You appear in 55.6% of AI homeowner searches for HVAC in Boston. When you don't show up, Boston Standard Plumbing, Back Bay Mechanical, and Atlantic Heating & Air Conditioning are getting those calls. This is what we fix.
Not a simulation. We asked the engines what a Boston homeowner would ask, and this is exactly what came back. Boston HVAC was missing from 4 of 9 answers shown. Every one of those is a call that went to the highlighted competitor instead.
Competitors highlighted in orange. Your business in teal, when it appears.
10 homeowner questions × 3 AI engines = 30 measurement points. Red = invisible. Yellow = partial. Green = cited.
Citation score across all AI engines, last 10 weeks. You vs industry average vs top HVAC competitor in Boston.
Real per-engine numbers from this audit. Each engine weights schema, citations, and review signal differently. Fight the lowest-scoring engine first.
| Engine | Score | Citation rate | Avg position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 66.7 /100 | 2 of 3 prompts | #2 | |
| Perplexity | 100.0 /100 | 3 of 3 prompts | #1 | |
| Claude | 0.0 /100 | 0 of 0 prompts | — | |
| Gemini | 0.0 /100 | 0 of 3 prompts | Not cited |
Built from this audit's actual numbers. Ranked by revenue impact. Step 1 is the highest-leverage move you can make this week.
Each row is a real homeowner query. HVAC Boston. Real AI response. Real competitor getting the call.
| Question | Winning competitor | Their position | You |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 "Best HVAC company in Boston" | Atlantic Heating & Air Conditioning | Position #1 | You: not cited |
| #2 "Affordable furnace repair Boston" | Cooling & Heating Company | Position #3 | You: not cited |
| #3 "Heat pump installer near Boston" | Boston Standard Plumbing | Position #1 | You: not cited |
| #4 "Emergency AC repair Boston" | Boston Standard Plumbing & Heating | Position #1 | You: not cited |
| #5 "Top rated HVAC contractor Boston" | Atlantic Heating & Air Conditioning | Position #3 | You: not cited |
| #6 "HVAC tune-up service Boston" | Boston Standard Plumbing | Position #3 | You: not cited |
| #7 "Best heating company Boston" | Back Bay Mechanical | Position #1 | You: not cited |
| #8 "Trusted HVAC technicians Boston" | Boston Standard Plumbing | Position #2 | You: not cited |
| #9 "HVAC maintenance plan Boston" | Cooling & Heating Company | Position #1 | You: not cited |
| #10 "AC not cooling who to call Boston" | Back Bay Mechanical | Position #1 | You: not cited |
Where you rank against HVAC competitors in Boston. Score is composite across all AI engines.
| Rank | Score | Mentioned Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Boston HVAC YOU | 67.9 | 5 cites | |
| #2 Boston Standard Plumbing | 37.5 | 4 cites | |
| #3 Back Bay Mechanical | 31.2 | 3 cites | |
| #4 Boston Standard Plumbing & Heating | 31.2 | 1 cites | |
| #5 Atlantic Heating & Air Conditioning | 27.9 | 2 cites | |
| #6 Cooling & Heating Company | 26.0 | 2 cites |
Four things AI engines check when a homeowner asks for hvac service. You're failing on the ones that matter most.
In 30 AI homeowner queries, your business was cited 5 times. Industry top performers: 15-25.
When AI does mention you, is the phone number, address, and hours correct? Or is it sending homeowners to a wrong number?
How dominant your competitors are in the AI answer slot. The lower this is, the more concentrated the market.
AI engines need JSON-LD schema, GBP completeness, and consistent NAP across 30+ data sources to trust you. Most contractors have none of this.
Different engines reward different signals. Spending time on the wrong one is how most operators waste a quarter.
Four mechanisms running every week. Proprietary method. Same protocol used to lift scores 30-50 points in 45-60 days.
Based on 2,400 AI homeowner searches/mo for hvac in Boston, average ticket $1,200, 2.5% close rate. Your real audit pulls actual local search volume.
If Mentioned gets you ONE extra service call per month from AI search, here's the return.
Most hvac operators sign 4-12 AI-attributed jobs/mo by month 3. One job pays for the year.
31% of homeowners now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini for local service recommendations. That number is projected to hit 60%+ by 2027 (Pew, McKinsey). Google's market share for local "best [trade] near me" queries has dropped 14 points in 18 months.
Local businesses spent the last 20 years optimizing for Google. Now they need to optimize for AI — and almost none of them have. Mentioned is the layer between local service operators and the AI engines that homeowners use to find them. Same role Yext played for Google search.
Every audit feeds public rankings. Operators climb. Homeowners discover. The category gets transparent.
When Mentioned subscribers move up, the public leaderboard reflects it. SEO + LLM citation flywheel.
Every penny back. No clawback. No "but you have to keep paying." If the mechanism doesn't work for you, we eat the cost. That's how confident we are.
I'll walk you through your real Mentioned Score, show you the gap to top quartile, and answer the "yeah but does this work for [my trade]" question on the call. No sales pitch. 15 minutes.
Enter your business. Mentioned runs the full audit in 90 seconds and emails you the report. No card, no commitment.