Hamster Garage vs Rampiq, measured

Broadcastwell ran this measurement and sells AI search visibility services, which makes us a competitor of both firms on this page. We are not in the comparison. On the 120 answers where the question named no agency at all, Hamster Garage was named three times and Rampiq was named none, while rampiq.agency was still opened as a source 25 times. That gap between being cited and being recommended is the whole story here.

answers named Hamster Garage when the question named nobody

answers named Rampiq when the question named nobody

citations to rampiq.agency all the same

of 223 cited domains appeared exactly once

The comparison that counts

Between 22:30 on 26 July and 01:15 on 27 July 2026 we put ten buyer questions about AI search visibility agencies to Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, and repeated the exercise five times. Forty answers per run, 200 in total.

Six of the ten questions named no agency at all. Those 120 answers are the only ones where an engine had to choose a name without being handed one. Here is what it chose.

Data table: Agency, Named in the 120 name-free answers, Domain citations
Agency	Named in the 120 name-free answers	Domain citations
Hamster Garage	3	39
Rampiq	0	25

Rampiq is the clearer case. Its domain was opened 25 times across the run and it was named in none of the answers where the engine picked freely.

The numbers most lists quote

Counted across all 200 answers the two firms look close, and that is the version a roundup would print.

Data table: Agency, Named in all 200, Named in the 120 name-free
Agency	Named in all 200	Named in the 120 name-free
Hamster Garage	19	3
Rampiq	14	0

The difference comes from the other 80 answers. Four of the ten questions carried an agency name inside the question, in the shape of alternatives-to and one-versus-another. An answer to a question like that will repeat the name it was handed. Sixteen of Hamster Garage's 19 mentions and all 14 of Rampiq's arrive that way.

Cited is not recommended

The 200 answers returned 663 citations across 223 domains, and 129 of those domains were cited exactly once. hamstergarage.com was opened 39 times and rampiq.agency 25. Both are being read. Only one of them is being named when the engine is not prompted with a name.

This is the single most useful thing a buyer can take from the data. An agency can supply the source material for an answer that then recommends somebody else. Traffic from an engine and a place on its shortlist are two separate outcomes, and the second one is what a buyer is shopping for.

Both firms against the field

Neither firm leads this category. For context, the same 200 answers across all five measured agencies:

Data table: Agency, All 200, 120 name-free, Domain citations
Agency	All 200	120 name-free	Domain citations
Omniscient Digital	49	15	41
Hamster Garage	19	3	39
Minuttia	15	1	24
Rampiq	14	0	25
Zupo	13	0	19

Publisher disclosure: Broadcastwell provides AI search visibility services. The dated research table is separate from current commercial claims and client evidence.

Method and limits

What we ran. Ten buyer questions, four engines, five runs, 200 answers, 26 to 27 July 2026, one run per prompt. Measured under method v1.0. Current engagements run under method v1.1, described on the methodology page. Question sets were regenerated for each run rather than held constant, so run-to-run movement is question variation and should not be read as engine instability.

What we counted. An answer counts once for an agency it names, regardless of position or sentiment. Citations are every URL the engine returned, opened and resolved to a domain.

What this does not prove. Nothing here measures the quality of either firm's work, the results their clients get, or what they charge. It measures how often four AI engines named them in one category over two days. A firm can be excellent and invisible, and the reverse is also true.

Who wrote it. Broadcastwell sells AI search visibility services and competes with both firms named here. The measurement is ours, the method is published, and we are not a candidate in it.

Broadcastwell ran this measurement and was named in 0 of the 200 answers. It is not ranked here.

Related research source: The 2026 State of GEO, Volume I. Published open access under CC BY 4.0. Not peer reviewed. This disclosure applies to that source dataset; the agency measurement on this page is described separately above.

Questions

Which does AI name more often, Hamster Garage or Rampiq?

Hamster Garage, and the margin depends entirely on how the question is asked. Across all 200 answers Hamster Garage was named 19 times and Rampiq 14, which looks close. On the 120 answers whose question named no agency at all, Hamster Garage was named 3 times and Rampiq was named zero times.

Why do the two sets of numbers disagree?

Because 80 of the 200 answers came from questions that already contained an agency name, such as alternatives-to questions and head-to-head comparisons. An answer to a question like that repeats the name it was given. Counting those measures the prompt, not the engine.

Rampiq is cited 25 times. Does that not count?

It counts as evidence that rampiq.agency is being read, not that Rampiq is being recommended. Citation and recommendation are different events. A domain can supply the source material for an answer that then names somebody else.

Where does Broadcastwell sit in this comparison?

Broadcastwell publishes this page and provides AI search visibility services. The July 2026 figures are a dated research snapshot, not a permanent ranking. Commercial claims, current client evidence and editorial analysis are presented separately.

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