When your customers ask AI instead of Google, do you exist?

45% of US consumers have used AI to find a local business in the past year. We measured the Victoria trades across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Of the businesses ChatGPT and Perplexity name for the same query, only about 17% appear on both lists.

Measured 2026-08-01 4 engines 96 queries (24 per trade) 54 Victoria businesses

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BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (n=1,002 US consumers). “About 17%” = the mean per-query Jaccard overlap of the businesses ChatGPT and Perplexity name — entity-resolved named sets (mentions collapsed by matched business where identified, so spelling variants of one business count as agreement; unmatched competitors retained, so the comparison is not limited to businesses we track) — across the 96 buyer-intent queries of the WordOfBot Victoria panel (run 2026-08-baseline; measured 2026-08-01, re-extracted 2026-08-11). Jaccard = 0.1747. This is the ChatGPT–Perplexity pair, not a four-way figure.

Ask four AIs. Get four different answers.

ChatGPT and Perplexity overlap on only about 17% of the businesses they name. Checking one engine shows you one engine's answer.

Per-query overlap between two engines (ChatGPT and Perplexity), August 2026 Victoria panel.

Same city. Same searches. Same week.

Anonymized AI-visibility scorecard for a Victoria HVAC contractor: named by AI 12%, cited as a source 12%, named in 3 of 24 searches.

Anonymized AI-visibility scorecard for a competitor in the same service area: named by AI 79%, cited as a source 58%, named in 19 of 24 searches.

Measured 2026-08-01 4 engines 24 queries HVAC, Victoria

Real results from our August 2026 Victoria panel, names removed.

Across the 54 tracked Victoria businesses we measured, the median was named in just 7 of 24 buyer-intent questions.

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What actually moves it Directory presence and review volume. In our data, businesses that get cited average far more reviews than those that don’t.

In Canadian queries, yellowpages.ca is one of the top three sources these engines cite — a pattern absent from every published US dataset.

WordOfBot Victoria panel, August 2026 — 54 businesses, Canadian buyer-intent queries across 4 engines. Review-to-citation pattern is association, not causation.

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