Who do AI assistants recommend in Buffalo, NY?

    The top 15 firms AI assistants name for Buffalo — each a verified registered investment adviser — from 100 location-specific queries across the four major platforms.

    100 city queries1 of 64 covered metrosUpdated September 15, 2026 · Methodology

    Top firms ranked

    15

    #1 firm's city score

    635

    Eudaimonia Wealth

    Average city score

    297.8

    City scale — not the 0–100 national score

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    National Leader

    Ranks #1 locally and #29 nationally — consistently high visibility across markets.

    National rank

    #29

    National score

    60.9/100

    Avg. position here

    5.5

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    29%

    Mentions12
    ClaudeClaude

    20%

    Mentions8
    PerplexityPerplexity

    32%

    Mentions13
    GeminiGemini

    20%

    Mentions8

    Balanced visibility across 4 AI platforms — 41 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    National Leader

    Ranks #2 locally and #44 nationally — consistently high visibility across markets.

    National rank

    #44

    National score

    58.9/100

    Avg. position here

    3.3

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    24%

    Mentions8
    ClaudeClaude

    18%

    Mentions6
    PerplexityPerplexity

    27%

    Mentions9
    GeminiGemini

    30%

    Mentions10

    Balanced visibility across 4 AI platforms — 33 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Specialist

    Ranks #3 here but #114 nationally — a genuinely local presence.

    National rank

    #114

    National score

    53.2/100

    Avg. position here

    3.3

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    13%

    Mentions3
    ClaudeClaude

    30%

    Mentions7
    PerplexityPerplexity

    30%

    Mentions7
    GeminiGemini

    26%

    Mentions6

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 23 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #4 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    4.1

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    9%

    Mentions2
    ClaudeClaude

    5%

    Mentions1
    PerplexityPerplexity

    86%

    Mentions19
    GeminiGemini

    0%

    Mentions0

    Perplexity drives 86% of this firm's AI visibility in this city — 22 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Specialist

    Ranks #5 here but #231 nationally — a genuinely local presence.

    National rank

    #231

    National score

    49.2/100

    Avg. position here

    6.3

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    15%

    Mentions3
    ClaudeClaude

    30%

    Mentions6
    PerplexityPerplexity

    5%

    Mentions1
    GeminiGemini

    50%

    Mentions10

    Mixed visibility across platforms — 20 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #6 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    6.4

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    12%

    Mentions2
    ClaudeClaude

    24%

    Mentions4
    PerplexityPerplexity

    35%

    Mentions6
    GeminiGemini

    29%

    Mentions5

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 17 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Specialist

    Ranks #7 here but #144 nationally — a genuinely local presence.

    National rank

    #144

    National score

    51.9/100

    Avg. position here

    6.9

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    18%

    Mentions3
    ClaudeClaude

    53%

    Mentions9
    PerplexityPerplexity

    6%

    Mentions1
    GeminiGemini

    24%

    Mentions4

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 17 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #8 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    5.2

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    6%

    Mentions1
    ClaudeClaude

    0%

    Mentions0
    PerplexityPerplexity

    31%

    Mentions5
    GeminiGemini

    63%

    Mentions10

    Primarily visible on Gemini (63%), with secondary presence on other platforms — 16 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #9 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    5.7

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    19%

    Mentions3
    ClaudeClaude

    13%

    Mentions2
    PerplexityPerplexity

    38%

    Mentions6
    GeminiGemini

    31%

    Mentions5

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 16 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Specialist

    Ranks #10 here but #251 nationally — a genuinely local presence.

    National rank

    #251

    National score

    48.9/100

    Avg. position here

    7.2

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    21%

    Mentions3
    ClaudeClaude

    14%

    Mentions2
    PerplexityPerplexity

    50%

    Mentions7
    GeminiGemini

    14%

    Mentions2

    Mixed visibility across platforms — 14 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #11 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    8.5

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    0%

    Mentions0
    ClaudeClaude

    21%

    Mentions3
    PerplexityPerplexity

    36%

    Mentions5
    GeminiGemini

    43%

    Mentions6

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 14 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    📍

    Local Focus

    Ranks #12 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    4.5

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    0%

    Mentions0
    ClaudeClaude

    0%

    Mentions0
    PerplexityPerplexity

    100%

    Mentions13
    GeminiGemini

    0%

    Mentions0

    Perplexity drives 100% of this firm's AI visibility in this city — 13 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #13 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    6.1

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    8%

    Mentions1
    ClaudeClaude

    23%

    Mentions3
    PerplexityPerplexity

    54%

    Mentions7
    GeminiGemini

    15%

    Mentions2

    Mixed visibility across platforms — 13 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    📍

    Local Focus

    Ranks #14 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    3.2

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    17%

    Mentions2
    ClaudeClaude

    0%

    Mentions0
    PerplexityPerplexity

    0%

    Mentions0
    GeminiGemini

    83%

    Mentions10

    Gemini drives 83% of this firm's AI visibility in this city — 12 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #15 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    4.3

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    17%

    Mentions2
    ClaudeClaude

    0%

    Mentions0
    PerplexityPerplexity

    50%

    Mentions6
    GeminiGemini

    33%

    Mentions4

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 12 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    Showing Buffalo's top 15 — every listed firm is a registered investment adviser, verified against the SEC/state Form ADV registry. Firms below the cutoff are still tracked: search any firm name above.

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    Disclaimer

    This is independent research, not investment advice or an endorsement. Scores measure how often and how prominently AI assistants surface a firm as of September 15, 2026 — not its competence, credentials, performance, or fit for any client. Rankings reflect clean, non-personalized queries and may differ from what any individual user sees. AdvisorFinder is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Perplexity; their names and logos identify the tools we test.

    This board ranks independent RIA firms only. National wirehouses, banks, broker-dealers, and asset managers — Morgan Stanley, Merrill, Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, and similar — are out of scope by design: they compete in a different category, and their household-brand ubiquity in AI answers would turn an independent-advisor ranking into a big-brand recognition contest. Independent advisor teams affiliated with those institutions are evaluated as their own firms.

    Scores and ranks are recomputed each edition from a fixed query library. Because assistant outputs vary run to run, small movement between editions is expected — rank changes outside the top 25 are shown as approximate. See the full methodology, or request a correction.