Customers ask AI. Does it name you?
- 45%use AI to find local businesses (was 6%)
- 1 in 2buyers use AI search to decide
- 42%more likely to buy when they come from AI
- 2.4brands named in a typical ChatGPT answer
ChatGPT names about 2.4 brands per answer. Most businesses don’t make the list.
With an AI summary on Google, people clicked a link on 8% of visits, down from 15%.
ChatGPT and Google’s AI disagreed on brand picks for 62% of the same questions.
The same customer question, asked to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and more.
- 1Business A
- 2Business B
- 3Business C
- ?Your businessNot named
Visits from AI tools to US online stores grew 393% in a year.
Shoppers who came from AI were 42% more likely to buy than other visitors.
About a third of a typical product page is unreadable to AI tools.
Are you named? Who is named instead? Which pages did the AI trust?
A short to-do list instead of guesswork, then a re-check.
+0%
more visits from AI tools to US online stores, Jan–Mar 2026 vs. 2025
What is at stake for you
20
customers a month may ask AI first
$6,000
a month in customer value
How Digraph works
Something changed
Your visibility in ChatGPT
Competitor B is named instead.
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Sources
- BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026
- McKinsey, “New front door to the internet: Winning in the age of AI search”
- Adobe Digital Insights, April 16, 2026
- Pew Research Center, July 22, 2025
- BrightEdge, ChatGPT brand mentions vs. citations, August 14, 2025
- BrightEdge, ChatGPT vs. Google AI brand recommendations, August 27, 2025