Get recommended when a homeowner asks the AI
More people now ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity who they should hire for a job, the way they used to ask a neighbor. Those assistants name somebody. We work on making it you.
How do you get a contractor recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity?
Assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity build their answer from what they can verify about you: your Google Business Profile, review sites, industry directories, community threads and video. We build and clean up your presence in those places, then ask the assistants the same hiring questions over and over and track how often they name you.
There is no ad slot and no back door. The assistant reads what the web already says about your company, checks it against other sources, and repeats the parts it trusts. Being pulled up is not the same as being named, so the details have to agree everywhere they appear. With a strong profile, real reviews, listings in the directories your trade uses, and honest mentions where homeowners ask, you are in the pool it picks from. Without them you are invisible to it, no matter how good your crews are.
Presence in the places assistants read
Google Business Profile
Complete, accurate and active: categories, services, service area, hours, photos and answered questions. This is the single most quoted source about a local contractor.
Review sites
Claimed profiles, consistent details and a steady flow of real reviews across the sites that matter in your trade. Assistants lean hard on what customers said about you.
Industry directories
The trade directories, association listings and best-of lists specific to your work. Thin, generic directories get skipped. We go after the ones that carry weight.
Community threads
Reddit and the local forums where homeowners ask who to hire. We help you show up there the honest way, answering questions as the company you are. No fake accounts, ever.
YouTube
Short job walkthroughs and answers to common questions, titled and described so they can be found and cited. Video is a source these assistants pull from and most contractors ignore it.
Mention tracking
A fixed set of hiring questions, asked across the major assistants on a schedule, recorded as how often your company gets named. That rate is the scoreboard.
Five steps to being named
Baseline
We ask the assistants who to hire for your services in your area and record who they name today. Usually not you.
Audit
We find every place the web talks about your company, and every place it should and does not.
Build
Profiles, listings, reviews, answers and video, built out in the sources the assistants actually read.
Recheck
The same questions asked again on a schedule, so we see the mention rate move instead of guessing.
Report
A plain monthly report: which questions named you, which named a competitor, and what we are doing next.
“Who should I hire for this?”
These are real monthly Google searches in the United States. They are also, word for word, the kind of thing homeowners now type into an assistant instead.
Search is not moving away from these questions. It is moving to answers that name one or two companies instead of listing ten, and the assistant runs its own longer follow up searches about cost, reviews and which company is best before it picks them.
Hiring searches across the trades
| What your customers type into Google | Searches per month (US) | Cost per click if you paid for it |
|---|---|---|
| “roofing companies near me” | 165,000 | $32.37 |
| “hvac companies near me” | 110,000 | $29.21 |
| “cleaning services near me” | 110,000 | $11.96 |
| “custom home builders near me” | 22,200 | $6.57 |
| “bathroom remodeling contractors near me” | 12,100 | $37.72 |
Monthly Google search volume in the United States, September 2026. National totals, shown to size the demand behind the same questions people now ask an assistant.
What we will not promise
No guaranteed mentions
Nobody controls what an assistant says, and the companies that built these things do not sell placement. We build the evidence and we show you the rate. That is the honest version.
Answers are not stable
The same question can return different companies an hour apart. That is exactly why we measure a rate across repeated checks rather than waving one good screenshot at you.
It is slow
Reviews accumulate, listings get crawled, threads age. Real movement here is measured in months. If somebody tells you they can do it in two weeks, ask them how.
No fake presence
No fake accounts, no bought reviews, no planted recommendations, no invented awards. It gets caught, it gets removed, and the mess is attached to your company name, not ours.
Straight answers
Where do ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity get their answers about local contractors?
From the open web, weighted toward the places that look like evidence. That means Google Business Profiles, review sites, industry directories and best of lists, community threads where homeowners ask who to hire, video, and your own website. If your company is thin in those places, the assistant has nothing to say about you and it names somebody else.
Can I pay ChatGPT or Gemini to recommend my contracting company?
No. There is no ad slot inside the answer, and anybody selling you one is selling something else. You get named because the evidence about you exists, agrees with itself across sources, and is easy to verify. That is the work, and it is why this cannot be bought in a week. It is also why it holds once you have it.
How do you prove AI search optimization is working for my company?
We ask the same hiring questions a homeowner would ask, across the major assistants, on a repeating schedule, and record whether your company gets named each time. You get a mention rate that moves across months, plus who gets named when you do not. Same questions every month, so the trend actually means something.
Why do you report a mention rate instead of sending me a screenshot?
Because you can ask the same assistant the same question twice and get two different answers. A screenshot proves it named you once, which proves nothing. A rate across repeated checks over weeks shows whether you are genuinely in the pool it picks from. It also shows a drop early, while there is still time to do something about it.
Do you post fake recommendations in Reddit threads to get my company mentioned?
No. Astroturfing gets accounts banned, threads deleted and screenshots passed around, and it follows your company name for years. We earn mentions the slow way: real answers in real threads under your own name, real reviews, complete profiles, listings in the directories your trade actually uses, and content worth citing.
Is AI search optimization worth paying for while most of my calls still come from Google?
Yes, because it is cheap to build now and expensive to catch up on later. The companies being named today are the ones that already had the profiles, reviews, listings and content in place. Most of that work strengthens your Google rankings at the same time, so you are not betting the budget on one surface.
What kind of questions do homeowners ask an assistant before they hire a contractor?
Longer ones than they type into Google, and more of them. Who is the best company near a town, what a job should cost, whether one option beats another, whether a company is licensed, and what people say about it. The assistant also runs its own follow up searches behind the scenes, so your pages have to answer cost, comparison and which one questions.
Try us for 30 days. Decide on day 30.
Nothing is charged for 30 days. On day 30 you continue and your plan starts with month 1 and month 2 billed together, or you walk away owing nothing and keep every fix we made.