Research / Managed IT Services (MSP)
Top MSPs in New York, USA: What ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini Actually Say
TofuBofu AI Visibility Index · Q3 2026 edition · New York, USA · Published July 12, 2026
New York, USA is one of fifteen regions in The MSP AI Visibility Report, which compares all of them and checks the engines against the industry's own MSP 501 ranking.
We asked 4 AI engines who the best managed IT service provider in New York, USA is, then checked their answers against Clutch's real directory. See which firms every engine agrees on, and which real, reviewed companies got zero AI mentions at all.
Methodology
We asked ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini the same open question, "what are the best managed IT service providers (MSPs) in New York, USA?", extracted every company name each one volunteered, then checked those names against Clutch.co's live New York, USA directory and a Google search. Two more engines, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot, are wired into this pipeline but returned nothing this round: our SerpApi credits ran out mid-research. We're showing that as blocked, not as a zero, an honest gap is more useful than a fake number.
How grounded is each engine?
Of the companies each engine named, what share are independently verifiable, either on Clutch or in Google search results? This is the clearest structural finding in the data.
Verified = the company also appears on Clutch's real directory or in Google search results. The most retrieval-grounded engine in this sample is consistently more accurate than the training-data-only engines.
Where the sources overlap
Three sources, AI engines (combined), Clutch's real directory, and Google search, named 45 distinct companies between them.
Each number is a company count. 1 companies appear in all three sources, the closest thing to a "verified consensus pick" this pilot found. 31 companies were named by an AI engine and confirmed nowhere else.
How many engines named each company?
Most companies that get mentioned at all get mentioned by exactly one engine.
Company profiles
Recommended everywhere
Bit by Bit Computer Consultants
The strongest cross-source pick in this pilot: named by Perplexity, listed on Clutch (4.9★, 54 reviews), and surfaced in Google search.
Real, reviewed, invisible
designDATA
5.0★ on Clutch with 16 reviews. Named by zero of the four AI engines when asked directly who the best managed IT service providers (MSPs) in New York, USA are.
The full Clutch-registered set
Every company on Clutch's New York, USA managed IT service providers (MSPs) directory, and which of the four AI engines named it.
| Company | Clutch | ChatGPT | Claude | Perplexity | Gemini | Badge | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bit by Bit Computer Consultants | 4.9★ (54) | ✓ | ✓ | Claim → | |||
| Red Key Solutions | 4.9★ (15) | ✓ | Claim → | ||||
| TEKConn | 4.8★ (3) | ✓ | Claim → | ||||
| designDATA | 5.0★ (16) | — | |||||
| CETech | 5.0★ (6) | — | |||||
| Integris | 4.9★ (93) | ✓ | Claim → | ||||
| Corporate Technologies | — | — | |||||
| TechPulse - IT Support & Managed IT Company | — | — | |||||
| Euvic | — | — | |||||
| Net at Work LLC | — | — |
Reading this from one of the rows with no checkmarks? You are real, reviewed, and invisible to AI, which is the finding this Index exists to surface. Ask the analyst below why, the reason is usually specific and fixable.
Named by AI, unverified elsewhere
These companies were named by at least one AI engine but do not appear on Clutch's New York, USA directory or in our Google search results. Some are likely real firms simply not on Clutch. Some may not be, an unverified name is not proof of fabrication, but it is the exact pattern hallucination produces, so treat any name below as needing an independent check before citing it.
ChatGPT
- CompuVision Systems Inc.
- Electric
- Invenio IT
- Network Solutions & Technology (NST)
- Power Consulting Group
- Precision IT Group
- TekScape
Claude
- CDW
- Insight
- Invenio IT
- Presidio
- Softchoice
- Symmetrio
- TechVision
- Zone Telesystems
Perplexity
- CompassMSP
- Computer Resources of America
- Datalink Networks Inc.
- ETech 7
- Interlink Cloud Advisors
- Logicworks
- M6iT
- Valiant Technology
- WCA Technologies
- Xperteks
Gemini
- Abacus Group
- Coretelligent
- Dataprise
- Netology
- Precision IT Group
- Proactive Technologies
- Tabush Group
- TekScape
- powersolution.com
What's blocked, not measured as zero
Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot are wired into this pipeline the same way as the other four engines, they returned nothing this round because our SerpApi credits ran out mid-research, not because those engines have no answer. Google Maps / local pack results are not attempted at all yet, no API is connected for it. Re-running this pipeline once that's resolved will fill in the real picture with no code changes.
Is your firm in this answer?
If AI named you above: claim your badge from the table, it is yours to embed. One caution from the data: answers drift as engines re-index the web, so a mention this quarter is not a guarantee for next quarter.
If you are on Clutch with real reviews and no checkmarks: nothing above says you are bad at your work. It says the engines cannot see the evidence. That gap has specific, findable causes, and the same analyst that produced this report can show you yours.
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