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How do I check if ChatGPT recommends my business for free?

Matt Turley, Continuum. Updated November 5, 2026.

A do-it-yourself method that costs nothing, what to write down, and where the free tool fits.

The short answer

How do I check if ChatGPT recommends my business for free?

Write ten questions your customers would type, without your business name in them. Ask each in ChatGPT with web search on, three times on different days, and count a question as won only when your name appears in at least two of the three answers. Our free check does a first pass across four AI engines.

The do-it-yourself method

  • Write ten questions in your customers’ words, such as who to call for a particular job in your area, and leave your business name out of every one.
  • Use a fresh chat, signed out if you can, with web search switched on.
  • Ask each question three times, on different days if possible.
  • Mark a question as won only if your business name is in the answer text in at least two of the three runs.
  • Write down every business named instead of you and every website the answer cites.

Why three runs and not one

The same question can name different businesses on the next ask, so one answer is a coin flip. In our research the AI tools named a lot of businesses and often disagreed: across 17 Dallas trades, they named 1008 businesses between them, and only 231 of those were named by both tools. A name that holds in two of three runs is a steadier signal.

What the free tool does

The free AI visibility check asks four AI engines the kind of questions your customers ask and shows whether you were named. It is a quick first look with no signup. It does not repeat each question three times; for that, the AI Answer Check does, across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.

Either way, the sites the answers cite are the most useful part. They are the pages to be listed on. Our research on who AI recommends shows what those sites looked like in ten industries.

Want to see what the AI tools say about you?

Enter your business and the free check asks four AI engines the questions your customers ask, then shows whether you were named. No signup. It is a first look; the paid reports repeat each question several times.

Run the free AI visibility check. Or book a call and talk it through.

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FAQ

Straight answers

Does it matter whether I am signed in?
Yes. A signed-in assistant may tailor answers to your history. For a fair picture, ask signed out or in a fresh private session, and say so when you compare notes with anyone.
Should I include my business name in the question?
Not for the test. Customers who do not know you do not type your name. If you add it, you are testing whether the tool knows you, which is a different question.
Does Google AI Overviews count?
Not in this method. Search results with an AI box are a separate product. Test it by searching your questions in Google and noting whether you are named in the summary.
What do I do with the result?
Look at who is named instead of you and which sites are cited. The fix is usually being present and described correctly on those sites, not changing your own page alone.
Keep reading
Run the free AI visibility checkFree. Four AI engines, no signup.What questions should I test in ChatGPT about my business?Ten questions in your customers’ words.Why does ChatGPT recommend my competitor and not me?It names who other sites write about.AI visibility audit for small businessWhat a good audit checks and what it should cost.Does ChatGPT recommend my business?The AI Answer Check: three tools, three runs per question.Who AI recommends in 2026The original research behind these answers, by industry.How do I get my business mentioned in ChatGPT answers?What ChatGPT reads before it names a business.
Sources
  1. 1. Who AI recommends in 2026, by industry, Continuum, October 2026: Used for how many businesses the AI tools named, how often two tools agreed, and which kinds of sites the answers cited. Every answer is published as JSON.
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