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What does AI say about your business?

Your customers are starting to ask AI who to hire — and AI answers with names. We run the tests those customers are effectively running, count who actually gets named, and publish the full results, free. Everything here is built for contractors, service-based business owners, and the AI operators building alongside them.

9 of 12AI answers named the same plumbing franchise
10 of 12named The Cleaning Authority in house cleaning
46different HVAC names — and no default answer
96AI answers counted across 8 trades

Those numbers are from our first published study: Orlando, Florida — eight trades, twelve AI answers each. Read the Orlando research →

Illustration for The Lead Lab — what AI says about local businesses
One or two names repeat in AI's answers, market after market. Most local owners aren't named at all. We count it, market by market — and show the work.

The free AI Visibility Check

Run the same test on your own business. Twelve AI answers to the questions your customers ask — see whether you were named, who was named instead, and the answers themselves. It takes about a minute, and no email is needed to see your result.

What does AI say about your business?

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Free · about a minute · your full result on screen, nothing held back.

What we publish

Research stories built from our own AI-answer batteries. For every market we study, we ask four buyer-intent questions — the way customers actually phrase them — across three AI models, then read every answer and count the names by hand. The full dataset goes up with its methodology and honest labels, so anyone can check our counting.

What AI Says About Orlando's Trades

Eight trades, 96 answers. Franchises dominate cleaning, plumbing, and pest control; in painting, the most-repeated name was a paint brand — and in roofing and HVAC, no default answer exists yet.

Read the Orlando research →

More markets are tested as we go. The newsletter hears about each one first.

For AI operators: the Prompt Library

Half our audience runs agents, not trucks. For them we publish the operating prompts our own team works by — twelve copy-paste disciplines for verifying agent work, delegating well, and never getting fooled by a confident summary. Each one comes with why it works and when to use it.

12 Prompts That Make Your AI Agent Actually Useful

Reconcile before you act. Show your work. The delegation brief. The counter-read. Free, no signup, ready to paste into your next session.

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