Which gyms in Boise, ID does AI recommend?
Google Maps returns 97 of them. Four assistants, asked three buyer questions each, named 13: 13.4%. 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 Boise, ID”
- “which gym in Boise, ID would you recommend”
- “I just moved to Boise, ID, 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
8 of 97 (8.2%)- Anytime Fitness
- Boise Iron Gym
- Functional Idaho Strength & Mobility for Longevity
- Grove Fitness Club & Spa
- Gym
- Iron Legacy Barbell
- Villa Sport Fitness - Park Center
- Wolf Pack Fitness
ChatGPT
6 of 97 (6.2%)- Anytime Fitness
- Fitness Co
- Gym
- Jack's Urban Meeting Place (JUMP)
- Orangetheory Fitness
- Planet Fitness
Claude
4 of 97 (4.1%)- Anytime Fitness
- Fitness Co
- Gym
- Planet Fitness
Gemini
3 of 97 (3.1%)- Fort Boise Community Center
- Gym
- Jack's Urban Meeting Place (JUMP)
Where the engines agree
Of the 13 businesses named at all, 8 were named by a single engine and nobody else. That is the practical argument against picking one assistant and calling it your AI visibility: Boise, ID looks like a different market depending on which one you ask.
Named by two or more engines (5)
- Anytime Fitness
- Fitness Co
- Gym
- Jack's Urban Meeting Place (JUMP)
- Planet Fitness
Named by all four (1)
- Gym
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 Boise, ID market is at least 97 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 28 businesses (28.9%) instead of 13. Both are published; the strict figure is the headline because the loose one inflates counts across a full roster.
13 names on this page come straight from that file, so every claim here can be recomputed without trusting us.