When a customer asks AI for the best business near them, it names a few. If it is not you, they call someone else.
A customer asks ChatGPT
Who does the best hibachi catering in Austin for a birthday party?
Illustrative examples with fictional businesses.
What a free check shows
EXAMPLE Harbor Street Plumbing, Austin TX. A fictional business, with made-up numbers to show you what you get.
“Who’s the best emergency plumber in Austin?”
Asked ChatGPT. It said: “For emergency plumbing in Austin, people often recommend Capital City Rooter for 24-hour response, and Lone Star Pipe Pros for water heater repairs.”
Harbor Street Plumbing was not named.
Free. No credit card. About 3 minutes.
Sample data for a fictional business. Your check uses your own website and real AI answers.
Why this matters
of consumers use AI to find local businesses.
Source: BrightLocal, 2026Visitors who arrive from AI tend to convert better than visitors from regular search.
Source: Shero CommerceHow it works
Your free score with its range, how many AI answers it is based on, and a score for each AI tool.
The businesses AI recommended for your customers' questions, in order, and the sites it read to decide.
Their reviews next to yours, and every site AI cited for them.
Your full Win plan, ranked by impact, with a progress bar and a draft ready where we can write one.
Pick how you want to fix each action. Exact steps with the text to copy and paste, a ready prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or any AI tool, or a message for an employee or freelancer.
Your score trend, the questions you win, who AI names instead, and the visits that arrive from AI tools.
Free. No credit card. About 3 minutes. Pro steps start with a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
What is Citovate
Citovate is an AI visibility platform that shows businesses whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude recommend them, and how to fix it.
What you get
We do plumbing work.
24-hour emergency plumber in Austin. Water heaters, drains and leaks.
Sample data for Harbor Street Plumbing, a fictional business. We write the fix. You decide.
Pricing
| Free | $0 | Your score, 2 AI tools, 10 questions. |
| Starter | $29/mo | Your AI score every week, and which competitors beat you. Start 7-day free trial. $29 charged on day 8. |
| Pro Most picked | $59/mo | Everything in Starter, plus exactly how competitors beat you, every fix drafted, and the customers AI sends you. Start 7-day free trial. $59 charged on day 8. |
| Managed GEO | From $500/mo | White-glove: we handle your AI visibility for you, end to end. Book a call |
Yearly plans are about 20% off. Each extra location is +$25/mo. Fix plans start with a 7-day free trial: your first charge is on day 8 and you can cancel in 2 taps. 30-day money-back guarantee. See all plan details
Questions
Citovate is an AI visibility platform that shows businesses whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude recommend them, and how to fix it. You get an AI Visibility Score, see which businesses AI recommends instead of yours, and get a weekly plan of fixes that you approve.
Enter your website, confirm what we found about your business (you can edit it), and verify your email. We then ask AI tools the questions your customers ask, save every answer, and show your AI Visibility Score, who AI recommends instead, and what to fix. Your first check is free, with no credit card.
Citovate can check 6 AI tools: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. The free check covers 2 AI tools. Starter and Pro each include 3 AI tools of your choice from 6, 10 questions on Starter and 20 on Pro. You choose which tools in Settings, and can add more tools or questions for a monthly add-on priced from our cost.
Free score; Starter $29/mo; Pro $59/mo; Managed GEO from $500 a month; ~20% off yearly; extra location +$25/mo; 7-day free trial.. Fix plans start with a free trial and come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Full details are on the pricing page.
We don't sell your data. Passwords are stored only as salted hashes. To produce your report we send your questions and business details to the AI providers we check, and we never change your website without your approval. You can ask us for a copy of your data or to delete your account at any time. See our privacy policy for the details.
Yes. No card needed. You get one free check for your website.
No. We show you what to change and write it for you. You make the change and you approve everything.
No. Nobody can honestly promise that. We show you what AI says, give you a plan, and track the results. If it is not for you, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Yes. Cancel in 2 taps in Settings. Plans are month to month, or yearly if you choose.