How do I check if AI recommends my business?
Ask them what your customers ask. Open ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity and ask for your trade in your city, without naming your business. Try a few phrasings: best, near me, who should I call. If your name never comes up while competitors do, you have a visibility gap worth fixing.
By the Lumen Local team. Updated August 2026.
Do it like a customer would. Not one perfect question, but the messy real ones. My AC died, who is good in Marietta? Best plumber near Decatur? Ask each assistant, note who gets named, and how you are described when you appear.
One caution: results vary by phrasing, day, and assistant. A single check is a snapshot, not a scoreboard. What you want is the pattern across many questions, tracked over time.
That is exactly what our free AI visibility check does: real customer-style questions across the assistants, a real count of how often you get named and who gets named instead. No made-up score, just what the tools actually say.
Not sure where your business stands on these today? Our free market analysis measures exactly this and shows you the gaps in about a minute.
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