Denver auto repair: what AI answers look like

What we saw

• For broad questions like “best auto repair in Denver”, Google AI Mode named shops with a lot of reviews and high ratings.
• For narrower questions, such as a make or a specialty, the named shops had far fewer reviews.
• ChatGPT and Google AI Mode often named different shops for the same question.

Source: Go-To Local test, November 2026, of ChatGPT (set to Colorado) and Google AI Mode (set to Denver). Each question was asked once. One run is a snapshot, not a trend, and we publish no figures from it.

We aren't printing review counts or medians. We don't hold a logged probe file for them yet. When we do, each figure will read “named in n of N, engine, date.”

What this means for a shop

An answer names a short list, so the slots are few. A broad question favors shops with a lot of reviews. A narrow question about a specialty or a neighborhood can name shops with fewer. We work on the narrow ones, and we sell one shop per neighborhood so we never sell the same slot twice.

This doesn't mean any shop will be named. One test, run once, can't show that. How we measure says what we'd count.

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