200 million people use AI search every week. When one of them asks for the best HVAC company, plumber, or electrician near them — most local businesses never appear. Find out if you're one of them.
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Ranking #1 on Google does not mean ChatGPT or Perplexity will recommend you. AI assistants use different signals to find, read, and decide whether to surface a local business. Most of those signals have nothing to do with keywords or backlinks.
The hard truth: A business that ranks #1 on Google can score near zero on AI visibility — and never know it. Meanwhile, a competitor with a simpler site but cleaner technical setup is getting recommended to every ChatGPT user who asks about your service area.
Five technical checks that determine whether AI assistants can find, parse, and recommend your business — with a score you can act on.
We check your robots.txt against every major AI retrieval bot: OpenAI's SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, and more. Blocking even one cuts you out of that assistant's answers entirely.
Many sites use a CDN or WAF that challenges or blocks bot user agents — even bots your robots.txt explicitly allows. A human browser gets through. An AI retrieval bot gets a 403. You never know it's happening.
Without LocalBusiness, Organization, or Service schema, AI assistants can't reliably extract who you are, where you operate, or what you do. They may still find you — but they won't know enough to recommend you confidently.
If your homepage paints mostly via JavaScript, many retrieval bots see a near-empty page. They can't read what isn't there. Server-rendered or static HTML content is the baseline requirement.
A sitemap.xml tells crawlers which pages exist and how to prioritize them. It's basic technical hygiene — yet roughly one in three small business sites is missing it entirely.
We ask an AI assistant — right now, today — whether it knows your business exists. We prompt it by business name and service area and record exactly what it says (or doesn't say).
You'll receive a written report that tells you exactly where you stand and exactly what to fix. You can tackle it yourself, hand it to your developer, or hire us to fix it.
Enter your website and the email address to send the report to. We'll run the audit and send your results within 24 hours.
