Does ChatGPT recommend my business?
When someone asks who to call in your town, the answer is built from what the engines can read about you. Enter your website, pick your trade and name your town. In about twenty seconds you see what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot find on your site, what they miss, and the three fixes that bring you closer to being the name they give.
We read your site the way they do. We never guess what they would say.
Seven questions, in plain words.
- Q 1
Are their readers let in?
Each engine sends its own reader: GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot for ChatGPT, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended for Gemini, and Bingbot for Bing and Copilot. We read your robots.txt for each one, and your homepage for a noindex tag.
- Q 2
Is there a business card?
Structured data labels your name, street address, phone and the towns you serve so an engine can quote them without guessing. We look for a LocalBusiness block and name every fact it leaves out.
- Q 3
Does it say what you do?
We look for your trade in your page title, your main heading and the words on the page, in the forms people use: roofer and roofing, dentist and dental, HVAC and heating.
- Q 4
Does it say where?
A question with a town in it gets an answer with a town in it. We look for your town in the same three places.
- Q 5
A page for each service?
People ask about one job, not a trade. We count the pages your homepage links to that are about a single service.
- Q 6
One name, one number?
We compare the phone numbers and business name on your homepage, your contact page and your structured data. Two versions of either makes you harder to trust.
- Q 7
An llms.txt file?
A short plain-text page at /llms.txt that says who you are, what you do and where, written for answer engines to read. Few local businesses have one yet.
What owners ask us.
Does this ask ChatGPT about my business?
No. It reads what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot read on your website: your robots.txt, your homepage, your structured data, your contact page and your llms.txt. It never guesses what an engine would answer, because nobody outside those companies can promise that.
Why doesn’t ChatGPT name my business when someone asks who to call?
Usually because it cannot find enough it trusts: its reader is shut out by robots.txt, your homepage never says your trade and town in plain words, there is no labeled business card, or your name and number differ from your Google, Bing, Apple and Yelp listings. The check shows which of these apply to your site.
What is a good score?
A score of 100 means every one of the seven questions came back yes. Each question carries points by how much it matters: letting the readers in counts most, then the business card, then service pages, trade and town, one name and number, and llms.txt.
Which listings should I claim first?
Google Business Profile, Bing Places and Apple Business Connect, because Google, Copilot and Siri read them directly. Then Yelp, the Better Business Bureau, Nextdoor and the directories for your trade. Use the exact same name and phone number on every one.
Do you store my website or email?
We keep a record of each check (the site, trade, town and result) to stop abuse, with your connection scrambled so it cannot be read back. Your email is kept only if you ask us to send the report.
A website that brings calls.
We build and run sites where every one of these answers is yes from day one: your trade and town in plain words, a page for each job, a business card on every page, and the same name and number everywhere you are listed. Managed for you, end to end.