# AI Mention Score > AI Mention Score checks whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommend a local business when people in its city ask who to hire. It asks around 48 of the questions buyers ask, saves every answer word for word, shows who gets named instead, and gives a fix plan. The first check is free and there is a free-forever plan. We help local businesses globally: any city or town works, in any country. Questions are asked in English, some question sets still use US terms, and prices are in US dollars. ## What it does - Asks all four assistants the questions customers in your city ask when choosing a business like yours, and counts how many of the 48 questions name you. - Shows the businesses recommended instead of you, with each assistant's answer. - Checks your website and listings for what the assistants rely on (robots.txt crawler access, structured data, llms.txt, service pages, directory listings) and lists the fixes in order. - Re-checks on a schedule and emails you what changed. ## Plans - Free: free forever. Checked monthly. Shows your score and who is recommended instead, with each assistant's answer and your first fix in full. - Starter, $29 (USD) a month: weekly checks and the full fix plan. Each week shows the questions you gained and lost, and we confirm each fix once it is live. - Pro, $49 (USD) a month: everything in Starter, plus up to 5 pages a month written for the questions you are losing, structured data and llms.txt written for your site, 3 competitors tracked side by side, up to 10 of your own questions tracked, listing checks on the sites the assistants cite, and a monthly PDF. - Yearly billing, 2 months free: Starter $290 a year ($24.17 a month), Pro $490 a year ($40.83 a month). - Prices go up for new customers on 1 January 2027. Subscribe before then and keep today's price for as long as you stay subscribed. ## Our data So far: 1,600+ business reports run, 14,000+ businesses found in AI answers and 11,000+ AI answers saved word for word. 23 published city studies, run between September 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026: 4,375 stored AI answers holding 18,054 recommendations. In each study the five most-named firms took between 13% and 41% of all recommendations, and 83% of the firms named were named by only one of the four assistants. Method: https://www.aimentionscore.com/methodology ## City studies - [Accountants in Arlington, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/arlington): 290 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Accountants in Austin, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/austin): 330 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 28, 2026) - [Accountants in Chicago, IL](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/chicago): 308 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 20, 2026) - [Accountants in Coppell, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/coppell): 175 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 7, 2026) - [Accountants in Dallas, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/dallas): 360 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Accountants in Fort Worth, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/fort-worth): 272 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Accountants in Frisco, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/frisco): 216 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Accountants in Gainesville, FL](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/gainesville): 185 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 20, 2026) - [Accountants in Garland, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/garland): 205 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Accountants in Houston, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/houston): 335 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Accountants in Irving, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/irving): 174 firms named across 192 answers (run of September 8, 2026) - [Accountants in McKinney, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/mckinney): 195 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Accountants in Plano, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/plano): 244 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Accountants in Richardson, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/accountants/richardson): 152 firms named across 192 answers (run of September 7, 2026) - [Bookkeepers in Coppell, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/bookkeeping/coppell): 130 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 2, 2026) - [Bookkeepers in Fort Worth, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/bookkeeping/fort-worth): 173 firms named across 192 answers (run of September 1, 2026) - [HVAC companies in Las Vegas, NV](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/hvac/las-vegas): 127 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 27, 2026) - [Med spas in Austin, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/med-spas/austin): 230 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Med spas in Denver, CO](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/med-spas/denver): 266 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 29, 2026) - [Med spas in Houston, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/med-spas/houston): 299 firms named across 191 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Plumbers in Austin, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/plumbers/austin): 120 firms named across 152 answers (run of October 14, 2026) - [Plumbers in Houston, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/plumbers/houston): 142 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 22, 2026) - [Plumbers in Spring, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility/plumbers/spring): 114 firms named across 192 answers (run of October 27, 2026) ## By industry - [Do AI assistants recommend accountants? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/accountants) - [Do AI assistants recommend bookkeepers? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/bookkeepers) - [Do AI assistants recommend plumbers? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/plumbers) - [Do AI assistants recommend HVAC companies? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/hvac) - [Do AI assistants recommend roofers? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/roofers) - [Do AI assistants recommend electricians? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/electricians) - [Do AI assistants recommend dentists? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/dentists) - [Do AI assistants recommend med spas? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/med-spas) - [Do AI assistants recommend law firms? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/law-firms) - [Do AI assistants recommend real estate agents? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/for/real-estate-agents) ## Locations - [All locations](https://www.aimentionscore.com/locations): the check works in any city worldwide. - [Does AI recommend local businesses in the UK?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/locations/united-kingdom) - [Does AI recommend local businesses in Canada?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/locations/canada) - [Does AI recommend local businesses in Australia?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/locations/australia) - [Does AI recommend local businesses in Ireland?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/locations/ireland) - [Does AI recommend local businesses in New Zealand?