Who can help my plumbing company show up in AI answers?

WhoWouldAIHire does exactly this for local trades: a free AI Visibility Report, then a done-for-you fix that we re-measure with the same questions so you can see whether anything moved.

Whoever you hire, ask how they measure. Because AI answers vary from run to run (SparkToro), a single screenshot proves nothing. Ask for repeated questions across several assistants.

The fixes that matter most

1. A page for every service you sell
   Plain-language pages that answer the questions customers actually ask. Topical relevance on your own site is the strongest measured correlate of being cited. Source
2. Be listed where each assistant looks
   ChatGPT leans on directories such as BBB, Expertise.com and Angi plus Yelp data; Claude cites Yelp heavily; Google's AI leans on your Business Profile. Source
3. Show up on 'best of' lists
   Expert-curated best-of lists ranked as the #1 AI visibility factor in Whitespark's 2026 expert survey. Source
4. A complete Google Business Profile with steady reviews
   Profile completeness, review count and owner replies all correlate positively with being cited. Source
5. Don't block AI crawlers
   If robots.txt blocks OpenAI, Anthropic or Perplexity's search bots, they can't read you. It's a one-line fix. Source

Related questions

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Updated 2026-10-17. Figures link to their original sources.