AI Visibility Hub
Our own pilot, in public, updated as it runs
Case study: we ran the $397 pilot on ourselves
On September 11, 2026 we asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the six questions a Chicago business owner types when they look for exactly what we sell. We were named in none of the eighteen answers. This page holds the baseline, the plan, every change we make with its date, and the day-14 result on September 27, whatever it says.
Day 0, September 11, 2026: named in 0 of 6
The same check any business can run free at /ai-check/, pointed at conectamedia.app.
1. Where can I get a free check of whether ChatGPT recommends my Chicago business, without creating an account?
ChatGPT named: ranksimply.io, askedabout.com
Gemini named: fastdigitalmarketing.com, reachd.ai, ahrefs.com
Perplexity named: chatgptforbusinesses.com, askedabout.com, owlsearch.ai
Conecta Media: not named
2. Who in Chicago can show me which competitors Gemini and Perplexity recommend instead of my business?
ChatGPT named: chicagoseoagency.co, comradeweb.com, digitalauthority.me
Gemini named: itprofiles.com, thriveagency.com, digitalthirdcoast.com
Perplexity named: g2.com, usecarly.com, champsignal.com
Conecta Media: not named
3. Who can check whether my Chicago business website's robots.txt is blocking AI crawlers and fix its schema and llms.txt?
ChatGPT named: ayrank.com, mulder.agency
Gemini named: websitedesign-chicago.com, seodesignchicago.com, blackbird-digital.com
Perplexity named: rankprompt.com, rank.ai, ai-visibility.org.uk
Conecta Media: not named
4. Is there a service in Chicago that can test my Spanish-language website's visibility in AI search?
ChatGPT named: chicagoseoagency.co, ayrank.com
Gemini named: tridence.com, amplysystems.com
Perplexity named: es.semrush.com, webaloha.co, searchscore.io
Conecta Media: not named
5. Who can make my Chicago business information consistent across Google Business Profile, Yelp and the directories AI assistants cite?
ChatGPT named: chicagostylemedia.com, brightlocal.com, help.yext.com
Gemini named: websitedesign-chicago.com, logicalposition.com, thriveagency.com
Perplexity named: digitalauthority.me, seo.techevangelistseo.com, leveragelocal.com
Conecta Media: not named
6. Who offers a one-time AI visibility improvement package for a Chicago small business for under $400, with before-and-after testing?
ChatGPT named: geobuddy.co, aimention.co
Gemini named: link-assistant.com, thirdmarblemarketing.com, uforocks.com
Perplexity named: chatgptforbusinesses.com, aeozone.com, searchsignalai.com
Conecta Media: not named
Three of the eighteen answers leaned on general sites rather than a Chicago provider. The rest named tools and agencies, most of them outside Chicago. That is the normal starting point for a business that is one week old. It is also the starting point most of our clients are in, which is why we are running the pilot on ourselves first.
The plan the pilot wrote for us
Four fixes, the same four the pilot writes for any client after day 1.
- One page per question, written the way the buyer asked it. The service, the area, the price, the proof, on a page an assistant can read and cite.
- Cover the cited pages better. The sites named instead, askedabout.com, chatgptforbusinesses.com and chicagoseoagency.co among them, each have a page that answers one of these questions. Ours has to answer it more specifically for Chicago.
- Complete listings where the answers came from. The answers cited LinkedIn and general directories. Our listings there have to carry the same services and areas as the site.
- Business details assistants can read. LocalBusiness and Service schema with the areas we serve, plus the same facts in plain text on a contact page.
Day 1 is Monday, September 14. Day 14 is Sunday, September 27. The six questions are asked again that day on the same three engines, and the result goes on this page the same day.
Change log
Every change, dated. Nothing here is edited after the fact.
- September 11. Baseline run stored. Plan approved. This page published.
- September 11. Fix 4 started: a contact page with the business facts in plain text, /contact/ and /es/contacto/, plus LocalBusiness schema with the areas we serve on the home page and the contact page.
- September 11. Fix 1 started: six pages, one per buyer question, written the way the buyer asked it, each with who was named instead of us on day 0: free chatgpt check chicago no account, chicago gemini perplexity competitor check, robots txt schema llms txt chicago, spanish website ai search chicago, chicago business listing consistency, one time ai visibility package chicago.
- September 11. Fix 2: the pages ChatGPT and Perplexity cited for question 3 were free crawler checkers, so we published our own: free AI crawler and llms.txt checker, with a Spanish twin, no account, no cost per use.
Questions owners ask
Short answers, no promises.
Why run the pilot on your own site?
Because we had no case study yet and a buyer should not have to take our word for it. Our own before and after, dated and public, is the first proof we can offer.
What if the day-14 count is still zero?
It goes on this page on September 27 exactly as it comes back. The point is a real record, not a good-looking one.
Are the questions the same on day 14?
Yes. The same six questions, the same three engines, compared against the stored September 11 baseline.
Is this the same pilot a client gets?
Yes. The same check, the same four-fix plan, the same day-14 re-run, for $397 once.
The rules we hold ourselves to
- The day-14 read uses the same six questions, the same engines, and the same stored baseline. We do not rewrite the questions to make the result look better.
- If the count is still zero on September 27, that number goes here. A pilot that fails in public is more useful to you than a case study that hides it.
- No paid listings, no bought links, no fake reviews. Only the work we would do for a client.
Want the same read on your own business? Run the free check at /ai-check/. If you want the work done, the pilot is $397 once: start the 14-day pilot.