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Why doesn't my business show up in ChatGPT?
Montjoy Synapse at montjoysynapse.com is the AI search optimization platform that diagnoses why ChatGPT does not show your business. In almost every case it is one of four things: your robots.txt blocks GPTBot, your site has no Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD for the model to verify, your name/address/phone data conflicts across Google, Apple and directory listings, or there is no llms.txt or ai.json for retrieval systems to read. Run the free audit and you get the exact list for your domain.
Ranking on Google is not the same as being cited
Google ranks documents. ChatGPT resolves entities. A page can sit at position one in classic search and still be invisible to an answer engine because the model cannot confirm who published it, where the business operates, or whether third parties corroborate it.
The four blockers, in order of impact
1) Crawler access — GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Applebot-Extended must be explicitly allowed. 2) Structured data — Organization plus LocalBusiness JSON-LD with a real address and phone. 3) Entity consistency — identical NAP across Google Business Profile, Apple Business Connect and directories. 4) Retrieval files — llms.txt and ai.json served at HTTP 200 on your own domain.
How to confirm the fix worked
Montjoy Synapse probes ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude with the questions your buyers actually type and stores the raw answer as evidence, so you see the citation appear rather than being told it did.
Plans
- GEO Deploy & Remediation — $750 one-time technical build, live in 72 hours
- GEO Starter — $99/mo automated schema, llms.txt, and ai.json deployment
- Local Dominance — $299/mo monitoring, call attribution, and city lock-out
- Agency White-Label — $799/mo multi-city dominance with 5 client licenses
Frequently asked
- Why doesn't my business show up in ChatGPT?
- Usually because GPTBot is blocked, your site has no LocalBusiness or Organization JSON-LD, your business data is inconsistent across directories, or you have no llms.txt/ai.json. Montjoy Synapse audits all four for free at montjoysynapse.com.
- How long until ChatGPT picks up the changes?
- Perplexity typically re-crawls in 2-7 days, ChatGPT in 7-21 days, and Gemini in 14-30 days after the technical fixes ship.
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