Does ChatGPT recommend your business? Free check
Type your business name, what you do and your city. We ask ChatGPT the question a customer would ask, like "Which plumber in Denver would you recommend?", with web search switched on, and show you its answer with every business it named highlighted. You'll see straight away whether yours is one of them. It's free, takes about 20 seconds and needs no email.
What question do you ask?
One question, built from your trade and city: "Which [trade] in [city] would you recommend?" That's the shortest form of what customers type, and the version most likely to get a straight list of names back. We don't put your business name in the question, because customers don't either.
If you check the same trade and city as someone else today, you'll see the same answer. It was asked once and kept for 24 hours, which is what keeps the tool free.
What to do if you're not named
Look at who was named and search for them. You'll usually find them on the same few sites: Google reviews, Yelp, a best-of list from a local paper or a directory for your trade. Those pages are what ChatGPT read before it answered.
Then check your own site says, in plain words near the top, what you do and which towns you serve. Our guide to being recommended by ChatGPT covers the fixes in the order we'd do them.
Read next: Is your business recommended by ChatGPT? How to check. Or see which businesses AI names most in the cities we've studied.
Common questions
Is this the real ChatGPT?
It's OpenAI's GPT-4o mini · live web model through the API, with live web search, which is the model our full report uses for ChatGPT. The ChatGPT app can answer a little differently because it may use another model and knows your location and history. What it names comes from the same places: your Google profile, reviews, directories and your website.
Why didn't ChatGPT name my business?
Usually because the pages it reads don't connect you to the question. It searches the web, then names businesses that turn up on review sites, best-of lists and directories for your trade and city. If you're missing from those, or your own site doesn't say clearly what you do and where, someone else gets named.
It named me. Am I done?
Not yet. That's one question to one assistant on one day. Customers ask in dozens of ways, about price, emergencies, reviews or one service, and Claude, Gemini and Perplexity each name different businesses. The free report asks 48 questions across all four and counts how often you come up.
Do you store my business name?
No. Your business name is matched against the answer on our server and then dropped. We never send it to ChatGPT. We keep the answer for your trade and city for 24 hours so the next person asking about the same place gets it instantly, and a scrambled daily count of checks per connection to stop abuse.
How many checks can I run?
Five a day from one connection. The full free report has no such limit on what it covers: 48 questions, four assistants, your score and your first fix.
Why might the answer change if I ask again tomorrow?
Assistants don't give the same answer twice. They pick different web results and phrase the list differently from one session to the next. That's why we re-ask the same questions on a schedule for customers, rather than trusting a single answer.