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What we have measured about how AI assistants decide which local business to name, with the methods and the limits included.

• We check 17 things on a local business website. One decides where AI ranks you. We scanned 125 small local businesses. Then we asked AI assistants who they recommend in 6 towns and compared the results. Most checks open a door once. This article shows what still matters after that. September 1, 2026 · 8 min read
• How AI Reads a Small Business Website Your website is two documents, and AI usually gets the thin one. Here is how to see which you have in thirty seconds, and what we measured about which parts of the thick one matter. August 14, 2026 · 17 min read
• AI is reading local businesses' own websites, not their Yelp pages We recorded the websites AI credited while answering 3399 questions about local trades. 88% were a business's own website. Yelp never came up once. August 3, 2026 · 7 min read
• AI recommends the local businesses whose website names that exact job Nobody asks AI for "a plumber". They ask who fixes a burst pipe. We put 994 of those questions to AI across 10 local markets and checked whose website mentioned that exact job. 1,164 comparisons. July 31, 2026 · 10 min read