Research

What we find when we count.

Studies of how companies find, check and publish evidence. Every figure here is free to use, with a link back.

Study 02 · October 2026 · 119 research ideas

Asking LLMs for unique ideas? Bad idea.

We gave ChatGPT and Claude 119 ideas for research that already exists, and asked if each one was unique.

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54%of the time LLMs couldn’t see if a company’s idea was original

47%of the time LLMs gave a different answer when asked again

31%of the time LLMs falsely called a company’s idea new

43%of Claude’s wrong “new” answers came after it had found the study

Study 01 · October 2026 · 614 B2B companies

The B2B Numbers Census

Most of the numbers B2B companies publish don’t come from research they did.

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1 in 3companies never publish a number from their own data

7 in 10companies use someone else’s numbers

1 in 4get at least half their numbers from someone else

2 in 3with numbers of their own took one from company data, not a survey

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