When a homeowner asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for a roofer or a plumber near them, does your name come up? We make your business easy for any AI assistant to understand, trust and cite, and we track your citations in Google's AI answers every week.
Your snapshot checks whether AI answers mention you for your main service and arrives by email in 60 seconds. You don't need to get on a call.
AI answer
Who can fix a leaking water heater in Plano today?
1Your companySame-day water heater repairCited
2CompetitorPlumbing and drains
3CompetitorWater heaters and remodels
SponsoredYour company
Your companyDirectoryReviews
1Your company4.9
2Competitor4.6
3Competitor4.4
yourcompany.com
Service in your cityExample results page. AI answers light up where you're named.
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the work of getting your business mentioned in AI-written answers. It makes your business easy for any AI assistant to understand, trust and cite. Today the two leading sources of those answers are ChatGPT and Google's AI, which shows up as AI Overviews at the top of search results and in AI Mode. Both often name a few businesses directly.
AI answers are the fourth surface in our LDC Framework. They build on the other three, because the Business Profile, reviews and service pages that help you rank are the same things AI tools read.
AI tools don't publish a ranking formula. These are the signals that make a business easier for them to name:
AI tools compare your website, profile and directories
Matching details let them name you with more confidence
AI answers often summarize what customers say
Recent reviews that name the job and town help
A page for each service: what, where and for whom
Easy for an AI tool to understand
Short, direct answers to homeowner questions
Easy for AI tools to lift into an answer
Articles that source their facts
Something AI tools can trust and link to
Structured data labels your name, services, area and FAQs
Software can read them without guessing
"I asked ChatGPT for the best HVAC company in town and it named three of my competitors."
"Google's AI answer shows up above everything now, and we're nowhere in it."
"A bunch of directories still have our old address."
"Someone told me AI is replacing Google, and I don't know what to believe."
Local Rank Tracker · Google AI citations · This week Example
Search
AI Overview
AI Mode
Also cited
water heater repair plano
Cited
Not cited
A competitor
emergency plumber plano
Cited
Cited
A directory
tankless water heater install
Not cited
Not cited
Two competitors
drain cleaning near me
Not cited
Cited
A review site
sewer line repair plano
Cited
Not cited
A competitor
Google's AI named you in 5 of 10 checks
Our Local Rank Tracker checks whether Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode mention you for the searches that bring you jobs, and which businesses and pages they cite, every week. ChatGPT and other AI assistants read many of the same websites, profiles and directories, so the fixes that earn citations in Google's AI help there too.
AI answers are one of the four parts of your Search Share, our weekly measure of how often you show up across ads, the map pack, organic results and AI answers. For more on how this tracking works, read local rank tracking in 2026.
In 60 seconds, see whether AI answers mention you for your main service today.
Reply to your snapshot email and ask for a call. Send it before noon Eastern on a business day and Ben calls you back the same day. After noon, he calls the next business day. On the call, Ben asks which jobs and towns matter most, so we check the right questions.
We record where Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode name you today, and which businesses they cite in your place.
We clean up your business details, schema and directories, and add FAQ content and articles.
Your weekly written report shows your Google AI citations changing week by week, and you go over them with Ben on your monthly strategy call.
Weekly written report Example
Checks where Google's AI named youWk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8
SponsoredYour companyYou
Calls this month while the slower surfaces build
1Your companyYou4.9
2Competitor4.6
3Competitor4.4
The Business Profile and reviews AI tools read
yourcompany.comYou
Water heater repair in PlanoThe service pages and articles AI answers cite
Our monthly plans run 1, 3 or 6 sprints a month, starting at $2,750 a month. A sprint is one focused improvement, finished and live within the month, and getting your business ready for AI answers uses 1 sprint from our sprint menu. Cited articles are included in Growth (4 a month) and Momentum (8 a month), or available through Sure Shot Cited from $99 a month.
If you want a one-time cleanup, the AI Answer Fix is $1,250. It covers entity and schema cleanup, directory consistency, FAQ content, and a baseline plus a 30-day AI citation report.
Precision Patch Pros is a drywall repair company serving Bakersfield and Southern California, owned by Sherman Burkhead. We run their Google Search Ads, their Google Business Profile and their website.
26 leads and $11,030 in Google-sourced sales in March 2026 for a Bakersfield drywall contractor
Sherman's March 30, 2026 email
These kind of leads are high closers and good margins.
Sherman Burkhead, Owner, Precision Patch Pros
Make the facts about your business easy to find and the same everywhere: your website, your Business Profile and the directories AI tools read. Clear service pages, recent reviews that describe your work and articles that answer real questions help too. Nobody can guarantee a mention in ChatGPT, and the same work helps you show up in Google's AI answers, where we track citations every week.
AI Overviews draw on pages Google already trusts for that search, so local SEO comes first. Clear service pages with direct answers, FAQ sections, schema markup and well-sourced articles give Google something specific to cite. We track AI Overview citations weekly in our Local Rank Tracker.
An AI SEO agency makes a business easy for AI assistants to understand, trust and cite, so it gets named in AI-written answers. Today the two leading sources of those answers are ChatGPT and Google's AI (AI Overviews and AI Mode). The work is also called generative engine optimization, and our GEO guide covers it in depth. For a home service company, it builds on the same foundation as local SEO.
With us, getting your business ready for AI answers uses 1 sprint inside a monthly plan, and plans start at $2,750 a month. If you want a one-time cleanup, the AI Answer Fix is $1,250 and includes a baseline and a 30-day citation report.
They can get things wrong, because they summarize whatever they find. When the facts about your business are old or don't match across the web, the answer about you can be wrong too, and consistent details lower that risk.
No, and we'd be careful with anyone who promises that. Nobody controls whether or when Google's AI or ChatGPT names a business, and their answers change from one search to the next. We do the work that makes it more likely, and we show you every week where Google's AI names you.
The free Demand Gap Snapshot shows whether you appear in AI answers, ads, the map pack and organic results across your service area, with your top 3 fixes.
Your Demand Gap Snapshot Example
AI answersNot named
AdsShowing
Map packShowing
Organic resultsNot showing
Top 3 fixesBy email in 60 seconds
Sources: Precision Patch Pros results from Sherman Burkhead's March 30, 2026 email. Review request practice follows the FTC Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials, 16 CFR Part 465. The AI answer, citation table, weekly report and snapshot on this page are examples, not a client's data.