AI recommendation discovery

A new discovery channel

Who does AI recommend when customers ask for a business like yours?

Your Google ranking doesn’t tell you which businesses ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude will name.

We run controlled questions for your city/metro and sector and show you who AI recommends, whether your business appears, who appears instead, how platforms differ — and what you can do about it next.

Show Me What AI Recommends

Founder Diagnostic · $250 if the findings are valuable to you

We asked AI what customers might see

  • Baker Botts
  • Vinson & Elkins
  • Jackson Walker
  • McGinnis Lochridge

In one controlled Austin legal observation, ChatGPT returned firms including Baker Botts, Vinson & Elkins, Jackson Walker, and McGinnis Lochridge. The local observation unit did not appear among the recommendation results.

That does not prove why — and it does not mean the same thing will happen in your market. It demonstrates the question we investigate: when someone asks AI for a business like yours, whose names come back?

Illustrative finding from controlled research. Results vary by market, question, provider, and business.

Research credibility

180 controlled observations · 4 sectors · multiple U.S. markets · 3 AI providers

See the methodology →

Why AI recommendations matter

Google shows you where you rank.

AI can decide whose name gets mentioned.

A customer does not always search ten blue links anymore. They can ask: "Who are the best insurance agencies in Dallas?" or "Can you recommend a law firm in Austin?" The answer may contain specific business names. The question is simple: Is yours one of them?

Who AI recommends

Which businesses does AI name for your city/metro and sector?

Whether you appear

Does your business show up under local and locally owned-business intent?

Who appears instead

Which competitors, national brands, directories, or other businesses appear?

Your diagnostic

We will use your city/metro and sector to run controlled questions across ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, then manually deliver the findings.

What you get

  • Who AI recommends in your market
  • Whether your business appears
  • Who appears instead
  • How platforms differ
  • The underlying evidence
  • Prioritized next steps (what you can do about it)
  • A founder walkthrough

How it works

  1. 1. Tell us your business

    Short form — name, website, market, and how to reach you.

  2. 2. We run controlled questions

    Standardized questions for your city/metro and sector, including local and locally owned-business intent.

  3. 3. We deliver the findings

    Founder walkthrough of the evidence, competitive landscape, and up to three prioritized next steps — before you decide whether to pay.

$250 Founder Diagnostic

Get the diagnostic. See the evidence. Pay only if you find it valuable.

No AI score. No black-box grade. No promises that we can manipulate AI recommendations. Just the evidence — and a short, prioritized action list framed as hypotheses to test.

Show Me What AI Recommends →

No upfront payment. We’ll show you who AI recommends, who appears instead, and what you can do about it. If the findings aren’t useful to your business, you don’t pay.

Questions

Do I have to pay before I see anything?
No. No upfront payment. We’ll show you the findings — including who AI recommends and what you can do about it — and walk you through them. The $250 Founder Diagnostic is due only if the findings are valuable to you.
Is this an SEO audit?
No. SEO examines how your website performs in search. This examines which businesses AI systems recommend when someone asks for options in your market.
Do you use my business name in the questions?
No. The core questions use your sector and market rather than naming your business. This reduces the risk of biasing the AI response.
Can you guarantee I will be recommended?
No. We do not manipulate AI responses. We show what we observe.
Which AI platforms do you test?
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. We report differences rather than combining them into a single score.
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