October 2026: 11 drug and alcohol rehabs named in Palm Beach County, none in all five
On 22 October 2026 we put five buying questions to an AI answer engine for drug and alcohol rehabs in Palm Beach County, FL, and wrote down every company each answer named. Nobody paid for this run and no business was told it was happening.
- 11 names came back across 5 of 5 answers.
- None were named in every answer.
- 7 were named once only.
The finding we did not expect
Not one of the 11 names is a directory. Every name below is a business the asker could ring.
That is not because the engine was not reading directories. At least 19 of the 50 sources behind these answers are directory and aggregator sites. It read them and named an operating business anyway.
A figure we withdrew
Added 2026-10-22. This entry first said that one provider's own site was cited in all five answers and that the answers never named the business. That was wrong, and the proof was inside this run's own file. The site belongs to Ambrosia Treatment Center, which the answers named in 2 of 5 — the engine's own words in the first answer are "Ambrosia Treatment Center on Singer Island". We had matched a web address against a list of company names and treated a failure to match as proof the business was absent. A web address cannot tell you that. The sources are exactly as recorded; the claim built on them was ours, and it stood here for about five hours.
The five questions, exactly as asked
These are fixed shapes. Only the service and the area change, so one run can be compared against another. Every shape carries the area on purpose: a question without a place name returns businesses from other states.
Best Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Palm Beach County, FL
Ambrosia Treatment Center · Beachway Therapy Center · Palm Partners Recovery Center · Hanley Center · Recovery Unplugged
Emergency Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Palm Beach County, FL
Hanley Center · Palm Beach Recovery Centers · The Recovery Village Palm Beach at Baptist Health
Most trusted Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Palm Beach County, FL
Hanley Center · Ambrosia Treatment Center
Best-reviewed Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Palm Beach County, FL
Beachway Therapy Center · Reprieve Recovery Center
Who should I call for Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Palm Beach County, FL
Palm Beach Gardens Recovery · Palm Beach Recovery Center · Recovery Unplugged · The Recovery Village Palm Beach
How often each name appeared
- Hanley Center — 3 of 5
- Ambrosia Treatment Center — 2 of 5
- Beachway Therapy Center — 2 of 5
- Recovery Unplugged — 2 of 5
- Palm Beach Gardens Recovery — 1 of 5
- Palm Beach Recovery Center — 1 of 5
- Palm Beach Recovery Centers — 1 of 5
- Palm Partners Recovery Center — 1 of 5
- Reprieve Recovery Center — 1 of 5
- The Recovery Village Palm Beach — 1 of 5
- The Recovery Village Palm Beach at Baptist Health — 1 of 5
The most-named firm was Hanley Center, in 3 of 5 answers. 7 names appeared once, and a name that appears once on one day is a seat that moves.
What we did not record
We recorded up to 6, most prominent first per answer rather than every business named. We did not record the model version behind the answer tool, whether personalisation was disabled, screenshots.
We did keep the full answer text and all 50 sources for this run, which is what September's run could not say.
One note on the counting: Palm Beach Recovery Center and Palm Beach Recovery Centers, and The Recovery Village Palm Beach and The Recovery Village Palm Beach at Baptist Health are recorded separately. A reader may treat each pair as one business, which would make the count nine rather than eleven. The names above are left exactly as they were recorded.
One run, on one day, through one engine, requesting 10 results per question. Answers vary by question, by platform, by location and by time. A result that names a business today may not tomorrow, and the reverse is just as true.