AI visibility reports for local businesses

Be the businessAI recommends dentists.

See whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI are more likely to recommend you or the two competitors customers already compare you with.

87%

of local searches now trigger an AI answer

0.3%

of AI answers mention a local business by name

4.2B

weekly AI-powered searches on Google alone

buyer-intent queries tested per paid report

Prompt clusters built from your niche

Website, schema, and local signal gaps

Two real competitors, not a generic average

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How to get recommended by ChatGPT AI Visibility Tools Comparison

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Why AI recommends your competitors

AI does not guess who to trust. It looks for evidence.

When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, or Google AI for a local recommendation, your website is only one signal. The answer usually comes from a pattern: clear services, clean local data, reviews, schema, and third-party mentions that all point to the same business.

In our testing across 200+ local businesses, the average AI Visibility Index score was 28 out of 100. Most businesses appear in fewer than 1 in 5 AI-generated answers for their own services.

ChatGPT alone drives 87.4% of AI referral traffic to local business websites, followed by Google AI Overviews at 7.2%. If ChatGPT does not recommend you, you are invisible to the majority of AI-assisted buyers.

Businesses with structured data (schema markup), an llms.txt file, and consistent NAP citations score 3.6× higher on average than those without. The fix is known. Most local businesses just have not done it yet.

The business is easy to identify

AI tools need a clean entity trail: business name, city, service area, contact details, Google profile, and consistent listings. If that trail is messy, the model hesitates.

The services match the buyer's question

A page that says "we do dental care" is weaker than a page that clearly answers "emergency dentist in Oakville." Specific pages give AI something useful to cite.

Reviews use the language buyers use

Stars help, but the words matter too. Reviews that mention speed, trust, price, or service quality give AI systems more evidence than generic praise.

The website is machine-readable

Schema, FAQs, service pages, headings, internal links, robots.txt, sitemap, and llms.txt all help crawlers understand what the business does and where it operates.

Other sites confirm the story

AI systems do not only trust your homepage. They compare your website against directories, local profiles, category pages, reviews, articles, and competitor mentions.

Competitors create the benchmark

A score by itself is not enough. VizBiz compares you with the two businesses customers already consider, then shows which signals they have that you do not.

What the free report checks first

Enter your website and two competitors. VizBiz shows whether AI is more likely to recommend you, where the evidence breaks down, and which fixes should come first.

From score to fix list

A mini report should do more than give you a number.

The free report gives you the first useful read: where AI sees you, where it prefers a competitor, and which trust signals are missing. The paid report turns that into a step-by-step fix plan — so you can own your zip code in AI search before your competitors figure it out.

Know if AI recommends you or the two businesses customers already compare you with

Find the buyer questions where your website, reviews, or local signals are weakest

Preview the Revenue Opportunity Gap™ as a directional estimate, not a promise

Move from a free preview to a full report, fix package, or monthly monitoring

Mini report flow

Simple enough to start. Specific enough to sell the next step.

Run the free scan

Share your website, market, email, and two competitors. That is enough to create a useful first read without making you fill out a long intake form.

See where AI loses confidence

The mini report shows your score, your weakest buyer questions, and whether the two competitors you named look easier for AI to recommend.

Fix the missing signals

The full report turns the preview into a prioritized fix list: service pages, schema, FAQs, local entity signals, reviews, and monitoring.

Free report first. Full report and fix package next. Monitoring when they want to track movement.

Prompt evidence, raw results, competitor breakdowns, and fixes your site can use.

Start with the free mini report

Paid next steps

Choose the level of fix you want.

Start with the free score. Then move into a fix package or fix + monitoring when you want the gaps tracked and improved over time.

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Answers that make the next step easier.

No. VizBiz measures AI visibility — how often you appear in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI answers. SEO is still critical for traditional search. We complement it by filling the gap that SEO tools don't address.

An AVI score (0–100) showing your AI visibility strength, a competitor comparison revealing which local businesses AI recommends instead of you, platform-specific findings, and a prioritized action plan ranked by impact.

Your free mini report is delivered within minutes. Full reports are typically ready within 24–48 hours after we complete the multi-platform AI analysis across 20+ buyer-intent prompts.

We re-run the same prompt battery across all AI platforms monthly or quarterly, depending on your plan. This measures whether your business is appearing more often and closing gaps with competitors.

Yes. VizBiz evaluates AI visibility independently of your CMS. We analyze how AI platforms interpret your business across the web — your website, reviews, directories, and third-party sources.

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