Google Loves You.
ChatGPT Has Never
Heard Of You.
You rank #1 on Google Maps. Congratulations. Now ask ChatGPT "who's the best [your industry] in [your city]?" — there's a good chance it doesn't mention you at all. We publish live, public AI Visibility Rankings that show exactly who AI engines actually recommend, city by city, industry by industry.
Source: SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index — the gap between "ranking" and "being recommended" has never been wider.
Ranking #1 on Google means nothing to an AI that's never heard of you.
Millions of people now skip Google entirely and just ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's own AI Overviews "who should I hire?" These engines don't read Google Maps rankings — they cite businesses with strong entity signals, real backlink authority, and content AI crawlers can actually access. Most local businesses have none of that. SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index found only 1.2% of local businesses get recommended on ChatGPT and 7.4% on Perplexity — versus 35.9% visibility in Google's local 3-pack. That's the gap this index measures, business by business.
Two markets are live in Tampa: HVAC and Plumbing.
We scan real businesses, in real markets, and publish exactly what we find — good, bad, or embarrassing. Tampa's HVAC and Plumbing industries are the first fully live leaderboards. More cities and industries are scanning now.
Tampa, FL — HVAC Companies
10 companies fully scanned and ranked. 10 more in the queue. See who's winning Google's local pack versus who AI engines actually recommend — the answers don't match.
View the Tampa HVAC RankingsTampa, FL — Plumbing Companies
10 companies fully scanned and ranked. 10 more in the queue. Tampa's #2 plumber on Google Maps scored a flat-out F on AI visibility — the answers don't match.
View the Tampa Plumbing RankingsEvery score comes from a live scan. Nothing here is invented.
Each business on this index gets tested against the actual signals AI engines use to decide who to recommend — not a guess, not a formula pulled from thin air.
ChatGPT citation testing
We query ChatGPT with real, natural questions a customer would ask ("best HVAC company in Tampa?") and record whether — and how often — each business gets named.
AI Overview, Perplexity & Gemini visibility
We estimate visibility across Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Gemini using live citation and mention checks — the same engines increasingly replacing a first Google search.
Backlink & domain authority
AI engines lean heavily on sites with real link equity. We measure domain authority as a proxy for how "trustworthy" a business's web presence looks to a language model.
Schema & structured data signals
We check whether a business's site uses proper LocalBusiness schema, entity markup, and clean crawlable content — or whether bot protection and thin markup are quietly locking AI crawlers out.