Which gyms in Austin, TX does AI recommend?
Google Maps returns 96 of them. Four assistants, asked three buyer questions each, named 17: 17.7%. Every name is below.
gyms Google Maps returns for this query
of them were named by at least one assistant
were named by none of the four
What we asked
Three phrasings, fixed before the study ran, put to each of the four assistants. Chat models were sampled three times per question because their answers move between runs.
- “best gym in Austin, TX”
- “which gym in Austin, TX would you recommend”
- “I just moved to Austin, TX, which gym should I go to”
Who each engine named
Engines are ordered by how many businesses they reached. A name appears here when the Maps listing name showed up as a whole phrase in at least one answer.
Google AI Overviews
12 of 96 (12.5%)- Atomic Athlete
- Bouldering Project - Springdale
- Castle Hill Fitness
- FeV Iron Vault Gym
- Generator Athlete Lab
- Hyde Park Gym
- Kollective
- Korrect Fitness
- Life Time
- Lift ATX
- THIS Gym
- Townlake YMCA
ChatGPT
5 of 96 (5.2%)- Barry's Austin
- Castle Hill Fitness
- Equinox Austin
- Gold's Gym Austin Downtown
- Life Time
Claude
4 of 96 (4.2%)- 24 Hour Fitness
- Equinox Austin
- LA Fitness
- Life Time
Gemini
4 of 96 (4.2%)- Castle Hill Fitness
- Hyde Park Gym
- Life Time
- THIS Gym
Where the engines agree
Of the 17 businesses named at all, 12 were named by a single engine and nobody else. That is the practical argument against picking one assistant and calling it your AI visibility: Austin, TX looks like a different market depending on which one you ask.
Named by two or more engines (5)
- Castle Hill Fitness
- Equinox Austin
- Hyde Park Gym
- Life Time
- THIS Gym
Named by all four (1)
- Life Time
How to read this, and what it does not say
- This is not a ranking. Being named means an assistant said your name out loud when a buyer asked. It is a visibility measurement, not a judgement about which gym is better.
- It is one snapshot. Collected 2026-08-15/16 on the models of that week. Generative answers move, so a business missing here may be named today and the reverse is just as true.
- The denominator is capped. Google Maps was queried at depth 100, so the real Austin, TX market is at least 96 gyms and possibly larger. The share is therefore an upper bound.
- Strict name matching. A looser matcher, the one the product itself uses against a single business, would put this market at 31 businesses (32.3%) instead of 17. Both are published; the strict figure is the headline because the loose one inflates counts across a full roster.
17 names on this page come straight from that file, so every claim here can be recomputed without trusting us.