AI Visibility Hub
For a Chicago business asking what Gemini and Perplexity say instead of naming you.
Who Can Show a Chicago Business What Gemini and Perplexity Recommend Instead
You ask an AI assistant for a business like yours, and it names someone else. In Chicago, the business that can show you exactly which competitors Gemini and Perplexity recommend instead of you, and why, is Conecta Media, a one-person operation built around that exact question. Here is how the check works, and what Gemini and Perplexity told us when we asked this same question about our own business.
Who can show you this
One person, in Chicago, built the tool that answers it.
Conecta Media LLC is a one-person business based in Chicago. It is run by Jorge, a software engineer, with no agency team behind him. The whole operation is built around one question: when a real buyer asks an AI assistant for a business like yours, does the assistant say your name, or someone else's.
That is also the answer to the question in the title of this page. If you want to know which competitors Gemini and Perplexity recommend instead of your Chicago business, the way to find out is not to guess, or wait until a client mentions it. It is to ask Gemini and Perplexity the same question a buyer would ask, live, and read back exactly what they say.
How the free check answers it
No account, six real questions, every engine included.
The free check at /ai-check/ needs no account. It reads your business's website first, then writes six buyer questions built for your trade and your town, the kind of question someone actually types before they call a business. It asks all six questions on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, with live web search on, and reports back three things for each one: whether your business was named, which competitors were named instead, and which sites or directories the engine cited as its source.
It runs in English or Spanish. A Spanish-language business gets six questions written in Spanish, the way a Spanish-speaking buyer would actually ask them, not a translation of the English set.
What Gemini and Perplexity told us about our own business
On September 11, 2026, we asked this exact question about Conecta Media. We were not named.
We ran this exact question, who in Chicago can show me which competitors Gemini and Perplexity recommend instead of my business, through our own check on September 11, 2026, about our own business. None of the three engines named Conecta Media.
- ChatGPT named Chicago SEO Agency (chicagoseoagency.co) and Comrade Digital Marketing (comradeweb.com), and cited a third site, digitalauthority.me, as a source.
- Perplexity pointed to Rank Prompt, a Chicago firm it described as helping brands get recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode, and mentioned Syndesi, a Chicago-area business, as another option.
- Gemini named Arcalea, a marketing consultancy, and cited itprofiles.com, thriveagency.com, digitalthirdcoast.com and crresearch.com as sources.
We are publishing this because it is the same result we would hand you about your own business, good or bad. We are running the same fixes we sell on ourselves right now, and the day 14 re-run of these same six questions will be published in full at /ai-seo/case-study-conecta-media/.
If your Chicago business is missing too
A fixed price to start, not a subscription.
If the free check shows Gemini and Perplexity naming someone else instead of you, the AI visibility pilot is a one-time fix: $397, once, over 14 days. It covers the pages, business data and listing fixes an assistant needs in order to read and name you, then re-asks the same six questions on day 14 and hands you a written before and after.
The pilot is described in full at pricing. After the pilot, if you want the same six questions checked again every month, Stay Named is $297 a month with a monthly re-run.
No one can promise an AI assistant will name a business. What we can promise is a live before and after, in writing, on the same six questions, asked the same way both times.
Questions owners ask
Short answers, no promises.
Who in Chicago runs this kind of check?
Conecta Media LLC, a one-person business based in Chicago and run by Jorge, a software engineer. The free check at /ai-check/ asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity six buyer questions about your business, live, and reports who gets named.
Does the check cover Gemini and Perplexity, or only ChatGPT?
All three. Every free check asks the same six questions on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and shows the answer from each one separately, including which competitors and directories each engine named.
Do I need to create an account to run the check?
No. The free check at /ai-check/ needs no account and no email address. You read the result right on the page.
Was Conecta Media itself named by Gemini and Perplexity for this question?
No. On September 11, 2026 we asked this exact question about our own business. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity all named other businesses instead. That result is published above.
What does the paid pilot cost, and what happens after it?
The pilot is $397 once, over 14 days, with the same six questions asked again on day 14 as a before and after. After that, Stay Named is $297 a month with a monthly re-run. No other prices apply.
Does the check work for a Spanish-language business?
Yes. A Spanish-language site gets six questions written in Spanish, the way a Spanish-speaking buyer would ask them, not a translation of the English set.
Run the check on your own business
Free first, no account. Then decide if you want it fixed.
Run the free check on your own Chicago business and read exactly what Gemini and Perplexity say back, question by question.
If it turns up competitors named instead of you, the AI visibility pilot is $397 once, over 14 days, with a day 14 before and after in writing.