Which coffee shops in Nashville, TN does AI recommend?
Google Maps returns 96 of them. Four assistants, asked three buyer questions each, named 12: 12.5%. Every name is below.
coffee shops 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 coffee shop in Nashville, TN”
- “which coffee shop in Nashville, TN would you recommend”
- “I just moved to Nashville, TN, which coffee shop 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
10 of 96 (10.4%)- Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii
- cafe babu
- Crema Coffee Roasters
- Dose Coffee
- ESPRESSO BAR
- Forevermore Coffee, Matcha & Goods
- Frothy Monkey
- Haraz Coffee House
- Matryoshka Coffee
- Paradeisos Coffee Company - West End
Claude
4 of 96 (4.2%)- Dose Coffee
- ESPRESSO BAR
- Frothy Monkey
- Steadfast Coffee
Gemini
4 of 96 (4.2%)- 8th & Roast
- Crema Coffee Roasters
- ESPRESSO BAR
- Frothy Monkey
ChatGPT
3 of 96 (3.1%)- Crema Coffee Roasters
- Dose Coffee
- Frothy Monkey
Where the engines agree
Of the 12 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: Nashville, TN looks like a different market depending on which one you ask.
Named by two or more engines (4)
- Crema Coffee Roasters
- Dose Coffee
- ESPRESSO BAR
- Frothy Monkey
Named by all four (1)
- Frothy Monkey
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 coffee shop 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 Nashville, TN market is at least 96 coffee shops 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 15 businesses (15.6%) instead of 12. Both are published; the strict figure is the headline because the loose one inflates counts across a full roster.
12 names on this page come straight from that file, so every claim here can be recomputed without trusting us.