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What an assistant says about you, in someone else's kitchen
A growing share of questions about your business are answered without anybody visiting your site. You cannot see those answers, and asking your own device does not produce them.
Assistant answers are the one surface where being wrong about you is completely invisible from your side. There is no referrer, no impression, and no complaint, because the person got an answer and never arrived.
What to put in the public brief
- Which assistants or apps
- The market and language
- That recordings or screenshots are required
- Roughly how many questions
- That they should be signed into their own ordinary account
Keep the brand and the exact questions private, or you have told the marketplace which brand is checking what.
What to put in the private instructions
Give the questions in a customer's words
Not your marketing language. "Is there anywhere near me that does X" beats any phrasing containing your product category as you write it.
Ask for the answer verbatim
Recorded or screenshotted, not summarised. What you need is the wording and the sources, and a paraphrase loses both.
Ask which sources were named
Where the assistant cites or links. That list is your actual fix list.
Ask a comparison question last
"Is X or Y better for this." Uncomfortable, and it is the answer a customer is most likely to act on.
Proof worth requiring
Ask for
The verbatim answer, any sources cited, the assistant and app version, the country, and the exact question asked.
Do not ask for
Any correction, feedback or report submitted to the assistant. That is manipulating the measurement, and it is not how a wrong answer gets fixed anyway.
When this task type is the wrong tool
If your business details are inconsistent across your own site and listings, fix that first. An assistant repeating your own contradictions back to you is a finding you could have had for free.
If you want to know how you rank in ordinary search rather than what an assistant says, a local search check is the cheaper instrument.
Common questions
Why can I not just ask my own assistant?
Because it knows you. Assistant and AI answers are shaped by location, account history, prior queries and the assistant's own regional configuration, so your device is the least representative one available. It is the same reason your own search results are useless for checking rankings.
What should they ask?
The questions a customer would, in a customer's words. Opening hours, whether you do a particular thing, how you compare to a named competitor, and whether you are any good. That last one produces the most uncomfortable and most useful transcript.
What reward is fair?
Six to fourteen dollars for a handful of questions across one or two assistants with recordings or screenshots. Price up for markets or languages where few workers are registered.
What do I do if the answer is wrong?
Fix the sources it drew on rather than trying to argue with the assistant. That usually means your own site, your business listings, and whichever third-party pages it cited. The transcript is what tells you which.
Thinking of taking this task?
The same job, from the other side. Rewards are set by the poster, so treat these as the range this task type usually sits in rather than a promise.
- Usually pays
- $6 to $14
- You need
- A device with the named assistant, on your ordinary account
- Proof expected
- The verbatim answer, sources cited, and your country
Do not submit feedback or corrections to the assistant. That would manipulate the thing being measured.
Create a worker accountCheck your answers
Set the reward, the assistants and the markets you need. Workers reserve a spot; your brand and questions stay private until they do.
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