When your customers ask AI instead of Google, do you exist?
45% of consumers now use AI to find local businesses, up from 6% a year ago. ChatGPT recommends about 1.2% of them.
BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026; SOCi 2026 Local Visibility Index (350k+ locations).
Ask four AIs. Get four different answers.
They agree on who to recommend about 1 in 6 times. Checking one tells you almost nothing.
Per-query overlap between engines, August 2026 Victoria panel.
Same city. Same searches. Same week.
Real results from our August 2026 Victoria panel, names removed — 24 buyer-intent HVAC searches across 4 engines.
What you get
- Free AI visibility audit We run your business across all four engines and send you the scorecard. No cost, no call required.
- Monthly measurement after that So you can see the number move.
- 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.
WordOfBot — a NovelLogic product. Victoria, BC.
We measure. We fix what the data says to fix. Then we measure again.
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