers asking for a 3PL."