Across 24 probes, Ridgeline Plumbing was named and a competitor was named instead in 11. The gap is concentrated in two fixable pillars: the sources engines cite about the business are thin and partly wrong, and the site gives AI crawlers nothing structured to read.
Six weighted checks totalling 100 points.
| Pillar | Score | Level | Finding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Answer presence | 9 / 30 | Named in 29% of probes | |
| Citation footprint | 8 / 20 | Thin — review sites only | |
| Competitive share | 4 / 15 | Rivals win 11 prompts | |
| Factual accuracy | 7 / 15 | 3 wrong facts repeated | |
| Sentiment | 7 / 10 | Positive when named | |
| AI readiness | 3 / 10 | No llms.txt, no schema |
Every tracked buyer question against every engine. 1 named first · ✓ mentioned · · absent · ✕ competitor named instead.
| Prompt | GPT | AIO | GEM | PPX | CLD | COP | GRK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGHbest emergency plumber in Denver | ✕ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| HIGHwho can fix a burst pipe near me | · | ✕ | · | · | · | · | · |
| MEDtrusted plumber for water heater install | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 | · | · | · |
| MEDaffordable drain cleaning Denver CO | ✕ | · | ✕ | · | · | · | · |
| HIGH24 hour plumber open now | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| MEDlicensed plumber with good reviews Denver | ✓ | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · |
| LOWplumber for old house repiping | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| LOWsewer line inspection cost Denver | ✕ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · |
| Source | Pulls | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yelp | 14× | stale | Hours outdated since March |
| Angi | 11× | ok | Complete listing |
| Google Business | 9× | ok | Primary category correct |
| BBB | 6× | missing | No profile found |
| Reddit r/Denver | 4× | risk | One unanswered complaint |
| ridgelineplumb.com | 3× | stale | No service-area page |
Ranked by points won per hour of effort. Completing all six should lift the score to roughly 74.
Each tracked prompt was submitted to 4 answer engines the way a customer would phrase it, through each provider's own grounded search, and every response was parsed for business names, cited sources and factual claims. Answer engines are non-deterministic: individual probes vary between runs, so a single-point movement is noise and the direction across repeated scans is the signal. Nothing was posted, changed or scraped on any of the business's own listings.
All figures in this document are sample data from an AskRank prototype.