--- title: "AI Index: Get Your Business Found by AI Assistants | Nice Catalogs" description: "Customers now ask AI assistants where to eat, book and shop. AI Index puts your business, your live prices and your opening hours where those assistants can read them. Free for 7 days." url: "https://nicecatalogs.com/ai-index" keywords: "get found by AI, AI search for business, AI assistant business listing, MCP server for business, model context protocol business, generative engine optimization, AI SEO, ChatGPT business listing, llms.txt for business" --- Get found by AI # When someone asks an AI, be the answer People increasingly ask an assistant where to eat, book or shop. AI Index makes your business, prices and hours readable by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and any other AI assistant. [Try for free](https://nicecatalogs.com/signup) [See pricing](https://nicecatalogs.com/pricing) Professional plan · 7-day free trial · $0.00 due today · Turn it off any time AI assistant Where can I get fresh sourdough near El Conde? Pan de Ayer on Calle El Conde bakes a 24-hour ferment sourdough loaf, currently RD$199 (down from RD$250). They are open until 18:00 today and rated 4.8 from 213 reviews. nicecatalogs.com/pandeayer An illustration of the kind of answer your catalog makes possible. Three steps ## One switch, then you are readable No new content to write and nothing to maintain separately. It publishes the catalog you already keep up to date. 01 ### Switch on AI Index One setting in your dashboard. Pick your industry, write a sentence about what you sell, and choose which catalogs to include. Nothing is published until you say so. 02 ### Assistants can read your catalog Your business joins a directory that AI assistants can search, and your pages become readable by the crawlers that feed AI answers. Both point at the prices you maintain. 03 ### Customers arrive already informed Someone asks an assistant where to buy what you sell. It can name your business, quote your real price, and link them straight to your page. What they can read ## The things people actually ask about Not a marketing blurb. The same catalog your customers see, in a form an assistant can quote from. ### Your live products and prices Every published item in the catalogs you chose, with its current price, any sale price, and whether it is in stock. Change a price and the next answer uses it. ### Where you are Your address and a directions link, so an assistant answering "near me" has something concrete to give. ### When you are open Your opening hours for each day of the week, so an assistant can tell someone whether it is worth walking over now. ### Your rating Your Google star rating and review count, as a total. This is often what decides whether an assistant recommends you over a similar business nearby. ### And you can see it happening Every AI lookup is counted and shown in your Analytics dashboard, next to your normal visits. A new channel you can watch grow, rather than take on faith. No magic, three mechanisms ## How your catalog reaches an assistant ### A live connection Nice Catalogs runs a Model Context Protocol server, the open standard assistants use to reach outside tools. Anyone can connect it and ask about the businesses listed in it. `nicecatalogs.com/mcp` ### Pages crawlers can read Catalog pages are built in the browser, so most AI crawlers see nothing. AI Index also publishes a plain-text version of your catalog, plus structured data describing your business, that they can read directly. `nicecatalogs.com/ai/your-name.md` ### Manage your catalog from chat Connect the same MCP server to your AI assistant of choice and ask it to create products, remove them, or update your catalog, directly from the chat you already use. What never leaves ## You decide what is published AI Index is off until you turn it on, and off again the moment you turn it back. ### Private catalogs stay private Password-protected catalogs are never included, and never even named. Wholesale and trade pricing stays where you put it. ### You choose the catalogs Every catalog has its own switch. Send your retail menu and hold back the clearance list, or the other way round. ### Customer reviews are never shared Only your overall rating and review count leave. Individual reviews, the names and emails attached to them, and private low-star feedback never do. Already selling through chat? [See how WhatsApp ordering works](https://nicecatalogs.com/whatsapp-ordering) . FAQ ## Common questions What is AI Index? Does this guarantee an AI will recommend my business? How is this different from normal SEO? What is an MCP server? Can I see whether it is working? Can I turn it off? How much does AI Index cost? Switch it on in a minute ## Be findable before your competitors are Build your catalog, turn on AI Index, and let assistants quote your real prices. Try Professional free for 7 days. [Try for free](https://nicecatalogs.com/signup) [Compare plans](https://nicecatalogs.com/pricing) $0.00 due today