AI SEO Statistics: Restoration Company (2026-07 edition)

Reading the 45 answers model by model shows how differently the three assistants treat the same restoration company questions. On the most consequential behavior — whether to send the buyer to a professional at all — the rate ranged from 93.3% (ChatGPT) down to 73.3% (Gemini), a 20-point gap on an identical question set.

Across the 15 restoration company answers it produced, ChatGPT recommended hiring a professional in 93.3% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 33.3% 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 66.7% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 13.3%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 46.7%, averaging 475 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 20%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 20%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 60% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 20%.

Across the 15 restoration company answers it produced, Claude recommended hiring a professional in 93.3% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 26.7% 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 13.3% of the time. Claude asked a clarifying question before answering in 60% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 13.3%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 33.3%, averaging 304 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 6.7%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 6.7%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 6.7%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 40% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 6.7%.

Across the 15 restoration company answers it produced, Gemini recommended hiring a professional in 73.3% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 20% of the time. It named a specific provider in 20% of answers (about 0.3 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 13.3% of the time. Gemini asked a clarifying question before answering in 0% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 6.7%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 6.7%, averaging 289 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 20%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 46.7% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 0%.

Taken together, ChatGPT is the assistant most likely to route a restoration company buyer to a professional (93.3%) and Gemini the least (73.3%). ChatGPT produced the longest answers, at 475 words on average. Specific providers were named most often by Gemini (20%) — even there, roughly one answer in 5 carried a name.

On other behaviors the three models move almost in lockstep — the points of near-consensus for restoration company, where all three landed within a few points of each other:

• Gives price or cost information: 13.3% across all three models.
• 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).
• Tells the buyer to check reviews: 0%–13.3% across all three (a 13-point spread).

Measured question by question, the three assistants coded a response the same way most consistently on "gives price or cost information" (identical coding in 100% of questions) and least consistently on "asks a clarifying question" (26.7%).

Beyond whether to hire, the rubric codes how carefully each assistant protects the restoration company buyer once a decision is made. Telling the buyer to check reviews or ratings appeared in 6.7% of answers on average. Verifying credentials or certifications appeared in 28.9%. Warning about red flags or scams appeared in 11.1%.

On structuring the decision, a selection-criteria checklist showed up in 48.9% of answers on average and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 8.9%. The single least-reproduced protective signal for restoration company is "tells the buyer to check reviews" at 6.7% on average — the clearest opening for content that supplies it, since the models are not yet reliably surfacing that guidance on their own.

The 15 questions behind every percentage on this page were drawn from real restoration company (home services; buyer hiring decisions for this specific service) buyer journeys. Each was put to all 3 models once, with identical wording, so the rates above describe how the assistants handled this exact restoration company question set — not 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.