Who AI names when someone asks for a coding bootcamp

Coding Temple was named on six of the twenty-one questions that never mention it. Course Report was cited on twenty-nine of the thirty, Career Karma on twenty-three, SwitchUp on sixteen — and the bootcamps that do get named are the ones those directories rank highly: Nucamp on twenty-three questions, Springboard on thirteen. Reddit is cited on twenty-six of the thirty questions. The price questions show the gap most plainly: 'how much does a software engineering bootcamp cost' went to Course Report and Forbes, and 'affordable coding bootcamp' to Scrimba, Nucamp and TripleTen, while the site's own tuition page was cited by nobody. The report's prescription is two pages: 'best for beginners' on the FAQ and 'best for working professionals' on the homepage. The answers also cite the school's Trustpilot and BBB profiles, which it can claim.

On each profile you claim, write the name, address, phone and website exactly as the site has them.

• Course Report

  Claim it

  Cited on 29 of the 30 questions — by Perplexity for “best coding bootcamp for beginners”.

  1. Claim the school's page in Course Report's admin portal, or email the team to add one.
  2. Keep each program's tuition, schedule and start dates current, and ask recent graduates for reviews.
  Claim it on Course Report

• Career Karma

  Editors choose

  Cited on 23 of the 30 questions — by Gemini for “how much does software engineering bootcamp cost”.

  It matches students with schools and writes about them; we found no page where a school claims its listing. Ask its team to correct what it says about yours.

• SwitchUp

  Claim it

  Cited on 16 of the 30 questions — by ChatGPT for “affordable coding bootcamp”.

  1. Ask SwitchUp, from its page for schools, to let you claim the school's page — or to add it.
  2. Keep the programs and locations current, and ask recent graduates for reviews.
  Claim it on SwitchUp

• Trustpilot

  Claim it

  Cited on 5 of the 30 questions in the run above.

  1. Claim the company profile at Trustpilot Business.
  2. Add the description, category and website, and start inviting recent customers to review.
  Claim it on Trustpilot

• Better Business Bureau

  Claim it

  Cited on 3 of the 30 questions in the run above.

  1. Request or claim the BBB business profile.
  2. Complete the profile: categories, years in business, contact details.
  Claim it on Better Business Bureau

• Reddit

  Community

  Cited on 26 of the 30 questions in the run above.

  Threads are quoted as word of mouth. Nothing to claim: answer as yourself, and say who you are.

Are claims about outcomes risky to publish?

They are regulated in some jurisdictions and always worth care — nothing about outcomes should be published by a tool without a person reading it. Here every article waits for your review: an approved new page goes into WordPress or Webflow with one click to take it back down, and anything else is copied in by whoever runs the site.

What if we are a university department, not a bootcamp?

The question set adapts to what your site says you offer, so a university's report asks a university's questions. The run on this page is one bootcamp's.

What about being cited in the AI tools students use to study?

Different problem, and not one this measures. This is about the decision to enrol, not about being in a study assistant's answers.

Do you generate course content?

No. The report's tasks name the pages that answer buying questions — comparisons, FAQs, use cases — and we write those for your review. Teaching material is yours.

How often should we re-run it?

After you publish something. A week after a page goes live, the prompts it was written for are asked again and set beside the answers before it, so the before and after means something. Running the whole report weekly with nothing changed measures drift.

Is the first report really free?

Yes: a free account gets 10 credits — one report, 10 prompts on three engines — with no card.