AI SEO Statistics: Gutter Contractor (2026-07 edition)
15 questions · 45/45 expected AI responses · 3 models · measured 2026-07-04
Apply these findings to your gutter contractor SEO strategy.
This benchmark explains how AI assistants advise buyers. The related service page turns those findings into the technical, content, authority, and conversion priorities for this market.
The question bank
The questions we tested: a frozen buyer-intent benchmark for gutter contractor.
The question set was curated from a predefined buyer-intent taxonomy and held constant for this edition. Each model received the same wording. These are the prompts behind every percentage on this page.
Show all 15 questions
Model by model
24.1% question-level model disagreement.
This rate is the average pairwise disagreement between binary behavior codes across questions and behaviors. It is not the gap between the highest and lowest aggregated model percentages.
Behavior prevalence across 15 gutter contractor benchmark questions, 2026-07 edition. Last column: equal-model mean.
| Behavior | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Equal-model mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommends hiring a professional | 86.7% | 60% | 26.7% | 57.8% |
| Suggests DIY first | 26.7% | 33.3% | 20% | 26.7% |
| Names specific providers | 0% | 6.7% | 13.3% | 6.7% |
| Gives price or cost info | 13.3% | 20% | 6.7% | 13.3% |
| Tells to check reviews | 13.3% | 13.3% | 0% | 8.9% |
| Tells to verify credentials | 33.3% | 13.3% | 6.7% | 17.8% |
| Mentions case studies / portfolio | 26.7% | 0% | 0% | 8.9% |
| Mentions local proximity | 40% | 33.3% | 0% | 24.4% |
| Gives selection criteria | 53.3% | 46.7% | 26.7% | 42.2% |
| Warns about red flags | 6.7% | 6.7% | 13.3% | 8.9% |
| Asks a clarifying question | 73.3% | 53.3% | 0% | 42.2% |
| Recommends multiple quotes | 13.3% | 33.3% | 6.7% | 17.8% |
Question-level agreement
How often all measured models received the same binary code.
Agreement is calculated question by question for each behavior. A high value can coexist with a low behavior prevalence; it means the models usually agreed on whether the behavior appeared.
All-model binary agreement by behavior across 15 benchmark questions.
| Behavior | All-model agreement |
|---|---|
| Recommends hiring a professional | 20% |
| Suggests DIY first | 86.7% |
| Names specific providers | 86.7% |
| Gives price or cost info | 66.7% |
| Tells to check reviews | 80% |
| Tells to verify credentials | 73.3% |
| Mentions case studies / portfolio | 73.3% |
| Mentions local proximity | 46.7% |
| Gives selection criteria | 53.3% |
| Warns about red flags | 93.3% |
| Asks a clarifying question | 13.3% |
| Recommends multiple quotes | 73.3% |
By model
How each assistant handled Gutter Contractor questions.
Reading the 45 answers model by model shows how differently the three assistants treat the same gutter contractor questions. On the most consequential behavior, whether to send the buyer to a professional at all, the rate ranged from 86.7% (ChatGPT) down to 26.7% (Gemini), a 60-point gap on an identical question set.
Across the 15 gutter contractor answers it produced, ChatGPT recommended hiring a professional in 86.7% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 26.7% of the time. It named a specific provider in 0% of answers (about 0 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 13.3% of the time. ChatGPT asked a clarifying question before answering in 73.3% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 6.7%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 33.3%, averaging 448 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 13.3%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 26.7%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 40%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 53.3% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 13.3%.
Across the 15 gutter contractor answers it produced, Claude recommended hiring a professional in 60% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 33.3% of the time. It named a specific provider in 6.7% of answers (about 0.1 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 20% of the time. Claude asked a clarifying question before answering in 53.3% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 6.7%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 13.3%, averaging 294 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 13.3%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 0%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 33.3%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 46.7% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 33.3%.
Across the 15 gutter contractor answers it produced, Gemini recommended hiring a professional in 26.7% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 20% of the time. It named a specific provider in 13.3% of answers (about 0.3 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 6.7% of the time. Gemini asked a clarifying question before answering in 0% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 13.3%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 6.7%, averaging 295 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 0%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 0%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 0%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 26.7% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 6.7%.
Taken together, ChatGPT is the assistant most likely to route a gutter contractor buyer to a professional (86.7%) and Gemini the least (26.7%). ChatGPT produced the longest answers, at 448 words on average. Specific providers were named most often by Gemini (13.3%). Even there, roughly one answer in 8 carried a name.
Where they disagree
The behaviors where the choice of model changes the answer.
Question-level model disagreement is 24.1%. This is the average pairwise rate at which models received different binary codes across questions and behaviors. The observed rate spreads below are a separate measure showing where which assistant a gutter contractor buyer happens to ask matters most:
- Asks a clarifying question: from 0% (Gemini) to 73.3% (ChatGPT). The spread is 73 points.
- Recommends hiring a professional: from 26.7% (Gemini) to 86.7% (ChatGPT). The spread is 60 points.
- Mentions local proximity: from 0% (Gemini) to 40% (ChatGPT). The spread is 40 points.
- Mentions case studies or portfolio: from 0% (Claude) to 26.7% (ChatGPT). The spread is 27 points.
- Tells the buyer to verify credentials: from 6.7% (Gemini) to 33.3% (ChatGPT). The spread is 27 points.
The widest single gap concerns asks a clarifying question at 73 points. This means a gutter contractor buyer can receive materially different guidance on the same question depending only on which assistant they happen to open, so any visibility strategy built on a single model's behavior describes only part of the gutter contractor market.
