How the Index stays neutral
What decides where a business stands in a ranking, what money cannot change, and how to correct a mistake. It applies to every page of the November 2026 edition.
A place in the Index comes only from the answers ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini gave: the share of answers that named a business, then its average position in them. No business can pay to appear, rise or be removed, and nothing AIGROW sells changes a ranking. Reporting a wrong name is free.
What decides a place
Three things, in this order. The first decides nearly every place; the other two only settle ties.
- Share of answers
- The fraction of answers that named the business. It comes first and outweighs the other two. Every answer from every assistant counts once, and an answer that names no business still counts, which lowers every share on the page.
- Average position
- Only between businesses with the same share: the one the answers named earlier comes first.
- Name
- Only when the share and the average position are both equal: alphabetical order.
What gets a business listed
- Two answers
- A business is listed once two or more answers name it. A name given only once counts in the page totals but is not shown.
- A ranked page
- A page is ranked only with at least 24 answers, fewer than 20% of calls failed and at least five businesses listed.
- Nothing added
- We add nothing to the answers: no reviews, ratings, distance or opinion of ours, and no extra weight for AIGROW customers. Answers given with web search on have their own column and do not count toward the share.
Places are never sold
The Index has no paid placement of any kind.
- To appear
- No business can pay to be listed. A name is on a page only because the assistants gave it.
- To rise
- No business can pay to move up. No payment changes a share, a position or a range.
- To be removed
- No one can pay to have a business taken out, their own or a competitor's. An owner who asks to be left out is treated the same whether or not they buy anything from us.
- Our services
- AIGROW sells scans, audits and done-for-you work. Buying them changes nothing in the Index, which is measured the same way for customers and for everyone else.
- Paid owner profiles
- If AIGROW ever offers a paid profile for owners, it will be marked as paid wherever it is shown and will never change a position, a share or the order of a ranking.
Correcting the record
- A wrong name
- If a name is misspelled, joins two businesses into one or is not a business at all, write to us with the page address. We check it against the stored answers and fix what they support when the page is next published.
- Wrong facts in an answer
- We print what the assistants said and never edit their answers. If they get your address, services or status wrong, the fix is in the public record they learn from: your website, your Google Business Profile and the directories of your trade. No one, us included, can promise whether or when an assistant will reflect the change.
- Any other error
- A figure, a link or a translation that looks wrong: tell us through the same form. Reports cost nothing and are handled the same way for everyone.
Which edition this describes
The rules and figures here are those of the November 2026 edition, published on 4 November 2026. Each edition counts its own answers, so every place is earned again.
See what they say about you
The free scan puts your customers' questions to the same assistants with the same prompt. Running it changes nothing in the Index.
Edition November 2026 · published by Guglielmo Paesano, founder of AIGROW · data under CC BY 4.0