Does AI Pick Me?

Notes for owners

Short explanations of why an assistant names one local business and not another.

• 2026-03-04

  Why ChatGPT names the shop down the street

  Buyer questions are short. The businesses that get named usually have a page, a profile, and a third-party citation that all say the same thing.

• 2026-04-16

  What llms.txt does for a local business

  llms.txt is a plain-text map of the pages you want quoted. It helps only if those pages already answer the buyer’s question.

• 2026-05-20

  How the Does AI Pick Me? score is calculated

  The score is an average of buyer answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Here is the exact point rule.