For residential solar installers
Nobody buys solar without asking a lot of questions first. AI is answering them.
Payback, incentives, equipment, then installer. Ciclo tells you whether your company is named at the end of that chain and which pages the answer was built from.
14 days free. Cancel before day 14 and you are not charged.
This is what the answer looks like.
Solar is the most researched purchase on this list. The homeowner asks a dozen questions before a single installer name comes up, and the model is answering all of them.
Best solar installers in Phoenix
- Sonoran Solar Group
- Desert Peak Energy
- Copper State Solar
- Missing from 5 of the 10 pages the answer was built from
- No presence on the two solar marketplace platforms cited in every answer
- Equipment manufacturer installer locator lists competitors and not you
- No page on your site covering payback period or incentives in your state
An invented example, not a measured result. Your own answer is what the trial measures.
Monitor, find the gap, fix it, measure what changed.
Not a score. A loop that runs on a schedule, where each step feeds the next.
- 01
Monitor
We run the questions homeowners in your market actually type, against ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, on a schedule. Only being in the shortlist counts.
- 02
Find the gap
For every question: were you named, which installers were named instead, and which pages the model read. Incentive and payback questions decide far more than installer questions do.
- 03
Fix it
Each gap arrives as a work order: the marketplace to appear on, the locator to register with, the state incentive page you should own.
- 04
Measure
We re-run the same questions weeks later, so you can see whether the shortlist changed.
Who gets recommended instead of you.
Solar visibility is unusually concentrated: a handful of marketplaces and review platforms feed most answers, so being absent from one of them removes you from a lot of questions at once.
An invented example, not a measured result. The point is the shape: Ciclo reports the gap and then the reason for it, never a score on its own.
The sources behind the answer, and where you are missing.
Solar has more dedicated comparison infrastructure than any other trade here, and models lean on it heavily because it already does the comparing.
| Source the model cited | You | Sonoran Solar Group |
|---|---|---|
| Solar marketplace and quote platformMarketplace | YouMissing | Sonoran Solar GroupPresent |
| Equipment manufacturer installer locatorManufacturer | YouMissing | Sonoran Solar GroupPresent |
| Google Business ProfileReviews and local | YouPresent | Sonoran Solar GroupPresent |
| Solar review and rating siteReviews | YouIncomplete | Sonoran Solar GroupPresent |
| State incentive and rebate guidesGovernment and editorial | YouMissing | Sonoran Solar GroupPresent |
| BBBAccreditation | YouPresent | Sonoran Solar GroupPresent |
| r/solar and local subreddit threadsCommunity | YouMissing | Sonoran Solar GroupPresent |
| Your own websiteOwned | YouIncomplete | Sonoran Solar GroupPresent |
Ciclo turns those gaps into work orders.
- Register on the two marketplace platforms cited in nearly every answer
- Get onto the installer locators for the equipment lines you actually fit
- Publish payback, incentive and net metering pages specific to your state
- Complete the solar review site profile with installation volume and warranty terms
- Address the community threads where your company is discussed without a reply
One install is a month of overhead.
A residential system is commonly $15,000 to $40,000 before incentives. Solar buyers also research longer than almost anyone, which means more chances to be left off the shortlist and no signal at all when it happens.
Ranking on Google is not the same as being recommended.
Ranking for "solar installer Phoenix" is not the same as being recommended. Most of the buyer’s journey is incentive and payback questions, and whoever is cited in those answers is who gets named when the buyer finally asks who to call.
- Solar marketplaces
- Manufacturer installer locators
- Solar review platforms
- State incentive guides
- Review platforms
- Community forums
- Company websites
Ciclo maps that ecosystem for your trade and your metro, then tells you which part of it you are absent from.
What your buyers actually ask.
A query is one whole question, typed the way a homeowner types it across a research cycle that runs for months. Not a keyword.
Choosing an installer
- best solar installers in Phoenix
- most reliable solar company near me
- who installs solar with battery backup near me
- best solar company for a tile roof
- local solar installer vs national company which is better
Payback, incentives and equipment
- is solar worth it in Arizona
- how long does solar take to pay for itself
- what solar incentives are available in my state
- how much does a solar system cost for a 2000 sq ft house
- should I buy or lease solar panels
- what happens to solar panels when I sell my house
- which solar panel brand is most reliable
Common questions
How do I check whether ChatGPT recommends my solar company?
Ask it your customers’ questions repeatedly, across sessions and models, and record which installers get named. A single answer is noise. Ciclo runs a fixed question list on a schedule and reports how often you are in the shortlist, split by system type and area.
We buy leads already. How is this different?
A purchased lead is someone who already finished researching and landed somewhere else first. This is about being present during the research, on the pages that shape it, which is upstream of the lead you are paying for.
Is this just SEO with a new name?
No. SEO ranks your own pages. Solar models lean on marketplaces, review platforms and incentive guides, so the work is getting correctly represented there.
Can you guarantee I will show up in ChatGPT?
No, and nobody can. What is controllable is whether you appear, correctly and completely, on the sources the models cite for your questions.
You have seen the gap. Closing it is the work.
A teardown is one photograph. On a plan the same questions run on a schedule, every fix arrives already written, and each one is re-measured against the questions it was meant to move. That is the difference between knowing you are invisible and stopping being invisible.
14 days free. Cancel before day 14 and you are not charged. Your first questions run against ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the moment you sign up, while you watch.