We asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to recommend a tool like ours. They named us 0 times
20 agency questions, 4 AIs, 79 answers: RecoRadar was named in none. Who the AIs named instead, the pages they cited, and what we are doing about it.
We sell a check of whether ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini recommend a business. So we ran the same kind of check on ourselves. On October 24, 2026 we asked 20 questions an agency might ask when looking for a tool like ours, such as "white label AI visibility report for agencies" and "BrightLocal alternative for AI search visibility", on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Mode. 79 answers came back.
RecoRadar was named in none of them.
Who the AIs named instead
Counting each tool once per answer:
- Otterly in 37 of 79 answers
- Semrush in 32
- Peec AI in 30
- BrightLocal in 26
- Local Falcon in 23
- SE Ranking in 21
- Profound in 20
The AIs did not agree on much. Local Falcon came up in 7 ChatGPT answers but only 2 Gemini answers. SE Ranking came up in 12 Claude answers and no ChatGPT answers.
Where the answers looked
The sources tell you where a business has to be to get named. For these questions, two kinds of pages came up again and again.
The tools' own websites: Local Falcon's and BrightLocal's sites were each cited in 15 answers.
"Best tools" round-ups on other sites: one round-up of AI visibility tools on Zapier's blog was cited in 8 answers, and similar lists on Trustmary, Saffron Edge, Integrate.io, Rankability and Position Digital in 3 to 6 each. YouTube and Reddit were cited in 12 answers each.
What we are doing about it
The same thing we would tell a client, in this order:
- Ask the authors of the most cited round-ups to review RecoRadar.
- Keep publishing data no one else has, like our study of which SEO agencies the AIs name in 50 US cities, so there is something worth citing.
- Keep the YouTube channel going, since video pages were among the sources.
- Ask the same 20 questions again next month and compare the count.
How we asked
Each question went to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini through their official APIs with web search on, and to Google AI Mode through DataForSEO, with New York as the location. One Google answer failed at the provider, so the total is 79 of 80. Tools were counted by name in the answer text, against a list of 36 tools, so a tool outside that list is not in the counts. AI answers change from day to day, so these numbers hold for October 24, 2026.
If you run an agency, try the same exercise on your own agency: the questions a client would ask, the names the AIs give instead, and the pages behind each answer. How to get ChatGPT to recommend your business walks through what to do next.
