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AI Visibility for San Jose HVAC contractors: 66.7% Are Invisible to ChatGPT

TalkedAbout scanned 6 HVAC contractors in San Jose to see how they appear when customers ask AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity for a recommendation. Here's what we found.

The numbers

• 3.5/100 — average AI visibility score
• 66.7% are effectively invisible — AI never recommends them
• 0% actively block AI crawlers in their robots.txt (AI literally can't read their site)

What this means for San Jose HVAC contractors

When someone in San Jose asks ChatGPT "who's the best HVAC contractor near me", AI names a handful of businesses — and there's no page two. If you're not one of them, a competitor is. Most owners have no idea whether AI recommends them, because there's no dashboard for it the way there is for Google.

How to check your own AI visibility

Run a free scan and TalkedAbout will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok about your business and email you your score in a few minutes.