Which American businesses does AI actually recommend?

We continuously measure real businesses against the questions buyers ask AI. Each category below is a live leaderboard — sample sizes grow daily.

Editions: 🇦🇺 Australia · 🇺🇸 United States · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🌏 The scanner itself works in any country — it localises to your market automatically.

businesses measured

52%

visible to AI

40%

barely visible

invisible

● visible 52%● barely visible 40%● invisible 8%

Pulse includes anonymised community scans — aggregates only, never names. Leaderboards below only list businesses we selected and measured ourselves.

Live leaderboards

Category	Businesses measured	Avg AI visibility
Vet	6	52.5
Dentist	6	38.8
Plumber	6	31.7

The state of AI visibility, across every category

Average foundation scores over every business we've measured — the same six signals that decide whether an engine can name you. This is where the market as a whole is strong and weak.

Quotable content

Brand recognition

Trust & credibility

Site health

Machine-readable info

AI-ready setup

The single weakest foundation across American business is quotable content (avg 61/100). It's also the cheapest to fix — and the businesses that fix it first take the answers.

⚡ 4 of the businesses we measured have technically excellent sites (readiness ≥70) and are still invisible to AI — built right, found never. Website quality isn't the bottleneck; off-page authority is.

The names AI recommends most

Across every scan in every category, these are the businesses ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI named most often. Being on this list is the goal.

Blue Sky Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric ×3Applewood Plumbing Heating & Electric ×3

Is your business in the answer?
Run the free 60-second scan — see whether AI names you, and who it names instead.
Run your free scan →

Method. Found by AI asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI the questions real buyers ask for each category, then measures which businesses the engines actually name. Scores are 0–100 point-in-time measurements; the index re-scans and grows automatically. Businesses listed here were selected and measured by us from public directories — scan your own site free to see where you'd rank. Queries and methodology are open: github.com/techhorizonlabs.