# CiteMy > CiteMy gets local home-services businesses across the US named, cited, and recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, and publishes what those engines say every week. Author: Ben Hinton (https://citemy.ai/about). Every number on these pages comes from a stored measurement, with its sample size and date. The method (prompts, weights, playbook) is not published; the results are. ## CiteMy - [CiteMy: get your business cited by AI](https://citemy.ai/): AI visibility for local home-services businesses across the US, measured weekly. - [Pricing](https://citemy.ai/pricing): $2,000 a month, month to month. Cancel any time. No contract. - [About CiteMy and Ben Hinton](https://citemy.ai/about): Who writes CiteMy and the rules it holds itself to. - [Contact](https://citemy.ai/contact): How to reach CiteMy: mailing address and email. - [Get started](https://citemy.ai/start): Sign up for CiteMy directly: tell us about your business and we reply within one business day. Month to month, no contract. - [Free AI visibility audit](https://citemy.ai/audit): A real audit of your site by our AI business engine, emailed to you: the score and three findings. - [Example AI visibility audit](https://citemy.ai/sample-audit): An example CiteMy audit report for a fictional Phoenix roofing company: the score, what we found, and what we build and fix, in the order we do it. The business is fictional; the findings are typical of what our audits find. - [AI visibility for window companies](https://citemy.ai/for/window-companies): Which window and door companies ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini name in our Phoenix panel, which websites they cite, and how to check your own business, wherever you work. - [AI visibility for new businesses](https://citemy.ai/for/new-businesses): Whether a business that does not rank on Google can still be named by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, from our Phoenix measurements, and what the engines draw on besides Google rank. ## AI Visibility Index - [AI Visibility Index](https://citemy.ai/index): Who ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini name, by trade and metro, weekly. - [AI Visibility Index: Windows and doors in Phoenix](https://citemy.ai/index/phoenix/windows): 27%: Renewal by Andersen, #1 of 11 businesses named, week of 2026-09-21. ## Research - [Research](https://citemy.ai/research): Studies built from the weekly measurements and from checked outside figures. - [Citation sources by engine](https://citemy.ai/research/citation-sources): Which websites each engine cited for local-service questions, with sample sizes. - [Google vs AI](https://citemy.ai/research/google-vs-ai): Whether the businesses Google shows for Phoenix home-services searches are the ones the AI engines name, and the reverse, per trade and engine, with sample sizes. - [Engine disagreement](https://citemy.ai/research/engine-disagreement): When ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini name a business for the same question, how often they name the same one, per trade, with the questions compared and the questions left out. - [AI search statistics](https://citemy.ai/research/ai-search-statistics): Checked, sourced figures on how people are moving from search to AI assistants, each with its publisher and date. ## Guides - [Guides](https://citemy.ai/guides): How AI assistants find and choose local businesses, from our measurements and checked sources. - [Are AI assistants replacing Google for finding contractors? Not yet, but they are changing it](https://citemy.ai/guides/are-ai-assistants-replacing-google-for-contractors): What the published data says about AI Overviews, zero-click searches, and visits from AI assistants, what Google itself reports, and why a contractor now has two channels to watch instead of one. - [Whether ChatGPT can recommend a business that does not rank on Google, and what else the engines read](https://citemy.ai/guides/can-chatgpt-recommend-you-without-google-rankings): ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity each document their own search crawler. What the engines document, what they read besides Google, and what our Phoenix measurements show so far. - [How to check whether ChatGPT recommends your business](https://citemy.ai/guides/check-whether-chatgpt-recommends-your-business): A practical way to test whether ChatGPT names, cites, or recommends your business, what a single check can and cannot tell you, and how to get a measured answer across the AI engines. - [How ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude find local businesses through search indexes, crawlers, and citations](https://citemy.ai/guides/how-ai-engines-find-local-businesses): The mechanics behind an AI recommendation: training data versus live search, each engine's documented crawler, what a citation means, and the checks a local business can run on its own site. - [How many people use ChatGPT and other AI assistants to find local services](https://citemy.ai/guides/how-many-people-use-chatgpt-to-find-local-services): What the published surveys say about how many Americans use ChatGPT, how many use AI assistants to find local businesses and home-services pros, and what each figure does and does not measure. - [How much AI search optimization costs a small business, and what the money pays for](https://citemy.ai/guides/how-much-does-ai-search-optimization-cost): What goes into AI search optimization for a local business, the three ways it is