Accountants in Los Angeles that AI assistants recommend
We asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok the four questions a buyer asks when looking for accountants in Los Angeles, three times each, in English, and counted who they named. These are the businesses named in two or more of the 48 answers.
Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.
- Answers
- 48
- Businesses named
- 42
- Named only once
- 21
- Named by 2+ assistants
- 16 of 21
- Named again on a rerun
- 43%
Edition September 2026. Download the data
Asked for accountants in Los Angeles, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok most often named HCVT (48% of answers), Moss Adams (33%) and Gumbiner Savett Inc. (33%). Across 48 answers they named 42 different businesses, 21 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in September 2026.
The ranking
Share is the fraction of the 48 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.
| # | Business | Share | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Grok | Questions | Avg. position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HCVTAlso written Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP, Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt, HCVT, LLC | 95%: 35 to 62% | 50% | 58% | 83% | 0% | 4 of 4 | 2.2 |
| 2 | Moss AdamsAlso written Moss Adams LLP, Moss Adams LLP — Los Angeles, Moss Adams Los Angeles | 95%: 22 to 48% | 58% | 67% | 0% | 8% | 3 of 4 | 1.8 |
| 3 | Gumbiner Savett Inc.Also written Gumbiner Savitzky & Co., Gumbiner Savitzky & Company | 95%: 22 to 48% | 42% | 17% | 75% | 0% | 4 of 4 | 3.8 |
| 4 | Green Hasson JanksAlso written Green Hasson Janks LLP | 95%: 15 to 39% | 17% | 0% | 75% | 8% | 4 of 4 | 1.9 |
| 5 | Miller KaplanAlso written Miller Kaplan Arase LLP | 95%: 15 to 39% | 8% | 8% | 83% | 0% | 4 of 4 | 3 |
| 6 | SingerLewakAlso written SingerLewak LLP | 95%: 13 to 37% | 8% | 0% | 67% | 17% | 3 of 4 | 3.7 |
| 7 | KROSTAlso written KROST CPAs & Consultants, Krost CPAs | 95%: 6 to 25% | 8% | 8% | 33% | 0% | 4 of 4 | 3.8 |
| 8 | Supporting Strategies | 95%: 5 to 22% | 25% | 17% | 0% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 2 |
| 9 | Windes | 95%: 3 to 20% | 17% | 17% | 0% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 2.8 |
| 10 | ArmaninoAlso written Armanino LLP | 95%: 3 to 20% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 17% | 2 of 4 | 3.3 |
| 11 | Kaufman RossinAlso written Kaufman Rossin Los Angeles | 95%: 2 to 17% | 17% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 2 |
| 12 | Squar MilnerAlso written Squar Milner LLP | 95%: 2 to 17% | 8% | 17% | 0% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 2 |
| 13 | Kruze Consulting | 95%: 2 to 17% | 8% | 8% | 8% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 3.3 |
| 14 | Ignite Spot Accounting | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 1 |
| 15 | The Bookkeeper LA | 95%: 1 to 14% | 8% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 1 |
| 16 | Harrington Group, CPAsAlso written Harrington Group CPAs | 95%: 1 to 14% | 8% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 1.5 |
| 17 | Bookkeeper360 | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 2 |
| 18 | inDinero | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 2.5 |
| 19 | KPMG LLP | 95%: 1 to 14% | 8% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 2 of 4 | 2.5 |
| 20 | AccountingDepartment.com | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 3 |
| 21 | Pilot | 95%: 1 to 14% | 0% | 0% | 17% | 0% | 1 of 4 | 4 |
Each assistant column is the share of that assistant's own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 21 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.
What each assistant said
The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.
| # | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Grok |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moss Adams58% | Moss Adams67% | HCVT83% | SingerLewak17% |
| 2 | HCVT50% | HCVT58% | Miller Kaplan83% | Armanino17% |
| 3 | Gumbiner Savett Inc.42% | Gumbiner Savett Inc.17% | Gumbiner Savett Inc.75% | Moss Adams8% |
| 4 | Supporting Strategies25% | Supporting Strategies17% | Green Hasson Janks75% | Green Hasson Janks8% |
| 5 | Green Hasson Janks17% | Windes17% | SingerLewak67% | No other name twice |
Grok named no business in 10 of its 12 answers.
Named here? Put it on your site
Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.
<a href="https://aigrow.gg/index/accountants/los-angeles"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/badges/index/2026-09/accountants/los-angeles.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Accountants in Los Angeles, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026"></a>The questions
Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant through its API. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.
- 1Who is the best accountant in Los Angeles?
- 2I run a small business in Los Angeles. Which accounting firm would you recommend?
- 3I need someone to do my taxes in Los Angeles. Which CPA should I use?
- 4Which bookkeeping service in Los Angeles would you recommend for a small company?
How to read this page
- What it measures
- Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
- Why the ranges matter
- 48 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
- One business, several spellings
- Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
- A name is wrong
- If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.
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Edition September 2026 · data under CC BY 4.0