Does ChatGPT Recommend Your Business? EASEO Now Tells You, and How to Get Picked

Your next customer might never see your website in Google. They’ll ask ChatGPT “who’s the best steel fabricator in Chicago?”, read a short answer with three names in it, and call one of them. If you’re not one of those names, you never had a chance.

That’s why we built AI Visibility, the newest part of EASEO. It asks the AI assistants your customers actually use the questions your customers actually ask, tells you whether you came up, shows you who got recommended instead, and gives you a plan to get picked.

Search changed. Most SEO tools didn’t.

For twenty years, “getting found” meant ranking on page one of Google. That still matters, a lot. But more and more buying decisions now start with a question typed into an AI assistant, or with the AI Overview that sits on top of Google’s results.

Those answers work differently from a list of ten blue links. The assistant reads the web, picks a handful of sources it trusts, and names a few businesses. There’s no page two. You’re either in the answer or you’re not.

Everybody is asking us the same thing: “How do I optimize for AI?” The honest first step is finding out where you stand today. Until now, that meant typing questions into four different chatbots and trying to remember what each one said. EASEO does it for you, properly, and keeps track.

What’s new in EASEO AI Visibility

💬 Ask the AIs

Write down the questions your customers ask (or click Suggest questions and EASEO writes them from your keywords and Google Search Console). EASEO sends each one to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude with web search turned on, the same way your customers see the answers. Your business name is never part of the question, just like a real buyer.

The results land in a simple grid: 🔗 the AI cited your website as a source, ✓ it named you, or ✕ it recommended someone else. Click any square to read the full answer and every source the AI used.

🎯 Your AI Visibility Score

All of those answers roll up into one number from 0 to 100, plus a score for each assistant. Run it again next week and you get a trend line, so you can actually see your work paying off.

🏆 Who AI trusts instead

This is the eye-opener. EASEO lists the websites the assistants cited most when you weren’t mentioned. Usually it’s a mix of review sites, industry directories, Reddit threads and a few competitors. That list is your to-do list: the directories to get listed in, the articles to get mentioned in and the pages you need to beat.

📣 Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT mentions

Beyond the questions you ask, EASEO checks a database of millions of real AI answers to show how often Google’s AI Overviews and ChatGPT already cite your website, and for which questions. It’s the fastest way to see which of your pages AI already likes.

📈 AI search demand

Next to Google search volume, EASEO now shows how often your keywords come up in AI assistants each month, with a 12-month trend. It tells you which topics are worth winning in AI first.

🧰 AI readiness checklist

A free set of checks that runs on your own server: Can AI search crawlers read your site, or is robots.txt blocking them? Do you have business (Organization or LocalBusiness) schema? Do your pages have FAQ content and structured data? Are pages deep enough to quote? Every check that fails comes with the fix.

📄 llms.txt, written for you

llms.txt is a short, plain-text map of your most important pages, written for AI assistants. Most sites don’t have one because writing and maintaining it is a chore. In EASEO it’s one switch: EASEO builds your llms.txt from your latest audit and your real Google traffic, publishes it at yoursite.com/llms.txt, and keeps it up to date as your site changes.

🧭 Your AI action plan

Finally, ChatGPT reads every answer, every source that was cited instead of you, and every readiness gap, then writes a step-by-step plan: the pages to create or expand, the FAQs to add, the listings to claim, and the sites where a mention would help most. Specific to your business and grounded in what the AIs actually said.

Google and AI, side by side

AI Visibility sits right next to Market Intel, which launched just days ago. Together they answer the two questions that decide who gets the customer:

• Market Intel: who outranks you on Google and Google Maps, how many people search each keyword, and the keywords your competitors win that you don’t.
• AI Visibility: who ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google’s AI Overviews recommend, and what it takes to become one of them.

The good news: the work overlaps. Clear pages that answer real questions, solid schema, accurate listings and a reputation on the sites people trust help you rank on Google and get recommended by AI. EASEO shows you where to start, and Fix-It and Alt Text help you do the work in a few clicks.

What it looks like for a real business

Picture a steel fabricator in Chicago. EASEO asks the four assistants twelve buyer questions. ChatGPT names them for “structural steel for warehouses” but not for “custom metal fabrication cost”. Perplexity cites their pricing page. Gemini keeps sending people to an industry directory they’ve never claimed. Their AI Visibility Score: 46.

The action plan says: claim that directory listing, add a pricing FAQ to the services page with FAQ schema, publish a page that answers “how much does custom fabrication cost?” in the first paragraph, and switch on llms.txt. Four weeks later they re-run the check and watch the score climb.

Who it’s for

Any business that gets customers from people asking “who should I hire?”: steel fabricators and manufacturers, contractors and roofers, restaurants and venues, healthcare and wellness practices, schools and nonprofits. If your customers compare options before they call, AI is already part of how they choose.

Quick answers

Which AI assistants does EASEO check?
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, plus mention data from Google’s AI Overviews and ChatGPT.

Do I need my own ChatGPT or DataForSEO account?
No. AI Visibility runs through Xblu’s secure data service and is included with EASEO Pro, up to a monthly allowance. Saved answers can be reopened for free.

Will llms.txt change my website?
No. It adds one plain-text file for AI assistants. Your pages stay exactly as they are, and you can switch it off any time.

Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend me?
No one honestly can. What EASEO gives you is the truth about where you stand today, who’s winning instead, and a clear plan to improve your odds, with a score that shows whether it’s working.