Find out if AI recommends your business — by industry
Planmoon checks whether ChatGPT, Google's AI, and other AI search engines recommend your business, then shows you how to get cited. Pick your industry below, enter your website, and get a free visibility report in seconds.
Why AI visibility matters right now
Only 1.2% of local businesses are recommended by ChatGPT — and fewer than half of the businesses ranking on Google's first page carry over into AI answers (SOCi 2026 Local Visibility Index, 350,000+ locations).
AI visibility is 3 to 30 times harder to earn than a Google ranking — AI assistants recommend far fewer businesses than Google's local results (SOCi, 2026).
AI search referrals convert around 4.4 times better than traditional organic traffic — fewer visitors, but far higher intent (Semrush & multiple 2026 GEO analyses).
Gartner predicts traditional search volume will drop about 25% by 2026 as users shift to AI chatbots — making AI visibility a now-problem, not a later one (Gartner, 2024).
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Common questions about AI search visibility
It's whether AI tools like ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity name your business when someone asks them for a recommendation. Unlike Google's list of links, AI usually names only three to five businesses — so you're either in the answer or invisible.
AI engines pick sources differently from Google. They favor businesses with clear, structured web content, consistent information across the web, strong reviews, and third-party citations. A first-page Google ranking doesn't carry over — most page-one businesses are still absent from AI answers.
SEO gets you ranked in a list of links. GEO (generative engine optimization) gets you cited inside an AI's answer. They share foundations, but AI citation depends more on structured content, factual clarity, and authority signals than on keywords. Planmoon checks both.
Start by measuring where you stand. Enter your website above to see whether AI engines currently recommend you and what's holding you back. From there, Planmoon shows the specific fixes — content structure, business data, and authority signals — that improve your citation rate.
Enter your website into a free AI visibility checker like Planmoon. It queries ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity the way a customer would, then shows whether your business is named, who's recommended instead, and what to fix. You can also ask each AI tool directly for a recommendation in your category and city.
Yes. Planmoon's report is free and needs no signup — enter your website, language, and country, and you get results in seconds. Paid plans cover ongoing tracking and the fixes that improve your citation rate, but the initial visibility scan costs nothing.
The four that matter most in 2026 are ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity. ChatGPT drives the largest share of AI referral traffic, but each engine selects sources differently, so appearing in one doesn't guarantee the others. A good checker tests all of them at once.
Google rankings and AI recommendations are two separate systems. In SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index, fewer than half of businesses ranking well on Google also appeared in AI recommendations. AI weighs structured content, consistent business data, reviews, and third-party citations more than keywords, so a top Google spot doesn't automatically carry over.
Yes, heavily. AI assistants treat reviews as a trust filter, favoring businesses with strong, consistent ratings across the web. In SOCi's 2026 data, locations recommended by ChatGPT averaged around 4.3 stars. Steady, recent reviews on Google and industry-specific sites make you far more likely to be named.
There's no fixed timeline — it depends on how consistent and structured your online presence already is. Fixing business data, adding clear service content, and building reviews and citations can start shifting AI results within weeks. Start by measuring where you stand, then track changes as you improve.