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How to check if ChatGPT recommends your business
A simple, repeatable way to find out whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini name your business, and how to read what you find.
The short version
- Ask the question a buyer would ask, worded the way they would word it, including your city.
- Use an assistant that searches the web, and look at the sources it cites, not just the names.
- One check is a snapshot; repeat it on a schedule to see a trend.
- Our free check does this for you in about a minute.
Step 1: write down your buyers' questions
Not "Summit Air reviews". Buyers who don't know you yet ask things like "best AC repair in Auburn", "emergency plumber open Sunday near me" or "family lawyer for custody cases in Placer County". Write five to ten of these. The words matter: an assistant answers the question asked.
Step 2: ask them the way a buyer would
Use a fresh conversation for each question, so earlier messages don't steer the answer. Prefer modes that search the web (ChatGPT with search, Perplexity, Claude with web search, Gemini). Answers from memory alone are often out of date and can name businesses that have closed or never served your area.
Step 3: read the answer and the sources
- Were you named? And in what position among the names?
- Was the description right? Wrong services or a wrong area are worth fixing at the source.
- Which pages did it read? If the answer was built from a directory you're missing from, or a competitor's comparison page, that tells you exactly what to work on.
Step 4: repeat it
Answers change as engines re-crawl and competitors publish. One check is a snapshot. Running the same questions every week or two turns it into a trend you can act on.
Our free check runs step 2 and 3 for you with an engine that searches the live web, shows the businesses named and the sources used, and checks your website for the technical problems that keep AI from reading it.