Research
The DMV AI Recommendation Index
A public record of which businesses AI systems actually recommend across Washington DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia — category by category, measured with the same benchmark for everyone.
Not yet populated
The index requires a corpus of live measurements that does not exist yet. No category below has been measured, so none is shown with rankings.
An index populated with estimates would be worse than no index at all — it would make every future edition unciteable.
How a business gets into the index
By being measured. Not by paying, not by claiming a profile, not by becoming a client.
Categories are chosen first
We select a category and a market, build a benchmark prompt library for it, and then see which businesses AI names. Businesses do not nominate themselves into a category.
The benchmark names the businesses
Whoever appears in the measured answers is in the dataset — clients, non-clients and businesses that have never heard of us alike.
The same formula scores everyone
Identical weights, identical denominators, identical prompt distribution. There is no editorial adjustment and no way to request one.
Rankings cannot be purchased
This is the constraint the whole index depends on. Every other claim we make about our research is worthless without it.
- Rankings cannot be purchased. There is no paid placement in any Greenbug index.
- Being a Greenbug client cannot raise a score or a ranking. Client scores are computed by the same formula from the same kind of evidence as everyone else's.
- Where Greenbug has a commercial relationship with a business that appears in published research, that relationship is disclosed on the page.
- If sponsored placement is ever introduced, it will be visually and structurally separated from editorial rankings and labelled as sponsored.
- Greenbug.ai measures itself with the same methodology and publishes its own result, including when it is unflattering.
Planned coverage
Categories are added when a defensible benchmark exists for them — not all at once, and not before the measurement can support it.
Home services
Planned- Landscaping
- Tree services
- Home improvement and remodeling
- Restoration
- Roofing
Healthcare and dental
Planned- Orthodontics
- Veterinary
- Dentistry
- Medical practices
Professional services
Planned- Law firms
- Real estate
- Insurance and final expense
Personal brands and coaching
Planned- Private sports coaching and recruiting
- Consultants and specialists
Consumer and hospitality
Planned- Restaurants
- Salons and beauty
Markets
- The DMV
- Maryland
- Washington DC
- Northern Virginia
Want to know your own number before the index publishes?
A baseline measures your business directly. It cannot buy you a place in the index — nothing can.