AI Rankings · Custom software development companies · the Northern Rivers
We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode 60 questions a buyer in the Northern Rivers types when looking for custom software development companies. The engines named 81 companies in the Northern Rivers. Cicom is named most often, in 17% of answers, followed by Keenstreet (11%) and Owl Web Design (10%). 12 are named by all three engines.
The full list is below, ranked by how consistently each company is named.
Click a company to open its full report: every answer that names it, where it stands in each one, and the sites behind every rival. Mentioned is the share of answers that name the company: all 180, one engine’s 60 in the engine columns. Green marks that engine’s 3 most recommended. A crossed circle means it never named the company. Click a heading to sort.
Every company AI named in the Northern Rivers, ranked by how consistently it is named.
8 most recommended. 73 named. The rest not cited.
See every answer that names a rival instead of you, and the fix for each.
Before an engine names a company, it reads the web. These are the sites each engine cited most in its 60 answers for the Northern Rivers, by the share of answers citing them.
ChatGPT| Source | Share | Links |
|---|---|---|
| underseage.studio | 20% | 40 |
| njwebservices.com.au | 18% | 21 |
| au.linkedin.com | 17% | 19 |
| keenstreet.com.au | 15% | 24 |
| deprogram.io | 12% | 17 |
| nathanjenkins.com.au | 10% | 11 |
| owlweb.com.au | 10% | 15 |
| softwarenorth.com.au | 10% | 18 |
| cicom.com.au | 10% | 16 |
| caidencesystems.com | 10% | 14 |
Gemini| Source | Share | Links |
|---|---|---|
| byronbaysoftware.com.au | 8% | 22 |
| northernrivers.it | 8% | 18 |
| cicom.com.au | 8% | 13 |
| owlweb.com.au | 7% | 12 |
| localsearch.com.au | 7% | 8 |
| tweedit.com.au | 5% | 9 |
| c9.com.au | 3% | 3 |
| softwarenorth.com.au | 3% | 6 |
| coletek.org | 3% | 6 |
| catalyst-au.net | 3% | 8 |
Google AI Mode| Source | Share | Links |
|---|---|---|
| northernrivers.it | 45% | 54 |
| localsearch.com.au | 18% | 24 |
| cicom.com.au | 15% | 20 |
| helloagain.com.au | 13% | 18 |
| facebook.com | 8% | 10 |
| complete-it.com.au | 8% | 10 |
| findclarity.com.au | 8% | 10 |
| tweedit.com.au | 7% | 8 |
| keenstreet.com.au | 7% | 8 |
| owlweb.com.au | 7% | 7 |
Two things stand out. Google AI Mode leans on northernrivers.it for 45% of its answers, so a company not listed there is largely invisible on Google AI Mode. ChatGPT cites company sites directly: underseage.studio tops its list, so a company’s own pages decide whether it is named.
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A company gets the badge when it is in the top 3 on any single engine, by how many of that engine’s answers recommend it, not just name it. The badge names the engine, so a company can hold it on Gemini and not on ChatGPT. In the Northern Rivers that is Keenstreet, Seage Studio and NJ Web Services on ChatGPT. Cicom, Owl Web Design and Byron Bay Software on Gemini. Cicom, Live Branch Studios and Hello Again on Google AI Mode. 9 badges, 8 companies. A badge holder confirms its website inside the report and puts the badge on its site, and it links back to this page.
Every company was measured against the same 60 questions, asked the way a buyer types them, with no company name in the question. Grouped by how the question is asked: four kinds.
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Each of the 60 questions was asked once to ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode in October 2026: 180 answers. We read every answer and record which companies it names. A company’s share is the part of answers that name it. Different spellings of one company are merged into one row.
Left out: companies outside the Northern Rivers, and names that aren’t custom software development companies. A name AI gave without a website we could find is listed without a profile.
One run per question means a single answer moves a company at the bottom of the table by a point. Treat differences of 1 to 2% as noise and the top 20 as stable.
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Either no engine named it in the 180 answers we read, or it was named and we could not match it to a website. Search the list above. If it was named, its full report is ready and you can add the website from there. If it was never named, Findrix shows what AI says when buyers ask about custom software development companies, which rivals it names instead, and a ranked list of fixes: the page, the edit, and the next scan ticks it off. It starts with the 7-day trial.
Everything we collected about the company: its position on each of ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode, recommended or only mentioned, its average position in the answer and what AI says about it word for word. It opens after a quick login, free, for anyone. The “Top 3 in AI answers” badge goes on the company’s site when any engine puts it in its top 3.
This page is one snapshot. Findrix is where you control and grow your AI visibility over time: your own question set, 60 to 180 questions by plan, tracked for you and your rivals. On every answer you see recommended, only mentioned, or a rival, and which sites earned that rival the spot. Wrong facts come with the correction email written for you. Your site becomes a numbered plan: which page, what to change, confirmed by the next scan. A PDF report for you and your team. It starts with the 7-day trial.
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