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I’ve learned to discard those as being either totally fake and made up (the excuse would be something like we used a template to get started quickly and forgot to change the logos), or that someone (probably an intern) signed up to the service with @company email and they just splat the logo as an official endorsement.

As someone who also tried (and stopped trying) to use customer logos, I also wonder whenever I see this pattern. So many startups do this, and yet I know how difficult it is to get official permission and how using a name without permission can lead to serious consequences.

Do startups just roll with it and use the logos without permission?

I do remember the day I learned my company was supposed to get permission, because the logo there implies official endorsement. I just didn’t know.

I would start with Hanlon’s Razor, with a 10% chance of malice.

Current gen of "AI" companies aren't that interested in such trivial things!