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How To Get My Business On ChatGPT: Claim It Yourself, Then Let Your Agent OS Do The Groundwork
How to get my business on ChatGPT is a two-part job, and your Agent OS can do most of the groundwork while you handle the one part only an owner can.
You claim the listing in OpenAI's Business Hub yourself, and your agent audits the website, drafts the markup and builds the outreach list.
When the groundwork is done and you want a strategy on top, book a free SEO strategy session with my team.
What your Agent OS can and can't do here
Your agent can't verify you, because Business Hub asks for a phone code, a business email code, a DNS record or a Shopify login, then Persona identity checks with your own ID.
It also can't make ChatGPT recommend you, since OpenAI says claiming gives no direct control over its independent recommendations.
What it can do is the repetitive part: reading robots.txt, comparing your details across pages and drafting content, all the things OpenAI's crawler overview and Google's guides reward.
Quick start: the 30-minute groundwork
- Open ChatGPT, go to Business Hub in the sidebar, search your business name and start the claim.
- Pick domain verification if you can edit DNS, and paste the TXT record exactly as shown.
- While OpenAI reviews the claim, run Prompt 1 below on your domain.
- Gather your ID and company registration papers for the Persona step.
- Once approved, fill in website, description, category, logo, delivery and returns policies.
Every prompt below is written for an agent with web fetch and file tools, and every one ends in a draft for you to approve.
What to have ready before you prompt
Your agent works best with a fixed source of truth, so write one short file before you start.
- Your legal name and trading name, exactly as they appear on signage and invoices.
- One address, one phone number and your opening hours.
- The towns or postcodes you serve.
- Links to every profile you control: Google Business Profile, Bing Places, social pages and review sites.
- Your live delivery and returns policy URLs, if you sell online.
Every prompt below points the agent back to this file, so it compares against facts rather than guessing.
Prompt 1: robots.txt and AI crawler check
Fetch https://[mydomain]/robots.txt and list every User-agent group.
Tell me, for each of these bots, whether it is allowed, blocked or not mentioned:
OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Googlebot, Bingbot.
Then fetch https://openai.com/searchbot.json and tell me which IP ranges my firewall
or CDN needs to allow for OAI-SearchBot.
Output: a table plus a corrected robots.txt as a DRAFT ONLY. Do not change any live file.OpenAI says sites that block OAI-SearchBot won't appear in ChatGPT search answers, and that a robots.txt change takes about 24 hours to register.
GPTBot is the training crawler and is set separately, so your agent should flag it, not flip it, unless you ask.
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Prompt 2: business facts consistency audit
Here are my official business details:
Name: [ ] Address: [ ] Phone: [ ] Hours: [ ] Service area: [ ] Website: [ ]
Crawl my homepage, contact page, footer, about page and every location page on https://[mydomain].
Then check my Google Business Profile, Bing Places and any directory URLs I list here: [ ].
Report every place a detail differs from the official version, with the URL and the exact wrong text.
Draft the corrected wording for each. Do not edit anything.This matters because OpenAI says ChatGPT may use other sources when it answers about your business, so an old directory entry can undo a perfect profile.
Example for a dental practice: the agent finds the old phone number on two directories and a footer, and the practice manager fixes all three in one sitting.
Prompt 3: Organization or LocalBusiness schema draft
Using only the official details above, draft JSON-LD for my homepage.
Use LocalBusiness (or the most specific subtype) if I have a public premises, otherwise Organization.
Include name, url, logo, address, telephone, openingHours and a sameAs array with these profiles: [ ].
Every value must match text that is visible on the page. Flag anything you had to guess.
Output the JSON-LD as a DRAFT ONLY for me to check in Google's Rich Results Test.Google's LocalBusiness documentation and Organization guide cover the properties, and Google asks that markup matches what visitors can see.
Leave llms.txt out of this, because Google's AI optimisation guide says you can ignore it for Google Search.
Prompt 4: buyer-question content brief
Read the last 90 days of customer emails and enquiry forms in [folder].
Group the questions people ask before they buy or book. Count how often each comes up.
For the top 10, draft a content brief: the page it belongs on, a one-sentence direct answer,
the facts we must include, and which of our own photos or examples to use.
