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Published studies, with the questions as sent, the frozen artifacts and their fingerprints, and every correction we made.
Latest · October 7, 2026
Three Doors and a Brick Wall: How AI Assistants Choose CPA Firms
Five AI assistants, 500 answers, checked against the federal record of who performs Single Audits.
September 2026 · 175 responses · seven questions · five platforms
The Story Survived. The Byline Didn't.
Five AI platforms, 175 responses, one journalist's verified byline record.
Zero named the reporter who broke the INFOCON story — and six confirmed a byline that does not exist.
AIWorthy Research · Published September 2026 · 2,300 responses · five platforms · corpus frozen and hashed
Corpus not published to protect the firm's anonymity.
A $4 Billion Firm, Measured in Every Market It Operates In
A national wealth management and advisory firm, 2,300 questions across twelve markets — then measured again after a collection defect was found in our own work.
Every claim checked against the firm's SEC filing rather than its own website. Six buyer questions with recommendation rates from 20.7% down to zero, a gap between what the firm marketed and what it filed, and a correction we issued against our own collection process — reversed in the firm's favor.
Published August 2026 · 700 responses · five platforms
Ask AI the Way a Person Would, and the Warning Disappears
What five AI platforms say about fourteen federal dollar figures
Three of five AI platforms cited no sources across 420 responses. Asked for a 2026 federal tax figure with the year stated, they flagged their own uncertainty three times in four. Asked the way a practitioner asks, that fell to one in four.
No firm is measured in this study. The rated party is the platform, and the ground truth is the federal record itself.
The Triangle RIA baseline, wave 2, publishes next. Its panel and screens are on the Pre-registered page.