Free AI Visibility Check
Does AI recommend your business?
When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google for the best option in your category and city, do you show up, or does a competitor? Run the free check and see your own result.
Why this matters now
Search is shifting from a page of links you scan to a single answer an assistant gives. If that answer names a competitor and not you, you never entered the running.
More people are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews for recommendations instead of scrolling a results page. These assistants ground their answers in the same web and local-search signals Google has always used: organic results, the local pack, review sites, and structured business data. A business can rank perfectly well on a traditional results page and still be missing from the one answer an assistant gives, because its information was never structured for a machine to lift.
The check above runs the questions people actually ask in your category and city, and reports which ones you are invisible for and who is being recommended instead. That gap is fixable, and it is where local businesses win or lose the next decade of discovery.
Being mentioned is half of it
A mention in an AI answer is only worth something when it turns into a visit, and the visit turns into a customer.
Most AI visibility tools stop at the answer: a score for how often you are named. That is the part before anyone clicks. Harvv also measures the part after. When ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot or another assistant sends someone to your site, Harvv records which assistant it was, which page they landed on, and what they did next. It also checks whether that page carries the structured data an assistant can quote, which is what makes the next mention more likely.
So the question changes from "are we visible in AI?" to "which AI answers send us people, and do those people stay?" The first is a score. The second is something you can act on.
Common questions
What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
Generative engine optimization, or GEO, is the work of getting your business cited in answers written by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. It overlaps with SEO: assistants ground their answers in web results, review sites and structured data. The difference is the goal. SEO aims for a ranking on a page of links; GEO aims to be one of the few sources an answer names.
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
Answer engine optimization, or AEO, is making your pages easy for an AI assistant to lift a direct answer from: a clear question, a short answer near the top, and structured data that labels what the page is. People often use AEO for the page work and GEO for the broader goal of being cited. Both only pay off when the answer sends someone to your site, which is why Harvv measures the visits assistants send and what those visitors do.
How do I get my business mentioned by AI?
AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews recommend businesses by pulling from the same web and local-search index Google uses. To be mentioned, you need to appear in the results for the questions people actually ask, such as "best Italian deli near Charlotte." That means complete local business structured data, a filled-out Google Business Profile, real third-party mentions, and content that answers the demanded questions. This tool shows you which of those questions you are currently invisible for.
Will ChatGPT recommend my business?
Only if you show up in the sources it reads. When someone asks an assistant for a recommendation in your category and city, it grounds the answer in web results, the local pack, and review sites. If a competitor occupies those and you do not, the assistant recommends them, not you. The check above tells you exactly where you stand and who is being recommended instead.
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is whether AI assistants surface and recommend your business when people ask them for options. It is the successor to local SEO: instead of ranking on a page of blue links, you need to be the answer an assistant gives. A business can rank fine on Google and still be invisible to AI if its information is not structured for machine reading.
How is this different from SEO?
Traditional SEO optimizes for a human scanning a search results page. AI visibility optimizes for a machine composing a single answer. The overlap is real, but the winning move is being the clearly cited, well-structured source an engine can lift a recommendation from, for the specific questions people ask in your category and city.