Cheers Research

Local AI visibility, measured in public

We track whether local businesses get named in AI recommendations, whether the answer cites them, and what moves either number. The first edition, corrected on September 28, 2026, covers 13 home-services companies and the 183 locations they track across 958,754 AI answers, plus 356,019 citations collected in 100 metros. Aggregates only, and never a customer by name.

Published September 2, 2026Last verified September 28, 2026Read the methodology

The work

Three pages, one standard

Home Services Index 2026

The first Cheers benchmark, last corrected September 28, 2026: appearance and citation rates for 13 home-services companies by engine, prompt shape, and week, with branded prompts left out, plus review velocity and what four engines cite in 100 metros.

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AI Visibility Statistics

Dated figures on AI search adoption, local recommendations, reviews, and the Cheers production panel, each carrying its own source and checked date.

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Research Methodology

Panel definitions, the difference between company and pooled rates, the domain classification, the ten-company floor, and the refresh record.

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The panel

Built for decisions at the market level

What we measure

Appearance and citation rates for 13 home-services companies in the 28 days ending September 2, 2026, each company counted once however many locations it runs. Review velocity comes from the same production database over 90 days. A separate Cheers-owned baseline records which domains four engines cite in 100 metro service areas.

How often we update

Quarterly. Each figure carries its own source line and last-verified date, because the products, panels, and consumer habits behind AI search do not hold still. When a number gets superseded, we say so on the page instead of quietly swapping it.

The rule is simple: a published Cheers number must represent at least 10 companies. Smaller cells are named as suppressed rather than merged, and this edition suppressed 24 of them. Read the full Cheers Research methodology.

Changelog

Edition history

Edition September 2, 2026

Corrected September 28, 2026. The first pull counted 119 account records as brands and repeated AI answers two to three times. The corrected count also removes branded prompts (questions that name the company itself), a Cheers test account, and every answer from before July 20, when an enrichment defect was still counting competitor names as the tracked business. Each answer and each company now counts once, and cells need ten companies. The correction note lists what changed.

First pulled from Cheers production on September 3, 2026 at 04:05 UTC. Opened Cheers Research with the first Home Services AI Visibility Index, a sourcebook of 31 panel figures and 25 figures from 7 public sources, and the methodology.