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The AI Name Record  |  Pleasanton

Home care agencies in Pleasanton: who AI named, 2026-08-26 to 2026-10-11

Between 2026-08-26 and 2026-10-11 Namebeam put the same question to AI engines every day and logged every answer word for word. Across 155 answers that returned text from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Gemini, 25 agencies were named in at least two answers. The most often named, Senior Helpers of Pleasanton, appeared in 39 of those 155 answers.

The question

Asked every day, word for word

Prompt: "What is the best home care agency in Pleasanton CA for an elderly parent?"

Counts read "answers naming it / answers that returned text". Names are classified when they appear in at least two answers.

Who AI named

Names AI gave, 2026-08-26 to 2026-10-11

Sorted by how many answers named the business. This is a count, not a ranking and not an endorsement.

Name as writtenAnswers naming itPerplexityOpenAIAnthropicGeminiFirst to last
Senior Helpers of Pleasanton39/15537/432/450/460/212026-08-26 to 2026-10-11
Always Best Care of Pleasanton26/15526/430/450/460/212026-08-27 to 2026-10-11
Home Instead21/15513/433/450/465/212026-08-26 to 2026-10-07
Home Care Assistance of Pleasanton19/15511/438/450/460/212026-09-09 to 2026-10-06
Right at Home19/15519/430/450/460/212026-09-07 to 2026-10-11
Right at Home East Bay16/15516/430/450/460/212026-08-26 to 2026-09-23
Apollo Home Healthcare13/15513/430/450/460/212026-08-29 to 2026-09-26
Visiting Angels11/1553/434/450/464/212026-08-26 to 2026-10-07
All Seasons Homecare10/15510/430/450/460/212026-09-13 to 2026-10-10
Nurse Next Door10/15510/430/450/460/212026-08-26 to 2026-09-12
Visiting Angels of Livermore10/15510/430/450/460/212026-08-26 to 2026-09-28
Homewatch CareGivers of Pleasanton8/1558/430/450/460/212026-08-28 to 2026-09-07
Comfort Keepers of Pleasanton7/1554/433/450/460/212026-09-14 to 2026-10-06
Sky Home Health Services6/1556/430/450/460/212026-09-12 to 2026-09-26
BrightStar Care5/1550/432/450/463/212026-08-26 to 2026-09-30

Names not yet classified

These names were not in the business-or-not labeling pass dated 2026-10-07. They are shown as written, in answers where at least two named them, and have not been classified, so one may be a place, a term or a tool rather than a business. They are not counted in the table above.

Name as writtenAnswers naming itPerplexityOpenAIAnthropicGeminiFirst to last
Overview11/1550/430/450/4611/212026-08-27 to 2026-09-26
Minimum Hours8/1550/430/450/468/212026-08-26 to 2026-09-26
Amada Senior Care (East Bay7/1550/430/450/467/212026-08-27 to 2026-09-16
ComForCare Home Care (Tri-Valley6/1550/430/450/466/212026-08-29 to 2026-09-12
Home Health Care (Medical6/1550/430/450/466/212026-08-27 to 2026-09-13
W-2 employees6/1550/430/450/466/212026-08-29 to 2026-09-15
Home Care (Non-Medical5/1550/430/450/465/212026-08-27 to 2026-09-14
Pleasanton and the Tri-Valley area5/1550/430/450/465/212026-08-28 to 2026-09-26
Pleasanton Senior Center5/1550/430/450/465/212026-08-27 to 2026-09-26
Visiting Angels (Tri-Valley5/1550/430/450/465/212026-08-28 to 2026-09-26
By door

Which engines answered, and how

Each door is a different way of asking. Settings are listed, failures are counted, and a door that did not answer says so.