No invented numbers or reviews. Output as a DRAFT ONLY.Pages that answer real customer questions in plain text give ChatGPT search something specific to cite.
Example for a mobile mechanic: the top three questions turn out to be call-out areas, warranty on parts and weekend availability, so each gets a clear section on the services page.
Prompt 5: mention and review outreach list (draft only)
Find up to 30 places where a [business type] in [town] could earn a genuine mention:
trade associations, local news, supplier or partner pages, event listings and review platforms.
For each, give the URL, why it fits, and the contact route shown on the site.
Draft a short, personal outreach email for the top 10. DRAFT ONLY. Do not send anything.
Do not suggest paying for reviews, and mark any paid placement as needing rel="sponsored".Earning mentions on other sites is our view of what helps, and the rules on how you do it are clear: Google's review tips policy bans incentives, and its link qualification guide wants paid placements marked sponsored.
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Mistakes the agent should catch
- A Disallow rule for all bots left over from a staging site.
- A firewall rule that blocks OpenAI's published IP ranges even though robots.txt allows the bot.
- Two phone numbers on the site because an old landing page was never updated.
- Opening hours in an image banner rather than in page text.
- Schema that lists a branch you have closed.
- A review request email that offers a discount, which Google bans.
Ask the agent to rank its findings by impact, so you fix crawler access and contact details before anything cosmetic.
Example for a florist with two shops: the agent spots that the second shop has its own Business Hub listing to claim, because OpenAI says locations are not claimed with the main brand.
Keep Perplexity and Claude in the same check, since Perplexity's crawler page and Anthropic's crawler page both tie search visibility to their own search bots.
A weekly routine once the claim is live
- Monday: re-run Prompt 1 if anyone touched the site or firewall.
- Wednesday: send two outreach emails from the Prompt 5 drafts, after you edit them.
- Friday: check Business Hub Insights, which cover the past 28 days of mentions, website clicks and discovery topics.
- Monthly: filter analytics for referrals from chatgpt.com, which in our own data usually carry utm_source=chatgpt.com.
For an online business, Insights only count a mention when ChatGPT references your website, so a brand-name mention alone won't show.
For Copilot, Bing's AI Performance report shows how often your pages are cited.
Once this routine is running, the companion guide on how to rank in ChatGPT goes deeper on content.
When to hand it to a pro
Hand it over when the agent's reports keep finding the same problems and nobody has time to fix them.
Another signal is outreach that never gets replies, because earning genuine mentions takes relationships an agent can draft for but can't build.
A pro should also step in if your listing is locked, disputed or tied to an old staff account, since those cases run through OpenAI support and need careful handling.
The same goes for several brands or locations, which OpenAI says are claimed separately, or for a JavaScript-heavy site the crawlers struggle with.
Google's guide to hiring an SEO is clear that nobody can guarantee a #1 ranking, so judge any pro on process, not promises.
Goldie Agency is an SEO, GEO, AEO and link building agency, and its link work is described as manual outreach, no PBNs.
Julian's own published numbers list 1,000+ campaigns and 240+ clients, and you can Book a free SEO strategy session to see if it fits.
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FAQ
Can my Agent OS claim my business on ChatGPT for me?
No. Business Hub verification and Persona identity checks need the owner or an authorised person. The agent handles the website and research work around it.
Should my agent block GPTBot?
That is your choice. GPTBot controls training and is separate from OAI-SearchBot, which controls ChatGPT search. Have the agent flag it and decide yourself.
Why do the prompts say draft only?
Because you are responsible for what goes live on your site and what is sent in your name, so a human approves every change and email.
How often should I re-run the crawler check?
Whenever someone changes the site, the host or the firewall, and at least once a month.
Final word on How To Get My Business On ChatGPT
Run the five prompts, approve the drafts, and when you want a plan on top, book a free SEO strategy session or learn it in the AI Profit Boardroom.
That is how to get my business on ChatGPT with your Agent OS doing the heavy lifting.
About Julian
I'm Julian Goldie, an AI entrepreneur, SEO expert and the founder of the AI Profit Boardroom, which has 3,400+ members.
I help business owners scale with AI agents, automation and SEO.
My YouTube channel has 400,000+ subscribers, and I run Goldie Agency, a seven-figure SEO agency.
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