Get your business named in ChatGPT answers

The short answer: when people ask ChatGPT "who should I call" or "where should I go," it now names a few businesses and links the pages it read. We ask ChatGPT the 10 questions your customers ask, in your town, show you who it names and why, fix your pages so they are the clearest answer, and ask again a week later. The first hour is free. Then $150 for the fixes and re-checks, or $99 a month to keep watching.

Rather just ask? Text your question to PJ, a real person in Cardiff, and he answers it. Asking is free. Want to know if ChatGPT names you today? Text PJ

• You run a local business and want to show up when people ask ChatGPT
  Start with the free first hour: can AI read and quote your site, and who it names for your customers' questions today.
• You already have a web person
  Three checks they can run today for free, then the fix list for $150 if you want it.
• You want it watched, not checked once
  Answer Watch, $99 a month: the same 10 questions every Monday, one fix a week.

Pick the line that sounds like you. Not sure? Text PJ and say who you are.

On October 22 we asked ChatGPT, with search on, 10 questions North County people ask. It cited SideGuy on 4 of them:

• Where is memory care in Carlsbad and Encinitas, and how do I check a home's State record?
• Silverado Encinitas memory care: inspections and complaints on the State record
• How much money does one solar panel make a day in San Diego?
• Who can help my elderly parent with computer and phone problems at home in Solana Beach or Encinitas?

The count moves: across the same 10 questions it went 5, then 1, then 4 of 10 between October 19 and 22. That is why one check isn't enough and the watch re-asks every week. In the last 7 days ChatGPT opened our pages live 189 times, and people clicked through from AI answers 9 times. A friend in Encinitas asked ChatGPT for new restaurants near Cedros and it named one from our new-restaurants page.

From SideGuy's own ChatGPT question log and site logs, read Nov 5, 2026. Your numbers will be different; we show you yours before anything changes.

1. Can AI read your site? PJ checks your robots.txt for each AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Siri), whether your host turns away automated readers, and whether your homepage carries business data an assistant can quote: phone, address, hours, the towns and a price.
2. Who does AI name today? Your customers' 10 questions asked in ChatGPT with search on, and the businesses it names.
3. The fix list, in plain English. Yours to keep, whether or not you hire us for the rest.

On October 24 we ran the first part on 20 North County venue and organization websites. None of them blocked the AI assistants, but 10 had no business data an assistant could quote and 12 had no tap-to-call or tap-to-text link. Readable is not the same as quotable.

Why your homepage, not a separate AI file. Some guides tell you to add an "AI context file" (llms.txt). We run one. In the 7 days to October 24, ChatGPT opened our homepage 140 times and our llms.txt 0 times, and none of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Apple's crawlers fetched it. So your business facts go where assistants actually read: the top of your homepage and each service page.

From SideGuy's own check of public pages (robots.txt and homepages, read with a plain browser identity), Oct 24, 2026, and our own site's access logs, Oct 18 to 24, 2026.

1. Your 10 questions. You text PJ your business and town; we write the 10 questions your customers actually ask, from what people type into Google and what your customers say.
2. Ask the AI. We ask ChatGPT with search on, plus Gemini and Perplexity, and record who gets named and which pages each answer read.
3. Fix your pages. The first two lines answer the question (what you do, the towns, a price or range, hours); an FAQ in your customers' own words; your name, address and phone the same everywhere; and a site that lets OpenAI's search crawler in.
4. Ask again. Day 7 and day 14, same questions. You get a before and after, in plain English.

No one can promise ChatGPT will name you. What we promise is the read, the fixes, and an honest before and after. Same guarantee as the SideGuy Hour: if it doesn't save you time or money, you don't pay.

1. Ask it. Open ChatGPT, turn on search, and type the question your best customer asked you last week. Who does it name?
2. Is the door open? Open yoursite.com/robots.txt. OpenAI says a site can allow its search crawler, OAI-SearchBot, "in order to appear in search results." A line that blocks OAI-SearchBot, or blocks everyone, keeps you out.
3. Your first two lines. Does your homepage say what you do, which towns, and a price or range, before anything else?

OpenAI's crawler rules: OpenAI, Overview of OpenAI Crawlers, read Nov 5, 2026.

• The first hour, free: can AI read and quote your site, who it names for your customers' questions today, and the fix list.
• ChatGPT Answer Check, $150 once: your 10 questions in three AI answer engines, who gets named and why, the fix list, and the first fixes done on your site (or written out for your web person).
• Answer Watch, $99 a month: the same 10 questions re-asked every Monday, one fix a week, and a two-line text with what moved. Cancel anytime.

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