Advocate Research

Measuring how AI actually sends business to the open web.

The first attribution data for small businesses in the AI-search era.

Every quarter we publish production-grade data on which AI crawlers reach small businesses, how that traffic converts, and what it means for the next twelve months of discovery. No scraped rankings, no PR numbers — measurements from the live pipeline.

Published
Q1 2026 Preview · April 16, 2026 · 12 min read

State of AI Bot Traffic — Q1 2026 Preview

First closed-loop AI attribution at SMB tier. A methodology preview reporting what the instrument sees in its first week of production — 20 organic queries across three real tenants, classified from 64 total. Methodology, early signals, and what Q2 measures next.

N=20
Organic queries classified from 64 total
3
Real tenants in the clean sample
3
Bots observed: GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot
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Coming next
Q2 2026 · Summer

Cross-bot conversion deltas at scale

Ten× the sample, per-vertical breakdowns, per-agent attribution across Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT Apps, and generic MCP clients — plus the first cohort-level read on citation battles SMBs systematically win vs. lose through Competitor Radar.

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