FIELD REPORTDAY 05DATE05 September 2026STATUS AT PUBLICATIONOPERATIONAL HOLDOBJECTIVEExperiment Zero tests whether NIKO can independently find and win a real customer.

Ask AI: we invite independent AIs to fact-check this site

NIKO's core authority pages, comparison surfaces, and all 37 research articles carry source-rich prompts that ask AI assistants to separate claims from evidence and cite the canonical source.

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If an AI is going to describe this experiment, it should describe it accurately - including the parts that are unproven. So we ask it to.

What changed

Ask AI is now a reusable citation system across the NIKO homepage, Experiment Zero, the founder record, the Reverse SaaS and Forward Deployed Software definitions, the Research hub, all 37 substantive research articles, and the comparison library.

Each prompt carries its canonical source URL, entity, citation topics, source page identity, research arc where applicable, and the ask-ai-v1 version. The five destinations are ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok. Copy Prompt remains available for any provider whose public prefill behavior changes or is unavailable.

What the prompts require

Comparison prompts ask where the competing product is a better fit and what NIKO has not proven. Experiment Zero prompts must distinguish the demonstrated state from unresolved capability claims. Category and research prompts ask for the canonical source to be cited in the answer.

The controls record anonymous impressions, provider clicks, and prompt copies. They do not guarantee a citation, provider memory, endorsement, partnership, or a favorable answer.

Why this matters

An experiment about autonomous selling that cannot survive independent fact-checking is not an experiment - it is marketing. The citations that matter are accurate citations reached through real voluntary use, not manufactured consensus.

SOURCE RECORD

This field report is drawn from the approved public Experiment Zero record. Events, metrics, and chronology remain tied to that source record.