85.6%
of venues are never named by any AI, in any search.
Out of 200 venues, the ones an AI ever names.
For bars, restaurants and clubsThey describe their night.
They describe their night.
We find you.
People tell VibeFinder the evening they want, in their own words. It reads every word, checks the facts on your listing, and puts you in front of a group that was never going to type your name.
Rankings cannot be boughtYour listing, in your words
Someone near you typed
A quiet bar for six, Thursday night.
Your photos here
Your venue
Cocktail bar · 6 min from the group
Why this fits
Quiet after nine, a table for six at the back, and open Thursdays until one.
Why nowLike it or not,
Like it or not,
AI has already started choosing
Two studies this year measured which places AI assistants name when someone asks where to go. Most never come up at all.
96.7%
of restaurants never make the top 5 of an AI search's answer.
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the other 96.7%
An answer names about five places. The rest of the street is simply absent from it.
What gets a venue named at all
- Has its own website1.9×
- Has plenty of reviews1.6×
- Lists its prices1.5×
- Is mentioned on other sites1.4×
- Has a high star ratingno effect
How much each one multiplies a venue's odds of being named at least once, from the census of 4,776 venues.
Ratings move you up.
They do not get you in.
Once a venue is inside an answer, a higher rating helps it land first, by about 1.2×. Getting inside is decided by the paper trail in that list.
A 4.9-star café with thin documentation is, to these systems, indistinguishable from absent.
The census paper, on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity
What a guest types
A search that understands what people are after
People type the evening they want, the way they would say it to a friend. We read every word of it, then check each one against your listing.
Someone near you typed
A speakeasy1 with a good ambiance2 that also serves food3 with vegan options4.
How we read it- 1
A speakeasy
Your type and how people get in, as you described it: cocktails first, a bar rather than a restaurant, and a door you have to know about.
- 2
A good ambiance
The two words that mean something different to everyone, read for the person who typed them. How, just below.
- 3
Also serves food
Your kitchen: whether you serve food at all, small plates or a full menu, and until what time.
- 4
Vegan options
Whether your kitchen can say yes, from your own menu. A place that cannot is ruled out, and a place that has not said is never presented as a yes.
Good ambiance means something different to everyone
Four people type the same two words and mean four different rooms. We read the words for the person who typed them, then check them against yours.
- Candlelight, a hum, no music over the talk
- Packed, loud, a DJ from midnight
- A terrace at golden hour and nobody rushing you
- One long table, strangers, board games out
How we read it
- 1From the rest of the sentence. A speakeasy sets the scene: low light, cocktails, a hum rather than a DJ.
- 2From the person, when they have told us. A VibeFinder profile carries a short taste questionnaire, and a group search blends everyone's.
- 3Against your room, as you described it: your lighting by time of day, how easy it is to hold a conversation, the music and its volume, the crowd.
- 4Then the guest is told why you fit, in plain words, so the last judge of ambiance is the person walking in.
What you leave blank is never guessed. A missing fact keeps you out of a search that needed it, which is the whole reason to fill it in.
On file, in your words
You write itWritten by you
Lighting, eveningLow, candles on the tables
ConversationEasy, a hum, music under it
KitchenSmall plates until 23:30
VeganFour dishes, marked on the card
MusicA low playlist, never a DJ
A guest reads itRead by us
Your venue
Heads up
Ring the bell at the unmarked door. Small plates until 23:30, and four vegan dishes on the card.
Low lightEasy to talkSmall plates until 23:30Vegan on the card
Why this fits
Low light and a hum you can talk over, small plates until late, and vegan dishes on the card rather than on request.
Also on file
- VegetarianHalf the menu, marked
- Gluten freeBread aside, most of the menu
- Happy hour17:00 to 19:00, pints and house wine
- Live musicJazz trio on Thursdays
- Step-free accessRamp at the door, flat inside
- Budget€25 to €40 a head with a drink
- BookingBy phone, or walk in before 20:00
- PhotosFive, taken in the room, no stock
- Your eventsQuiz on Tuesdays, DJ the first Friday
- Closures and odd daysClosed 24 December to 2 January
- MenuThe card with prices, updated each season
- Social linksInstagram and the booking page
Where VibeFinder is differentThey read about you.
They read about you.
We read you.
An AI answer
Built from whatever the internet says about you, by whoever happened to write it. Thin coverage means no answer at all, and nobody can see where any of it came from.
A VibeFinder pick
Built from two things: your own listing and the guest's own words. Every pick says why it fits, in plain language, and no one can pay to move up.
