Are you cited in AI search?
We probe Gemini and ChatGPT with 5 real queries for your business and city. See your cited-rate, who's getting cited instead, and the action plan to fix it. ~30 seconds.
How AI search visibility actually works
When a customer asks ChatGPT "best plumber in Las Vegas," the model doesn't search Google like a human does. It calls a web-search tool, retrieves the top sources, and synthesizes an answer that cites a subset of those sources. The businesses named in that answer get the customer. The ones that aren't might as well not exist for that search.
This is the new search funnel, and it works differently from classical SEO. AI engines lean on structured data (Schema.org), aggregator listings (Yelp, Angi, BBB), local-news mentions, and authoritative geographic content - in different proportions than Google's classical ranking algorithm. A business that ranks #3 on Google might not get cited at all by ChatGPT. A business that ranks #20 on Google might be the top citation. The signals don't match.
The 5 queries we run
We hit each AI engine with 5 queries calibrated to cover the most common search intents customers actually use:
- Discovery (best + top-rated) - the prospect doesn't know who you are yet
- Branded (your name + reviews, your name + city) - the prospect is checking you out
- Service-intent - the prospect is ready to buy
Across both Gemini and ChatGPT, that's 10 real-world probes - enough signal to know whether AI thinks of you when customers do.
What the report tells you
Cited rate per engine
The headline number. 0% means AI never mentions you. 100% means it always does. Most local-service businesses we audit come in between 0 and 20%. Getting to 50%+ is a 30-60 day project. Getting to 80%+ is a real moat - competitors can't catch up quickly because AI's source-selection algorithms favor businesses with consistent presence across multiple high-trust signals.
Top citation sources
The third-party domains AI cites the most when answering your queries. Almost always: Yelp, Angi, BBB, and 1-2 vertical-specific directories (Houzz for home services, Healthgrades for medical, Avvo for legal, etc.). If you're not on these sites, you can't show up in the AI's answer - it has nowhere to lift your business from.
Who's getting cited instead
The businesses AI keeps recommending in your slot. These are your real competitors in AI search - not necessarily the same as your competitors in Google search. Study their websites: they'll have stronger schema, deeper service-area content, and more aggregator presence than you do.
What to do about it
The audit gives you a personalized action plan, but the universal moves are:
- Add LocalBusiness + Service + FAQPage JSON-LD schema to your homepage. AI engines weigh structured data heavily because it's machine-readable. We have a free schema generator for the markup.
- Get listed on the 3-5 aggregators the audit shows AI cites for your vertical + city. Yelp, Angi, BBB are universal; the rest are vertical-specific.
- Publish targeted city + service pages - "best [service] in [city]" comparison pieces with FAQ schema. AI engines lift these for unbranded discovery queries.
- Track it over time. AI search behavior shifts week-to-week. A one-time audit shows you where you stand today; continuous tracking shows you whether your work is moving the needle. Elmob.ai's platform tracks all of this automatically with daily sweeps, drop alerts, and competitor monitoring.
Questions about this tool
What does this tool actually check?
We run 5 real queries through Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT (both with live web search), see whether they cite your business by name or domain, and extract every source and competitor they mention instead. You get a cited-rate percentage per engine, the top sites AI trusts for your queries, the competitors taking your slot, and an action plan to fix it. Free, one-time. No signup.
Why does AI search visibility matter?
ChatGPT alone handles ~10% of all web queries now and growing every month. Add Google AI Overviews (Gemini) and you're looking at a third of search traffic that never sees a SERP - the AI just answers. If the AI doesn't cite you, you don't exist for that customer. Traditional SEO doesn't fix this; you need to optimize for how AI selects sources.
How is this different from a regular SEO audit?
Regular SEO audits check whether you're indexable, mobile-friendly, and have good titles. Useful, but tells you nothing about whether the new AI search engines actually cite you when customers ask. This tool measures the citation outcome directly by asking the real AI engines real customer queries.
What if I'm not cited at all?
That's the most common result for businesses we audit. The fix is publishing one targeted city + service page with FAQ schema, getting listed on the top 3 aggregator sources AI trusts for your vertical (the audit tells you which), and adding LocalBusiness JSON-LD to your homepage. Most of our customers see citation rate move from 0% to 40%+ within 30 days of doing these three things.
Is the data accurate? Do you actually call Gemini and ChatGPT?
Yes. We hit Google's official Gemini API with google_search grounding and OpenAI's Responses API with the web_search tool. These are the same web-grounding engines that power Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT's web answers. No scraping, no proxies, no third-party SERP middleware.
Can I run this on multiple businesses?
The free tool is one audit per email per day. For ongoing tracking across multiple clients, drop-detection alerts, and unlimited audits, Elmob.ai's platform tracks AI search visibility continuously - daily sweep across all your tracked queries, weekly digest of changes, and gap-content auto-generation when AI doesn't cite you.
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