ai recommendations
When someone asks AI who to hire, does it say you?
People ask an assistant for a recommendation before they ever open a search page. If it names three businesses and none of them is yours, you never find out. This tells you, and tells you who it named instead.
The industry calls this GEO. You do not need the acronym to use it, and it is not on the rest of this page.
The problem
What this looks like from where you are sitting.
You never see the ones you lost
Somebody asks an assistant who to use, reads three names, and calls one. None of that touches your website, so nothing in your analytics records that you were skipped.
Asking it yourself gives you a nicer answer
Your own account knows who you are and where you are. A stranger in your town gets a different answer than you do, and theirs is the one that matters.
The answer changes if you ask twice
Ask on Monday and Thursday and you can get two different lists. Without asking the same questions the same way every time, you cannot tell a real drop from normal wobble.
A reading of this surface
This is what one looks like.
Stored answer
Perplexity
31 July 2026
Web search on
The question a buyer types
“best project management tools for software teams”
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Named · Jira · ClickUp · Asana
Did not name you · 3 rivals
Every figure comes from a real question put to a real engine, saved with its date and the model that answered. Nothing here is a model guessing.
What you get back
A page you can read, and forward.
It lives at its own address and says the same thing in two weeks, which is what lets you send it to somebody without being there to explain it.
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Whether you were named, in plain words
One sentence at the top: you came up in three of four answers, or you came up in none. Not a score out of a hundred.
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Who got recommended instead
The businesses the assistant put forward, in the order it put them forward, including competitors you have never heard of.
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The exact words it used
The full answer, saved with the date and which assistant said it. You can read it yourself and forward it to somebody else.
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The pages it read to decide
The websites the assistant looked at before answering. That is your list of where to get mentioned next, and it is the closest thing to a to-do list this produces.
What it costs
Free to look, 19 dollars a month to keep looking.
You give four things — web address, business name, the kind of business you are in, and an email. You never write the questions. We ask a set a customer in your category would actually type.
Where this sits
This is the one we are built for. Ordinary search still sends most businesses most of their customers today, and we would not tell you otherwise. But this is the surface growing fastest, and it is the one almost nobody is measuring, which is exactly why there is still room to move in it.
What it will not do
We can tell you that an assistant recommended someone else and show you which pages it read. We cannot tell you why it chose them. Anyone claiming to know that is guessing.
The other two surfaces