How to check if AI recommends your business — in 5 minutes
Open ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, and ask each the five questions your customers actually ask — "best [what you do] in Singapore," and four variations. Note whether your business gets named, and whether it's the top pick or a passing mention. Count how many of the 20 answers name you. That number is where you stand — and most owners are shocked by it.
Why bother?
Your customers increasingly ask an AI assistant before they Google, call, or ask a friend — 45% now use AI for local business recommendations (BrightLocal, 2026), and Singapore ranks #2 in the world for AI adoption. When they ask, the AI doesn't return ten links; it names two or three businesses. You're one of them, or you're invisible at the exact moment someone is choosing. This check tells you which — in five minutes, for free, no tools.
The 5-minute method
Write down 5 questions your customers ask
Use this formula, swapping in your category — for a clinic, a firm, a studio, whatever you are:
- Category: "best [what you do] in Singapore"
- Need / specialty: "best [what you do] in Singapore for [your niche or customer type]"
- Price: "affordable [what you do] in Singapore"
- Location: "best [what you do] near [your area]"
- Decision: "how to choose a [what you do] in Singapore"
Open the four AI assistants
Open ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude — all have free versions. Use a fresh or logged-out chat (so your history doesn't bias the answer), turn web search on where offered, and keep a Singapore context (no VPN).
Ask each question on each engine
Paste your five questions into each of the four assistants. For every answer, note two things: is your business named at all? And if so, is it the top recommendation, or a passing mention near the bottom? Also jot down which competitors get named — that list is your real AI competitive set.
Score it
Five questions × four engines = 20 answers. Count how many name your business. Named in 3 of 20? That's a 15% AI Share of Voice — the single number that tells you where you stand. Do the same for your closest competitor and compare.
Read the result
What your score means:
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Named in most answers, often first | You're well cited — protect it and keep the lead as competitors catch on. |
| Named sometimes, usually a passing mention | You're under-ranked, not invisible. AI knows you exist but doesn't recommend you. Very fixable. |
| Rarely or never named; competitors are | You're missing the shortlist at the moment of choice — the gap that costs you enquiries. |
| One engine names you, another doesn't | Normal — they read different sources. You can't optimise for one AI; you need to show up across all four. |
If you're not named — what's actually going on
It's almost never because your business isn't good. AI names businesses it can find and confirm: ones that appear in the third-party sources it trusts (best-of listicles, directories, reviews, forums) and whose own website is structured so a model can read exactly what you do, where, and for whom. Most businesses fail on one or both — their name lives only on their own site, unstructured, so only the engine that crawls them directly ever mentions them. The fix isn't a nicer homepage; it's getting cited where the models read, and giving them clean facts to quote.
The one thing to do this week
Run the check, write down the competitors AI named instead of you, and find the one source they all appear in that you don't — a "best [category] in Singapore" listicle, a directory, a review platform. Getting into that one source is often the fastest single move. For the full playbook, see how to get your business cited by AI in Singapore, or measure it rigorously with how to measure AI Share of Voice.
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