Tampa's #1 HVAC Company on Google
Just Failed Its AI Visibility Test.
We asked ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews who they'd recommend for HVAC in Tampa. The company crushing Google's local pack barely showed up. Here's the full live scan of Tampa HVAC companies — Google Maps rank versus what AI engines actually say.
The gap in one company: Caldeco is winning Google. AI doesn't know they exist.
Caldeco Air Conditioning & Heating shows up at #1 in Tampa's Google local pack in some searches (also seen at #3) — the top result most people would call before anyone else. But when we asked ChatGPT and Perplexity "who's a good HVAC company in Tampa?", Caldeco was named zero times. Their AI Visibility Score: 15 out of 100. That's a Google #1 and an AI zero — happening to the same business, at the same time. This is exactly the gap this index exists to expose: your Google Maps rank tells you nothing about whether AI is sending you customers.
#1 (unstable)
15/100 · 0 ChatGPT citations
10 Tampa HVAC companies, fully scanned.
Ranked by AI Visibility Score — a composite of ChatGPT citation rate, AI Overview / Perplexity / Gemini visibility, backlink authority, and structured-data signals. Google Maps rank shown alongside for comparison. Full methodology below.
| Rank | Business | Google Maps Rank | AI Visibility Score | Grade | ChatGPT Citations | Domain Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ACS Home Services | #7 | 72/100Partial scan — some on-site checks could not be completed | B | Cites you — 32 mentions found | 20 |
| 2 | The Comfort Authority | #2 | 72/100 | B | Cites you — 25 mentions found | 17 |
| 3 | Momentum AC & Electric | #6 | 69/100 | C | Cites you — 14 mentions found | 26 |
| 4 | Del-Air Heating Air Conditioning and Plumbing | #9 | 67/100 | C | Cites you — 72 mentions found | 26 |
| 5 | 3H AC of Tampa | #4 | 64/100 | C | Cites you — 6 mentions found | 16 |
| 6 | One Hour Air Conditioning & Heating | #8 | 54/100 | D | Cites you — 9 mentions found | 17 |
| 7 | Air Masters of Tampa Bay | #1 | 49/100 | D | Cites you — 2 mentions found | 16 |
| 8 | Northside Services | #10 | 44/100 | D | Cites you — 2 mentions found | 21 |
| 9 | REM Air Conditioning of Tampa | #5 | 40/100Partial scan — bot protection blocked full crawl | D | No citations found | 17 |
| 10 | Caldeco Air Conditioning & Heating | #3 | 15/100 | F | No citations found | 11 |
10 more Tampa HVAC companies are in the scan queue.
Rankings update live as scans complete — no placeholder scores- And ServicesPending
- Action Air ConditioningPending
- Kenny's Services IncPending
- Tank Air Conditioning & HeatingPending
- Locke's Expert & Quality ServicePending
- Comfort Pro LLCPending
- Stellar Cooling ServicesPending
- Varsity Zone HVAC of TampaPending
- Fairway Heating & Cooling LLCPending
- Rolando's H.V.A.C.Pending
How these scores are calculated
Every score on this page comes from a live check, not a formula pulled from thin air — the same signals AI engines actually weigh when deciding who to recommend.
- ChatGPT citation testing — real prompts ("best HVAC company in Tampa?") run against ChatGPT, counting how often and how specifically each business gets named.
- Brand entity & schema markup — whether a business's site declares itself clearly to machines via LocalBusiness schema and structured data, or leaves AI engines guessing.
- Backlink authority — domain authority as a proxy for the trust signal AI models lean on when choosing which sources to cite.
- AI crawler access — whether bot protection, JavaScript walls, or blocked crawlers are quietly preventing AI engines from ever reading the site (as seen with REM Air Conditioning's partial scan).
See the full methodology page for more detail.