How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT
You can’t pay ChatGPT to name you, and you can’t ask it to. You can change what it finds about you. Seven steps, in the order we’d do them.
See what it says today
Ask 10 questions your customers ask, without your name: service, neighborhood, price, “open late”. Note who gets named and why. That list is your real competition.
One page per service, in plain words
What you do, where, who it’s for, a starting price, hours, and 4 or 5 questions with short answers. Write the way customers ask.
Fill in every listing
Google Business Profile, Bing Places and Apple Business Connect: categories, services, hours, photos, the same phone everywhere.
Get reviews every week
Ask after every job. Reply to each review and mention the service (“thanks for trusting us with your root canal”). The AIs read the replies too.
Get on the lists in your trade
Booking apps, trade directories, brand locators, local “best of” articles. That’s where many AI answers come from.
Help AI read your site
A description on every page, LocalBusiness schema with your address and hours, and don’t block AI crawlers.
Check again every month
Answers change. Re-ask the same questions and watch who moves.
Your 30-minute start
- Ask ChatGPT 5 customer questions and save the answers.
- Fix your Google Business Profile hours, services and phone.
- Send a review request to 10 recent customers.
- Write one service page with prices and FAQs.
- Put a reminder to ask the same 5 questions in 30 days.
Questions
Can I pay to be recommended by ChatGPT?
No. In our tests in October 2026 we saw labeled ads below some ChatGPT answers, but they sit apart from the recommendation itself.
Do I need a new website?
Usually not. Most of the work is adding plain text to the site you have and filling in your listings.
Does this also help on Google?
Yes. Clear service pages, complete listings and steady reviews help regular search too.
Should I do this myself or hire someone?
You can do all of it yourself with this list. If you’d rather not, our fix package does it for you.
Start with where you stand
Free ChatGPT check the same business day, or the full audit on 5 AIs for $79.
