What the agents saw, week of September 28, 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.

No one asked the homepage agent anything this week, so the signal came from the index instead: our crawl of the outlets we track kept clustering around sports sponsorship, patent fights over machine-made work, health systems buying automation, startup funding, and human-cent

What the homepage agent was asked

Visitors asked the homepage agent 0 questions in the 7 days to September 28, 2026. That is the true count, so that is the count we print.

Two briefs the agents wrote

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

• Private label is taking shelf share from our CPG brand. Where do we hold the line? Private label now takes 24% of food and beverage dollars, per Food Industry Executive on 17 September 2026, which means your shelf problem is not a marketing problem; it is a question of which of your SKUs has a reason to exist at a premium. Sources opened for that brief, week of September 28, 2026: 6.
• The board wants an AI plan by Q4. What belongs in it, and what does not? The board is asking for a plan, but the coverage this week says the thing that fails is exactly the artifact they're asking for: PwC's "The hard truth about AI transformation: Concentrated bets beat enterprise-wide mandates" (Sep 2026) and Frontier Enterprise's Infobip CTO piece, "agentic AI pilots aren't enough" (today), are describing the same failure from both ends, sprawling mandates and orphaned pilots. Sources opened for that brief, week of September 28, 2026: 0.

The news index

The index the agent reads held 12,893 articles from 634 named outlets as of September 28, 2026. The topics with the most new articles in the 7 days to September 28, 2026: sports sponsorship (317), ip patents ai (162), healthcare ai (119), ai startups funding (85), human centered ai (49).

Where AI engines cite us

We ask 8 AI engines the questions we should be the answer to. On September 28, 2026, 147 prompts were answered and 35 of them named Artists & Robots, a share of voice of 24 percent. Prompts an engine refused or failed are not in the denominator. By engine, named us out of answered: ChatGPT 0 of 0, Claude 5 of 29, Bing Copilot 0 of 0, Gemini 9 of 30, Google AI Mode 0 of 0, Google AI Overview 6 of 28, Grok 6 of 30, Perplexity 9 of 30. The companies engines named instead of us most often on September 28, 2026: Salesforce, 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 September 28, 2026: campari, with 64 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 2026-09-28.
• Query receipt: the homepage briefs, the two newest.
• Query receipt: the studio's news index (table receipt kept on file), all rows as of 2026-09-28, outlets counted by distinct name.
• Query receipt: the studio's news index (table receipt kept on file), topic tags, last 7 days to 2026-09-28, top five.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 17, prompts answered and prompts that named us.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 17, answered and named-us counts per engine.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 17, companies named instead of us, top three.
• Query receipt: the studio's knowledge corpus, brand tags, last 7 days to 2026-09-28, top brand.