faktado.ai or just ask ChatGPT?
It seems obvious: just ask an AI where wrong details about your business appear online. For a quick impression that works. For a reliable check, a chat lacks a few crucial things.
ChatGPTExample
Booking.comcheck-in from 2 pm instead of 3 pm
Googleold phone number
Holiday portalspa missing
Regional tourism siteformer address
Example with sample data. It often looks like this: the chat reads the big sites, adopts a wrong detail and still reports that everything is fine.
An AI chat is a conversation partner, not a check. It has no fixed baseline, reads only a slice of the web, gives a different result every time and forgets everything afterwards. faktado.ai checks completely against your website, backs up every mismatch, prepares the correction and stays on it.
Eight reasons a chat doesn't replace a check.
An AI chat doesn't know what is right for you. It compares sources with each other and, when in doubt, takes whatever appears most often, even if that's the old number. You would have to give it every correct detail yourself first.
faktado.ai reads your website and stores every detail as a fact: phone, address, opening hours, prices, facilities and more. Every listing is checked against these facts.
For one answer an AI chat usually reads only a handful of pages, mostly the big ones. Small directories, regional portals, old press articles and pages beyond the first search page are left out. That's exactly where forgotten listings live.
faktado.ai systematically searches up to 100, 150 or 300 listings per check, depending on the plan, and also finds the small sites with AI research.
Language models can summarise sources wrongly or invent details. So you'd be checking possible AI errors with a tool that makes errors itself, and you have to verify every statement.
With faktado.ai every mismatch comes with the link to the listing and the exact passage that is wrong. You see for yourself what it says.
Ask the same question twice and you often get two different answers. You can't tell whether your data has improved.
faktado.ai checks by the same rules every time and sums up the result in a consistency score from 0 to 100. So you see over months whether things improve.
What ChatGPT tells you in your account isn't necessarily what a guest or customer sees. History, settings, location and the exact wording change the answer.
faktado.ai asks your customers' questions again and again, without your history: to ChatGPT with web search, ChatGPT without web search and Google AI Mode. Every answer is checked against your facts.
At the end of a chat you have a list at best. How to reach the portal, what to write and where the form is hidden, you have to figure out yourself.
faktado.ai prepares the right request or guide for every wrong detail. You approve it, and it's sent from your own mailbox.
A chat forgets everything after the conversation. Whether a correction landed or a new error appeared somewhere, you only notice by starting over.
faktado.ai automatically re-checks corrected listings, repeats the check every month and lets you know when something changes.
Writing good prompts, checking answers, opening sources, keeping a list and repeating it every month quickly adds up to several hours.
With faktado.ai you enter your website once. The first result usually arrives within 10 to 15 minutes, after that everything runs on its own.
You'd be hunting AI errors with the very tool that makes them.
Wrong AI answers happen because the AI collects contradictory or outdated details online and builds an answer from them. Ask the same AI for errors and it uses the same sources and the same logic. What it gets wrong for guests, it often overlooks when looking for errors too.
AI chat and faktado.ai side by side.
| AI chate.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity | faktado.aiChecking software | |
|---|---|---|
| Baseline | None, unless you enter every fact yourself | Your website, read automatically |
| Coverage | A handful of pages per answer | Up to 300 listings per check |
| Evidence | Summary, sources sometimes inaccurate | Link and exact passage for every mismatch |
| Result | Changes with every question | Same rules, consistency score 0 to 100 |
| AI answers | Only your own view in your account | ChatGPT with and without web search and Google AI Mode, regularly |
| Correction | Research and write it yourself | Ready-made request or guide per platform |
| Re-checking | Start over | Automatic, with alerts on changes |
| Effort | Several hours per round | Set up once, then it runs |
When an AI chat is enough
- for a first impression of what an AI says about you
- to quickly double-check a single detail
- for ideas about which questions your customers might ask
If you want to try it yourself, use this prompt. It gets more out of the chat than a simple question:
I own [business name] in [town]. My website is [website address]. Search the web for my business and list every page where the phone number, address, opening hours or prices differ from my website. For every mismatch give the link and the exact wording.
When you need faktado.ai
- you want to know everywhere something wrong appears, not just on the big sites
- you need evidence to request a correction
- you want to see whether things improve after corrections
- you want to know what ChatGPT and Google actually tell your customers
- you don't have time to do it by hand every month
Tool or AI chat
Can't I just ask ChatGPT whether my data is correct?
For a first impression, yes. But ChatGPT only reads a few pages, doesn't know your correct details and gives a slightly different result every time. That's not enough for a complete check with evidence.
Does faktado.ai use AI itself?
Yes, where it helps: reading your website, finding small listings and comparing wording. But the result is checked against your facts and backed up with a link and passage instead of just being output as an answer.
Which AI systems does faktado.ai check?
ChatGPT with web search, ChatGPT without web search, meaning what the model knows about you from training, and Google AI Mode.
Why does ChatGPT give me different answers than my customers?
The answer depends on the exact question, the account history, settings and location. That's why faktado.ai always asks the questions fresh and without your history.
What does faktado.ai cost compared to an AI subscription?
The free check is free and needs no credit card. Plans start at 49 EUR a month plus VAT and can be cancelled monthly.
Can I combine both?
Of course. Many use an AI chat for quick questions and faktado.ai for the regular, complete check.