ChatGPT
The default place customers now ask "who’s the best near me?": we record who it names and in what order.
In the free reportFree AI visibility checker: see who ChatGPT recommends in your city instead of you.
See where you stand when customers ask AI who to choose. Free, no signup, about a minute.
Get insights into:AI visibilityWho's winning each questionCompetitor rankingsWhere you're missing
Live answers, not estimates
We ask the engine your customers use.
The free report runs your buying questions live on ChatGPT, captured from the real answer experience rather than an API guess, and checks your Google rankings for the same searches. The full product tracks all seven engines, every day.
The full product also tracks
- Google AI Overviews
- Google AI Mode
- Gemini
- Perplexity
- Microsoft Copilot
- Claude
Why trust it
We measure this channel for a living.
80 runs
We ask each buying question dozens of times per engine: AI answers change run to run, so one search proves nothing.
1.2%
Only 1.2% of local businesses ever appear in AI answers to local queries (SOCi, 2026). Every engine keeps its own list: we check them all.
45%
45% of consumers now ask AI tools like ChatGPT for local recommendations, up from 6% a year ago (BrightLocal, 2026).
After the report
Track. Fix. Prove it worked.
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Track
Every day we ask the questions your customers ask, per engine and per city, and record who gets named.
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Fix
We build the pages AI actually cites, from work you've really done: real prices, real projects, your service area.
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Prove
You watch the needle move: how often you're named and cited, week over week, from daily runs.
How the checker works
What happens in the minute after you press the button
The report is built from live AI answers, not an index or an estimate. Here is exactly what runs.
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Step 01
We read your website
Business, industry, city
Give us your domain and we work out what you do and where you do it: your industry, the services you name, and the cities you serve. That becomes the set of buying questions to ask, in the words a customer would use, such as “best emergency plumber in Tampa” or “dentist in Austin that takes Delta Dental”.
Your questions
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Step 02
We ask ChatGPT, live, several times
Real answers, not an API guess
Each question is asked on ChatGPT the way a customer would ask it, and asked more than once, because AI answers change run to run. We record every business it names, the order it names them in, and the sentence it says about each one. We also check where you rank on Google for the same searches so you can see both channels side by side.
Who gets named
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Step 03
We score your share and show who is winning
Mention rate per question
Your result is the share of answers that name you, per question, alongside the competitors that appear instead. A business named in 2 of 12 answers has a different problem than one named in 0 of 12, and both are different from the one named first every time. The report shows which questions you lose and to whom.
Your gap
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Step 04
We check how quotable your homepage is
The AI readiness pass
AI engines quote sentences. We read your homepage the way they do: is there a plain-text answer to what you do and where, can GPTBot and the other AI crawlers reach it, does the page name prices, service areas, and credentials an engine can repeat? You get the specific rewrites that make it citable.
Fixes, drafted
What the report checks
Four things a search on your own name will not tell you
Googling yourself and asking ChatGPT once are both single samples. The checker measures the pattern.
Frequency
Mention rate, not a yes or no
Because we ask each question repeatedly, the result is a frequency: how often you appear when the question is asked. One lucky answer or one unlucky one does not move it much. That is the number worth tracking over time.
Competitors
Who appears instead of you
For every question, the report names the businesses that were recommended and how often. Some will be the competitors you expect. Some will be directories such as Yelp or a national chain. Knowing which tells you what kind of fix is needed.
Sentiment
The words used about you
Being named is half of it. The report keeps the sentence the engine wrote next to your name, because the difference between “highly rated, family-owned” and a bare mention is the difference between a call and a scroll.
Crawlability
Whether AI can read your site at all
A surprising share of small-business sites block GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, or PerplexityBot in robots.txt or behind a CDN rule, usually without knowing. If the engine cannot read your pages it cannot cite them. The readiness pass flags this first.
Why this matters now
The customer is asking AI. Is it saying your name?
The numbers below are from published research, cited inline. None of them are ours.
- 45% of US consumers used AI tools like ChatGPT for local business recommendations in the past year, up from 6% the year before (BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026).
- ChatGPT recommended only 1.2% of local brand locations in SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index, against 11% for Gemini and 7.4% for Perplexity. The shortlist is short, and every engine keeps its own.
- ChatGPT and Perplexity share only 11% of the domains they cite across 100,000 prompts (Profound). A check on one engine tells you little about the others, which is why the full product tracks seven.
- Only 12% of the URLs AI engines cite rank in Google's top 10 for the same prompt (Ahrefs, 2025). Ranking on Google does not buy the recommendation; it is a separate measurement.
- With an AI summary on the page, users clicked an organic link on 8% of visits, against 15% without one (Pew Research Center, 2025, 900 US adults; Google disputed the study). The list of ten links matters less each year. Being the name inside the answer matters more.
FAQ
Questions about the AI visibility checker
- What is an AI visibility checker?
- An AI visibility checker asks AI assistants such as ChatGPT the questions your customers ask, records which businesses get recommended, and reports how often yours is among them. Tibly's free checker runs the questions live for your industry and city, several times each, and shows your share of the answers alongside the competitors that appear instead.
- Is the AI visibility report really free?
- Yes. The report on this page runs without an account, a card, or a signup, and takes about a minute. The summary is shown immediately. The full per-question breakdown is unlocked by leaving an email so we can send it to you. Ongoing daily tracking across seven engines is part of the paid product, from $149 per month.
- Which AI engines does the checker use?
- The free report asks ChatGPT live, because it is the assistant most customers use, and checks your Google rankings for the same searches. Paid plans track up to seven engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude, with the count depending on the plan.
- Why does the report ask each question more than once?
- Because AI answers change from run to run. Two people asking ChatGPT the same question in the same city can get different shortlists. Asking repeatedly and reporting a frequency gives you a number that is stable enough to act on and to compare against next month.
- How is this different from checking my Google ranking?
- Google returns ten links and lets the customer choose. An AI assistant names two or three businesses and describes them, so the customer often never sees a list at all. Ahrefs found only 12% of the URLs AI engines cite rank in Google's top 10 for the same prompt, so your Google rank and your AI mention rate are genuinely separate measurements. The report shows both.
- What do I do if the report says I am not mentioned?
- Start with the questions you lose most and the businesses winning them. Publish a plain-text page that answers the exact question, complete the review and directory profiles the engine is citing, make sure AI crawlers can read your site, then re-run the check. The guide at /get-recommended-by-chatgpt walks through the whole loop.
- Will running the checker affect my rankings?
- No. The checker only reads public AI answers and public search results. It does not submit anything about your business, change your listings, or interact with your website beyond reading your homepage the way a crawler would.
