Does ChatGPT name your business? A free AI visibility check
We put 10 buyer questions about our own parking site, appealsdesk, to 5 AI engines on 2 October 2026, 79 times in all. ChatGPT named it 2 times in 30. Perplexity 0 of 30, Google 0 of 9, Claude 0 of 5, Gemini 0 of 5.
The free full report opens once our queue is live; the two checks below run now, free.
Two checks you can run now, free, in 2 minutes
Check 1: what a stranger hears about you
Open ChatGPT (a temporary chat), Gemini (a new chat), Claude (a new chat), Perplexity (a new search). You should stay signed out, or use a temporary chat. Then ask:
Tell me about [your business name] in [your town]
On 2 October 2026 Perplexity, asked about appealsdesk, led with a US firm of a similar name. A mix-up like that is your fix number 1.
Check 2: does the top of your home page say what you do
Copy the first screen of your home page, then paste it under this question:
In one sentence, what does this business do, judging only by the first screen of its home page pasted here: [paste everything you can see before scrolling]
The 1 sentence back should match how you describe your business on the phone. If it differs, rewrite your headline first.
We ran it on ourselves first
We measured 2 of our own sites on 2 October 2026, before changing a word. The after goes on the same pages.
- AppealsDesk: On 2 October 2026, asked 30 ways, ChatGPT named you 2 of 30 times.
- DenialFacts: On 2 October 2026, asked 30 ways, ChatGPT named you 0 of 30 times.
The free report holds
- 10 buyer questions, sent 3 times each to ChatGPT and once each to Perplexity and Google.
- You see, per engine, how often it named you, linked you or found you in its search, and the 3 sites linked instead.
- A fix list in 3 levels (facts, questions, other sites), each item with 1 question to re-ask.
A count is the test, never a ranking. Answers change by day, so every count carries its date.