AI visibility for local businesses

Become nameworthy.

Be the name AI gives when a customer asks who to hire. We show you where you stand across six engines — and do the work to put you in the answer.

Free · six engines · in 48 hours · no call required

What AI says about you
“best family lawyer in Pasadena”
ChatGPTRecommended · #2
Google AI OverviewsNot shown
AI ModeRecommended · #4
GeminiNot shown
PerplexityCited, not named
ClaudeNot shown
Recommended on 2 of 6 — and we show you every run, with the sources each one pulled.

The measurement is the point.

Most businesses are praised when a customer asks about them by name — and invisible when the customer asks who to hire.

~11,000
AI citations analyzed across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to build the method behind Nameworthy.
Nameworthy benchmark, 2026
74%
of the sources ChatGPT cites are replaced every week. A citation you win once must be actively held.
SISTRIX, 82,619 prompts over 17 weeks
<42%
of the time do two engines name the same top business. Winning one says nothing about the others.
Cross-model agreement study, 2026

Our research.

We ran the study nobody else has.

Before we take on a business, we measure its market. This is the first of our published field studies — one market, fully mapped, every run logged.

Field Study 01

The State of AI Visibility in Pasadena Family Law

180 logged queries · 6 AI surfaces · July 2026

The six engines crowned four different market leaders. A business can top ChatGPT and be named zero times on Gemini and Perplexity.

43

Of 45 informational answers, 43 named no local business at all — open territory a single well-built page could own.

0

Businesses appeared on the “free consultation” question, though every competitor who advertises one was read out by name.

Read the research →

No black box.

Exactly how we work.

Four stages, all shown. You see the method before you ever pay for the outcome.

Stage 01Measure

Twenty-five of your customers’ real questions, run three times each across six AI surfaces under controlled conditions. Every answer logged and screenshotted.

Stage 02Diagnose

We report, per engine, where you appear and who wins instead — and trace each gap to its cause: a directory profile, a missing page, a price nobody published.

Stage 03Fix

We write the pages and complete the profiles that make you the quotable source. Every change lands in your inbox for approval before it publishes.

Stage 04Hold

Each month we re-run the panel and refresh what decayed. You watch invisible progress become a measured line.

Read the full method →

The exclusivity rule.

We take one business per category, per city.

You’re hiring us to become the answer when someone asks AI for the best in your category near them. We can’t make you that answer and your competitor too — it’s the same question, the same short list. So we don’t. One per category, per city: yours, or theirs.

One category × one city = one client.When your slot is taken, it’s taken. We’ll tell you straight if a competitor got there first.

Only ever on your side

Every pattern we uncover about winning your market is spent making you the cited answer — never hedged across the businesses you’re up against.

The slot is finite

AI hands back a short list, not a directory. There’s room for a few names, and the ones already cited get cited again. Winning early compounds.

First mover compounds

The businesses already cited tend to get cited again, so an early lead builds on itself. It still has to be actively held — but start first and your competitor is the one playing catch-up.

See if your category is open in your city →

Perplexity read this business’s website nine times in a single week — and never once named it.
— from a live Nameworthy panel, Pasadena family law, July 2026. The page was retrieved; it had nothing quotable to lift.

A person, not a platform.

Joe Balewski, founder of Nameworthy

Joe Balewski

Nameworthy is run by one accountable person, operating as Whitley Row LLC. The method didn’t start as a service — it started as a question: when an AI recommends a business, whose sources is it actually pulling from? That became a benchmark of roughly eleven thousand citations, and then this practice.

The category is full of automation that removes the person on purpose. This is built the other way: a named human runs your measurement, writes the fixes, and puts their name on the work. Nothing publishes to your site without your approval.

Joe Balewski

Built for work that can’t leak.

Your data stays yours.

We work the way a serious business needs a vendor to work. Confidential information never goes into an AI tool. Every published change carries your documented approval before it goes live. We work under NDA, and anything can be pulled instantly. This is a drafting and measurement practice — not legal, financial, or professional advice.

Find out what AI tells your next customer about you.

Twenty-five real questions, six engines, forty-eight hours. No charge, and no pitch required.

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