Does AI recommend your business?
When a homeowner asks ChatGPT or Perplexity "who’s the best in my city?", are you the name it gives — or is it your competitor? Get a free audit of your AI visibility for HVAC, plumbing, and roofing.
We run the real questions your customers ask across official AI APIs, show you whether you’re mentioned and cited, and hand you the fix list — the same fixes that win you Google and your Google Business Profile.
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The exact questions we’ll ask AI about you:
- “Who are the best HVAC companies in my city?”
- “Which plumber should I call when a pipe bursts?”
- “Recommend a trustworthy, well-reviewed roofing company near me.”
How to get recommended by AI (and win Google at the same time)
- Claim and complete your Google Business Profile. AI assistants lean heavily on Google Business data. A complete profile — correct categories, service area, hours, photos, and a steady flow of recent reviews — is the single biggest lever for both AI mentions and the local map pack.
- Publish clear service-area and service pages. One page per service and per city you cover, in plain language, so an assistant can tell exactly what you do and where. Vague one-page sites are invisible to both crawlers and AI.
- Add LocalBusiness structured data. Schema.org markup for your name, address, phone, service area, and reviews helps engines parse you correctly. It is one of the cheapest, highest-leverage fixes and helps classic search at the same time.
- Earn reviews and answer common questions on-site. Review volume and recency are strong trust signals. An FAQ block that answers the real questions homeowners ask gives assistants quotable, citable text — often the exact sentence they surface.
- Get listed in the directories AI actually reads. Consistent name/address/phone across the directories and review sites that answer engines cite builds the corroboration they need before recommending you by name.
Frequently asked questions
Does AI really recommend specific home-services businesses?
Yes. Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity for the best HVAC, plumbing, or roofing company in a city and it answers with named businesses — drawn from Google Business Profiles, reviews, and trusted directories. If your business isn’t among them, you’re invisible at the moment a homeowner is ready to book.
Which AI assistants does Cited check?
We sample the questions your customers ask across official AI APIs — Perplexity and ChatGPT web search. We deliberately do not scrape Google AI Overviews or use Gemini grounding, because their terms forbid it; we only use methods that are clean to run and to show you.
Is the audit free, and do I need an account?
The audit is free and needs no account. Enter your business, city, and trade, and we email you one report — whether AI recommends you, who it names instead, and a plain-English fix list. No spam.
How do I get my business recommended by AI?
Complete your Google Business Profile, earn recent reviews, publish clear service-area and service pages, add LocalBusiness structured data, and keep your details consistent across the directories AI reads. The audit tells you which of these to fix first.
Do these fixes help my Google ranking too?
Yes — that’s the point. The same structured data, reviews, and service-area pages that make an assistant recommend you also lift you in Google and the local map pack, so the value isn’t hostage to how much traffic AI sends. Metrics are the hook; durable local visibility is the substance.