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Score how AI assistants rank your company in your area

By Ali Peivandizadeh, business growth and AI implementation specialist.

Published Nov 13, 2026 · Last checked Nov 13, 2026 · Last changed Nov 13, 2026
The short answer

A car dealer built a score for how AI assistants answer about every store of his brand. An energy seller can build the same score by hand for itself and five competitors in its service area. Repeat it each month, and correct every wrong fact at its source.

Verdict
ACT
For
All energy sellers that sell to homes. 5 to 100 people. Owner, marketing.
Cost and time
No cost by hand. About one hour a month. The dealer's own tool costs $99 a month and covers car dealers.

Why

Mike Yates runs a BMW store in New Jersey. He built a tool that asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude about every BMW store by name. It asks four things: does the assistant know the store, would it recommend it, how does it compare with stores nearby, and what is its reputation. The 349 stores scored from 51.4 to 91.0. He found no link between a store's search ranking and its AI score. He added an award to his home page, and he reports that ChatGPT named it the next morning. A homeowner asks an AI the same kind of question: who installs home batteries near me, and which company can I trust?

What to do

  1. List your company and five competitors in your service area.
  2. Open ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude in a private browser window.
  3. Ask each one four questions about each name: Do you know it? Would you recommend it? How does it compare with others nearby? What is its reputation?
  4. Score each answer the way the dealer did: knows the name 40 points, recommends it 35, knows its reputation 25.
  5. Ask three more questions about your own company: what it sells, where it works, and who services the system after the sale.
  6. Write down every wrong fact. A wrong service area, license status or price comes first.
  7. Correct each fact at its source: your website first, then your Google listing, then the review sites.
  8. Put the facts an AI checks on one page in plain text: registration or license number, years in business, service area, and who services the system.
  9. Repeat on the same day each month with the same five names.

The rule to check

Every fact you publish must be true and current. A savings number needs the numbers behind it. Do not mention a tax credit without its current status and dates. No fake reviews and no paid reviews.

What can go wrong

Answers change from person to person and from day to day. Compare your score only with your own score from last month and with the same five names.

Sources

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