By trade
Every trade has a different AI blind spot. Here's yours.
We tested 1,000+ businesses across these trades. The gap between Google visibility and ChatGPT visibility is different for each — locksmiths scored literally zero, dentists did best and still lost 71%. Find your trade:
87%
plumbers
Only 13% of plumbers who rank on Google page 1 also get recommended by ChatGPT — 87% are invisible (our 1,000-business study, 2026).
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84%
electricians
Just 16% of electricians visible on Google page 1 appear in ChatGPT's recommendations — 84% are invisible (our 1,000-business study, 2026).
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1.2%
HVAC companies
ChatGPT recommends only 1.2% of local businesses overall, against 35.9% who make Google's top 3 (SOCi Local Visibility Index, 350,000 locations, 2026).
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90%
roofers
90% of the roofers in our study had no functioning website at all — and businesses without a website appeared in ChatGPT recommendations exactly 0% of the time.
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100%
painters & decorators
In our study sample, 100% of painters had no website — which means 0% chance of a ChatGPT recommendation. The first painter in town to fix this wins the AI channel outright.
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100%
landscapers & gardeners
Every gardener in our study sample lacked a website — and no website meant zero ChatGPT visibility, across all 1,000+ businesses we tested.
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0%
locksmiths
Zero. Not one locksmith that ranked on Google page 1 in our study also appeared in ChatGPT's recommendations — the worst overlap of any trade we tested.
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47%
cleaning companies
47% of local service businesses have no website at all — and in our 1,000-business study, no website meant a 0% chance of being recommended by ChatGPT.
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71%
dentists
Dentists do better than any trade we tested — and still 71% of Google-visible practices were missing from ChatGPT (29% overlap, the best of any category).
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95%
law firms
Accountants and professional firms showed just 5% Google-to-ChatGPT overlap in our study. Independent 2026 research (PolyGrowth) confirms professional services lean heavily on articles and rankings AI cites.
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