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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.

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3,600+
businesses measured platform-wide
351
in the public American index
26%
visible to AI
52%
barely visible
23%
invisible
visible 26% barely visible 52% invisible 22%
Index growth, new businesses measured, last 30 days+21 this week

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

Live leaderboards

CategoryBusinesses measuredAvg AI visibility
Beauty32
40.8
Automotive19
48.5
Plumber18
29.5
Mortgage brokers13
25.3
Vet11
47.5
Allied health11
36.9
Dentist10
35.6
Medical9
44.7
Lawyer8
30
Landscaper6
42.2
Builder6
35.8

Forming now

Categories we're actively measuring, they open as public leaderboards once each reaches 6 businesses. The index grows every night.

Real estate
4/6
Retail
2/6
Electrician
2/6
Transport
2/6

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
67
Brand recognition
71
Trust & credibility
76
Site health
81
Machine-readable info
79
AI-ready setup
79

The single weakest foundation across American business is quotable content (avg 67/100). It's also the cheapest to fix, and the businesses that fix it first take the answers.

14 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.

Healing Arts Massage & Wellness Center ×12Bloom Massage ×11Lemon spa ×10Holistic Massage & Spa LLC ×9Law Office of Joseph K. Plumbar ×7Corehealth Wellness Center ×6Tou Dao Tang Hair & Scalp Spa ×5Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup ×5Pink One SPA ×5CTC Chiropractic ×5
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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.