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Does AI recommend your business?
Tell us what you do and where. We ask an AI model what a customer would ask, and show you whether your business is in the answer.
- Asking for the best businesses near you
- Asking what it knows about yours
- Checking whether you were named
Why AI visibility matters now
More people now ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google's AI Overviews for recommendations: "best family solicitor in Bolton", "a good plumber near Sale". These tools name a handful of businesses and the rest are invisible. Being one of the names is the new version of ranking on page one.
How to get named
- Say plainly what you do and where, on your homepage and service pages. "Private dentist in Didsbury, Manchester" beats "Smiles that last".
- Keep your name, address and phone identical on your website, Google Business Profile and directories.
- Collect reviews steadily. Our review link generator makes it one tap for customers.
- Get mentioned on other local websites: suppliers, associations, local news, event pages.
- Add structured data with our local business schema generator, and an llms.txt file.
Questions
How does the AI visibility checker work?
We ask a large AI language model the question a customer would ask, such as "who are the best dentists in Didsbury?", and check whether your business is in its answer. We also ask what it knows about your business by name.
Is this the same as ChatGPT?
No. We use a free, openly available model, not ChatGPT itself. It answers from what it learned in training, without searching the web, so it shows what AI models already know about you. ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews also search the web, so their answers can differ.
How do I get recommended by AI?
The same things that help on Google: a clear website that says exactly what you do and where, consistent business details everywhere, plenty of genuine reviews, and other websites (local news, directories, suppliers) mentioning you by name.
Why did it recommend businesses that have closed?
AI models learn from a snapshot of the web, which can be months or years old. That is one reason to treat this as a guide, not a verdict.
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