Genesis is our research on how AI decides what people buy.

Each numbered study measures one piece of it: how models see products, which brands they prefer, and where they send the buyer.

Dated and sourced. Built from live shopping conversations, model outputs, and routing evidence.

Each study is a different lens on how machines see and choose products.

Together they map the systems now sitting between shoppers and stores: what breaks, what gets favored, and what brands can actually control.

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Field studyJuly 15, 2026Latest

Field Study 01: Where ChatGPT sends jewelry buyers.

30 ChatGPT shopping answers across ten jewelry buying intents. Brands were named 248 times; only 88 mentions (35.5%) linked the buyer to the brand’s own store. Who owns the path, who leaks it, and which intents are still wide open.

What these studies are really measuring.

The recommendation systems hidden inside current models: the assumptions they make, the tastes they overfit to, and the sales they now influence.

01 Perception

Can the model actually see the product?

Whether it distinguishes brand, season, and design family from the image itself.

02 Preference

What does it repeatedly choose?

The objects and creators that recur across models when taste is generated from text.

03 Visibility

Who gets named?

How likely a brand is to appear in AI-mediated shopping answers.

04 Reliability

Does it know when it does not know?

Where the model hallucinates authority instead of admitting uncertainty.

Genesis 03 follows the buy path.

The latest study tracks what happens after AI names a brand: the buyer lands on the brand’s own page, leaks to a third-party seller, or gets no usable path at all.