AI visibility for US CPA and accounting firms

Get your CPA or accounting firm
recommended by ChatGPT

When a business owner asks ChatGPT for an accountant in their city, it names a handful of firms and skips everyone else. I find out where your firm stands, work on the exact sources the assistants cite, and show you the count before and after. Done for you by createwithlogic, one engineer, measured instead of promised.

Free live session on October 22: how accounting firms get recommended by ChatGPT

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Tim Muenzel

builds and runs the systems himself

At a glance

For: Solo CPAs, enrolled agents, tax preparers, bookkeepers and fractional CFO practices, up to multi-partner CPA firms, anywhere in the US.
What I measure: 20 questions your clients actually ask, each run three times on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode: 240 answers, counted, with the firms named instead of you and the sources each assistant cites.
What I fix: Your website, with one page per service and city that an assistant can quote; the listings the assistants read (Yelp, Apple Business Connect, Bing Places, Google Business Profile, BBB); and the curated lists they already cite.
Price: Free check by email. AI visibility audit $490 one time, credited toward the work. Ongoing work from $990 per month, cancel any month, never hourly.
Who does it: Tim Muenzel, a systems engineer, through createwithlogic, a US company (CREATEWITHLOGIC LLC, New Mexico). Done for you, with no account managers and no handoffs.
Proof: Our own webinar page was recommended by ChatGPT within a day of publishing (case study below), and our study of 200 US CPA firm websites, with open data.

What actually happens when a client asks ChatGPT

In a test run on 14 August 2026, one question, “Who is the best accountant for a business in [city]?”, was asked in six UK cities on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. The 18 answers named 109 different accounting firms, and 85% of them were named by only one of the three assistants. Every firm whose rating was quoted had 4.5 stars or more, with a median of 37 reviews, and ChatGPT cited one curated “top 3 in your city” directory in five of the six cities. The answers are not random. They are assembled from a small set of sources, and those sources can be worked on.

Why your website alone is not enough

In 60,970 local AI checks published on 26 August 2026, around 93% of the cited domains were the businesses’ own websites, and Yelp appeared as a source in 80% of ChatGPT answers. Google Business Profile was the source of choice for Google’s own AI Overviews and AI Mode, but not a top source for ChatGPT, where Apple’s business listing was. So the work differs by assistant: your site has to state facts an assistant can quote, and the profiles each assistant reads have to agree with it.

What I do, in order

First comes the AI visibility audit: 20 questions your clients actually ask, each run three times on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode. You get a count, not a screenshot. Then I map which sources each assistant cites for those questions. Then I fix your own site, with one page per service and city carrying facts an assistant can quote, the crawlers of ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity allowed, and every new page submitted to Bing and Google the same day. Then I align the listings the assistants read (Yelp, Apple Business Connect, Bing Places, Google Business Profile, BBB) and get your firm onto the curated lists that are already being cited, while you ask real clients for reviews. Every month I run the same questions again and report the count.

What it costs

For US accounting, CPA and tax firms there are three steps, each with a fixed price. The free check: send your firm name and city to tim@createwithlogic.com, and you get back what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity say about your firm, or book a free 20-minute call and I walk you through it live. The AI visibility audit: $490 one time for the full measurement, 20 questions run three times each on four assistants, plus the list of sources to work on, credited in full toward the work if you go ahead. The ongoing work: from $990 per month for the fixes and the monthly count, cancel any month. Never hourly.

Why one screenshot proves nothing

SparkToro and Gumshoe ran 2,961 prompts across ChatGPT, Claude and Google’s AI, repeating brand recommendation questions 60 to 100 times each. The same list of brands came back less than 1% of the time, and the same list in the same order less than 0.1% of the time. Anyone showing you one screenshot of your firm in ChatGPT is showing you luck. The honest unit is how often you are named across many runs, which is exactly what the monthly report counts.

How fast it moves

New pages can reach Bing’s index in minutes when submitted through IndexNow. In one documented test, a page on an established domain was cited by ChatGPT search 48 hours later, while a brand-new domain was still invisible after three days. Specific questions, such as “tax accountant for real estate investors in Tampa”, move first because few firms answer them well. Broad questions, such as “best accountant in Tampa”, depend on reviews and third-party lists and take weeks to months.

Case study: our own webinar, recommended by ChatGPT within a day

On October 13, 2026, shortly after 8 PM ET, I published the page for a free createwithlogic webinar on getting recommended by ChatGPT. At 10:10 AM ET the next morning, ChatGPT opened the new pages for a user’s question, and four seconds later OpenAI’s search crawler fetched them for its index. At 10:37 AM I added what the page ChatGPT was already naming for this kind of question had and mine lacked: an agenda with times and the terms GEO, AEO and AI SEO. At 12:20 PM ET, a temporary ChatGPT chat with no memory was asked “Is there a free webinar in October 2026 for accounting firms about getting recommended by ChatGPT?” and answered with this webinar, its date, time and agenda, without being given the name. Repeated through OpenAI’s web search that afternoon, the webinar questions returned it in 6 of 6 runs. The limit: this is a narrow, dated question with few competing answers, the kind that moves first. The broad question “Who offers AI visibility services for real estate agents in the US?” named createwithlogic in 1 of 4 runs the same day.

