Before
1 March 2026: named in 3 of 32 AI answers (9.4%). ChatGPT named it in 2 of 8 answers and Gemini in 1. Claude and Perplexity didn’t name it at all.
Stone countertops · Charlotte, North Carolina · Mar–Sep 2026
Named in 31 of 32 AI answers, up from 3
In March, AI assistants hardly ever named Universal Stone when asked about countertops in Charlotte. By late September, they named it in 31 of 32 answers.
- 96.9%AI answers that named Universal Stone (31 of 32), up from 9.4%28 Sep 2026
- 8 of 8Claude and Perplexity answers that named it, each up from 0 of 828 Sep 2026
- 5thOn Google for "granite countertops charlotte nc"28 and 29 Sep 2026
- 21AI visibility checks run1 Mar to 28 Sep 2026
After
28 September 2026: named in 31 of 32 answers (96.9%). Claude, Perplexity and Gemini named it in all 8 of their answers, and ChatGPT in 7. On 28 and 29 September, it was also 5th on Google for "granite countertops charlotte nc".
What changed
- On 1 March, AI assistants named Universal Stone in 3 of 32 answers (9.4%).
- Three weeks later, on 22 March, it was 40.6%.
- By 28 April, under two months in, it was 95%. On 14 May, every answer named it.
- On 28 September, the latest check, it was named in 31 of 32 answers (96.9%).
Measured with Geophii’s AI visibility checks: 21 checks between 1 March and 28 September 2026. Each one asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini the questions customers ask about stone countertops in Charlotte, and counts the answers that name Universal Stone.
What we did
- Got to know the business: what it sells, where it works and who its customers are.
- Checked what AI assistants and Google said when people asked about countertops in Charlotte.
- Fixed what was stopping them from naming Universal Stone.
- Kept checking and worked on whatever each check showed.
What to expect
AI answers move. Universal Stone was named in every answer on 14 May and in 31 of 32 on 28 September. When it’s named now, it’s usually around sixth in the list, so the next job is moving it up.
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