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When people ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity who to hire, I check whether your business comes up. I make it easy for AI to find your business online.

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Owner-run. I do the testing myself, and I'm the one who replies.

Where I test

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Grok
  • Perplexity
  • Google AI Overviews
  • AI Mode

01The shift

People now ask an assistant who to hire.

For years, people searched, scanned a page of links and picked one. More of them now type a full question into ChatGPT or Gemini and read a single answer.

That answer often names a handful of businesses. If yours is not one of them, the buyer may never reach your website at all.

This is not a reason to panic. It is a reason to check. Assistants pull from the open web: your site, your listings, your reviews and the articles that mention you. Those are all things you can work on.

Source: OpenAI

OpenAI says any public website can appear in ChatGPT search, and that sites should not block its OAI-SearchBot crawler if they want to show up. Read OpenAI's help page

Source: Google

Google explains how its AI Overviews and AI Mode use pages from Search. Read Google Search Central

02What I check

Every answer gets written down.

I ask each assistant the same buyer question in a clean session. Then I record where you landed, who got named instead, and which sources the answer leaned on.

Prompt ledger

Business
Example Co.
Session
Clean, no history
Prompt
03 of set

Buyer question, exactly as typed“Who is a good bookkeeper for a small restaurant?”

  • EngineChatGPT

    RungAbsent

    Named insteadFirm A, Firm B

    SourcesA review site, a “best of” list

  • EngineClaude

    RungMentioned

    Named insteadFirm A listed first

    SourcesYour About page, a directory

  • EngineGemini

    RungCited

    Named insteadFirm C

    SourcesYour services page, linked but not named

  • EnginePerplexity

    RungRecommended

    Named insteadFirm A also named

    SourcesBusiness profile, two reviews

  • EngineGrok

    RungRecommended against

    Named insteadFirm B

    SourcesAn old complaint thread

Same question, same day, a fresh session in each assistant. Answers shift over time, so I log the date and keep the wording exact.

Illustration Illustration of how I record a test. The business, names and results are made up to show the format.

The five rung scale

Every answer lands on one of these. It turns a fuzzy question (“Does AI know us?”) into something you can track.

  1. Absent

    You are not in the answer or its sources. The assistant names others, or no one.

  2. Cited

    Your page shows up as a source link, but your business is not named in the answer itself.

  3. Mentioned

    You are named as one option among several, with no clear push toward you.

  4. Recommended

    The assistant suggests you as a good choice for the exact question asked.

  5. Recommended against

    You are named in a negative way, or the answer steers buyers away. If I see this, it gets looked at first.

03The method

Five steps. The same ones every time.

A fixed method is what makes the results worth reading. If the test changed every month, you could not tell what actually moved.

  1. Build the prompt set

    I write the real questions buyers ask about your services and the areas you serve. Plain wording, the way people actually type.

  2. Test in clean sessions

    Each question runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity, plus Google AI Overviews and AI Mode when they appear. Fresh sessions, no history, so nothing skews the answer.

  3. Record rungs and sources

    For every answer I note the rung, who got named instead, and which pages the answer leaned on. The sources tell me where the work should go.

  4. Fix what I can reach

    Foundations first, then listings, then answer pages. The order follows what the test showed, not a generic checklist.

  5. Re-test and report

    Same prompts every month, run the same way. You get a short written report: what changed, what didn't, and what I plan next.

Read the full walkthrough

04What you get

Start with a call. Keep going only if it makes sense.

  • Start

    A call with John

    We talk through your business, the questions your buyers ask, and what I would work on first. Book it on the calendar.

  • Ongoing

    Foundations fix

    Crawler access in robots.txt, content in the raw HTML, schema with real data, an llms.txt file, and the same name, phone and description everywhere.

  • Ongoing

    Entity and listings

    Google Business Profile where eligible, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect, and the directories and review platforms assistants cite for your kind of business.

  • Ongoing

    Answer pages

    Pages that answer the exact questions buyers ask, comparison and “how to choose” pages, and facts backed by sources.

  • Ongoing

    Monthly re-tests

    The same prompt set each month and a written report of what changed.

Pricing on request.

Scope depends on how many locations, services and prompts you have. After we talk, I'll tell you plainly what I'd do and what it costs.

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05The honest part

I can't promise any placement. Nobody controls what an assistant says.

I make it easy for AI to find your business online.

John Alewine

Assistants change their answers often. Anyone who guarantees you a spot in ChatGPT is guessing. What does hold up is plain work: a site crawlers can read, facts that match everywhere, and pages that answer real questions with sources.

There is research behind that last part. In the GEO paper by Aggarwal et al. (KDD 2024), adding citations, quotations and statistics raised visibility in generative engine answers in their tests. Read the paper on arXiv.

06Fit

Who this is for, and who it isn't.

A good fit

  • Service businesses where buyers compare options before they call: trades, clinics, firms, agencies.
  • Owners who want to know, in writing, what AI assistants say about them today.
  • Businesses with a real website they can update, or that will let me update it.
  • People who are fine with steady work and honest monthly reports.

Not a good fit

  • You want a guaranteed spot, or a date by which you will be recommended.
  • You want fake reviews, hidden text or mass posting. I won't do any of it.
  • You need leads this week. This is groundwork, not an ad campaign.
  • You want a big agency with account managers. With me, you get me.

07Questions

Straight answers.

If yours isn't here, call or email. I'll answer it myself.

Can you get my business recommended by ChatGPT?

I can't promise that. Nobody controls what an assistant says, and anyone who guarantees it is guessing. I make it easy for AI to find your business online. Then I run the same questions each month and show you what changed.

What happens on the call?

We talk through your business, the questions your buyers ask, and how the major assistants see you today. Then I tell you what I would work on first and what it would cost.

Which assistants do you test?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity. I also check Google AI Overviews and AI Mode when they show up for a question.

Is this just SEO with a new name?

There's overlap. A site crawlers can read, clean schema and accurate listings help in both places. The difference is what I measure and where. I test real questions inside the assistants, record who they name, and work on the exact sources they quote.

How much does it cost?

Work is priced on request, because scope depends on how many locations, services and prompts you have. After we talk, I'll tell you what I'd do and what it would cost.

Do you work with businesses anywhere in the US?

Yes. This is a national service. I work by phone and email, so where you are doesn't change anything.

08Next step

Find out what AI says about you.

Book a call, or call or email. We'll go over where your business stands and what I'd work on first.

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