Nashville, TN · measured 2026-08-15/16

Which gyms in Nashville, TN does AI recommend?

Google Maps returns 97 of them. Four assistants, asked three buyer questions each, named 10: 10.3%. Every name is below.

97

gyms Google Maps returns for this query

10

of them were named by at least one assistant

89.7%

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 Nashville, TN
  • which gym in Nashville, TN would you recommend
  • I just moved to Nashville, TN, 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.

ChatGPT

6 of 97 (6.2%)
  • Anytime Fitness
  • Downtown YMCA
  • Orangetheory Fitness
  • Planet fitness
  • Planet Fitness
  • Pro Vita

Claude

5 of 97 (5.2%)
  • Anytime Fitness
  • Orangetheory Fitness
  • Planet fitness
  • Planet Fitness
  • Rumble Boxing

Google AI Overviews

5 of 97 (5.2%)
  • Downtown YMCA
  • Fit Factory Nashville
  • Gym 5
  • Pro Vita
  • QNTM Fit Life

Gemini

1 of 97 (1.0%)
  • Pro Vita

Where the engines agree

Of the 9 businesses named at all, 4 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 (5)

  • Anytime Fitness
  • Downtown YMCA
  • Orangetheory Fitness
  • Planet fitness
  • Pro Vita

Named by all four (1)

  • Planet fitness

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 Nashville, TN 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 27 businesses (27.8%) instead of 10. Both are published; the strict figure is the headline because the loose one inflates counts across a full roster.

9 names on this page come straight from that file, so every claim here can be recomputed without trusting us.

Not on the list?

Run these same questions for your own gym and see what the four engines say today.