Arobis AI published research revealing that SEO dominance and AI recommendation frequency are not correlated across major software categories, often moving in opposite directions. The study analyzed 100 SaaS brands across 10 software categories and thousands of prompts tested across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, exposing a structural demand gap. Ran Yosef, Founder & CEO of Arobis AI, noted that Google rankings and AI recommendation frequency have almost nothing to do with each other. Industry research found that 58.5% of Google searches now end without a single click to any external website, a figure that rose to 68% by early 2026. The analysis covered CRM, customer support, project management, marketing automation, HR, collaboration, analytics, e-commerce, cybersecurity, and AI writing categories. SEO-dominant brands frequently failed to appear in AI-generated answers for their own primary category keywords, while mid-market companies with stronger community presence, clearer positioning, and more robust third-party validation outperformed enterprise competitors.