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Answer Share · HVAC contractors

Knoxville, TN

Share of responses, across 4 AI models and 4 question types, in which each company is named when a user asks for advice on hvac contractors services in this market (64 responses measured).
Market concentration
64.1%
Concentration — the share of responses naming one of the top 3 companies shown below.
Answer Share by company
Company Share of responses Answer Share Citation Share
Rocky Top HVAC
42.2% 1.4%
GENT Heating & Cool
26.6% 1.9%
A-1 Finchum Heating & Cooling
18.8% 0.5%
Advanced Heat AC & Plumbing
17.2% 0.6%
Pioneer Heating & Air
17.2% 0.7%
Central Illinois Heating & Air Conditioning
17.2% n/d
Deljo Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
15.6% n/d
AA Air Company
14.1% n/d
Quality Contractor Network
14.1% n/d
Smith Heating & Air
14.1% 0.3%
LC Heating & Air
12.5% n/d
865 HVAC
12.5% 0.4%
How we collected the data and how to read it

How we collected this data

Every week, the same frozen set of 4 question phrasings is sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and Perplexity — through each provider’s official API, with active web search, never through a consumer chat interface.

Same market, same questions, repeated on a fixed schedule — not a single sample. No AI model is paid or influenced; this page reports what each one already says.

How to read the numbers

Answer Share — the share of measured responses that name a given company. 55.6% means the company appeared in 55.6% of the responses collected for this market.

Market concentration — the share of responses naming at least one of the top 3 companies: how fragmented or concentrated the answers are for this market.

Citation Share — the share of citations linking directly to a company’s own website, among companies whose domain we’ve matched. Shown as n/d where we haven’t matched a domain, or 0% where the domain is known but never cited directly — AI models often cite a review aggregator instead of the company’s own site.

The date at the top of this page is when this market was last measured. Numbers refresh weekly.

Methodology: 4 AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Perplexity), 4 question phrasings per measurement, data collected via official APIs with active web search. No payment influences this ranking. Read the full methodology →