What people ask AI, and how Courtyard answers
When customers describe what they want to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity, AI answers from whatever it can find. Each guide below shows how to make sure it finds the right answer about your business.
How to get your booking availability into AI answers
Customers ask an assistant what you have open before they book. That answer lives in Mindbody, Jane, or OpenTable, where AI can't reach it.
Read the guideGuide · PricingHow to get your prices into AI answers
Across 26,385 AI answers about local businesses, assistants described the services fine and could not name a price for 3 in 4 of them. Publishing a starting number is what turns a vague answer into yours.
Read the guideGuide · Law FirmsHow to get your law firm recommended by ChatGPT
More people now put a legal question to an assistant before they call anyone, and AI often closes by telling them to contact a lawyer. Whether your firm comes up depends on what it can read about you.
Read the guideGuide · VeterinaryHow to get your veterinary clinic recommended by ChatGPT
Most of what a vet clinic gets asked is not an emergency. It is whether you treat this animal, what the visit will cost, and how soon someone can be seen.
Read the guideGuide · HVAC & PlumbingHow to get your HVAC company recommended by ChatGPT
Three quotes used to be the rule before replacing a furnace. Now the first shortlist comes from an assistant that never picked up the phone.
Read the guideGuide · Real EstateHow to get recommended as a real estate agent by ChatGPT
Buyers ask an assistant for an agent who works their area and their price band. Most agent profiles do not say either, so it names whoever does.
Read the guideGuide · Auto RepairHow to get your auto repair shop recommended by ChatGPT
The first thing a driver does with a warning light is describe it to an assistant and ask what the repair should cost. Most shops have never published a number it can use.
Read the guideGuide · Med SpaHow to get your med spa recommended by ChatGPT
Price is usually the first thing a client asks AI about Botox, and most med spas answer that with a consultation form. Publishing what you charge, and who injects, changes the answer.
Read the guideGuide · DentalHow to get your dental practice recommended by ChatGPT
When a patient asks ChatGPT for a dentist who takes their plan and has an opening this week, it names the ones whose details answer the question. Here's how to be a practice AI understands well enough to put forward.
Read the guideGuide · HotelsHow to get your independent hotel recommended by AI
A traveler planning a weekend asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for a place to stay, and the answer skips past the chains to a few properties it can actually describe. For an independent hotel that usually means losing to a Booking.com row or a stale cache of your details. The fix is giving AI a current source of your own for rooms, rates, and policies. Here's how.
Read the guideGuide · GymsHow to get your gym recommended by ChatGPT
A member new to the neighborhood asks ChatGPT for a gym, and it brings forward the ones it can describe in detail and match to what they want. You can't control your reviews, but you can control what you tell AI, and being the gym it understands is what keeps you in the conversation. Here's how.
Read the guideGuide · RestaurantsHow to get your restaurant recommended by ChatGPT
When someone asks ChatGPT for a dinner recommendation, it brings forward the restaurants it can describe in detail and match to what they want. You can't control your reviews, but you can control what you tell AI, and being the restaurant it understands is what keeps you in the conversation. Here's how.
Read the guideGuide · RestaurantsHow to get your restaurant's menu into ChatGPT
When someone asks an AI assistant what's on your menu, it answers from whatever it can find, often a stale review or a third-party listing. Courtyard gives AI a live, accurate source for your menu, prices, and hours, so it recommends you with the right details.
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