Do AI engines recommend AnswerFix?
AnswerFix measures whether AI engines recommend a business. In the run on September 21, 2026, every one of the 36 calls to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini failed because the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit, so there is no score for that week. That failure is reported below, not hidden.
No score for the run on September 21, 2026
All 36 calls failed before any engine answered, so nothing was measured. Failing to measure is not the same as measuring badly, which is why this run is recorded here but left out of the chart. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
The twelve questions, unchanged week to week
Version 2026.09-v1. Anyone can put the same twelve questions to ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini themselves and compare notes.
- How do I get my business on ChatGPT?
- How do I check if ChatGPT recommends my business?
- What is the best AI visibility tool for a local business?
- What is the best AI visibility tool for agencies?
- How do I see if my business appears in AI search?
- Is there a free AI visibility checker?
- Why is my business not showing up on ChatGPT?
- What tool tracks whether AI engines recommend my business over time?
- How do I know if my website is optimized for AI search?
- What is a good AI visibility audit tool?
- What is the best AI visibility rank tracker?
- How do I check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini recommend my business?
The score over time
No run has produced a real score yet, so there is nothing to chart. A chart of one estimate, or of zero, would only look precise. Check back after the next Monday run.
Every answer from the latest run
The run on September 21, 2026. Expand any row for the question, the engine, whether AnswerFix was named, and what the engine actually said, including the times it named someone else.
"How do I get my business on ChatGPT?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"How do I check if ChatGPT recommends my business?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"What is the best AI visibility tool for a local business?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"What is the best AI visibility tool for agencies?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"How do I see if my business appears in AI search?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"Is there a free AI visibility checker?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"Why is my business not showing up on ChatGPT?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"What tool tracks whether AI engines recommend my business over time?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"How do I know if my website is optimized for AI search?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"What is a good AI visibility audit tool?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"What is the best AI visibility rank tracker?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
"How do I check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini recommend my business?"
ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Perplexity (Sonar)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search)No answer came back
This call failed and returned no answer. The cause was the AI provider account AnswerFix uses had run out of credit.
How this measurement runs
- Engines
- ChatGPT (GPT-5 mini with web search). Perplexity (Sonar). Gemini (2.5 Flash with Google Search). The same engines and settings used for every customer's scan, with live web search on every one.
- Questions
- 12 fixed questions, version 2026.09-v1, listed in full below. The same list runs every week so one run is comparable to the next.
- Matching rule
- Conservative, whole-name matching against "AnswerFix" and the domain answerfix.ai, the identical rule used to score every customer's report.
- Schedule
- Automatically, every Monday. This page shows exactly what the most recent run found, plus every run before it.
- Engine call budget
- At most 40 engine calls per run (12 questions x 3 engines = 36 calls). If the AI gateway is unavailable, every one of those calls fails and is recorded as a failure, never counted as a missed recommendation.
The same engine runs every free check on this site. Read the full methodology.
Why this page exists
AnswerFix measures whether AI engines recommend businesses. This page turns that measurement on us. Every week, an automated job asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the same twelve fixed questions about AnswerFix and records what each one says, in full, including the runs where an engine named a competitor instead of us.
We publish every run. We never edit an engine's answer. We never remove a bad week. The question list is fixed and versioned, so this week is comparable to last week, and any change to it is disclosed here, not made quietly. A rising number is evidence the product works. A falling number is evidence this page is honest. No competitor in this category publishes this test on themselves.
Limitations
Treat every number on this page as a sample, not a verdict. AI engines sample their own answers, so the same question can come back differently minutes apart. Our own repeated testing found a business's score moving by several points between identical runs, with the standard deviation and the named-answer range published on the methodology page. A single week means little on its own. Watch the direction across several runs rather than reacting to any one of them.
Related reading
- How AnswerFix measures AI visibility
The engines, the matching rule and the measured run-to-run variance behind every number on this page.
- The AI visibility study
The same kind of measurement, run across a sample of real businesses instead of just AnswerFix.
- About AnswerFix
Who built this and why the checks behind it come from real incidents, not a generic checklist.
- Pricing
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Questions about this page
- Why does AnswerFix check whether AI engines recommend AnswerFix itself?
- AnswerFix sells a tool that measures whether AI engines recommend a business. If that measurement only ever pointed at customers, the claim would be untested on us. So an automated job runs the identical kind of check on our own name and domain every week and publishes the result exactly as measured.
- What happens if the number goes down?
- It gets published anyway, on this page, with the date, unedited. A falling number does not get a softer explanation than a rising one. A company willing to hide a bad week is not measuring anything, it is marketing, which is the exact failure this page exists to avoid.
- Can the twelve questions change?
- Not quietly. The list is fixed and versioned so one week is comparable to the next. Any change to the wording, the order or the count of the questions is a version bump, and this page states the version number in force for every run it shows.
- What counts as AnswerFix being named?
- The same conservative rule used on every customer report: the engine's answer text has to contain the name AnswerFix or the domain answerfix.ai, not a link, a category mention or an unrelated result. The full matching logic is on the methodology page.
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