Does ChatGPT recommend your contracting company in your city?

1. We ask ChatGPT, Google AI and Perplexity the buyer questions from our 24-question method, set to your trade and city.
2. We record which companies each assistant recommends or cites, and whether yours appears.
3. We reply with what we found and the first gaps worth fixing.

The check uses only what you type into the form: your business name, website, main trade, city and state, and the business email the results go to. It is free.

We write 24 questions a buyer might ask, such as which contractors to shortlist for a job in your city. We ask the same questions on ChatGPT, Google AI and Perplexity, and record which companies are recommended and which sources are cited. Asking the same questions again each month shows what changed.

One example is the question our 50-metro study asked in every city: “Who are the best commercial roofing contractors in [city], [state]? Give me a shortlist.” Your check uses your own trade and city.

See the 24 questions we used to check Sourci’s own visibility for the shape of the list: different buyers, different wording, the same questions every month.

This is what one of the questions looks like in a result, using real data from our published study: the commercial roofing question for Los Angeles, CA, asked on November 8, 2026. ChatGPT named 6 companies and Gemini named 4; 1 was on both lists. The names and the order are the assistants’, not ours, and a listing is not an endorsement by Sourci.

In your result, your company is marked wherever it appears, and so is any question where it does not. We also note the sources each assistant cited. For this trade, ChatGPT’s most-cited sources across the study’s 50 answers were GAF contractor pages (33 answers), The Roofing Brief (31), ServiceAgent (24), Birdeye (18), CentiMark (17).

The full lists, with ranks and the method, are on the Commercial roofing in Los Angeles, CA page. Your check adds Perplexity and runs all 24 questions, not one.

• ChatGPT and Gemini agree on only 14% of the contractors they recommend, and 33 of 150 shortlists in our study had no contractor in common. Being on one list says little about the other.
• ChatGPT cited the recommended contractor’s own website in 911 of 1,021 recommendations (89%); Gemini in 327 of 637 (51%). Your own pages are the evidence they read most.
• ChatGPT named 6.8 contractors per answer and Gemini 4.2. A short list leaves little room.

Figures from Sourci’s 50-metro study of 300 answers collected November 8, 2026. The study measured Gemini with Google Search grounding, not Google’s AI Overviews.

You can run a smaller version yourself in half an hour:

1. Write down three questions a customer would ask for your trade and city, for example who the best roofers are, who repaints office buildings, or who coats warehouse floors.
2. Ask each one in ChatGPT with web search on, and in Google’s AI Mode or Gemini. Use a private window so your own history does not change the answer.
3. Note every company named, its order, and the sources each assistant cites.
4. Repeat next month with the same wording. One answer is one sample; answers change from day to day.

Our check does the same with 24 questions across three assistants, records the sources, and tells you the first gaps worth fixing. The full steps to get named are in our guide on how to get recommended by ChatGPT and Google AI.

We reply within 2 business hours. If the result shows gaps you want fixed for you, that is what Sourci’s inbound lead generation does: Foundation $1,950 a month plus $1,000 onboarding, Growth $3,450 a month plus $1,500 onboarding, with the 24 buyer questions checked every month. Plans are month-to-month; cancel with 30 days’ notice. You do not need a plan to get the check.