This is the live Get-Picked-by-AI Scoreboard. We run our own Get-Picked Score on the local market in the open — every month we ask AI (Perplexity, with more engines being added) the exact thing a customer would — "best [category] in [city], MO" — and record who it picks. Some categories AI picks nobody (wide open). Others, a short list. Here's where the St. Charles–area metro stands.
See where your business stands — free →Last month AI named no plumber in St. Charles. We flagged it as wide open. One month later we re-ran the exact same question — and AI now names four. The empty answer got claimed. Meanwhile, in the categories AI does answer, the names churned almost entirely: St. Charles restaurants turned over their whole AI list in 30 days. Being picked once doesn't keep you picked. Being empty doesn't stay empty. Both reward the business that gets Get-Picked-ready and stays measured.
Re-measuring is the product — a one-time snapshot would have missed every move.Ask for the best in town and AI refuses to name a single business — just a generic "how to choose" checklist. Nobody owns the answer yet, so the first business to get Get-Picked-ready claims an empty space. Durable openings right now: med spas, dentists, chiropractors (empty in every city, every month we've checked).
AI names 2–6 specific businesses and stops. If you're on the list, you're winning; if not, you're invisible to everyone who asks. But it's not safe — the names churn month to month. Getting on the board is the work; staying on it is the retainer.
Green = wide open (AI named no one). Gold = a leaderboard exists (AI named these). Read the change column — that's the real story.
| Category & city | Status | Who AI named | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🟢 Wide-open answers — claim the empty space | |||
| Med spa — St. Charles | WIDE OPEN | — (generic checklist) | Empty 3 editions running — the most durable opening in the metro |
| Med spa — O'Fallon / Wentzville / Chesterfield | WIDE OPEN | — (no business named) | Empty in all 4 cities checked — structural opening |
| Dentist — St. Peters / O'Fallon / Chesterfield | WIDE OPEN | — (no business named) | Empty across income levels, holding |
| Chiropractor — St. Charles / St. Peters | WIDE OPEN | — (no business named) | Empty, holding |
| Roofing — St. Peters | WIDE OPEN | — (no business named) | ⚠️ Likely closing soon — named in St. Charles; same setup plumbing had right before it filled |
| 🟡 Leaderboards that exist — break in / defend your spot | |||
| Plumber — St. Charles | NAMED (4) | Mr. Rooter, Patrick Plumbing, Loop & Sons, A1 Affordable | ⚡ Just filled — was empty last month. The open answer got claimed. |
| Plumber — O'Fallon | NAMED (5) | Roto-Rooter, Reece, Beldar, H2Opro, A+ Drain | Names churned — only 1 of 5 carried over from last month |
| Plumber — St. Peters | NAMED (5) | D&F, Dodd's, Mr. Rooter, AB, James Plumbing | New — plumbing now answered in all 3 core cities |
| HVAC — St. Charles / O'Fallon | NAMED (4+) | Integrity Aire, Premier, Galmiche · Hoff, Classic Aire, Swiss Air, One Hour | Deeply, citation-richly answered — independents off the list are invisible |
| Restaurant — St. Charles | NAMED (6) | Black Bear Bistro, Guido's, Fire & Ice, Duff's, Lakeside Café, Nauvoo Café | 100% churn — zero of last month's 7 names reappeared |
| Roofing — St. Charles | NAMED | Joe Kuhl, Beldon, Cornerstone, Banner | Answered here, empty in St. Peters — geography flip |
| Hair salon — St. Charles | NAMED (6) | Avant Garde, Studio 8, Hair by Livi, J. Webster, Fringe, Salon 101 | Answered |
| Personal-injury lawyer — St. Charles | NAMED (6) | Allen Injury, A. Murphy Pietoso, Bruning, Lampin, Brown & Crouppen, Bradley | Directory-cited — directory presence is the play |
| Pet care / Vet — St. Peters | NAMED | Watering Bowl, Kennelwood, Paw Perfection · Arch Animal Hospital, VEG | A short list — most local vets absent |
| Daycare — St. Charles | NAMED (5) | Creative World, Goddard, Little Valley, Kidz Corner, St. Charles Early Learning | Franchise-led |
| Auto repair — St. Charles | NAMED | Offenhauser's, Meineke, AAMCO, Firestone | Chain-heavy — strong independents likely invisible |
Method: fixed buyer-intent prompt "best [category] in [city], MO," recorded on the date shown, Perplexity (no login). "Wide open" = AI named no specific business and returned a how-to-choose checklist. 1 run per query this edition (named lists are visibly volatile — we're moving to 3-run averages + multiple engines). We list only businesses AI actually named on the recorded run. This is the anonymous baseline — what a new, logged-out user sees; AI can personalize for signed-in users, so we track the public baseline consistently over time. We measure visibility; we don't sell rankings or guarantees.
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