Free AI visibility checker for local businesses
Enter your business and your city. In a few minutes you will know whether AI names you when customers ask for a recommendation, who gets named instead, and the first thing to fix.
What the free AI visibility check shows
Not a score out of a hundred. A plain readout of what an assistant actually says about your trade in your town, with the names and the websites behind them.
Whether AI names you
How many of the customer questions produced an answer that included your business, and how many did not.
Who gets named instead
The businesses the assistant reaches for when it answers those questions. The first two competitors are shown free.
Where the answers come from
The directories, review sites and guides the assistant cited. The first few sources are free, the full list is in the audit.
Your first fix
A preview of the ranked plan: the highest-priority change, and what it would take to make it.
How the free AI visibility check works
You type two things. The check does the rest and reads the result back in plain English.
Tell us who you are
Your business name and your city. No account access, nothing to install, no keyword list to write.
We ask what your customers ask
Twelve questions a real customer would type, worded for your trade and your town, from “best near me” to a specific need.
We read the answers, not just count them
For every answer we note whether you were named, who was named instead, and which websites the assistant leaned on.
You get the readout
A plain result page: named or not, the first competitors, the first sources, and the top fix. Free.
What is an AI visibility checker?
An AI visibility checker tests whether AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude mention or recommend a business when people ask them for one. It puts real customer questions to the assistant and records which businesses each answer names and which websites it cites. Then it reports how often you appear compared with the businesses named instead.
For a local business the stakes are specific. An assistant does not show ten results and a map. It names two or three businesses and stops, so being absent from that short list means the customer never sees you. And the habit is growing: more customers now start with an assistant instead of a search box, and we track how many people already use AI to find local businesses.
In our own study of 648 AI answers about local trades, the recommendations were built from directories, booking platforms and review sites. A business’s own website was rarely the source. That is also why a one-off screenshot is a poor test: for the same question in the same city, ChatGPT and Gemini named at least one business in common only 46% of the time, and each rebuilds its answer on every run. A checker that asks several questions and counts the pattern gives you a measurement. A single chat gives you an anecdote.
Read the 648-answer studyWhat a full Peekl audit found for an established clinic
A London physio clinic with a 4.9 rating and 189 Google reviews. Good reviews are not the same as being where AI reads.
What the free check covers, and what the full audit adds
The free check is a real measurement, kept small on purpose. It runs your twelve questions once, on one assistant, so you get an honest first read in minutes. The full audit is the same method at full size.
| What you get | Free check | Full audit |
|---|---|---|
| Assistants checked | 1, Gemini | 3, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude |
| Customer questions | 12, run once | 15, run three times each |
| AI answers analysed | 12 | 135 |
| Competitors named | The first two | Every one |
| Sources cited | The first few | Every one, and who they favour |
| Fix plan | The top fix | Up to 12 ranked fixes, with step-by-step playbooks |
| Your website and Google profile | Not included | Read the way AI reads them |
| Price | Free | $99 one-time, no subscription |
What to do with your result
The free check ends in one of three places. Each one has a different next step.
Named in most answers
You are on the assistant’s short list. Protect it: keep reviews recent, keep your details identical on every site, and re-check in a few months because answers drift.
Named in some answers
The assistant knows you but reaches for others first. The full audit shows what the businesses ahead of you have that you do not, source by source, and ranks the fixes.
Never named
The assistant cannot find enough about you where it reads. Start with the sources it cited for your trade and town, then your Google profile, then pages that answer customer questions plainly.
Built for the owner, not the marketing team
This checker is for a single-location business: a physio, a dentist, a plumber, a salon, a café, a clinic. You want to know whether AI sends customers your way and what to do if it does not. If you manage several brands and want a running multi-engine dashboard, the dedicated trackers will serve you better, and we compare them honestly.
It also fits agencies and web professionals who look after local clients. Run the check on a client, show them who AI names instead, and sell the fixes as a project. See the partner programme.
Free AI visibility checker: questions
Is the AI visibility checker really free?
Does it check ChatGPT, or only one assistant?
Why do I get different answers when I ask ChatGPT myself?
How is this different from an AI rank tracker?
Can I check a competitor instead of my own business?
What do I need to run it?
Will the checker make AI recommend me?
Can I check by hand instead?
Run the free check now.
Two fields, a few minutes, a plain answer. Then decide whether you want the full audit.