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/locations/new-zealand) - [Does AI recommend local businesses in the US?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/locations/united-states) ## Guides - [Is your business recommended by ChatGPT? How to check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/is-my-business-on-chatgpt) - [What is AEO (answer engine optimization)?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/what-is-aeo) - [How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/get-recommended-by-chatgpt) - [AEO vs SEO: what is different, and what still works](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/aeo-vs-seo) - [Why isn't ChatGPT recommending my business?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/why-isnt-chatgpt-recommending-me) - [How does ChatGPT decide which local businesses to recommend?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/how-chatgpt-picks-local-businesses) - [Is your website blocking AI? How to check robots.txt for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/robots-txt-ai-crawlers) - [Google Business Profile and AI recommendations](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/google-business-profile-ai) - [AI search vs Google search for local businesses](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/ai-search-vs-google-search) - [How to track whether AI recommends you over time](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/track-ai-recommendations) - [What is an AI mention score?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/what-is-an-ai-mention-score) - [AEO vs GEO vs SEO for local businesses](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/aeo-vs-geo-vs-seo) - [How Google Gemini picks local businesses](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/how-gemini-picks-local-businesses) - [How Perplexity picks local businesses](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/how-perplexity-picks-local-businesses) - [How Claude picks local businesses](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/how-claude-picks-local-businesses) - [Does Microsoft Copilot recommend local businesses?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/does-copilot-recommend-local-businesses) - [Reviews and AI recommendations: does review count matter?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/reviews-and-ai-recommendations) - [AI visibility for multi-location businesses](https://www.aimentionscore.com/guides/ai-visibility-multi-location-businesses) ## Free tools - [ChatGPT check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/tools/chatgpt-check): Ask ChatGPT one real buyer question for your trade and city, and see whether it names your business. - [llms.txt generator](https://www.aimentionscore.com/tools/llms-txt-generator): Enter your website and get a ready-to-upload llms.txt built from your own pages, with upload steps for each site builder. - [City leaderboards](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard): The ten businesses AI assistants named most in each city we've studied, from stored answers. - [AI crawler checker](https://www.aimentionscore.com/tools/ai-crawler-checker): See whether your robots.txt lets GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and seven other AI crawlers read your site. ## City leaderboards - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Arlington, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/arlington): led by H&R Block / Block Advisors – multiple Arlington offices - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Austin, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/austin): led by Maxwell Locke & Ritter LLP (ML&R) - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Chicago, IL](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/chicago): led by CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Coppell, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/coppell): led by H&R Block’s Coppell tax office - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Dallas, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/dallas): led by H&R Block (Dallas) - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Fort Worth, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/fort-worth): led by Whitley Penn - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Frisco, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/frisco): led by Paramount Tax – bookkeeping service - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Gainesville, FL](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/gainesville): led by Purvis, Gray and Company, CPAs - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Garland, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/garland): led by H&R Block Tax & Business Services - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Houston, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/houston): led by H&R Block – multiple Houston offices - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Irving, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/irving): led by H&R Block Tax Office (Irving Blvd) - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in McKinney, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/mckinney): led by Harman CPA and Associates (Harman CPAs & Associates PLLC) - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Plano, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/plano): led by Block Advisors / H&R Block - [Top 10 accountants AI recommends in Richardson, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/accountants/richardson): led by H&R Block Tax & Business Services - [Top 10 bookkeepers AI recommends in Coppell, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/bookkeeping/coppell): led by SDO CPA - [Top 10 bookkeepers AI recommends in Fort Worth, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/bookkeeping/fort-worth): led by Fort Worth Bookkeeping & Tax Services - [Top 10 HVAC companies AI recommends in Las Vegas, NV](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/hvac/las-vegas): led by Nevada Residential Services Air Conditioning & Heating - [Top 10 med spas AI recommends in Austin, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/med-spas/austin): led by The Piazza Center / Med Spa Austin - [Top 10 med spas AI recommends in Denver, CO](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/med-spas/denver): led by Novuskin Med Spa Denver (Greenwood Village) - [Top 10 med spas AI recommends in Houston, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/med-spas/houston): led by NakedMD Med Spa Houston - [Top 10 plumbers AI recommends in Austin, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/plumbers/austin): led by Roto‑Rooter Plumbing – Austin - [Top 10 plumbers AI recommends in Houston, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/plumbers/houston): led by Abacus Plumbing, Air Conditioning, & Electrical - [Top 10 plumbers AI recommends in Spring, TX](https://www.aimentionscore.com/leaderboard/plumbers/spring): led by Benjamin Franklin Plumbing (North Houston) ## Pages - [Free check](https://www.aimentionscore.com/report) - [Sample report](https://www.aimentionscore.com/sample) - [Pricing](https://www.aimentionscore.com/pricing) - [How we test](https://www.aimentionscore.com/methodology) - [All city studies](https://www.aimentionscore.com/ai-visibility) - [How AI Mention Score compares](https://www.aimentionscore.com/compare) - [Can we get ChatGPT to recommend us?](https://www.aimentionscore.com/experiment): our own AI visibility, rerun and logged in public. Latest run, October 15, 2026: named in 0 of 120 answers. - [Contact](mailto:hello@aimentionscore.com)