AI Visibility Snapshot · Sample report

A 147-Year-Old Chicago Mechanical Contractor

Prepared August 17, 2026 · AIEO Services · aieoservices.com

We asked the AI engines your customers now use the question that matters most to your business. This is what happened.

The question

"best commercial HVAC and mechanical contractor in the Chicago area"
Result: not mentioned

Perplexity's number-one commercial pick was Hayes Mechanical, chosen explicitly because it "has operated since 1918." This firm has operated since 1879 - 39 years longer - and was not mentioned. The engine rewarded exactly the credential you hold most of, and it does not know you hold it.

Who the engines named instead

Hayes Mechanical (top pick)Eco Temp HVACCosmic HVACTabor's Complete Comfort Mechanical

Facility managers and GCs increasingly shortlist via AI before any RFP. Absence from those answers is absence from the consideration set.

Why this happens

AI engines do not rank pages; they compose recommendations from what they can read and verify: structured data on your site, consistent listings, review text, and third-party mentions. A 147-Year-Old Chicago Mechanical Contractor has 147 years of the strongest trust story in the Chicago area commercial HVAC and mechanical contracting, and almost none of it exists in the formats these engines synthesize from. The engines are not ignoring you; they cannot see you.

The first three fixes

  1. Entity and schema: your service lines (HVAC, refrigeration, building automation) need to exist as machine-readable facts, not brochure prose.
  2. The 1879 story, told where machines read: engines quote verifiable history. Yours is longer than everyone they currently recommend.
  3. B2B citations: the trade directories and association listings engines source for commercial contracting are nearly empty for this firm.
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