Searchable · dated · re-scored monthly · St. Louis & St. Charles + Metro-East IL

When a customer asks AI for the best in your category, who does it name?

Pick your category and town below. You'll see the real, dated answer AI gave when a logged-out customer asked — who got named, in order, or whether the lane is still wide open and nobody's been named yet.

Why this matters: a study of 350,000+ businesses found AI names a specific local business only ~1.2% of the time on ChatGPT (~7.4% on Perplexity) — vs ~35.9% in Google's local pack. Source: SOCi 2026 Local Visibility Index. This is the St. Louis / St. Charles version of that finding — searchable and dated.

We measure who AI names; we don't sell rankings. Real results only — if we don't have your combo scored, we say so.

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Two outcomes — and which one you're in sets the whole play.

🟢 Wide open · AI names nobody

The lane is empty

Ask AI for the best in town and it names no specific business — just a generic "how to choose" checklist. Nobody owns the answer yet, so the first business that gets AI-ready can claim an empty space. An open lane is an opportunity, not a gap to be ashamed of.

🟡 Named · a short list exists

A leaderboard already exists

AI names a handful of specific businesses and stops. If you're on the list you're winning — and the first name tends to get the call. The names churn month to month, so being named once doesn't keep you named. Getting on the board is the work; staying on it is the play.

What this is (and isn't) — read this part

It's the anonymous baseline. Every result is what a new, logged-out user sees when they ask an AI assistant "best [category] in [town]." AI can personalize for signed-in users, so we track the public baseline consistently over time.
It's dated. Each result carries the date it was recorded. We re-score monthly, because empty lanes fill and named lists churn — a one-time snapshot would miss every move.
We list only what AI actually said. We never invent who AI named. If we don't have your category × town scored yet, it shows "not yet scored — request it free," never a made-up result.
We measure, we don't sell rankings. No guarantees, no "buy your way to #1." We show you where you stand and the one thing to fix first. That's it.
An open lane is opportunity, not shame. Being named is good; not being named yet just means the lane is open. We never frame any business as a loser.

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See who AI actually names when someone asks for the best business in your category around St. Louis / St. Charles — search your town free (and find the wide-open lanes nobody's claimed yet): https://carterstudio.io/leaderboard.html

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