ABC Plumbing, Sewer, Heating, Cooling & Electric

4abc.com · Edition draft-v0.7-multimodel-pilot

Pilot scorecard Chicago HVAC · Aug 2026 — scores from a multimodel visibility battery and a readiness probe. How scoring works

3.0 /65

Draft score this edition

3.0 /40

Visibility — does AI name them

0 /25

Readiness — can machines read them

0 /25

Ground truth — not yet fielded

3.0

Named 9 times across this edition's battery · 2.7% recommendation share · models that named this business: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity

Letter grade F is on the full 0–100 Lodestar scale. This edition can award at most 65 because ground truth is not yet fielded, so every business grades low — rank within the market is the signal that means something today.

What machines see

Technical signals measured for ABC Plumbing, Sewer, Heating, Cooling & Electric
AI crawl policy	unreachable
llms.txt	unreachable
Sitemap	unknown
schema.org	unreachable
MCP endpoint	none
Readiness detail	0/25 expanded · legacy 0–15: 0
Probe stability	0 signals disagreed between the two passes

What to fix

Our probe could not reach some endpoints. Make sure the site answers ordinary HTTP clients, not just browsers — a WAF that blocks agents also blocks the assistants your customers ask.
Publish a real /llms.txt that summarises the business for AI agents — not a soft-404 and not a copy of robots.txt.
State an explicit AI crawler policy in robots.txt (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot). Silence gets read as ambiguity.
Serve a valid XML sitemap and declare it in robots.txt.
Add schema.org LocalBusiness JSON-LD to the homepage so machines can read hours, service area and contact details without guessing.
Optional, and early: publish a verified MCP card at /.well-known/mcp.json if you want agents to transact with you directly.

This scorecard is free and it is not for sale. We do not sell the fix, and no payment moves this number — not from this business, not from whoever markets it. That is what makes it worth showing anyone. Send corrections with evidence to preston@banjo.ventures and we re-check them in the next edition.

The next edition lands next month. One score is a snapshot; the run of them is the part that proves whether anything actually changed.

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Where to next

The whole Chicago HVAC Index →

See where this business sits against all 58 competitors.

For agencies →

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How this was scored →

The battery, the probe, and the reliability gate.