Authority, Sources, Specificity. The three things ChatGPT checks before it recommends a business. We record it doing exactly that for the question your customers ask, then score you on what it found.
The three pillars
We traced every recommended business in 82 recorded answers back to whatever first put it there. Each pillar of the score is one of those routes, measured for you on your own question.
Was ChatGPT already carrying you before it searched?
The model writes brand names into its own searches before a single result comes back. If you are one of them, you were in its head already. Scored from whether you are named in the answer, and whether it searched for you by name.
Are you on what it reads?
Local business records, the pages it opens, the directories and review platforms it names. Scored only on the channels it actually used for your question: you are not marked down for records it never pulled.
Does your own site answer what it searched for?
ChatGPT adds words to its searches that your question never had: a year, a price, “official”, a licence, reviews, hours. We read your site for each one it asked for. Scored as answered over asked.
The number
Each pillar is 0 to 100. The score is the average of the pillars the recording could measure. A pillar the recording could not measure is left blank, never counted as zero.
What you get
The lineage
Google’s quality guidelines gave the web a vocabulary for what a page should be. Answer engines changed the question to what the model does. The ASS score is the next step in that line: same job, different instrument.
Nobody can measure “trustworthiness” on a Tuesday. You can measure whether the model searched for you by name, whether you were on the pages it opened, and whether your site answered what it asked. Each pillar maps to a route we watched businesses take into an answer, with the share next to it.
The routes are published, with sample sizes, at llmjesus.com, and the scoring rules are on the methodology page. E-E-A-T is Google’s. ASS is not. ASSmetric is not affiliated with OpenAI or Google.