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AI visibility · Landscaping & outdoor living · Raleigh

Nobody asks an AI for a mow. They ask who should build their patio, and one Raleigh firm is named in 60% of those answers.

In September 2026 I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity for design-build firms, patio and hardscape contractors, outdoor kitchen builders and landscape architects, then for lawn care, maintenance and irrigation in Raleigh. Everything on this page is what came back.

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Queries asked
5 per market, the ones asked before anyone calls
Engines
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity — web-grounded
Answer slots
15 per market (5 × 3)
Companies named
98 design-build · 88 maintenance
The shape of it

One design-build firm, then a very long tail

98 companies were named for design-build questions. Landvision Designs appeared in 60% of answer slots. The next, Currin Outdoor Living, in 33.3%. The median company appeared in 6.7%, once out of 15.

Share of voice — design-build, Raleigh
Landvision Designs60.0%
Currin Outdoor Living33.3%
Brookscapes LLC20.0%
Agape Lawn Company20.0%
HuntScapes20.0%
West Wall Hardscapes20.0%
Royal Outdoor Living20.0%
COVIS13.3%
90 more, each named in 2 of 15 answers or fewer≤13%

Where the 98 land

Companies by share of the 15 answer slots.

80–100%0
60–80%1
40–60%0
20–40%6
10–20%16
Under 10%75

75 of the 98 were named in exactly one answer, on one engine. That's the widest tail of any market on this site.

Share of voice — lawn care and maintenance, Raleigh
Lawn Doctor of North Raleigh40.0%
Fairway Green33.3%
Barefoot Lawn Care26.7%
DreamScapes26.7%
Agape Lawn Company20.0%
Sweetgrass Landscaping LLC20.0%
82 more, each named in 3 of 15 answers or fewer≤20%

Maintenance has no leader at all

Lawn Doctor of North Raleigh leads lawn care, maintenance and irrigation questions at 40%. 59 of 88 companies were named once.

Irrigation repair went to specialists like Conserva Irrigation and Doctor Sprinkler, not full-service landscapers.

Question by question

Every project type is its own shortlist

Landvision Designs is named for patios, outdoor kitchens and landscape architecture. Behind it, each question returned a different set of firms, and most of them appear once.

What was askedNamed first, most engines first
“landscape design build company”Currin Outdoor Living, Landvision Designs, Arrowhead Designs
“patio installation contractor”Royal Outdoor Living, Agape Lawn Company, Landvision Designs
“hardscape contractor”Oak City Hardscapes, West Wall Hardscapes, Brooks Landscape Design
“outdoor kitchen builder”Aberrant Builders, Landvision Designs, Original Grills
“landscape architect”Coaly Design, Landvision Designs, Site Collaborative
“lawn care service”Lawn Doctor of North Raleigh, Barefoot Lawn Care, Fairway Green
“landscape maintenance company”BrightView, DreamScapes, Hicks Landscape Contractors
“irrigation repair”Conserva Irrigation of the Triangle, Eco Irrigation, Doctor Sprinkler
“lawn aeration service”Fairway Green, Lawn Doctor of North Raleigh, Barefoot Lawn Care
“commercial landscaping company”Greenscape Inc, United Land Services, DreamScapes
The expensive part

Established, and still absent.

I pulled 110 Triangle landscaping companies from Google Maps and checked the ones AI never named against their own websites for advertising tags. These are businesses already paying to be found.

82
Triangle landscaping companies never named in either market
7
of those carry a Google Ads conversion tag
237
Google reviews on the largest company never named
Your company, not the market

What the audit returns for you

The market numbers above are public. Yours are specific: how often you're named, who takes the answers you lose, the sources the engines read instead of your site, and where in the Triangle you disappear.

Your share of voice

The same 15-answer measurement run on your company, against the names above.

Visibility by project type

Patios, hardscape, outdoor kitchens, lighting, drainage, maintenance. Most firms are named for 1.

Who the engines cite instead

The directories and review profiles handed to the homeowner in your place.

Geography across the Triangle

Run per location: Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Wake Forest, Durham. “Near me” answers change block to block.

Brands behind the campaigns I have run
Sherpa Collaborative O2 Fitness Humana Vital Plan Aetna Willis Towers Watson VerticalIQ RawlsMD Elevance Health Blue Cross Blue Shield Tranzact 10ofThose Redbird Remodeling Bunn Gear Wolk360 Gotham Trading
Carrier campaigns — Humana, Aetna, Elevance and Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare plans — were run during five years at Tranzact, a Willis Towers Watson company. Direct client work: Sherpa Collaborative, Vital Plan, RawlsMD, O2 Fitness, VerticalIQ, 10ofThose, Red Bird, Wolk360, Bunn Gear and Gotham Trading. All marks belong to their owners; their appearance here indicates work performed, not endorsement.

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James Chase · JMC Holdings Group, LLC · Raleigh, NC Scan run September 2026 · 5 queries × 3 engines × 2 markets