{"data":{"id":"454450db-2df8-4da4-93ce-afe94e70f2a7","title":"Gushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging","summary":"Gushwork, an India-founded startup, is helping businesses get discovered through AI-powered search tools (systems like ChatGPT and Perplexity that use artificial intelligence to answer questions) by automatically creating search-optimized content and building backlinks (links from other websites that point to a business's site). The company raised $9 million in funding and reports that AI-driven search and chat platforms now account for about 40% of inbound leads for its customers, despite representing only 20% of website traffic.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["industry"],"sourceUrl":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/gushwork-bets-on-ai-search-for-customer-leads-and-early-results-are-emerging/","publishedAt":"2026-02-26T00:00:00.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":[],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":["OpenAI","Google","Perplexity"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["OpenAI","ChatGPT","Google","Gemini","Perplexity"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":null,"capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"moderate","impactType":null,"aiComponentTargeted":null,"llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.85,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}