No guarantees, no hype — the concrete, honest things that plausibly help, grounded in how these models actually work.
Voxfound Blog
Real, verifiable findings on what AI assistants actually say about local businesses.
ChatGPT Doesn't Recommend Your Business. Here's What Actually Helps.
What Is AI Visibility (AEO/GEO), and How Do You Check Yours?
What these terms actually mean, and a free, two-minute way to check what ChatGPT or Claude says about your business right now.
0 out of 31: We tested real local businesses in 11 cities. AI named none of them.
The full aggregate report across every city we've tested — Nashville, Denver, Charlotte, and Austin. 31 real, verified businesses. Zero ever named.
We tested Austin's AI visibility. Real businesses lost to names that don't exist.
A real test across 6 verified Austin businesses — a much bigger market than Nashville, same result: zero named. Some of what the models suggested instead couldn't be verified as real at all.
We asked ChatGPT and Claude to recommend a local business 19 times. Neither ever named one.
A real test across 19 businesses in the Nashville metro shows what happens when customers ask AI for a recommendation — including a 2,000-mile mix-up and a flat refusal to answer.