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Archived edition, September 2026

Vertical AI Agents Industry Report, September 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year
-55%
Visits, last six months
-33%
Name searches vs October 2025
-14%

Every key number on the vertical AI agent market for September 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 59 sites I measure got about 3 million visits from Google, 55% fewer than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 72.5% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for October 2026. This is an archived edition, kept as published; the latest one is here.

Published 15 October 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

Vertical AI agent industry report: the key numbers for September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 59 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    3,049,477
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -55.2% year on year, -1.9% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    587,494
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -38.9% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    19.3%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    299,560
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -13.6% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    1,183,520
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -13.7% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “vertical ai agents”, US
    Value
    170
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “vertical ai agents”, worldwide
    Value
    720
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    230,451
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +5924.9% year on year
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    72.5%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    83.5%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “vertical ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    September 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “vertical ai agents”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    September 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Augury, BlackLine, Consensus, Elicit, Harvey, Jump, Legora, Luminance, Magical, Momos, Numa, Numeric, Paradigm, Puzzle, Quadratic, Rows, Spellbook and VIKTOR: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-55%), and September 2026 was about the same as August 2026 (-2%).

WorldVisits a month to vertical AI agent sites, worldwide

02.5M5.0M7.5M10MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 263.0M
Low 3.0MHigh 7.0MAverage 5.0M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 55% below a year ago, and 57% below the May 2025 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 14% less often than in October 2025 (-14%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0125K250K375K500KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26300K
Low 256KHigh 347KAverage 293K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 14%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 19 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 21 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

012.52537.550Oct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2619.3
Low 13.3High 25.2Average 18
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    613,164
    Share of the measured countries
    69.1%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    72,031
    Share of the measured countries
    8.1%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    65,101
    Share of the measured countries
    7.3%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    44,207
    Share of the measured countries
    5%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    41,729
    Share of the measured countries
    4.7%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    25,709
    Share of the measured countries
    2.9%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    24,488
    Share of the measured countries
    2.8%
  • Philippines
    Search visits a month
    397
    Share of the measured countries
    0%
  • Indonesia
    Search visits a month
    169
    Share of the measured countries
    0%
  • Italy
    Search visits a month
    66
    Share of the measured countries
    0%

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 19 in every 100 visits. India alone is 69.1% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

SciSpace gets the most visits, Freed Front Desk is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “vertical ai agents”. The five most-visited sites take 72.5% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

  • SciSpace
    Visits a month
    975,874
  • Consensus
    Visits a month
    537,616
  • Elicit
    Visits a month
    327,346
  • Julius AI
    Visits a month
    191,950
  • HighRadius
    Visits a month
    177,218
  • Rows
    Visits a month
    89,055
  • ResearchRabbit
    Visits a month
    77,320
  • Harvey
    Visits a month
    65,311
  • Scite
    Visits a month
    63,993
  • GPT for Work
    Visits a month
    41,849

By US brand-name searches

  • Freed Front Desk
    Searches a month
    135,000
  • HireVue
    Searches a month
    18,100
  • Holistiplan
    Searches a month
    12,100
  • Zocks
    Searches a month
    12,100
  • EvenUp
    Searches a month
    9,900
  • Hippocratic AI
    Searches a month
    9,900
  • FloQast
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • Hebbia
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • SciSpace
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • SeekOut
    Searches a month
    8,100

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 72.5% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was Hippocratic AI (+115%); the steepest fall was at Nomic (-94%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Hippocratic AI
    A year ago
    8,067
    Now
    17,341
    Change
    +115%
  • Billtrust
    A year ago
    10,096
    Now
    21,251
    Change
    +111%
  • Hebbia
    A year ago
    7,523
    Now
    12,439
    Change
    +65%
  • FloQast
    A year ago
    16,001
    Now
    23,642
    Change
    +48%
  • Freed Front Desk
    A year ago
    24,188
    Now
    32,855
    Change
    +36%
  • Numeric
    A year ago
    17,778
    Now
    22,759
    Change
    +28%
  • HighRadius
    A year ago
    146,866
    Now
    177,218
    Change
    +21%

Declining

  • Nomic
    A year ago
    70,098
    Now
    4,090
    Change
    -94%
  • GPT for Work
    A year ago
    635,677
    Now
    41,849
    Change
    -93%
  • Julius AI
    A year ago
    2,054,639
    Now
    191,950
    Change
    -91%
  • Notable
    A year ago
    19,900
    Now
    2,561
    Change
    -87%
  • BlackLine
    A year ago
    88,157
    Now
    18,310
    Change
    -79%
  • Suki
    A year ago
    22,508
    Now
    5,669
    Change
    -75%
  • Quadratic
    A year ago
    43,756
    Now
    11,389
    Change
    -74%
  • Ylopo
    A year ago
    18,159
    Now
    5,014
    Change
    -72%

Worldwide search visits, September 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

Corrected 22 October 2026: the figures were rebuilt from the sources; the year-on-year change in visits moved from -55.1% to -55.6%.

To cite this report: RankDude, “Vertical AI Agents Industry Report, September 2026”, published 15 October 2026, corrected 22 October 2026, https://rankdude.ai/vertical-ai-agents/statistics/industry-report/2026-09. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.

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