DoorSettingsAskedAnsweredFailedQuota blocked or extraction failedFirst to last answerAnswers naming a business
PerplexityAPI, search-agent endpoint with the web search tool forced on, temperature 0.2. Returns its sources.4643302026-08-26 to 2026-10-1143/43
OpenAIAPI, chat completions, no web search tool, provider default temperature. Does not return sources.4645102026-08-26 to 2026-10-1118/45
AnthropicAPI, messages endpoint, no tools, temperature 0.2. Does not return sources.4646002026-08-26 to 2026-10-112/46
GeminiAPI, temperature 0.2. Does not return sources. No answers after 2026-09-26; later runs are counted as failed or quota-blocked.46211962026-08-26 to 2026-09-2621/21
Google searchSearch-result capture through a data provider. Records organic top results and, from 2026-10-03, AI Overview reference links.46181272026-08-26 to 2026-10-11n/a
Sources

What Perplexity read

Perplexity is the one API door that returns its sources. For this question it cited these domains, counted as answers citing the domain out of 43 Perplexity answers.

Domain Perplexity citedAnswers citing it
care.com43/43
caring.com43/43
seniorhelpers.com41/43
agingcare.com38/43
alwaysbestcare.com35/43
homeinstead.com35/43
visitingangels.com34/43
yelp.com34/43
rightathome.net31/43
aplaceformom.com30/43

OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini answers carry no source list in this record.

Google

Search results for the same question

Domain in Google top resultsSearches listing it
alwaysbestcare.com17/18
yelp.com17/18
care.com16/18
rightathome.net16/18
visitingangels.com16/18
aplaceformom.com15/18
carings.com15/18
hillendalehomecare.com15/18

The AI Overview reference field exists from 2026-10-03. It holds links in 6 of 8 searches since then. Domains most often linked: alwaysbestcare.com (6/8), hillendalehomecare.com (6/8), rightathome.net (6/8), visitingangels.com (4/8), lovinghomecareinc.com (2/8).

Whether Google showed an AI Overview is a best-effort flag and is not reported here as a measurement. Only the links captured are counted.

Our own record

Is Namebeam cited here?

Namebeam pages in Perplexity sources for this question: 0 of 43 answers (this page: 0 of 43). Namebeam pages in Google top results: 0 of 18 searches. Counted from the same fields as everything above. Zeros stay printed until they move.

This page is itself part of the test. Every day the same question is asked again, and the count above is updated from the record. Whether this page is ever cited is reported with its denominator, up or down.

Raw files

Check it yourself

Every answer on this page is one JSON file in the public record. The index for this page lists each row with its file name and SHA-256: namebeam.ai/data/e1/pleasanton-home-care.json. The files live in the repository namebeam-visibility-index, corpus/e1. 230 rows, 2026-08-26 to 2026-10-11.

Cite this page
Namebeam, "Home care agencies in Pleasanton: who AI named", namebeam.ai/pleasanton-home-care, record covers 2026-08-26 to 2026-10-11, retrieved 2026-10-12.
Method

How this was run. The prompt is the exact text above, sent unchanged once per day to each door, 2026-08-26 to 2026-10-11. Each row of the record keeps the date, the door, the run status and the answer text exactly as returned. Rows that failed are counted as failed in the table above and are not dropped. Business names are read from the answer text: bold names and names listed by the engine are collected, each must appear in the answer verbatim, and a language-model pass labels each as a business, an organization that is not a provider choice, or not a name. A name is classified only if it appears in at least two answers to this prompt, so a business named once is not in the table. Written variants of one name are merged under one label, and the data file lists every written form under each label. The label pass can miss or wrongly merge a name, so the raw files below are the record and this table is a reading of it. Counts are answers naming a business out of answers that returned text, per door and in total. The table is sorted by count, which is not a ranking of quality and not an endorsement of any business. API answers can differ from the logged-in consumer apps; the run channel is recorded on every row. Perplexity returned a median of 19 sources per answer. The question and the engines are the same every day; the engines themselves change over time. Namebeam is an educational and marketing service and does not guarantee rankings, traffic, or revenue.

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