A question owners ask
How can I check whether AI assistants recommend my business?
Ask the questions homeowners ask, on each AI assistant, several times each, and count how often the answers name you. One answer on your own phone is a single sample, so it proves little.
One answer on your phone proves little.
AI answers change from one ask to the next, and the app can answer differently for each person. An answer that names you, or leaves you out, is one sample.
So ask as a homeowner would: your trade and your city, on more than one assistant, more than once. Then count how often you are named.
A question with your business name in it shows what an assistant says about you. It does not show whether it recommends you to someone who has never heard of you.
The first step is free.
Your first scan is free and needs no card. It puts the homeowner questions to each assistant, several times, and reports your rate.
In your account, home services can add questions about confirmed services and service areas within the scan's cost limit.
A worked reading.
Here is a report on an invented business, and how to read it.
Reading the sample
- 18 of 50 sampled answers named the business: 36.0%. That is its rate.
- The assistants differ: ChatGPT named it in 50.0% of its answers, Perplexity in 20.0%. Each counts on its own.
- The rate varies by 6 points between repeats, so a gap that small between two scans can be chance.
The rate counts the answers sampled, not every answer an assistant could give. It does not say why a business was named or left out.
Use your first scan as a starting point. Compare later scans to see whether AI names you more often.