When someone asks an AI assistant for the best in town, does it name you?
More customers ask an AI assistant before they search Google. Enter your business, your trade and your city: we ask AI assistants, with web search on, the questions a customer would and show you their answers, word for word, labelled by assistant.
when asked who the best are in your city
- Assistants that answered
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- Named you
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We put the two questions a customer would ask to AI assistants with web search on, and show each answer unedited, labelled with the assistant that gave it. Takes 15–60 seconds. Limited to a few runs per hour.
Want a second opinion on these numbers?
Send us the result. We’ll reply with the two changes that would most likely get you named.
How the numbers are worked out
We send two questions to each AI assistant we have switched on (today Claude (Anthropic); Gemini and ChatGPT as their interfaces are added), each with web search on and your city as the location: “Who are the best [trade] in [city]?” and “What do you know about [your business]?” We show every answer unedited, under the name of the assistant that gave it. Claude then reads each first answer and lists the business names in it, and we check the text ourselves for your name. Nothing is rewritten or summarised.
Questions
Which AIs do you ask?
Every assistant whose official programming interface we have switched on, each with web search turned on. Today that is Claude (Anthropic). Gemini (Google) and ChatGPT (OpenAI) are added as we switch on their interfaces. Each answer is labelled with the assistant that gave it, so you always know who said what, and nothing is rewritten. Perplexity and Google’s AI Mode aren’t included; test those by hand.
Is this the same as typing the question into the assistant’s app?
Close, not identical. We use the same models with web search, through their official interfaces, but the app may add your account’s history and location. If the two differ, the app’s answer is the one your customers see, so check it too. And if an assistant isn’t listed in your result, ask it by hand: “Who are the best [your trade] in [your city]?”
Why wasn’t I named?
Usually one of four things: the assistant couldn’t find a website for you, your Google listing is incomplete or has few reviews, your site’s text isn’t readable by crawlers, or competitors simply have more consistent information online. The answer above says which.
A rating it quoted is wrong or old. Why?
AI assistants read directory sites (Birdeye, Yelp, Cylex and the like) as often as Google itself, and those copies lag by months. If the assistant quotes an old rating, that listing is what it believes about you: claim it, update it, or get it to refresh, and make sure your own site states your current rating and review count.
Is the result the same every time?
No. AI answers change with the question wording, the day and the assistant. Treat a single run as a snapshot and run it again after you make changes.
Do you keep what I type?
The three fields are sent to our checker and to the AI assistants to run the test, and are not stored by us.
Not named? Find out what AI crawlers see on your site.
Our AI search visibility checker reads your site the way an AI crawler does and lists what blocks it. The AI Search Visibility kit gives the fix list, the schema templates, the sources AI engines cite, and a monthly test to track progress. It doesn’t promise a mention; it shows what to fix and how to measure.