Where they agree
The points of near-consensus in Gutter Contractor.
On other behaviors the three models move almost in lockstep. The points of near-consensus for gutter contractor, where all three landed within a few points of each other:
- Warns about red flags or scams: 6.7%–13.3% across all three (a 7-point spread).
- Suggests a DIY approach first: 20%–33.3% across all three (a 13-point spread).
- Names a specific provider: 0%–13.3% across all three (a 13-point spread).
- Gives price or cost information: 6.7%–20% across all three (a 13-point spread).
Measured question by question, the three assistants coded a response the same way most consistently on "warns about red flags or scams" (identical coding in 93.3% of questions) and least consistently on "asks a clarifying question" (13.3%).
Every behavior, measured
All twelve coded behaviors for Gutter Contractor, averaged across the three models.
The behaviors AI models reproduce most often for gutter contractor are recommends hiring a professional (57.8% on average), gives selection criteria (42.2%) and asks a clarifying question (42.2%); the rarest are names a specific provider (6.7%), warns about red flags or scams (8.9%) and mentions case studies or portfolio (8.9%). Each figure below is the share of a model's 15 answers in which the behavior appeared at least once, averaged across the 3 models with the full per-model range in parentheses:
- Recommends hiring a professional: 57.8% on average (ChatGPT 86.7%, Claude 60%, Gemini 26.7%). The spread is 60 points.
- Gives selection criteria: 42.2% on average (ChatGPT 53.3%, Claude 46.7%, Gemini 26.7%). The spread is 27 points.
- Asks a clarifying question: 42.2% on average (ChatGPT 73.3%, Claude 53.3%, Gemini 0%). The spread is 73 points.
- Suggests a DIY approach first: 26.7% on average (ChatGPT 26.7%, Claude 33.3%, Gemini 20%). The spread is 13 points.
- Mentions local proximity: 24.4% on average (ChatGPT 40%, Claude 33.3%, Gemini 0%). The spread is 40 points.
- Tells the buyer to verify credentials: 17.8% on average (ChatGPT 33.3%, Claude 13.3%, Gemini 6.7%). The spread is 27 points.
- Recommends multiple quotes: 17.8% on average (ChatGPT 13.3%, Claude 33.3%, Gemini 6.7%). The spread is 27 points.
- Gives price or cost information: 13.3% on average (ChatGPT 13.3%, Claude 20%, Gemini 6.7%). The spread is 13 points.
- Tells the buyer to check reviews: 8.9% on average (ChatGPT 13.3%, Claude 13.3%, Gemini 0%). The spread is 13 points.
- Mentions case studies or portfolio: 8.9% on average (ChatGPT 26.7%, Claude 0%, Gemini 0%). The spread is 27 points.
- Warns about red flags or scams: 8.9% on average (ChatGPT 6.7%, Claude 6.7%, Gemini 13.3%). The spread is 7 points.
- Names a specific provider: 6.7% on average (ChatGPT 0%, Claude 6.7%, Gemini 13.3%). The spread is 13 points.
Trust signals
How well the models protect the gutter contractor buyer.
Beyond whether to hire, the rubric codes how carefully each assistant protects the gutter contractor buyer once a decision is made. Telling the buyer to check reviews or ratings appeared in 8.9% of answers on average. Verifying credentials or certifications appeared in 17.8%. Warning about red flags or scams appeared in 8.9%.
On structuring the decision, a selection-criteria checklist showed up in 42.2% of answers on average and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 17.8%. The single least-reproduced protective signal for gutter contractor is "tells the buyer to check reviews" at 8.9% on average. This is the clearest opening for content that supplies it, since the models are not yet reliably surfacing that guidance on their own.
Referral behavior
Do AI models name Gutter Contractor providers?
For service providers the decisive question is whether these systems name anyone at all. Across 45 gutter contractor answers, a specific provider was named in 6.7% of responses on average, or roughly 0.1 distinct providers per answer. In practice the assistants behave far more as an explanatory layer than as a referral engine for gutter contractor: visibility comes from being the reasoning a model reproduces, not from being the named recommendation.
The question set
What these 15 Gutter Contractor questions cover.
The 15 questions behind every percentage on this page form a frozen gutter contractor (home services; buyer hiring decisions for this specific service) buyer-intent benchmark. Each was put to all 3 models once, with identical wording, so the rates above describe how the assistants handled this exact gutter contractor question set rather than a general prior or a hand-picked subset. The full list is shown earlier on this page; the coded percentages are what those specific questions produced.
How to read this
A note on the numbers.
A percentage here is the share of a model's 15 answers in which the behavior appeared at least once. It is not a confidence score. Because each model answered every question exactly once on 2026-07-04, the figures describe this specific gutter contractor question set and snapshot rather than a general prior. The full protocol and coding rubric are documented in the study methodology.
Methodology
A controlled snapshot, documented end to end.
15 frozen benchmark questions, one expected response per model per question (ChatGPT API (gpt-5-mini), Claude API (claude-sonnet-5), Gemini API (gemini-3-flash-preview)), collected 2026-07-04 and coded against a fixed 12-behavior rubric. The pipeline validates the schema, recomputes aggregates and reports consistency issues. AI outputs vary with model version, location and time, so the figures describe this edition's exact sample and measurement window. Read the full methodology →
Citation
Cite this edition.
Authority Specialist. “AI SEO Statistics: Gutter Contractor (2026-07 edition).” AuthoritySpecialist.com. https://authorityspecialist.com/research/ai-seo-statistics/services/home/gutter-contractor