Manufacturers in the answer engines

Across all 30 cost questions, not a single answer named a business from this register. The engines went ahead and answered them regardless, using directories, comparison sites and government pages. Which means somebody is quoting a price for this work, and it is not the people doing it.

How each engine treated Manufacturers.

Engine	Named	Own site cited	Declined to answer
ChatGPT	50%	32%	0 of 50
Perplexity	50%	52%	0 of 50
Google AI Overviews	48%	50%	8 of 50

Citation rates ranged quite widely, from 32% on ChatGPT up to 52% on Perplexity. ChatGPT and Perplexity named a business from this register most often, both in 50% of their answers.

These businesses came up most often on brand questions, at 86%, and least often on cost questions, at 0%. That is a gap of 86 points between the best case and the worst.

Every business measured in Manufacturers for this edition. Selection rules are in the methodology on the main Index page.

• 01AAny Steel Fabrication
• 02HHangan Steel
• 03KKelly Steel
• 04MMetfab
• 05NNC Precision Engineering
• 06NNewgen Steel
• 07Pact Group
• 08PPrecision Engineering
• 09Sutton Tools
• 10SSwift Metal Fabrication