When NYC asks AI, who gets named?

AI visibility is whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity mention your business, recommend it, and describe it accurately when someone asks a question you'd want to answer — "best [category] in New York," "who should I call for [service] in Manhattan," or "compare [your category] near me." Google AI Overviews now appear in roughly half of all Google searches, according to D&D SEO Services, and about 1 in 3 U.S. adults uses an AI chatbot at least weekly, per Pew Research data cited by iQDigital. Those AI-generated answers are replacing the ten blue links your SEO has spent years climbing. If an AI engine doesn't know your business exists, a well-ranked website doesn't help the customer who never clicks through to see it.

This isn't a rebrand of SEO. It's a new measurement problem: what do five different AI systems say about you, right now, when asked a real question? Most business owners have never checked. We check, score it, and fix what's broken.

New York City has more than 183,000 small businesses in operation — the highest count in the city's history — supporting 4.8 million total jobs, according to the NYC Department of Small Business Services (Dec 2025). Statewide, New York counts 422,000+ small business establishments, 3.7 million employees, and roughly $1 trillion in combined sales and revenues — 2023 data cited in a March 2026 report from State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office.

That density means more businesses competing for the same handful of AI-generated answers. A Midtown law firm, a Financial District fintech advisor, a DUMBO creative studio, and a Long Island City contractor are all functionally invisible to an AI engine unless something in their online footprint gives it a reason to name them. When an AI system has room to recommend only three or four options in a category this crowded, the businesses it doesn't name are the businesses that, to that customer, don't exist. Track how your category stacks up in our NYC AI Visibility Index.

We built the AIR Score — a Deep AI Solutions trademark — to answer one question with a number: out of 100, how well does your business get mentioned, recommended, and positively described across ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), Grok (xAI), and Perplexity? It's a composite of mention frequency, recommendation strength, and sentiment, tested against the kind of prompts a real customer would type.

The methodology is public and it's running today, not staged for a sales call. Our AI Visibility Index tracked 1,103 brand mentions across five engines in its HVAC/plumbing national edition (Edition 01, measured July 9, 2026), with Roto-Rooter leading that category at a 10.0% mention share. That's the same engine we'd point at your category.

A few things worth knowing about how these systems actually work: 71.7% of ChatGPT citations come from pages that already have organic search presence, per GrowingAI research — so traditional SEO and AI visibility aren't separate disciplines, they're stacked. ChatGPT's search-grounded answers run against Bing's index, not Google's; if you're not indexed in Bing, you're not citable by ChatGPT. And FAQ-schema content gets cited roughly 3x more often in Google AI Overviews, according to iQDigital. See how AI visibility differs from traditional NYC SEO for the full comparison.

We'll say this plainly: New York is the most contested AI-visibility market in our network, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Profound, the AI-visibility platform, is headquartered right here — founded in August 2024, it raised a $96 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation with roughly 700 enterprise customers, according to Fortune (Feb 2026). NoGood, an NYC growth agency, runs a standalone answer-engine-optimization service it launched in May 2025 with its own LLM-citation tracking. Mimvi SEO markets itself as a top-rated AI SEO shop from Manhattan. Semrush's 2026 agency directory lists 55 SEO agencies serving New York City alone.

We're not the first company to work on AI visibility, and we're not the biggest one operating in this city — Profound raised more in a single funding round than most of our clients will spend on this in a decade. What we bring instead: a published measurement methodology anyone can inspect, a live multi-engine index instead of a sales deck, transparent month-to-month pricing with no setup fee, and the discipline of a company that competes on data. See our AI SEO approach for New York businesses.

Deep AI Solutions is headquartered in Houston, Texas — not New York. We're saying that upfront because it matters less than you'd think, and we'd rather you know it going in than find out later. AI visibility work is measurement and engineering: running real prompts against five AI systems, auditing what those systems can actually read about your business, closing citation and schema gaps, and re-testing. None of that requires a desk in Midtown.

We proved the model in our home market first. Our Houston AI Visibility Index study measured a metro-wide median AIR Score of 31 out of 100 in Houston — that's the kind of finding a company can only publish if it actually ran the study. The same scanner behind that research runs live at deepaivisibility.com/#scanner right now, free, on your business. Texas-headquartered, serving New York businesses remotely, nationwide — that's the honest version, and it's the only version we're offering.

Three tiers, month-to-month, no setup fee:

• Signal — $1,299/mo. Multi-engine AIR Score tracking and monthly reporting.
• Authority — $2,999/mo. Signal, plus active content and schema work to close citation gaps.
• Dominance — $5,999/mo. Full-scope AI visibility program across content, schema, and citation infrastructure.

Every engagement starts the same way: a free scan at deepaivisibility.com/#scanner that shows your current AIR Score before you commit to anything. Want to talk it through first? Call +1-281-937-3337 or see full service details.