What you get from it
This is the part built for the bar rather than for the guest: four things that change a night for you, each one working today.
Guests who asked for exactly what you offer
Someone typed a sentence about the night they wanted, and your listing answered it fact by fact. The people who reach you this way asked for your big table, your terrace, your late kitchen, and were told why you fit before they set out. Fewer wrong tables, fewer nights that were never going to work.
A group that has already decided
VibeFinder was built for the group chat that never decides. One link, everyone adds what they want, they vote, they lock a place. What reaches you is a table of six that has made up its mind, on a date, with your reservation button one tap away.
Quiet nights, with a headcount in advance
Put a night on your listing and it enters the search with its date. Guests sign up on the card, so by the afternoon you know how many are coming and can set the room and the staff for it. If you ever have to cancel, we tell everyone who signed up, so the bad news never has to come from you.
No one can pay to sit above you
There is no sponsored spot and no boosted listing. A two-table bar with a complete listing sits next to the chain with an agency, and the paid 3D visit never moves a rank. The only lever is the truth of your listing, and it is the only lever anyone has.
A paying venue is never ranked above another.
That rule is not negotiable. Places are suggested because they fit what a guest asked for, and the guest is told why.
Who it reaches
The customers you never meet
People search for a night, a dish or an occasion, and almost never for a name. Four ways yours comes up anyway, and how you find out what to fix.
Your events, found by the night
A Thursday jazz set or a Friday DJ goes into the search with its date. Someone asking for live music this week finds the night itself, and can sign up on the spot.
Your menu, found by the dish
Write the dishes you are known for, in your own words. A guest who types the dish finds you, in any of four languages, and the card says it is on the menu.
Your room, found by the ask
A big table, a step-free door, a quiet corner, a heated terrace. When a guest asks for one, every place that cannot say yes is ruled out, and your listing is what keeps you in.
What to fix, from us
The analytics package shows what people near you asked for this month, where you were shortlisted, where you were dropped and why, and the one line on your listing that would have kept you in. Event counts are live today; the rest is being built with the first venues.
Every count is about searches. None is about a person: we never tell you who searched, and we never sell a guest's name to anyone.
Virtual Visit Pro
Let them walk in before they book.
One visit with the camera, outside opening hours. What you get back is a finished 3D visit of your room, published everywhere a guest looks: your website, your Google profile, your Instagram bio and your VibeFinder card.
Included in every capture
- 01The capture itself, outside opening hours, with the room tidy and the lights on.
- 02The interactive 3D visit, set up and hosted: start point, a guided path through the highlights, labels, blurring where needed.
- 03Embed code for your website, plus a plain link for an Instagram bio, Google posts and email.
- 04The 360° images published to your Google Business Profile.
- 05Ten to fifteen high-resolution stills pulled from the capture, print quality, yours to use.
- 06Twelve months online, then €99 a year to stay published. Stop whenever you like; the paid year runs to its end.
- 07A one-page delivery sheet and thirty minutes of handover: where the visit lives, how to embed it, what to post, who to call.
Walk through in 3DLook around the room, table by table.3D tour
Your venue
Cocktail bar · 6 min from the group
What it costs
One price, set by the size of the space a guest can walk through. All prices before VAT.
Up to 80 m²€390
80 to 150 m²€490
150 to 300 m²€690
300 to 600 m²€950
Larger rooms and hotelsquoted
We measure everything a guest can walk through: the room, the bar, the terrace, and every level you want in the visit. The kitchen and the back of house are not counted. That total picks your band, and nothing is added to it.
Additional options
Floor plan with measurements€49
Every level, measured off the scan, delivered as a PDF and as images. Useful for private hire and for your architect.
Short video€290
30 to 60 seconds filmed in your room with your own people in it, delivered cut for Instagram and for your site. You gather the signed image releases on a form we bring.
Day and nighthalf your band
We come back a second time so the visit exists in both lights, for a room that looks different at 23:00. The second capture costs half your band, and one yearly fee covers both.
The stills and the files are yours to keep. Your scan stays online for as long as it is paid for.
Put your venue in the search.
Claim your page, correct what is there, and see exactly what a guest sees. Fifteen minutes if you have the details to hand.
Any city. If VibeFinder is not live where you are yet, your listing is ready the day it is.
Sources: V. Pitenin, Invisible to the Machine, arXiv:2608.07069, August 2026, a complete census of 4,776 venues in two Bali districts against ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity over 2,208 answers. J. Laney, The AI Visibility Index, Avante Visibility, July 2026, 120 queries run on Perplexity on 6 July 2026 across 6 industries and 10 US metros.