AI search visibility · Commercial insurance & local service

Your next client already asked AI. Make sure your name came up.

When a business owner asks ChatGPT for a local service business recommendation in your city, they get two or three names. Not ten links. We make sure one of them is yours, and we show you the number every month.
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answer-check · tampa, fl

ChatGPT Tested 26 Aug 2026 Highlight = client named
The gap nobody is reporting on

Ranking on Google no longer tells you whether you are in the answer.

Consumer use of AI assistants to find a local business went from 6% to 45% in twelve months. In the same market, ChatGPT recommends roughly 1.2% of local business locations — against 35.9% Map Pack visibility for the same set of brands.

The number that should concern you is the overlap. Only about 45% of the businesses winning the Google local pack are named in AI answers at all. More than half of the firms that appear to be winning are invisible in the conversation that now happens first.

BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (n=1,002 US adults); SOCi 2026 Local Visibility Index (350,000+ locations across 2,751 brands).

Documented result · Elite Business Insurance, Tampa FL

An independent commercial agency, now named across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.

Independent commercial agency, BBB A+ rated, operating since 2013. Near-zero organic visibility at the start. Every figure below is exported from Google Search Console.

6×
Monthly search impressions
1,700 → 10,200
6×
Monthly organic clicks
8 → 46
31
Average positions gained
56.8 → 25.5
4
AI platforms now naming the agency
from zero at baseline

90-day engagement window. Search metrics verified in Google Search Console. AI visibility verified by timestamped prompt testing across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. Mobile PageSpeed 48 → 96; desktop 59 → 99.

The method

Four signals. One answer.

AI systems decide who to name using four things. We build all four, in this order, because each one depends on the one before it.

Signal 01 — Identity

Do machines agree on who you are?

One canonical description of your agency, deployed identically across Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect, Foursquare, Yelp, BBB, LinkedIn and your carrier and association listings. AI systems punish inconsistent business data harder than Google does.

Signal 02 — Evidence

What do independent sources say?

Roughly 77% of what gets cited about a business is off-page. So most of the work is off-page: directory depth, reviews that name the service and the city, industry listings, association pages, licensing records.