sold (software, agency work, and a flat monthly service), what drives the cost, and what CiteMy charges. - [llms.txt and AI crawler access: a technical guide for business websites](https://citemy.ai/guides/llms-txt-and-ai-crawler-access): Which AI crawlers a local business should allow, which it can safely block, how hosts and CDNs shut them out by accident, and what llms.txt does and does not do. - [Why your business ranks on Google but ChatGPT does not mention it](https://citemy.ai/guides/ranks-on-google-but-chatgpt-does-not-mention-it): Google visibility does not carry over to AI answers on its own. How often Phoenix home-services businesses that Google shows go unnamed by the AI engines, why it happens, and what an owner can check. - [SEO agency or AI visibility service, and which a home-services company should hire](https://citemy.ai/guides/seo-agency-or-ai-visibility-service): A fair comparison for roofers, HVAC companies, and window and door companies: what an SEO agency does, what an AI visibility service does, where the work overlaps, and when you need one, the other, or both. - [How to get your business to show up in Perplexity and Gemini answers](https://citemy.ai/guides/show-up-in-perplexity-and-gemini-answers): What Perplexity and Google document about how their AI answers find websites, and the practical steps for a local business: crawler access, Google indexing and Business Profile, consistent entity data, structured data, and facts worth citing. - [Structured data for AI visibility: what business details the engines read](https://citemy.ai/guides/structured-data-for-ai-visibility): What schema.org markup can and cannot do for a local contractor in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude, which business details matter, and why consistency across the web matters more than the markup itself. - [How to track whether ChatGPT mentions your business over time, and across the other engines](https://citemy.ai/guides/track-whether-chatgpt-mentions-your-business): How to track mentions of your business in ChatGPT and the other AI engines week over week: a manual log, why single answers mislead, how panel-style measurement with repetitions works, and the kinds of tools that do it. - [Generative engine optimization (GEO) explained, and who offers it for small businesses](https://citemy.ai/guides/what-is-generative-engine-optimization): What generative engine optimization means, where the term came from, how it differs from SEO for a local business, and the kinds of firms and tools that offer it, from software to agencies to done-for-you services. - [The websites AI assistants cite when recommending Phoenix contractors](https://citemy.ai/guides/which-websites-ai-assistants-cite-for-phoenix-contractors): The sites AI assistants link when they answer questions about hiring a Phoenix contractor, measured in weekly runs that so far cover Claude and Gemini on window and door questions, and what that means for the business being recommended. - [Why AI engines can recommend different contractors for the same question](https://citemy.ai/guides/why-ai-engines-recommend-different-contractors): ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude each search the web their own way, so they can name different contractors for the same question. Why, what our first Phoenix measurement of Claude and Gemini found, and what it means for a business that wants to be named on all of them. ## Data - [CiteMy data](https://citemy.ai/data): First-party datasets about AI answers for local businesses, CC BY 4.0, CSV and JSON. - [AI search statistics: sourced figures on the shift from search to AI assistants](https://citemy.ai/data/ai-search-statistics): 34 published figures on how people use AI assistants, AI Overviews, and search, each with its publisher, date, and the sentence it comes from. - [AI Visibility Index: Windows and doors in Phoenix](https://citemy.ai/data/index-phoenix-windows): Which windows and doors businesses Claude, Gemini named, cited, and recommended for Phoenix-area questions in the week of Sep 21, 2026, with share of voice and rank. - [Citation sources by engine: all trades in Phoenix](https://citemy.ai/data/citation-sources-phoenix-all): Which websites ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini cited when answering Phoenix homeowners' home-services questions. Across 1 of 3 trades, each trade's last 4 weekly runs (1 run in all), Sep 21, 2026 to Sep 27, 2026. - [Citation sources by engine: Windows and doors in Phoenix](https://citemy.ai/data/citation-sources-phoenix-windows): Which websites ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini cited when answering Phoenix homeowners' windows and doors questions, across the last 1 weekly run. - [Engine disagreement: Windows and doors in Phoenix](https://citemy.ai/data/engine-disagreement-phoenix-windows): How often the AI engines that named a business name the same windows and doors business for the same Phoenix question, week of Sep 21, 2026: 8 questions compared; 9 more where fewer than two engines named a business were not. - [Google vs AI: Windows and doors in Phoenix](https://citemy.ai/data/google-vs-ai-phoenix-windows): Which windows and doors businesses in Phoenix Google shows and the AI engines name, from the Google snapshot of Sep 28, 2026 and the weekly AI runs from Sep 21, 2026 to Sep 27, 2026. 92 businesses that Google shows or an engine named are not counted yet because their tracking start date is after the first of these runs began.