Is the AI sales agent market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year
- -42%
- Visits, last six months
- -33%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -36%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 6 AI sales agent sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In September 2026 they got about 45,451 visits. Artisan made most of the move in September 2026: it lost 4,651 of the market's 7,272 visits; without it, visits to the other sites fell 8.4% on August 2026.
See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for October 2026.
AI sales agent market demand: key numbers, September 2026
Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 6 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google45.5Kvisits-42% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US2.1Ksearches-36% vs October 2025
- Top five sites97.7%of visitsof all visits
- Expected in October44.3Kvisitslikely 38.7K to 49.9K
- The AI sales agent market is shrinking as of September 2026.
- The 6 AI sales agent sites RankDude tracks got 45,451 visits from Google search in September 2026, 42% fewer visits than in September 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 2,070 times in September 2026, 36% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI sales agent sites get 97.7% of all visits.
- Steepest fall over the year: Conversica, -73% (6.3K to 1.7K visits a month).
- Forecast for October 2026: about 44.3K visits, likely between 38.7K and 49.9K.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 15 October 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI sales agent sites than a year ago?
Down 42% on a year ago; down 14% on August 2026
No. The 6 tracked AI sales agent sites got 45,451 visits from Google search in September 2026. That is 42% fewer visits than in September 2025, and 14% fewer visits than in August 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was December 2024, with 108,687 visits; September 2026 is 58% below it. In the US, visits were 17,501, down 18% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI sales agent sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
45.5K
-41.5% on a year ago
United States, this month
17.5K
-17.6% on a year ago
Two-year high
109K
December 2024
US share of visits
38.5%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago and lower than in August 2026, so the fall is still going. Name searches (-36%) and Google Trends interest in the term (-14%) fell too, so people are less interested, not just finding these sites less often.
2.Are people searching for AI sales agent sites by name?
Down 36% on October 2025; 2.1K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI sales agent sites 2,070 times in September 2026, 36% fewer searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai sales agents” itself gets about 1,300 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI sales agent sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI sales agent sites by name, searches a month
Conversica880 a month
AiSDR720 a month
Qualified260 a month
Dapta210 a month
Miles explains
Name searches are down, so fewer people are coming back on purpose. Better Google rankings will not fix that.
3.Which AI sales agent sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 97.7% of all visits
The five most-visited AI sales agent sites get 97.7% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Steepest fall: Conversica, from 6,335 to 1,710 visits (-73%).
Growing fastest, year on year
No tracked site with 5,000 visits a year ago grew.
Falling fastest, year on year
- Conversica1.7K visits-73%
Artisan16.8K visits-54%
11x6.3K visits-46%- Qualified16.1K visits-26%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.