Asked 200 times across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity on October 20, 2026, the Houston AI companies the assistants named most often were Liquid Technologies, PennComp, Plego Technologies, Sparkhound and Trenegy.
We asked the four questions people actually type when looking for AI solutions in Houston, ten times each, on each of the five assistants, with web search switched on. Then we counted which companies each answer named. Every answer was saved; the counts are below and the data is at deepaisolutions.com/houston/ai-companies/data.json.
The most-named Houston AI companies
Out of 200 answers (40 per assistant). A company counts once per answer that names it.
| # | Company | Total | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Grok | Perplexity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liquid Technologies | 118 | 4 | 29 | 32 | 33 | 20 |
| 2 | PennComp | 108 | 31 | 22 | 23 | 12 | 20 |
| 3 | Plego Technologies | 100 | 18 | 20 | 33 | 11 | 18 |
| 4 | Sparkhound | 88 | 22 | 13 | 23 | 20 | 10 |
| 5 | Trenegy | 81 | 21 | 17 | 21 | 12 | 10 |
| 6 | Opinosis Analytics | 79 | 21 | 21 | 4 | 13 | 20 |
| 7 | Geeks Ltd | 78 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 33 | 0 |
| 8 | Azumo | 69 | 17 | 1 | 18 | 13 | 20 |
| 9 | Improving | 68 | 21 | 9 | 17 | 11 | 10 |
| 10 | 7T (SevenTablets) | 59 | 11 | 10 | 28 | 0 | 10 |
| 11 | Glorium Technologies | 58 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 23 | 0 |
| 12 | PwC | 57 | 12 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 8 |
| 13 | EPC Group | 49 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 17 | 10 |
| 14 | Persona AI | 46 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 10 |
| 15 | IBM | 45 | 12 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 10 |
| 16 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 43 | 2 | 10 | 27 | 0 | 4 |
| 17 | Pendoah | 42 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 31 | 0 |
| 18 | App Maisters | 42 | 1 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 10 |
| 19 | Accenture | 41 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 10 |
| 20 | Slalom | 36 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| 21 | Cortex Texas AI | 34 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 24 |
| 22 | Synergy Labs | 34 | 0 | 16 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | IronEdge Group | 34 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 24 | Deloitte | 34 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 10 |
| 25 | The Jonesi Consultancy | 32 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 26 | TekRevol | 31 | 0 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Cloud Botics | 26 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 28 | Tavus | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| 29 | Bot Auto | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 10 |
| 30 | Inventiple | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
The assistants rarely agree. Only 8 companies were named by all five, and several firms that one assistant names constantly never appear in another's answers.
By question
“What are the best AI solutions companies in Houston, Texas?”
Most named (out of 50 answers): Liquid Technologies (40), Plego Technologies (38), PennComp (36), Opinosis Analytics (34), Geeks Ltd (32), Sparkhound (28).
“What are some AI companies located in Houston?”
Most named (out of 50 answers): Persona AI (36), Liquid Technologies (30), 7T (SevenTablets) (30), Geeks Ltd (22), Azumo (22), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (22).
“Who are the top AI consulting firms in Houston, Texas?”
Most named (out of 50 answers): PennComp (50), Trenegy (50), Sparkhound (44), Opinosis Analytics (40), EPC Group (39), Accenture (36).
“I need an AI development or automation partner in Houston. Which companies should I talk to?”
Most named (out of 50 answers): Liquid Technologies (32), Talos Automation (21), 7T (SevenTablets) (20), Azumo (19), Cloud Botics (19), Geeks Ltd (17).
Where the assistants get their answers
The pages the assistants cited most often while answering. A company that wants to be named in these answers needs to be on these pages.
| Source | Answers citing it |
|---|---|
| sparkhound.com | 99 |
| goodfirms.co | 85 |
| designrush.com | 84 |
| builtin.com | 81 |
| clutch.co | 81 |
| themanifest.com | 67 |
| plego.com | 59 |
| 7t.ai | 58 |
| revenuebase.ai | 56 |
| epcgroup.net | 48 |
| sortlist.com | 43 |
| f6s.com | 31 |
Method
- ChatGPT: OpenAI gpt-4o, Responses API with web_search.
- Claude: Anthropic claude-haiku-4-5, Messages API with web_search.
- Gemini: Google gemini-2.5-flash with google_search grounding.
- Grok: xAI grok-4.3, Responses API with web_search.
- Perplexity: Perplexity sonar.
- Each question was run 10 times per assistant on 2026-10-20, with this instruction: “You are helping a business owner in Houston, Texas choose a vendor. Search the web, then name specific companies and cite your sources.”
- An answer counts for a company if its text names the company (canonical name or listed alias). A mention is not an endorsement. Name variants we matched are listed in the data file.
- These are the assistants' developer APIs, not the consumer apps. Answers change from day to day and from run to run; that is why each question was asked ten times.
Disclosure
Deep AI Solutions published this study and is a Houston AI company. We are left out of the table above. For the record, we were named in 9 of 200 answers, all by ChatGPT, mostly as the publisher of houstonaicompany.com, a verified directory of Houston AI companies. We do not build AI systems; we help businesses get named in AI answers. Read more about what we do in Houston.
Questions
What are some AI companies located in Houston?
When we asked five AI assistants that question 50 times on October 20, 2026, the companies they named most were Persona AI, Liquid Technologies, 7T (SevenTablets), Geeks Ltd, Azumo and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The full measured list is on this page.
Which AI consulting firms in Houston do AI assistants recommend?
For "Who are the top AI consulting firms in Houston, Texas?" the most-named firms were PennComp, Trenegy, Sparkhound, Opinosis Analytics, EPC Group and Accenture.
Is this a ranking of the best AI companies in Houston?
No. It counts how often AI assistants named each company in their answers. That reflects what the assistants found and trusted on the web, not the quality of any company's work.