When someone asks AI who to hire,
does your business get named?
AEO — Answer Engine Optimization — is making sure that when people ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI for a recommendation, your business is one of the names that comes up. Here's what it is, why it matters now, and how our free scan works.
Why it matters now
Customers are asking AI, not scrolling search
People ask AI instead of scrolling
More and more customers open ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI answer and just ask 'who's a good electrician near me?' — then act on the first answer, without ever scrolling a page of blue links.
AI only names a few businesses
A search page shows ten results. An AI answer usually names two or three. If your business isn't one of them, the customer never sees you — and never knows you were an option.
This is happening in Portland now
It isn't a someday thing. Ask any AI tool for the best plumber, roofer, or house cleaner in the Portland metro today and it answers with real, specific business names. The only question is whether yours is one of them.
How the free scan works
We check whether AI recommends you — one page, free
We ask the real questions
We take the searches your customers actually make and put them to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI — the exact phrasing a real person would type.
We count who gets named
We record every business the AI recommends across those answers, so you can see plainly whether you come up — and how often — versus the shops that keep getting named instead.
You get one honest page
The result is a single, plain-English page: where you stand today and who's beating you to the recommendation. It's free, it's yours, and there's no obligation to buy anything.
What we do about it
We help local businesses get recommended by AI
Once you can see where you stand, the fix is straightforward: put accurate, trustworthy information about your business everywhere these AI tools read — your website, your listings, your reviews — so that when a Portland customer asks who to hire, your name is one of the answers.
We do that work for local shops, and we measure it honestly. No guaranteed rankings, no buzzwords — just the real questions, re-checked over time, reported truthfully. The full service, pricing, and the scan sign-up live on our AI Visibility page.
AEO questions, answered plainly
Curious whether AI already names you?
Find out for free. We'll run the searches your Portland customers make and send you a one-page result — no cost, no obligation.
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