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What we measured across the seven AI engines this week, with the numbers, the sample size and the one thing to do about it. From the team behind Are you found by AI?
3,900+businesses measured platform-wide
28%of the public index named in no AI answer
292checks, last 7 days
This week's verdicts, 292 businesses checked: named · sometimes · absent from every answer.
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Every issue reports what we actually measured that week. No predictions, no roundups of other people's news, which has been the rule since issue 32, when the newsletter became this product's own lab notes. The earlier files are kept below for the record. Written by Huxley Peckham in Noosa, Queensland.
Every issue
The early files, 29 issues from before the measured era
The practitioner brief this newsletter grew out of: AI news read for Australian small businesses, sent from July 2025. Kept exactly as sent, for the record.
#30The Australian Government just signed its first AI deal. I built a8 April 2026#29A solo consultant can now operate like a five-person team. Three13 March 2026#28We skipped last week's briefing to focus on what matters: building the27 February 2026#27The free ride is ending. OpenAI just turned on ads in ChatGPT for free11 February 2026#26The barrier to entry just collapsed3 February 2026#25Just a heads up. We are changing up the format to a much27 January 2026#24Two urgent actions this week: The OAIC launched Australia's first-ever19 January 2026#23DeepSeek (a Chinese AI startup) published research that's making big12 January 2026#22**Tech Horizon Academy launches today**—your complete AI implementation5 January 2026#212025 Recap15 December 2025#20SME AI Tools, Anthropic Interviewer & Gemini Partnerships7 December 2025#19Google’s Gemini Push, Real Productivity Data & No‐Code Apps30 November 2025#18Good morning from the Coast 🌥️. Last week’s storms reminded us how23 November 2025#17**8 Nov – 14 Nov 2025 (QLD Edition)**14 November 2025#16This week, AI moved from hype to proof: ChatGPT crossed 1 million7 November 2025#14Safer AI Browsing, Nambour CBD boost, and our Free AI Community24 October 2025#13Brisbane-wide Olympic message, new station opens, agentic AI hits workflows17 October 2025#12AI Governance, Hardware Leap & Indigenous Business Expo10 October 2025#11Copilot Updates, SEQ Council Boosts & AI Events3 October 2025#10Metro Tunnel, Golden Beach Works & Smarter Search26 September 2025#9Hands-Free AI... We are living in the future19 September 2025#8Busting Layoffs Myths, AirPods AI Magic, and SEQ Grants You Can't Miss12 September 2025#7Small, Boring, Repeatable Wins + Weekly Coastal Brief5 September 2025#6See you at SomethingTech22 August 2025#5The Wave is here15 August 2025#4Google's $200M local investment1 August 2025#3Just finished reading through the new Noosa Council Corporate and25 July 2025#2Are you watching the new [Maroochydore City21 July 2025#1This isn't just another email. It's a briefing on how to handle the10 July 2025 Prefer a reader? RSS feed. Issues are republished here exactly as they were sent.
Method: seven AI engines, asked the questions real buyers ask in each category; we count which businesses they name. Scores are 0 to 100 at measurement time, re-scanned nightly, businesses drawn from public directories.
Scan your own site free. Method open at
github.com/techhorizonlabs/thl-open.