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Study 01
Published
6 June 2026
AI Crawler Access in Australia 2026
What proportion of Australian business websites are blocking the AI crawlers required for AI search discovery — and how much of that blocking is unintentional? A structured benchmark of 500 publicly identifiable Australian business websites across 10 industry groups.
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38.4%
blocking ≥1 retrieval crawler
440
scannable (denominator)
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Study 02
Forthcoming
Australian Digital Authority Benchmark 2026
How prepared are Australian businesses for AI search? A composite authority benchmark across 500 domains measuring Brand Intelligence, Search Intelligence, AI Readiness, and AI Risk using the AUTHORITY44 scoring engine. Publishing once the instrument has passed reproducibility validation.
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Study 03
Planned
Australian AI Citation Benchmark
When AI systems are asked real questions about Australian industries, which businesses are actually cited — and does a business's digital authority score predict its citation frequency? A correlation study across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini using a stratified sample from Study 02.
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