How this works
If AI doesn't know you, it can't recommend you.
This audit asks the AI what it knows about your business from memory alone — no web access, no hints. That's the honest baseline: if it doesn't know you, you're not in the answer when someone nearby asks an assistant for a recommendation.
So how does a business get cited? First, the straight truth: nobody can force an AI to know you, and anyone promising guaranteed citations is selling something. AI answers come from two places — what the assistant looks up the moment someone asks (most assistants now run a real web search before answering), and what the model memorized the last time it was trained (slower, but it compounds).
The lookup is the game a local business can win. When someone asks "who's good at this near me," the assistant searches the web and repeats the clearest answer it can find and read. Winning that means: pages that plainly answer the questions people actually ask, your business details published in the format software reads, a fast site with the basics right — run the health check to see where yours stands — and a name, address, and category that match everywhere they appear online.
That's the work we do for clients. Do it, give it a few months, then re-run this audit and watch the score move.