Almost every business site lets AI in. 44% of sites never say whose business it is.
Last updated 26 October 2026
What we read on 952 business websites in Singapore, 2 October 2026 to 20 October 2026.
We read 952 business websites in Singapore in October 2026, the way an AI assistant reads them. Each line gives its own count, because not every check could run on every site.
No change claimed. Fewer than 30 of these sites were also read in September 2026, so this issue says where October 2026 stands, not how it moved.
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What October 2026 showed
- The business declared in markup: 56% (475 of 855). Without it, an assistant has to guess from the prose whose page it is reading. A guess is where a business gets left out of the answer.
- AI answer engines can reach the site: 99% (884 of 895). The crawlers that ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google send can fetch the pages. On these sites the door is not the problem.
- Prices a machine can read: 53% (120 of 228). Of the sites that show prices, the share that list them in a form a machine can lift straight into an answer.
- A price stated in text: 25% (61 of 246). People now ask an assistant what a first visit costs. Only a page that says it in words can be quoted.
- Opening hours in markup: 20% (65 of 318). "Are they open on Sunday?" An assistant can answer only from opening hours written into the page's code.
- A tap-to-call number: 48% (153 of 318). A number a reader can tap straight from the answer or the page: the shortest road from a question to a call.
An assistant answers from what a page states plainly. A site that lets AI in but never says, in a form a machine can read, whose business it is, what it costs and when it is open, is read and leaves the assistant little to quote.
What an owner can do this month
- Say who you are, in the code. 380 of 855 sites do not declare the business in structured data. Ask for an Organization or LocalBusiness label on the homepage with the name, address, phone and trade, then check it in Google's Rich Results Test.
- Write a price in words. 185 of 246 sites we read state no price in their text. One sentence on the service page, "from" and a figure, answers the question people now type into ChatGPT and Google AI Mode.
- Put your opening hours where a machine reads them. 253 of 318 sites give no opening hours in their code. The same label as step one carries them; most website builders have a field for it.
Every month we read the websites of businesses the way an AI assistant does, and publish what we find. This month is simple: the door is open, but the sign on it is often missing. A business that says in its code who it is, what it charges and when it opens gives an assistant something to quote, and that work can start this week. Our free scan runs the same checks on your own site, with no sign-up, at aiqsight.com.
Olivier Jobert, founder
What to watch next month
From the next issue we read the same sites again each month, so a change in a line is a change on the same websites. We will watch whether "opening hours in markup" moves from 20%, the lowest line this month.
How we count
The business declared in markup: check EN1. AI answer engines can reach the site: check AI1. Prices a machine can read: check OF1, sites with an offer page that shows prices. A price stated in text: text read of the page. Opening hours in markup: the structured data in the page, read with its text. A tap-to-call number: text read of the page. Every figure is counted from our scan output; no survey and no borrowed statistic. Lines measured on fewer than 100 sites are left out. See the rubric for every check.
Your site, and the other issues
Run the free scan to see the same reading for your own site, with no sign-up. Previous: Quarterly brief Q4 2026. Quote any figure with the issue's name and month.