Which local businesses does AI recommend?
We ask the questions real customers ask, then track which local businesses AI names, and how well it understands them. This week we measured 50 markets across 10 metros and 5 industries, ranking 12381 businesses in all, the week of Friday, October 2, 2026.
Browse by industry and metro
Pick an industry, then a metro, to see which businesses AI recommends and how well it understands them.
Who AI puts first
The businesses AI recommends most in their market, and the ones it understands best across the buyer journey.
Every market we measure
Every market we measure, most-recommended business first. Pick a market to see the full leaderboard, the depth scores, and where AI gets a business wrong.
Biggest movers
Where AI shifted who it recommends this week. A climb means AI named the business across more customer questions than the week before; a slip means fewer.
How to show up in AI
Data-led playbooks for each market: what the assistants get wrong about businesses like yours, and the concrete steps to fix it.
What the index answers
How does the AI Visibility Index measure local businesses?
Which markets does the index cover?
Is a ranking here an endorsement by Courtyard?
How the index is measured
24 real customer prompts per market, put to each assistant twice, every week. We never name a business; we watch which ones AI names.
Share of voice weighs how often and how prominently a business is recommended across every prompt and assistant, on a trailing average. Rank comes from what the AI actually says, not its local-pack widget.
For the leaders we run a buyer's decision journey and grade how well AI can carry a customer to a booking. It measures AI's output, not our opinion of the business.