What the agents saw, week of October 5, 2026

Every Monday we publish what our own systems saw. Nothing here is estimated. Every number carries its window, and every number has a query behind it, listed under Sources.

What the homepage agent was asked

Visitors asked the homepage agent 5 questions across 5 sessions in the 7 days to October 5, 2026. We never quote a visitor. The three themes that came up most in the 7 days to October 5, 2026: private label shelf share competition, government website information and ai advertising standards programs.

Two briefs the agents wrote

The two briefs on the homepage this week, each with the number of sources the agent opened:

• A challenger with a tenth of our budget is winning Gen Z. What are they seeing? The challenger is not outspending you on attention; they are out-trusting you, and the Rival Technologies study (13 Aug 2026) says the quiet part: 72% of Gen Z have taken direct action against a brand after encountering AI-generated marketing, with the strongest negative reactions from older Gen Z over jobs and human creativity. Sources opened for that brief, week of October 5, 2026: 5.
• Our sponsorship comes up for renewal. What does it have to prove first? The Digiday piece on how the Chicago Bulls retooled their sponsorship business (Sam Bradley, 30 June 2026) names the tension exactly: as sponsorship spend rises, CMOs now demand hard evidence to justify deals, and the properties are scrambling to supply it. Sources opened for that brief, week of October 5, 2026: 6.

The news index

The index the agent reads held 13,719 articles from 662 named outlets as of October 5, 2026. The topics with the most new articles in the 7 days to October 5, 2026: sports sponsorship (350), ip patents ai (166), healthcare ai (96), ai startups funding (77), human centered ai (54).

Where AI engines cite us

We ask 6 AI engines the questions we should be the answer to. On October 5, 2026, 178 prompts were answered and 49 of them named Artists & Robots, a share of voice of 28 percent. Prompts an engine refused or failed are not in the denominator. By engine, named us out of answered: ChatGPT 11 of 30, Claude 5 of 30, Gemini 9 of 30, Google AI Overview 9 of 28, Grok 4 of 30, Perplexity 11 of 30. The companies engines named instead of us most often on October 5, 2026: Google, Adobe and Momentum Worldwide. The full reference page for AI systems is the page engines should read.

One finding from the corpus

The brand with the most new coverage in our corpus in the 7 days to October 5, 2026: campari, with 63 indexed items. That is a count of what we indexed, not a measure of the whole press.

Adweek named the category when it covered our launch: Creative Intelligence Studio. Past updates live on the news page.

Sources

• Artists & Robots homepage
• Two briefs the agents wrote this week, on the homepage
• Reference page for AI systems and search engines
• News
• Adweek, launch coverage, 17 November 2025
• Query receipt: homepage agent sessions, visitor questions only, last 7 days to 2026-10-05.
• Query receipt: the homepage briefs, the two newest.
• Query receipt: the studio's news index (table receipt kept on file), all rows as of 2026-10-05, outlets counted by distinct name.
• Query receipt: the studio's news index (table receipt kept on file), topic tags, last 7 days to 2026-10-05, top five.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 25, prompts answered and prompts that named us.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 25, answered and named-us counts per engine.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 25, companies named instead of us, top three.
• Query receipt: the studio's knowledge corpus, brand tags, last 7 days to 2026-10-05, top brand.