What You'll Have By The End Of This Guide

• A copy-paste prompt pack that makes ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode show you exactly what they say about your business right now — accurate, outdated, flattering, or invisible
• A clear map of the sources AI pulls from when it talks about your category — the directories, reviews, and threads that actually decide whether you get named
• A side-by-side competitor gap report — where a rival gets recommended and you don't, plus the exact moves to close that gap in the next 90 days

Setup time: ~15 minutes

Skill level: Beginner. If you can paste text into a chat box, you can run this whole audit today.

First — What Is This Actually About?

Search just changed under your feet. Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode now answer people directly at the top of the page, and more buyers are skipping Google entirely — they ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity "who's the best [your category] near me?" and trust whatever name comes back.

Here's the part nobody tells you: the AI already has an opinion about your business. It's pulling from your website, your reviews, directories, and Reddit threads to decide whether to recommend you — and right now you have no idea what it's saying. This guide hands you the prompts to find out.

Two honest notes before you start:

• Turn on web search / browsing first. Perplexity and Google AI Mode always pull live sources. In ChatGPT and Gemini, make sure web search is ON — otherwise they answer from memory and may give you stale info. Live mode is what makes this audit real.
• This is the diagnosis, not the cure. These prompts show you where you stand. Fixing it — rewriting your site, stacking the right citations — is the next step (we point you to it at the end). You can't fix a gap you can't see, so start here.

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