San Francisco Bay Area · Perplexity · Q2 2026
Subset of the San Francisco Bay Area AI Visibility Index filtered to brands whose top citing engine is Perplexity (Perplexity). Out of 25 brands scanned, 2 lead with Perplexity.
Search-augmented assistant with the most aggressive URL-citing behavior in the market.
Engine type: search-grounded (cites live web) · Reach: ~5% of AI-assistant usage
2 San Francisco Bay Area brands ranked with Perplexity as the top citing engine. Position carries over from the full San Francisco Bay Area index — these are not re-ranked solely against Perplexity.
| # | Brand | Category | Score | Finding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Cloudflare cloudflare.com | Infrastructure | 82 | Security + CDN stories get dual citation paths |
| 21 | Okta okta.com | Identity | 58 | Security breach news persists in training data — sentiment scars |
The same San Francisco Bay Area cohort filtered to each engine in our fleet.
See the complete 25-brand ranking with cross-engine analysis, key findings, and the full methodology behind these scores.
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