When someone asks AI for the best in town, does it say your name?
Your customers stopped scrolling ten blue links. They ask an assistant and take the first answer it gives. That answer is built from what other people publish about you — not from your website. This checks whether you're in it.
Real answer patterns from an August 2026 scan. The long-established local company most people in town would name first? Not named.
Step 1 — tell it who you are
Run your own scan.
Nothing is submitted anywhere. You run four real prompts yourself, answer six questions about your record, and the page scores you on the same four signals AIrecommend uses on paying clients.
Fill in the three boxes below — your business name, the city (or cities) you serve, and what you sell in plain words, the way a customer would say it.
Open ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity in another tab. Copy each prompt, paste it there, and read what comes back.
Tap Yes or No for each question, based on what you actually saw. Thirteen questions, about four minutes.
Your score builds as you go, and the specific misses are listed at the bottom in the order worth fixing.
The answer
Signal 1 · 35% of the score
Open ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity in another tab. Paste each prompt exactly. Mark whether your business is named anywhere in the reply.
Your reviews
Signal 2 · 25% of the score
Not your star rating — assistants care about breadth. Where you have proof, and whether every location has any.
Your public record
Signal 3 · 20% of the score
The fastest thing to fix and usually the worst score. Every citation you earn attaches to the name in these records — if the name is fragmented, the credit is too.
Your website
Signal 4 · 20% of the score
Least important, and the part everyone spends money on first. Worth points, not worth the budget.
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out of 100
Answer the questions
Your score builds as you answer. Every question is weighted the way AIrecommend weights it on a paid engagement — the shape of the failure matters more than the number.
The answer—
Your reviews—
Public record—
Your website—
What's costing you
·Answer the questions above and the specific misses land here, in the order worth fixing.
Read this before you spend a dollar. The reflex is to fix the website. It is almost never the website. AI names a business because other people's pages name it — roundups, directories, the public record. A roofer whose site blocks every AI crawler outright still gets recommended by those same assistants, because the rest of the internet vouches for him. Fix the record, then the corpus, then the site.
Step 2 — the deep one
The free check is the shallow end.
The paid scan reads every roundup in your market, every listing under every version of your name, every competitor that gets named instead of you — and comes back as a report you can hand to your team. Scott runs it.
Scott Peterson
Franchise Launch · AIrecommend.ai
Thirty years putting franchise brands on the map, now doing it inside the answer layer. Send him your result above, or call. He'll tell you straight whether you have a problem worth paying to fix — and if you don't, he'll say that too.
Every one of these is well-run and well-liked in its own town. That is the whole point — being good locally and being visible to AI are two different jobs.
