How to win

The Finance
AI Visibility Index.

2026

How AI engines actually recommend banking and financial brands. Five engines, thirteen categories, 100 brands. The biggest banks are not the ones winning.

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The 13 races

Who does AI pick in each corner of finance?

Finance is not one market, it is thirteen. A credit-card issuer never competes with a crypto exchange, so there is no single overall winner. Here is the brand AI recommends most in each category, and how much of that category's voice it holds.

Cross-category footprint

Which brands show up across the most of finance?

Breadth, not dominance. How many of the thirteen categories each brand reaches AI's top three in. A diversified player can rank here without leading any single category, so read it as footprint across the market, not as the winner of it.

The corporate footprint

Which parent company spans the most of finance?

Roll each brand up to its parent and you see footprint, not dominance: the companies whose portfolios reach across the widest spread of the finance map. PayPal (with Venmo), Fidelity and Capital One cover the most ground.

The full leaderboard

Who leads AI visibility in my category?

Filter by AI engine, category, and snapshot. Click any brand to see its profile across the index.

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Engine by engine

Do all the AI engines agree?

They do not. The five engines surface different brands, at different volumes, with different warmth. A brand cannot assume one engine's result holds across the rest.

The citation layer

Where do AI's finance answers come from?

No single publisher dominates. Unlike other categories where a handful of big names carry the citations, AI's finance answers scatter across a long tail of sites, while a few social platforms carry outsized weight.

The social platforms driving AI's answers.
Reddit and YouTube account for the large majority of the social citations AI draws on in finance. Here is how they split.
Percentage = share of all social-media citations going to each platform. Hover any number to see the raw citation count.
The takeaways

So what does this mean for my brand?

What the rankings, engines and citations add up to for anyone deciding where to spend on AI visibility.

From the scoreboard to the win

You can see the scoreboard. Here is how to win it.

This index shows which brands AI recommends today. Winning that answer is a discipline, not luck. See how the biggest brands run AI visibility as a program, with a partner accountable for the outcome.

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