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Everything here comes from measurements: real questions, asked three times, to four AI services. No percentages without a source.
Data
We asked the same 20 questions to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude in September and October 2026. The total barely moved, but one in three positions changed. Here is what moved, and what it means for wedding vendors.
15 October 2026 / 6 minute read
Data
The directories, magazines and photographer sites that AI services actually cite when a couple asks for a wedding photographer, counted from our own measurements. Plus why Gemini shows no sources at all, and what that means for you.
1 October 2026 / 7 minute read
United Kingdom
Which sources the assistants actually lean on for British venues and photographers, why the American advice sends you to the wrong platforms, and what one of the four services did instead of answering the question at all.
12 September 2026 / 7 minute read
How to
The manual method, five questions and the one rule that makes it worth doing, plus what the free check here adds. With the measurements that show why asking once tells you almost nothing.
12 September 2026 / 8 minute read
Photographers
ChatGPT does not have an opinion of you. It reads. What the answers are built from, why a beautiful site still goes unnamed, and seven things that move the needle, from measurements of eighteen wedding businesses.
9 September 2026 / 9 minute read
Tools
Seven tools that claim to tell you whether AI recommends your wedding business, with prices checked in September 2026, what each one actually measures, and which is worth it for a solo vendor. Written by someone who sells one of them.
9 September 2026 / 11 minute read
Data
The industry numbers, where they come from and who published them, plus what eighteen measured wedding businesses show about whether AI is naming anyone at all. Sourced throughout, including the parts that are weaker than they look.
9 September 2026 / 8 minute read