Vertical AI agent search trends
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
Search interest▲ Risingbut 73% below its May 2026 peak
- Google Trends, year on year
- +117%
- US searches vs October 2025
- -19%
- From the five-year peak
- -73%
This page follows one Google search, “vertical ai agents”, over five years. Interest is 117% higher than a year ago, 73% below its peak in May 2026.
Below: the five-year chart, searches month by month, country by country and the searches people make around it.
Google Trends via SerpApi (pulled 15 October 2026); search volume and visits via DataForSEO · not a ranking
Vertical AI agent search trends: the key numbers for September 2026
The numbers that sum up searches for “vertical ai agents”. Tap one for the detail below.
Interest in “vertical ai agents” is up 117% on a year ago: 26 out of 100 on Google Trends in September 2026, against 12 a year earlier. The five-year peak was 95, in May 2026.
People search for it about 720 times a month worldwide, 170 of them in the US (24%). In September 2026, US searches were 170, 19% fewer than in October 2025.
18% of visits to the tracked vertical AI agent sites come from the US, up from 13.7% a year ago. India, Canada and the United Kingdom come next.
Five years of interest, worldwide and in the US
WorldGoogle Trends interest, worldwide (0–100)
Source: Google Trends, 100 = peak week.
USGoogle Trends interest, United States (0–100)
United States only, same scale.
Miles explains
Here’s how I read these two lines. They don’t show how many people search, only when interest rose and fell. Worldwide, it peaked in May 2026 and sits at 26 now, higher than a year ago. In the US it’s level with or above a year ago. When you see a sharp spike, think news story, not new customers. The baseline between the spikes is the demand I actually care about.
What the term is worth, month by month
USSearches a month for "vertical ai agents", United States
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.
WorldSearches a month for "vertical ai agents", worldwide
Worldwide, same source.
Miles explains
This is the number I’d plan with: September 2026 had 170 US searches, 19% fewer than in October 2025. Google Ads rounds these figures into steps, so a small move from one month to the next usually means nothing.
The US against 9 other countries
Searches a month for “vertical ai agents” in each country with a Google Ads figure, twelve-month average; countries with none are left out. The United States is 23.6% of the worldwide figure; the next 3 countries together are 22.2%.
- United States170
- India110
- Germany30
- United Kingdom20
- Canada20
- Brazil20
- Australia10
- France10
- Netherlands10
- Philippines10
Miles explains
The top five countries are United States, India, Germany, United Kingdom and Canada. Worldwide, people search for it about 4.2 times as often as in the US alone, so roughly 76.4% of the searches happen outside the US.
The searches around the term
| Search | US / month | Worldwide / month | US share |
|---|---|---|---|
| “vertical ai agents” | 170 | 720 | 24% |
| “ai agents for hr” | 170 | 390 | 44% |
| “ai agents for recruitment” | 90 | 210 | 43% |
| “ai agents for accountants” | 110 | 260 | 42% |
| “ai agents for finance” | 210 | 480 | 44% |
| “ai agents for lawyers” | 30 | 90 | 33% |
| “ai agents for realtors” | 20 | 40 | 50% |
| “ai agents for research” | 90 | 320 | 28% |
| “ai agents for excel” | 110 | 320 | 34% |
Search
- “vertical ai agents”
- US / month
- 170
- Worldwide / month
- 720
- US share
- 24%
- “ai agents for hr”
- US / month
- 170
- Worldwide / month
- 390
- US share
- 44%
- “ai agents for recruitment”
- US / month
- 90
- Worldwide / month
- 210
- US share
- 43%
- “ai agents for accountants”
- US / month
- 110
- Worldwide / month
- 260
- US share
- 42%
- “ai agents for finance”
- US / month
- 210
- Worldwide / month
- 480
- US share
- 44%
- “ai agents for lawyers”
- US / month
- 30
- Worldwide / month
- 90
- US share
- 33%
- “ai agents for realtors”
- US / month
- 20
- Worldwide / month
- 40
- US share
- 50%
- “ai agents for research”
- US / month
- 90
- Worldwide / month
- 320
- US share
- 28%
- “ai agents for excel”
- US / month
- 110
- Worldwide / month
- 320
- US share
- 34%
Source: Google Ads, 12-month averages. A dash means no volume reported.
Miles explains
The biggest related search is “ai agents for finance”, at 480 searches a month worldwide.
Where the visitors to the tracked sites come from
USShare of visits that come from the US (%)
US share of worldwide search visits to all tracked sites, month by month, DataForSEO estimates.
WorldVisits a month from outside the US
Visits from outside the US a month, all tracked sites.
- India69.2%597,164
- Canada8.1%69,527
- United Kingdom7.4%63,794
- Brazil5.1%43,827
- Germany4.7%40,158
- Australia2.9%25,246
- France2.6%22,851
Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.