Guide
How to Get Recommended by a Specific AI Assistant
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews each find local businesses a different way, so getting recommended by each one takes a slightly different play. Pick your assistant below for the step-by-step guide.
Updated June 2026
There's no single switch that gets you recommended everywhere. Each assistant pulls from different places: some read your Google Business Profile directly, some search the open web, some rely on licensed directories. The good news is the underlying work overlaps a lot, and doing it well compounds across all of them. Start with the assistant your customers use most, then widen out.
Pick your assistant
Get recommended by ChatGPT
Runs a web search on Bing's index plus its own crawler, and does not read your Google Business Profile. A strong, consistent presence across the open web is what gets you named.
Get recommended by Google AI Overviews
Built on Google's index and reads your Google Business Profile and Maps data directly. A complete, accurate profile does a lot of the heavy lifting here.
Get recommended by Gemini
Google's assistant, so it leans on the same Google signals, including your Business Profile and Maps presence.
Get recommended by Perplexity
Uses its own index plus licensed data like Yelp, and cites its sources. Being present and well-reviewed on the directories it trusts matters most.
Get recommended by Claude
Searches the live web and cites its sources, with no index of its own. Clear, credible, up-to-date pages it can read and quote are what win.
The thread that runs through all of them
Different plumbing, same foundation: a clear, consistent, trustworthy presence that AI can find and quote. Identical business details everywhere, genuine reviews, content that answers real questions, and mentions on the third-party sources AI leans on. That's the whole argument of our complete guide to GEO, and it's why your Google Business Profile matters even for assistants that don't read it directly.