Peoria hair restoration

Finding 01

Does ranking well on Google mean AI recommends you?

It helps, and it is nowhere near enough. Of the 2 best-ranked clinics in Peoria, 0 got named by an AI engine — 0%. Of the 2 ranked lowest, 0 did. The single most-named clinic in this market ranked 3rd on Maps, coming up in 31% of answers.

Google rank and AI answers are decided by two different systems looking at different things. Your map position comes from how close you are, what category you are in, and how people engage with your listing. Whether an AI names you depends on whether it can find, read and trust a description of your clinic in the sources it pulls from. Ranking first buys you better odds. It does not buy you the answer.

Finding 02

How many local businesses actually appear in AI answers?

Very few, and the ones that do take most of it. Of 6 clinics measured, 1 was named at least once and 5 were never named. The three most-named clinics took 100% of every mention in the market.

Finding 03

Are the best-reviewed clinics invisible to AI?

Often, yes. Take the 1 strongest clinic in Peoria — the top 25% once you combine Google rank, star rating and number of reviews — and 1 was never named by any engine. That is 100% of the best clinics in town, missing from every answer.

One of them ranks 1st on Maps with 5.0 stars, and was named zero times across all 50 answers. Their clients rate them highly and Google ranks them well. The AI engines do not know they exist.

Finding 05

Do ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend the same clinics?

No. Asked the same questions about the same market, the closest any two engines came to agreeing was 100% of theclinics they named — and the furthest apart pair agreed on just 50%.

Each engine surfaced a different slice of the market: Gemini named 2, Google AI Overview named 2, ChatGPT named 1, Claude named 1, Perplexity named 1. Showing up in one does not mean showing up in the others, so checking yourself against a single assistant tells you very little.

How we measured it

We pulled every hair restoration clinic Google Maps returns for Peoria — 6 of them, after combining duplicate listings of the same clinic — then asked 5 AI answer engines the same 10 client questions and recorded which ones each engine named.

Who is in it

6 clinics, from everything Google Maps returns for "hair restoration" in Peoria, IL. A clinic with more than one listing is counted once.

What we asked

10 questions a client would actually ask, kept identical across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overview. 50 answers in total, July 2026.

How we scored it

The share of answers that named or cited a clinic, weighted by how many people use the engine that named it.

How we ranked reputation

Google Maps position, star rating adjusted for how many reviews back it up, and review count on a sliding scale that levels off around a thousand.

Scope

One market, one category. Every number on this page describes Peoria and comes from that market alone — results differ between markets and we do not carry them across. We never name individual clinics. AI engines change over time; this describes July 2026.