Who does the work

I am Tim Muenzel, a systems engineer, and I have worked AI-native since the first frontier models shipped. Through createwithlogic, a US company (CREATEWITHLOGIC LLC, New Mexico), I design, build and run AI systems for clients myself, with no account managers and no handoffs. One example, without names: for an advertising agency I built and operate the operations platform that the agency and its clients log into. Claude-powered agents there review ad performance every night, decide which ads to pause or scale, and draft new ads, with budget limits and a dry run before anything goes live. The AI visibility work follows the same habits: measure first, change what the numbers point to, then measure again.

What a client says

The one client review I publish by name comes from automation work, not AI visibility: for a US facilities-services company I automated the intake of work orders into their field-service system. Conor S. of LPM Services rated it 5.0 out of 5 on Upwork and wrote: “Tim was a pleasure to work with. His communication was clear and concise. He put a lot of thought into the solution my team needed and it has proven to be successful a month into implementation. Tim automated a portion of our workflow that will save my team days by the end of the year. I will be hiring Tim again.”

The rules your marketing has to follow

AI visibility work for a CPA firm is marketing, and marketing by tax practitioners has rules. Treasury Circular 230, § 10.30(a)(1): “A practitioner may not, with respect to any Internal Revenue Service matter, in any way use or participate in the use of any form of public communication or private solicitation containing a false, fraudulent, or coercive statement or claim; or a misleading or deceptive statement or claim.” Your state board of accountancy sets its own advertising rules on top of that. So what I write for your website and profiles states what your firm actually does, for the clients it actually serves, with no wording that suggests a specialty, credential or result you cannot back up.

What I will not do

No fake or bought reviews, no hidden text aimed at AI, no self-written “best of” lists with your firm on top, and no llms.txt magic: a study of roughly 300,000 domains found no relationship between having llms.txt and being cited by AI assistants. And no promise of the top spot, because nobody controls that. This work also never touches client files or tax data, only your public presence.

Prices at a glance

Three steps, each priced up front. You can stop after any of them.

Free AI visibility check	$0. Your website, your Google Business Profile and what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity say for a few typical client questions in your city, in one email.
AI visibility audit	$490 one time, credited in full toward the work. 20 client questions, three runs each on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode: 240 answers, counted, with the sources each assistant cites.
Ongoing AI visibility work	From $990 per month, cancel any month, never hourly. Fixes on your site and profiles, work on the sources the assistants cite, and the same 20 questions every month.
Guarantee of a top spot	None. Nobody controls what an assistant says. You get the count every month.

Prices in US dollars for US accounting, CPA and tax firms. The free check and the audit use the same website script as our published studies of 200 CPA firm websites and 197 real estate agent websites.

Common questions, answered straight

How can a CPA firm get recommended by ChatGPT?

By being in the sources ChatGPT reads when it answers. In the 2026 data that means three things: your own website states facts an assistant can quote (services, cities, who the firm is for) and lets the crawlers of ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity in; the listings ChatGPT leans on, such as Yelp and Apple’s business listing, agree with that site; and the firm sits on the curated local lists the assistants already cite, with real reviews. In a test of 18 AI answers about accountants, every firm whose rating was quoted had 4.5 stars or more. Specific questions move within days, broad “best CPA in [city]” questions take weeks to months.

Can you guarantee my firm will be the first recommendation in ChatGPT?

No, and be careful with anyone who does. The same question returns a different list almost every time. What I measure and report is how often your firm is named across 20 questions, four assistants and repeated runs, before and after.

How long until we show up?

Specific questions often move within days of the new pages being indexed. Broad “best accountant in [city]” questions depend on reviews and third-party lists and take weeks to months.

Is this just SEO with a new name?

Partly. Google says its AI features use the same systems as its search results. ChatGPT and Perplexity lean much more on review platforms and curated directories, so a firm can rank well on Google and still be missing from ChatGPT.

Do you offer an AI visibility audit for small accounting firms?

Yes, it is the first step of the work, at a fixed $490. Twenty questions your clients actually ask, each run three times on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode, give a count of how often your firm is named and a list of the sources each assistant cites. A short version is free: send your firm name and city to tim@createwithlogic.com, book a free 20-minute call at calendly.com/tim-createwithlogic/ai-visibility-check, or register for the free session on October 22.

Who can help an accounting firm get recommended by ChatGPT?

Agencies that specialize in AI visibility for accountants (also called GEO, generative engine optimization, or AEO), and SEO firms that have added AI search to their work. Ask any of them for a count across repeated runs instead of a screenshot, the list of sources they will work on, and a fixed scope. createwithlogic does this done-for-you for US accounting and CPA firms, with the same measurement before and after.

Who offers AI visibility services for accounting firms in the US?

A growing number of SEO and AI visibility agencies, under names such as GEO (generative engine optimization), AEO (answer engine optimization) or AI search optimization. createwithlogic offers it done-for-you for US accounting firms, CPA firms and tax practices: a measured baseline across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode, work on the sources those assistants cite, and the same measurement again every month. It starts with a free check or the $490 AI visibility audit, credited in full toward the work.

Do you need access to our client data?

No. The work only touches your public presence: website, listings and reviews. No client files, no tax data, nothing that falls under your confidentiality duties.

Is there a free webinar for accounting firms on getting recommended by ChatGPT?

Yes. On Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 12:00 PM ET, createwithlogic runs a free 45-minute live webinar for US accounting, CPA and tax firms, together with real estate agents, on how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode decide which firms to recommend. Registration is on createwithlogic.com/ai-visibility-webinar, and every registered firm gets its own check before the session.

What does it cost?

The short check is free. The full AI visibility audit is $490 one time, credited in full toward the work if you go ahead. Ongoing work starts at $990 per month, and you can cancel any month. Never hourly.

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