About ask10ais
ask10ais is run by DATA4U PTE. LTD. This page records two things: the person doing this, and what the company has done. Every log entry links to evidence; where there is none, we say it is our position.
Founder
More and more people ask AI which brand to buy. How it answers, whether the answer changes between Chinese and English, whether it will be different next month: right now, nobody can say independently.
I want to measure this properly, with every number open to anyone who wants to check it.
— Winston Hu, founder of ask10ais · LinkedIn ↗
What I have measured
- 2013–2014
- Sino Market Research (SINO-MR, then GfK's subsidiary in China)Offline mobile-phone retail tracking
- 2014–2016
- All View Cloud (AVC)Led the smart-hardware unit; built online retail tracking across smart-hardware categories
- 2016–2021
- Alibaba Group (Alibaba Robotics, Alibaba Cloud)Combined data from 10+ vendors into a tracking network for smart hardware running AliOS; built a cloud-spending tracking framework covering about 2 million companies worldwide from multiple sources
- 2021–2025
- A global fintech platformBuilt industry and competitive tracking from public, anonymised industry, social and trading data; from 2023, moved analytics work toward an AI-native way of working
- 2026–
- ask10aisIndependent measurement of how AI models answer brand questions
Company log
In date order, recording only what can be checked from outside. This page is append-only; mistakes are fixed in the corrections log.
- Company
Registered ask10ais.com. The first idea was a one-stop product and brand Q&A recommender for consumers.
- Company
After a few months of exploring, dropped the consumer-recommendation idea. When AI answers can be influenced at scale, we don't think anyone should be recommending to consumers on top of them. What's missing isn't another recommender; it's an independent ruler.
This is our position; there is no outside evidence
- Company
DATA4U PTE. LTD. incorporated in Singapore, UEN 202638270N.
EvidenceACRA BizFile (search by UEN) ↗
- Product
ask10ais.com launched: brand rankings, methodology, verifiable certificates. The refusal log and the corrections page were public from day one.
- Data
First analysis published: "AI Glasses: Every Head Model Names Ray-Ban First, Yet It Ranks Fourth".
EvidenceArticle
- Correction
First correction to a published ranking: a brand-entity merge affected 11 evaluations.
EvidenceCorrections
- Method
Certificate threshold set: no certificate for an evaluation whose panel is less than 80% complete.
EvidenceMethodology
- Data
First scenario collection published: AI coding agents, ten scenario questions, each asked in Chinese and in English.
EvidenceScenario collection
- Company
Live payments enabled.
EvidencePricing
- Product
Read-only MCP server launched and listed in the official MCP Registry; ChatGPT (including the free plan) and Claude can connect to it directly.
Last updated · 2026-09-27