When customers ask AI for a plumber, are you named?
A leaking water heater at 9 p.m. is exactly when people ask an AI assistant who to call. Our free check asks Google Gemini with live web search 8 customer-style questions about your city and shows whether your company comes up, and who comes up instead.
Questions your customers ask AI
Examples of the kinds of questions homeowners and property managers ask AI assistants. The free check uses questions like these, written for your city.
- My water heater is leaking. Who's a reliable plumber near me who can come today?
- Best 24-hour emergency plumber in [your city]
- Who do people recommend for sewer line repair in [your city]?
- Licensed plumber near me for a bathroom remodel
- Affordable plumber for a clogged kitchen drain in [your city]
- Who installs tankless water heaters in [your city] with good reviews?
- Which plumbers in [your city] give upfront pricing?
- Is [your company] a good plumber?
Sources AI tends to cite
For plumbing questions, AI answers with live web search commonly draw on the source types below. Which ones actually appear varies by city and by question, so treat this as a checklist, not a ranking factor list.
Google Business Profile
Service area, hours, categories and reviews. Commonly used for "near me", "open now" and emergency questions.
Service area lists the cities you really cover, and 24/7 hours are shown only if you offer them.
Angi
A home-services marketplace with pro profiles and reviews. It commonly appears in answers about hiring contractors.
Profile is claimed, services match what you actually do and contact details match your site.
Yelp
A general review site that commonly shows up in local recommendations for home services.
Business page is claimed, categories and service area are correct, and hours match Google.
BBB and Nextdoor
Better Business Bureau profiles and neighborhood recommendations sometimes appear as trust signals for local trades.
BBB profile details are current, and your Nextdoor business page uses your exact company name.
Your website and local news
Service and service-area pages give AI specific facts to quote. Local news or community mentions sometimes appear as supporting sources.
A page for each core service, a service-area page naming your cities, and your license number visible.
Which sources show up for you?
Every city is different. The free check shows which sources Google Gemini with live web search cited, where available. The full report shows each question with the AI’s verbatim answer and the sources it cited.
Run your free check →Three common gaps
Patterns that commonly hold plumbing companies back in AI answers. Your check shows which ones apply to you.
An unclear service area
What it isThe website says "serving the greater area" and the Google profile lists one city, so AI can't tell whether you cover a customer's neighborhood.
Set your real service area on Google, and add a service-area page that names the cities and neighborhoods you cover.
Hours that don't match
What it isYour site says 24/7 emergency service, but Google and Yelp show 8 to 5. Conflicting details make it harder for AI to recommend you for urgent jobs.
Pick one accurate set of hours, including emergency availability, and use it everywhere: website, Google, Yelp, Angi and BBB.
Trust details that are hard to find
What it isLicense number, insurance, warranties and pricing approach aren't on your site, and directory profiles have few recent reviews.
Show license and insurance details on your site, describe how you price jobs, and if a platform allows it, ask every customer for a review after the job, the same way and with no rewards attached.
Example result
This is what a free check result looks like. The business, competitor and numbers below are fictional.
63/100
Grade C
Weights: Visibility 30%, Position 30%, Sentiment 20%, Sources 20%. How the score works
In this example, the company came up in half of the answers with positive descriptions, but a competitor was named in 7 of 8, including every emergency question.
Plumbers: common questions
Yes. When people ask for a plumber, AI assistants with web search often name a few local companies. Whether yours is one of them depends on what the AI can find and trust about you online. Our check tests one engine: Google Gemini with live web search.
The questions are written for your business category and city, so a plumbing company gets customer-style questions, such as emergency calls, repairs or installations, rather than generic ones. The free check asks 8 of them; the full report runs up to 16 with live search for $69 + applicable sales tax.
These sites commonly appear among the sources cited for home-service questions. We can't tell you how much weight any AI engine gives them. Your free check shows which sources were cited, where available.
Each check covers one city. Start with the city where you most want new jobs, then run another check for other cities if you like.
Only advertise it if you actually offer it, and show the same hours everywhere. Urgent questions like "emergency plumber open now" are common, and conflicting hours across your website, Google and directories make it harder to present you as an option.
There's no fixed timeline, and no one can promise that changes will lead to more mentions. AI systems pick up updated web pages and listings at different speeds. A practical approach is to fix the gaps, wait a few weeks, then run the free check again to compare.