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Raptview market calls Dated, sourced reads — including the ones we got wrong.

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82%

9 of 11 confirmed

Global open

Across markets, buyers increasingly start in an AI answer (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI) before any website.

AI Overviews and assistants now sit in front of the click.

High · called Jun 5, 2026

Global open

Most searches now end without a click — the answer is consumed in place.

Zero-click behaviour keeps rising as engines summarise results inline.

High · called Jun 5, 2026

Settled — the track record (9 hit · 2 missed)
Hit Global

ChatGPT would add live web search with citations.

Hit — OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Search, citing sources inline.

Called Aug 1, 2024 · settled Oct 31, 2024 View proof ↗
Hit Global

Apple would build ChatGPT into the iPhone.

Hit — Apple Intelligence shipped with ChatGPT.

Called Sep 1, 2024 · settled Dec 11, 2024 View proof ↗
Hit Global

ChatGPT weekly users would compound past 400M.

Hit — OpenAI reported 400M+ weekly users.

Called Nov 1, 2024 · settled Feb 20, 2025 View proof ↗
Hit Global

AI Overviews would roll out well beyond the US.

Hit — Google expanded AI Overviews to 100+ countries.

Called Oct 1, 2024 · settled Mar 15, 2025 View proof ↗
Hit Global

A citation-first answer engine would go mainstream.

Hit — Perplexity scaled to hundreds of millions of monthly queries.

Called Sep 1, 2024 · settled Apr 10, 2025 View proof ↗
Hit Global

Google would ship a full conversational 'AI Mode' in Search.

Hit — Google launched AI Mode in Search in 2025.

Called Dec 1, 2024 · settled May 20, 2025 View proof ↗
Hit Global

Google would push Gemini as the default assistant across its products.

Hit — Gemini replaced Assistant across Search, Workspace and Android.

Called Jan 1, 2025 · settled Jun 25, 2025 View proof ↗
Hit Global

AI Overviews would become a default fixture of Google Search.

Hit — Pew measured ~half the click-through when one appears.

Called Oct 1, 2024 · settled Jul 22, 2025 View proof ↗
Hit Global

Most searches would stop sending clicks to the open web.

Hit — only ~36% of US Google searches reach the open web (SparkToro × Datos).

Called Aug 1, 2024 · settled Aug 1, 2025 View proof ↗
Missed Global

AI Overviews would crater referral traffic for most brands by early 2025.

Miss — the hit was real but uneven. Entity-clear, well-structured brands often held or grew. We now scope impact site-by-site, not blanket.

Called Jun 1, 2024 · settled Apr 1, 2025
Missed Global

The AI-visibility tool market would consolidate to one or two winners by 2025.

Miss — it fragmented into dozens of overlapping tools. We shifted to measuring outcomes across engines, not betting on a tool.

Called May 1, 2024 · settled Jun 1, 2025
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