How To Get Your Business Mentioned In Google's AI (Gemini and AI Overviews)
Google's AI answers, Gemini and AI Overviews, are built on Google Search. Here is what actually gets a local business named in them, and how to check.
Field notes on how AI search engines discover, evaluate, and recommend local businesses.
Perplexity is an answer engine that reads the live web and cites its sources. Here is what makes a local business citable, and how to check what it says about you. Read more
Google's AI answers, Gemini and AI Overviews, are built on Google Search. Here is what actually gets a local business named in them, and how to check.
Being mentioned or cited on ChatGPT is not the same as being recommended. Here is what each one means, what makes a brand mentionable, and how to test it.
Six AI assistants, one date-night question, one city, one day. They named ten different Italian restaurants between them. The audit that explains why some were on every list and others on none, and what to do about it.
What 'AI-powered rank insights for local businesses' actually shows you. A plain English guide to the four-section picture, what it contains, and how to read it.
AI doesn't rank local businesses the way Google does. It recommends them, and the rules are different. Here is why the old ranking model doesn't fit AI search, and the questions that work instead.
Searches like 'how to show up on AI search' are climbing in the UK. Here is what AI actually looks at when it recommends a local business, organised into three tiers, with the contrarian point on schema landed.
Most AI visibility tools stop at four brand names. UK consumers are using more than that. Here is the lineup we test against, and why it changes as the market does.
We launched as AI Rank. We are now AI Mention. The name change is not branding for branding's sake - it is the most honest description of what is actually happening inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, and DeepSeek.
Your competitor appears when someone asks ChatGPT for a recommendation in your area. You don't. Here's what our tests found and what you can do.
If you run a small business in the UK, you have probably heard that AI is changing everything. You have probably also ignored most of it. Fair enough. But this bit does.
You have a website. A Google Business Profile. A Facebook page. Reviews. SEO. So when a customer asks ChatGPT for a recommendation, you should show up. Right? Probably not.
Something strange is happening in local search. A plumber in Leeds with hundreds of five-star Google reviews is completely invisible to ChatGPT. Meanwhile, a competitor who opened eighteen months ago keeps getting recommended.
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