Does ChatGPT Recommend Local Businesses in the Next Town Over?
ChatGPT picks local businesses for the town a question comes from. Two towns three miles apart got lists with no names in common. See what it means for your business.
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Insights on AI search visibility and how modern customers find businesses.
Employer Brand in ChatGPT: How to Bring the Right Candidates to Your Hiring Team
Strong candidates now ask ChatGPT where to apply. How to get AI to send the right people to your hiring team, and how a fintech company went from unseen to #2 of 216 employers.
Are AI Visibility Tools Accurate? How to Tell Real Data From Estimates
Are AI visibility tools accurate? Six questions that separate real AI answers from estimates, and how Reachd shows you the answers behind every result.
How to See How Competitors Are Doing in AI Search Compared to You
See how competitors do in AI search compared to you: who ChatGPT recommends in your place, why, and how to overtake them. Your first full analysis is free.
How to Track Brand Mentions in ChatGPT and See How Often AI Recommends You
Track brand mentions in ChatGPT and other AI answers, see who AI recommends instead of you, and find out how to overtake them. Your first full analysis is free.
Getting recommended by ChatGPT works two ways, and one of them takes a year
One way into an AI answer takes weeks and works through live search. The other takes quarters and works through the next model's training data. Most businesses work on one of them and skip the other.
AI Visibility Reporting for Agencies. One API, Any Dashboard
Pull AI visibility scores, competitors, and query data for every client into your own dashboard, CRM, or BI tool. One read-only API, included with every Reachd plan.
Best AI Visibility Tools for Marketing Agencies in 2026
Seven AI visibility tools compared for agencies. Client workspaces, white-label reporting, API access, and per-client pricing across Reachd, Profound, Peec, Otterly, Semrush, Scrunch, and AthenaHQ.
How to use Reachd inside Claude and ChatGPT, and why you might stop opening dashboards
Connect Reachd to Claude or ChatGPT and work with your AI visibility data in chat. Real workflows, from competitor quotes to ready listing texts.
How to Choose an AI Visibility Tool in 2026
A buyer framework for AI visibility tools. Prompt limits, real pricing, and which of 9 tools fits small and mid-size businesses and agencies.
How to Measure AI Visibility So the Number Actually Means Something
A rising AI-visibility count often just means the tool asked more questions that month. Here is how to measure AI visibility in a way that reflects the business, as its share against real competitors on a wide, shifting set of queries.
How One Paragraph on Wise's Website Ended Up in Millions of AI Recommendations
We ran an AI visibility check for a Wise competitor and traced ChatGPT's specific recommendation language back to eighty words on a currency conversion page. The finding says a lot about how AI decides what to recommend.
Why Is My Business Not Showing Up in ChatGPT (and How to Get Recommended)
If your business is not showing up in ChatGPT, quality is rarely the reason. Five causes behind low AI visibility and what to change to get recommended by ChatGPT, drawn from hundreds of tracked answers across ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Grok.
We Asked AI to Recommend a Barbershop in Boston. Three Different Platforms Picked Three Different Winners.
We tracked how ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Grok recommend barbershops in Boston. 51 shops were named. The top three were in a statistical dead heat, but each one dominated a completely different platform.
We Asked ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Grok for an Emergency Plumber in Austin. They Each Sent Us to Different Companies.
We tracked how four AI platforms recommend emergency plumbers in Austin. 47 companies were named. The biggest brand dominated three platforms and was invisible on the fourth. At 2am with a burst pipe, the plumber a person finds depends entirely on which app they grab.
We Asked Four AI Platforms to Recommend a Lawyer in Chicago. They Named 116.
We tracked how ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Grok recommend lawyers in Chicago. 116 firms were named. AI mixed billion-dollar corporate firms with solo practitioners handling traffic tickets. In the same list.
We Asked AI to Find Us a Realtor in Miami. It Couldn't Decide If We Wanted a Person or a Company.
We tracked how ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Grok recommend realtors in Miami. 85 were named. Some platforms recommended individual agents by name. Others recommended brokerages. The same question got fundamentally different types of answers.
Getting New Customers in 2026. What Changed and What Actually Works Now
The way people find local businesses has quietly changed. More customers now ask ChatGPT and Google AI for recommendations instead of Googling. We tracked what happens across restaurants, lawyers, dentists, realtors, plumbers, barbers, and private schools. Here's what we found.
We Asked Four AI Platforms to Recommend a Dentist in San Francisco. They Named 76 Different Ones.
We tracked how ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Grok recommend dentists in San Francisco. 76 different practices were named. Almost none appeared on more than one platform. For a decision built entirely on trust, AI recommendations are a coin flip.
Why Your Competitor Shows Up in ChatGPT and You Don't
We tracked AI recommendations across four industries and four platforms. The same patterns kept showing up: a few businesses dominate every response, and the rest are invisible. Here's what separates them.
A Parent Asked ChatGPT Which School to Choose. Five Schools Got All the Attention.
We tracked how ChatGPT and Google AI recommend private schools in Los Angeles. For the first time, both platforms agreed on the top picks. But below the top tier, entire schools disappeared depending on which platform a parent happened to open.
When AI Loses a Business a Customer, Sometimes It's a $50,000 Customer
We tracked how ChatGPT and Google AI recommend Italian kitchen showrooms in Miami. A handful of showrooms capture most of the attention. The rest don't show up at all. At $50,000 per project, that gap adds up fast.
A Google Maps Profile Is Not Enough Anymore (But It's Still Important)
Most local businesses rely on Google Maps to get found online. It still works. But a new channel is sending customers to competitors, and Google Maps can't help with it.
ChatGPT Says Di Fara Is the Best Pizza in NYC. Google AI Says Joe's. Both Are 100% Sure.
We tracked dozens of real queries across ChatGPT and Google AI asking for the best pizza in New York. The two platforms picked completely different winners. Here's what that means for every local business.
A 5-Minute Test That Shows Whether ChatGPT Recommends a Business
A simple manual test any business owner can run right now to find out if ChatGPT and Google AI are sending customers their way or to competitors.
GEO vs SEO. What Actually Changes and What Stays the Same
Generative Engine Optimization is the new acronym in digital marketing. But how different is it from SEO really? We break down what carries over, what doesn't, and what matters now.