When AI recommends a plumber,
is it you?
Customers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity for the best small business near them. NameDrop checks whether the AI recommends yours — and gives you a simple plan to become the name it gives. Run your free scan below in under a minute.
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One score, measured across every assistant your customers ask
Your customers now ask AI who to hire — and it only names a few.
More and more people skip Google and just ask ChatGPT or Gemini for the best small business near them. The AI picks one or two names. If your business isn't one of them, that customer never even hears about you — they call your competitor. NameDrop shows you where you stand, and how to become the name the AI gives.
Then
Customers used to Google you
They'd scroll a page of links, compare a few options, and pick. You had room to show up.
Now
They just ask AI
“Who's the best plumber near me?” — and ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google's AI hands them a short list of names. No scrolling. No page 2.
The catch
It only names a few
If your business isn't one of them, the customer never even sees you. They call the name the AI gave — your competitor.
See if AI recommends you — and fix it — in three simple steps.
Built for busy small-business owners — no tech skills needed. Start free in about a minute, no account or credit card required.
1. Run a free scan
Type in your business name and town. In about a minute, we ask the AI assistants the same questions your customers ask — like “best plumber near me” — and see if they name you.
2. See where you stand
You get a simple score: whether AI recommends you, which competitors it names instead, and the exact reasons you're being skipped. No jargon — just a clear picture.
3. Fix it and get found
Follow a simple, step-by-step plan — or let our AI do the work for you — so the assistants start sending those customers to you. We keep checking every week so you can watch your score climb.
Here's how the AI actually picks who to recommend.
When someone asks for the best plumber near me, the AI does a live search of the web and names the businesses it sees trusted in several places at once — your Google profile, your reviews, local “best of” lists, directories, even Reddit. If those signals are thin or inconsistent, it skips you. Most local businesses were never set up for this — which is the opening.
1.2%
of local businesses ever get recommended by AI
The other 98.8% are invisible when customers ask.
45%
of customers now use AI to find local businesses
Nearly half — and most owners have no idea it's happening.
7.5×
more people use AI to find local businesses than a year ago
From 6% to 45% in just twelve months — and still climbing.
What NameDrop actually does for you
These are the signals AI uses to decide who to recommend. NameDrop checks where you stand on each one, pinpoints the ones costing you customers, and hands you a prioritized plan — with the profile descriptions, review requests, and website code already written for you. You apply the fixes (we show you exactly where), and we re-check your score every week so you can watch it climb.
The signals we check and help you fix:
As you strengthen these, AI starts naming you instead of your competitor — and those are real customers who would have called someone else.
One new customer pays for it.
The rest are profit.
A single new job is worth hundreds — sometimes thousands. Get found by AI just once and NameDrop pays for itself for the rest of the year. Every day you're invisible, those searches go to someone else.
We bring the traffic
Get named when customers ask AI — that's new people who didn't know you existed, sent straight to you instead of a competitor.
You close the sale
We handle the hard, technical part of getting you found. You do what you're already great at — winning the customer.
It compounds
The longer you're the name AI recommends, the more it sticks. Visibility builds on itself while competitors stay invisible.
Start free. Fix it once. Then never lose the answer again.
The free scan shows you the problem. Pro is where most small businesses live — every assistant, every week.
Free Scan
Find out if AI recommends your business.
- Your AI Visibility Score (300–850)
- See if ChatGPT recommends you
- Free — no account or card
Fix Kit
See exactly why AI skips you — and how to fix it.
- The full reason AI overlooks you
- A step-by-step fix plan + templates
- $149 credits toward Pro
Pro
Stay recommended — tracked weekly on every AI.
- All 5 AIs, checked every week
- An AI that writes your fixes + score history
- Competitor alerts + a monthly Fix Kit
Growth
Your AI marketing team. We write it, you send it.
- Everything in Pro
- A monthly marketing plan, written for you
- Ready-to-send posts, emails & campaigns
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A wrong score is worse than no score. So every NameDrop result is re-run, confidence-banded, and backed by the exact answer the AI gave — you can see precisely where you were named, and where you weren't.
Questions, answered plainly
New to all this? You're in exactly the right place.
Yes — that's exactly who we built it for. Everything is written in plain English, step by step, and your AI guide walks you through each fix and even writes the wording for you. No code, no jargon.