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AI visibility for accountants

Tibly for accountants.

Business owners don't browse directories for a CPA anymore — they ask ChatGPT “who's the best small business accountant near me?” and get 2–3 firms back. Tibly tracks whether your firm makes that answer, on every major AI engine, and drafts the fixes when it doesn't.

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Why firms switch

The referral has a new middleman.

AI answers don't list every CPA in town. They name a few firms and stop — and each engine keeps its own list.

2–3

Companies a typical AI answer names. Everyone else is invisible.

8 engines

ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, Perplexity, and more. Each keeps its own list.

Daily

Owners shortlist accountants with AI before they ever book a consult. We re-ask every question daily so you catch the shortlist moving.

What you get

Built for the questions that drive new engagements.

Not vanity mentions — the hiring, pricing, and niche questions that end in a signed engagement letter.

Prompts

The questions owners actually ask

We track the prompts that precede a discovery call: “best small business accountant near me,” “CPA for an S corp in Austin,” “should I hire an accountant or just use TurboTax.” Per service, per city, on every engine.

Competitors

See exactly which firms get named

Every answer is scored: which firms were named, in what order, and how often across repeated runs. You see who owns “accountant for e-commerce sellers” in your market — and which questions nobody has claimed yet.

Sources

Know which profiles AI trusts

AI answers about accountants lean on CPAverify and state board records, Google Business Profile reviews, Yelp, Clutch, and state CPA society directories. We show which sources each engine cited, so you fix the ones feeding the answer.

Actions

Drafted fixes, not a to-do list

Tibly drafts the pages that win citations for firms: service pages for bookkeeping, tax planning, and fractional CFO work, priced fee guides like “what monthly bookkeeping costs,” and niche pages — accountants for dentists, contractors, online sellers.

Questions we track

Every question that ends in an engagement letter.

We monitor the full family of questions owners ask AI before hiring an accountant — not just your firm's name.

  • Hiring questions: “best small business accountant near me,” “top CPA firm in Charlotte”
  • Cost questions: “how much does an accountant cost for a small business,” “average monthly bookkeeping fees”
  • Niche questions: “accountant for e-commerce sellers,” “CPA for real estate investors”
  • Decision questions: “bookkeeper vs accountant vs CPA,” “should I hire an accountant or use TurboTax”
  • Situation questions: “accountant for an IRS audit,” “catch-up bookkeeping, two years behind”
  • Qualifier questions: “CPA near me that works with S corps,” “virtual accountant for a small business”
  • Your own questions: add anything your clients ask, in plain English
FAQ

AI visibility for accountants, answered.

The questions firm partners ask us most.

How do I get my accounting firm recommended by ChatGPT?
Engines name firms they can verify and quote. That means clean, consistent records on the sources they cite — your state board listing, Google Business Profile reviews, Yelp, Clutch — plus service pages that answer the owner's question directly, with real fees and real client types. Tibly measures which questions you're missing from, shows the sources behind each answer, and drafts the pages that close the gap.
What makes AI recommend one CPA firm over another?
Verifiable specifics. Engines favor firms whose credentials check out on state records, whose reviews are recent and numerous, and whose websites answer the exact question asked — “what does monthly bookkeeping cost,” “do you work with e-commerce sellers.” Generic “full-service accounting” pages lose to firms that publish prices, niches, and plain-English answers.
Does AI visibility replace SEO for my firm?
No — it builds on it. Your rankings, reviews, and directory listings are the raw material AI engines draw from. But ranking well on Google means nothing if ChatGPT names three other firms and stops. AI visibility measures the actual answer: whether your firm is named when an owner asks who to hire.
How much does Tibly cost?
Start with the free report — it runs your market's real hiring questions live and shows which firms get named. If you want it tracked continuously, plans start at $49/month for daily monitoring across all eight engines, competitor scoring, and drafted content fixes. No contracts; cancel anytime.
Is this worth it outside of tax season?
Yes — arguably more so. Tax-season searches spike, but the engines build their shortlists from what they can read year-round. Firms that publish priced service pages, niche content, and fresh reviews in the off-season are the ones named when January hits. Tibly tracks the questions daily, so you take the spot before the rush, not during it.

Be the answer to “best small business accountant near me.”

Run the free report to see who AI recommends in your market, then track it daily from $49/month. No contracts.