Self-test guide

Is your Ottawa business visible in ChatGPT?

A practical guide to checking whether AI engines name your business, why they might not, and what to do about it.

How do I check if my business is visible in AI?

Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the questions your buyers ask, using your Ottawa location and service, and see whether your business is named. If your competitors show up and you don't, you have an AI visibility problem BlindSpot can help solve.

Try these prompts, swapping in your details:

best [your service] in Ottawa
top rated [your service] near [your neighbourhood]
who should I hire for [your service] in Ottawa-Gatineau

Run each a few times. Answers vary by phrasing, so test several variations before drawing conclusions.

Why is my business invisible in AI answers?

Most invisibility comes down to three causes: entity fragmentation, missing schema and no third-party citations. AI won't recommend a business it can't clearly identify and verify.

Entity fragmentation

Your name, address and details differ across the web, so AI can't confirm you're one trustworthy entity.

Missing schema

Without structured data, engines have to guess what your business is and offers — and often guess wrong.

No third-party citations

AI corroborates recommendations against reviews, directories and press. With none, you're unproven to the model.

How do I fix it?

Consolidate your entity data, deploy the right schema, publish answer-first content and build citations on trusted sources. The quickest first step is BlindSpot's free automated visibility check, which scores your Ottawa business and lists the fixes in priority order.

Run your free AI visibility check now.

Free, automated, results in under two minutes.