AI Gets 75% of New CEOs Wrong, Lilypath Research Reveals
NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE)--Lilypath, Inc. today announced the official launch of its patent-pending Authority Intelligence™ platform, designed to analyze, monitor and strengthen how generative AI engines perceive and describe corporate leaders and professionals. The launch coincides with groundbreaking research from Lilypath revealing critical inaccuracies in how AI handles top executives, including finding that three in four CEOs in their first year receive inaccurate or confused descriptions across major platforms.
As generative AI increasingly replaces traditional search, automated answers directly shape executive reputation, executive hiring, venture funding, board appointments and public trust. To quantify the scale of the issue, Lilypath analyzed the digital presence of the world’s most documented leaders: the CEOs of the Nasdaq 100, and the CEOs of the 50 largest male-led and 50 largest female-led Fortune 500 companies.
Key Findings from Lilypath’s Research:
“Most professionals have never asked an AI system who it thinks they are, and when they do, the answer is often a surprise,” said Erin Lanuti, co-founder and CEO of Lilypath. “The industry has focused heavily on brands when professionals are equally at risk. Inaccurate or incomplete AI answers result in ‘invisible opportunity lost’ - costing leaders clients, board seats and credibility. Lilypath was built to show executives and their teams how AI interprets them, where it gets it wrong, and how to fix it.”
Introducing The Authority Intelligence™ Suite
Lilypath offers three scalable solutions to help professionals and enterprises audit and manage their AI footprint:
Methodology
The research comprised two independent studies conducted on the Authority Graph platform in September 2026, analyzing 102 Nasdaq 100 CEOs (7,112 answers, 67,208 citations) and 100 Fortune 500 CEOs across 14 standardized prompts. Full research data and methodology are available upon request.
About Lilypath
Lilypath, Inc. is the pioneer of Authority Intelligence™, professional AI authority management. Its patent-pending platform examines how generative AI describes professionals, identifies gaps against verified records, monitors change over time, and delivers roadmaps to correct the record and capture lost opportunity.