When asked for the best equity crowdfunding platform, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. StartEngine was named most often, followed by Republic and Wefunder. One brand was named by every assistant that answered: StartEngine.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StartEngine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Republic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 5 of 6 |
| Wefunder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 5 of 6 |
| Crowdcube | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Honeycomb Credit | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Mainvest | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: StartEngine, Wefunder, Republic, Crowdcube.
Selecting the best equity crowdfunding platform for a small business depends on various factors including the nature of the business, the industry, the location, and specific funding needs.
Perplexity
Named 4 brands, in this order: Wefunder, StartEngine, Republic, Crowdcube.
The best equity crowdfunding platform for a small business depends on your goal, but for most U.S.
Claude
Named 5 brands, in this order: Wefunder, StartEngine, Republic, Mainvest, Honeycomb Credit.
The "best" platform depends on your specific needs, but here are the top options to consider:
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: Wefunder, Republic, StartEngine.
For typical small/main-street businesses (not just high-growth tech startups), these stand out based on accessibility, fees, minimum raise amounts, and success with smaller companies:
DeepSeek
Named 5 brands, in this order: Wefunder, StartEngine, Republic, Mainvest, Honeycomb Credit.
There's no single "best" platform—it depends on your business type, how much you need, and whether you want investors or just customers.
Cohere
Named 2 brands, in this order: Crowdcube, StartEngine.
Choosing the best equity crowdfunding platform for a small business depends on several factors, including the business's industry, funding goals, geographic location, and the platform's fees, reach, and success rates.
The questions asked
- What is the best equity crowdfunding platform for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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