Authority Intelligence™ Study
Nasdaq 100CEOs in AI
AI recognizes these leaders almost every time. It doesn’t always describe them correctly, and it doesn’t treat them equally.
Each engine sees CEOs differently
Google AI Overview
CEOs got no AI Overview at all when searched by name.
Mistaken identity
CEOs were confused with a namesake by AI. Five were confused by all four engines.
Ask about the company
On ChatGPT and Perplexity, the CEO almost never comes up
Share of “what is the company known for?” answers that name the CEO
What this means for your CEO
Your CEO can be missing from one engine and mistaken for someone else in another. Checking one engine tells you little about the rest.
New CEOs are the ones AI gets wrong
Under a year in the job
got an inaccurate or confused AI portrait.
9 of 12 CEOsA year or more
got the same treatment.
17 of 90 CEOsThree in four first-year CEOs were described inaccurately or confusingly by at least part of the AI landscape.
What this means for your CEO
If your CEO took the role in the last year, the odds are three in four that some part of AI describes them inaccurately or confusingly.
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Named when AI is asked who leads the industry
Accuracy
Flat at every size
Smaller-company CEOs are described just as accurately but named as industry leaders half as often.
What this means for your CEO
A smaller market cap doesn’t make AI less accurate about your CEO, but it does make AI about half as likely to name them as a leader in your industry.
AI introduces women CEOs by their gender
Answers describing the CEO as the first, only, or one of the few of their gender in a role
7 women CEOs
67 of 252 answers · 6 of 7 women
95 men CEOs
0 of 3,419 answers
Replicates Lilypath’s Fortune 500 finding. Directional: n = 7 women.
What this means for your CEO
If your CEO is a woman, AI may introduce her as the first, only or one of the few women in her role, a framing no man in this study received.
A few superstar CEOs pull the spotlight
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang is named in AI answers about 31 other CEOs.
TSMC is not on the Nasdaq 100 list.
What this means for your CEO
AI answers about your CEO may name a superstar peer instead. Jensen Huang alone appears in answers about 31 other CEOs.
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Methodology
- Subjects
- 102 CEO runs covering the top 100 Nasdaq-listed companies by market cap (co-CEOs counted separately), list dated 09/27/2026.
- Engines
- ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity. Google AI Overview recorded, not scored.
- Questions
- Battery of 14 prompts run for each CEO.
- Volume
- 7,112 answers and 67,208 citations. 50 answers (0.7%) were served from cache, all for one company.
- Scoring
- Recognition, accuracy, expertise, competitive presence and credibility. Tone and identity labels come from an automated AI reviewer.
- Statistics
- Fisher exact, Mann-Whitney U and Spearman ρ, two-sided and uncorrected. Size is market-cap list order. Small groups are directional.
Source: Lilypath Authority Graph™, Nasdaq 100 wave, 09/27/2026
Cite this study
Lilypath Research. “Nasdaq 100 CEOs in AI: An Authority Intelligence™ Study.” Lilypath, October 2026. Data: Lilypath Authority Graph™, Nasdaq 100 wave, 09/27/2026. lilypath.com/insights/nasdaq-100-ceos
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