The homeowner whose pool turned over a long weekend and the one who just closed on a house with equipment they cannot name are both asking an assistant before they ask a neighbor. This checker asks Google's Gemini, with live web search, the questions that come right before that call, and shows whether your company gets named, and if not, who does.
Run the free tool ↓Enter the company name as your license and your Google listing print it, the town your route actually reaches, and the work the way a homeowner would say it: weekly pool service, green pool cleanup, pool pump repair, pool resurfacing. Add the website if you want a sharper match, expect the answer inside a minute, and there is no email wall in front of it.
Prefer a full page? Open the AI Visibility Checker tool here.
It asks what a homeowner asks, in the order they ask it: who are the best pool companies in your city, which one should I call, and who is top rated on reviews. It prints an excerpt of each answer, so you read what they read before the phone rings.
Back comes a verdict, one of AI is not recommending you, you are only partly visible, or AI is recommending you, a count of how many answers named your business, the companies recommended in your place in ranked order, and, under each question, the domains the answer drew on. Start with those domains: review platforms, a franchise roster, two competitors' own sites, and yours nowhere among them means your pages were never part of what the model read.
Then press Check another business and change one word. Pool service is at least four businesses on one phone number: the weekly route, chemical only, green pool recovery, and equipment repair, with builds and commercial work off to the side. Each wording returns its own list of names. How the check works is covered on the main AI Visibility Checker page.
No industry average exists for this check, and anyone quoting one at you invented it. Measure against one thing: the names that came back for your own town, for the words you typed.
A strong read: your name in all three answers, your own site among the source domains, and answer text describing the company you actually run, down to the pool types you take and whether you repair equipment or only clean. A weak one reads AI is not recommending you, zero answers mention you, and the companies listed instead include two you could swear run no accounts in town. A franchise with a page for every suburb hands a model plenty to repeat. An eleven year operator whose license number lives inside a footer graphic hands it nothing.
Two catches, both particular to pool work. A company the answer sums up as pool cleaning has been quietly sorted out of the repair and renovation work that carries the margin, whatever the truck says. And being named across an entire metro when your book is three zip codes of route density is not the win it looks like: named where you cannot drive profitably sells nothing.
Both runs below are invented, and both show only output the tool actually prints.
Say a two truck route company in a year round market, eleven years in, weekly accounts plus repair work. Entered as pool service plus the city, it draws AI is not recommending you: none of the three answers names it, six other companies stack the list, and every source is a review platform or a directory. The website explains it. One services page stacking cleaning, chemicals, green pool recovery, and repair, a service area that is a shaded map image with no town as text, and a plan described as customized to your pool with no line items. Nothing there is false. It is simply not readable.
Now imagine a company that also builds and resurfaces. Entered as pool remodeling it takes all three answers, its own domain sitting in the sources, because its project pages spell out surface, tile, and town. Entered as weekly pool service it falls to one of three. Entered as commercial pool service it drops out entirely, having never written a sentence about HOAs, health department rules, or the certified operator requirement its techs already satisfy.
Neither run is a score. It shows you the lane you are missing from and who is parked in it. Closing it is ordinary work: a page per offer in the words homeowners use, license and insurance written as text, service days by area, LocalBusiness and FAQ schema, an llms.txt file, and robots.txt rules that let the AI crawlers in. Together that goes by AI search optimization, and the readiness scanner grades the structural pieces on their own.
New accounts in this trade tend to arrive the same way: the last company stopped showing up, skipped weeks, or kept billing while the water went green. That person is shopping for somebody who will turn up. An assistant builds its answer out of whatever is written down, so write down what they are actually asking.
Two calendars, two jobs for one site: in year round markets demand changes shape instead of stopping, algae in the heat, debris and outages in storm season, while freeze markets turn on spring openings and fall closings that fill before the weather settles. Either way the chemistry questions have been absorbed by the assistants themselves. The route questions have not. The full argument for this trade sits on the pool service page. Local SEO and your Google Business Profile carry the same weight here, where pool cleaning service, swimming pool repair service, and swimming pool contractor are separate categories worth getting right.
The checker itself costs nothing. It is one of more than 50 free tools we publish, and none of them sit behind an email wall. Fixing what it finds does cost, either your own evenings or hired hours.
The ranges we publish: a custom website build runs $3,500 to $12,000+ one time. Ongoing SEO or local SEO runs $1,500 to $3,500 per month for most businesses, and $3,500 to $7,500 per month in competitive metros or for multi-location companies. Most workhorse custom tools run $1,500 to $4,000, the bracket a real quote intake falls into: pool size, surface, tree cover, salt or chlorine, and two photographs, the pool and the equipment pad. Everything is month to month, no long-term contract, and the site, the content, and the accounts stay in your name.
For plenty of pool companies the budget already exists. A shared lead app sells the same green pool to four route companies at once. Lead generation you own puts that spend into pages nobody can resell. Google Ads stays the lever you push when a truck has open stops, and there is no published management fee here because we quote flat after a free consult rather than billing a percentage of spend, which would earn more every time you raise the budget in algae season. See what SEO costs and the website report card for pool companies.
Run each as its own check. Pool service is the crowded question: franchise brands and marketplace rosters tend to fill that answer before any route company gets a line. Weekly cleaning, green pool cleanup, pump repair, salt cell replacement, and resurfacing are narrower, and narrower is where an independent gets named. Compare the name lists, not the verdicts.
Not the recommendation itself. Google does sell ads in and around AI answers, so paid placement exists on those screens and beside them, and any pool company can buy it. What no budget buys is the organic answer. The names inside it are earned by what a model can read about you and verify elsewhere, and nobody, us included, can promise you one.
Check the towns one at a time, entered the way a homeowner says them, not as the county. Towns with real density and a real page come back differently from the ones living inside a service area dropdown. If a town you do not want keeps naming you, leave it alone. If a town right on your line never does, that is the page to write next.
That deserves more attention than the verdict. It means the answer got assembled from the only thing your site states clearly. Run pool builder, pool remodeling, and pool resurfacing as separate checks. If the build work lives in a photo gallery with no words around it, there is nothing for a model to read back.
It runs, but read it differently. HOA boards, property managers, and hotel maintenance directors do not search the way a homeowner does, and this tool asks homeowner questions. A commercial check is good for one thing: seeing whether anyone local gets named at all. If it names nobody, that lane is unclaimed, and a page on what your operators are certified to touch is the thing to write.
Neither notice is a verdict on your company. A setup message means the checker itself is down for the moment, and a limit message means the free checks are spent until tomorrow. Run it again later, or the next morning if it was the limit. If you need to know this week, call or text (407) 694-2055 and I will run your route terms by hand.
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Paste me the name lists your runs came back with, one per service, and I will tell you which gaps read as a missing page and which read as a listings problem. I am Orlando based, working with local service businesses nationwide since 2008, and the free concept mockup of your homepage is yours to keep either way.
Book a free consultation → Or call/text directly: (407) 694-2055Tell us a little about the business and we will come back with an honest read: what we would fix first, what it costs, and whether you need us at all. Prefer to see work before you talk numbers? Get a free homepage mockup, built for your business, yours to keep either way.
Brandon reads every one of these himself. You will hear back shortly with an honest read on what we would do first, what it costs, and whether it is worth it for you.