What AI says about Lebanese businesses

How we tested

In early October 2026 we asked ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity 30 questions. Twenty are the questions an owner asks when looking for a design studio, such as “What are the best branding agencies in Lebanon?” and “Who builds booking or clinic management apps in Lebanon?”. Four ask the same things in Arabic and French. Six ask about our own studio by name.

We used logged-out or temporary chats, so no history shaped the answers, and asked ChatGPT and Google AI Mode every question twice. For each answer we wrote down every business it named and every source it linked to: 181 answers in all. Anyone can repeat this in an afternoon with a spreadsheet.

What we found

The list is long, and it is open. Across 121 answers to the 20 hiring questions in English, the tools named 316 different businesses, close to six per answer. 182 of them appeared only once, and the ten most named businesses together took only 19% of the mentions. No one owns these answers yet.

The tools repeat what other websites say. Four in ten answers cited a listing site, and the two most cited websites were not agencies at all, but Clutch, cited 35 times, and Sortlist, cited 32 times. A business with a complete listing and real reviews gives the tools something to quote.

Knowing your name is not the same as getting you right. When we asked about LIVBRID by name, the tools named us in 28 of 36 answers, but only 13 of the 36 were fully correct: 11 were partly right, 3 were out of date, 5 were wrong and 4 found nothing.

And our own result, which no one else can tell you. In the 121 hiring answers, we were named 4 times, all by Google AI Mode through its map card, because we ran the check from our office. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity did not name us once, in any of the three languages. That is the starting point we are working from.

What it means for your business

First, ask the tools yourself. Write down five questions your customers really ask, run them in two or three AI tools in a private window, and note which businesses are named and which websites are linked.

Second, make your facts the same everywhere. Your name, address, phone number, services and the year you started should read the same on your website, your Google Business Profile and every listing. Different versions are how answers end up out of date or wrong.

Third, be present where the tools look. Complete the listings in your field, ask happy clients for a short review, and make sure your website says in plain words what you do, for whom and where. Then check again in three months.