We asked AI for NYC movers 90 times. Here is who it named.

The shares on this page are withheld. This sample was taken before 2026-09-13, when our query dropped the state and asked the assistants about a bare town name, so some answers may describe a same-named town elsewhere. The businesses below were each verified as real and Google-listed in this area, so the list stands. The percentages do not, and they are not shown until the sweep is re-run with the corrected query. We hold other people to this, so we hold ourselves to it.

Ten real customer questions ("best moving company nyc", "movers for a 1 bedroom apartment"), asked three times each to ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini. Every company named, counted, and verified. This page updates monthly.

FlatRate Moving was named in a share we are not publishing (58 of 90), the most dominant AI recommendation we have measured in any NYC market.
5 of the 14 verified names are national brands: Two Men and a Truck, Mayflower, United Van Lines, Allied Van Lines, and U-Haul, together named 88 times.
U-Haul was named in 9 of 90 answers, better known for truck rental than local moving, a sign the assistants lean toward the most recognizable brand.
Asked cold, the models also produced generic phrases dressed as companies ("NYC Moving", "The Moving Company"). We verified every name against the live web and excluded the ones that are not real businesses.

The ranking

Named in N of 90 sampled answers. Sampled and directional, not market share. Verified businesses only.

#	Company	Named	Type
1	FlatRate Moving	58/90	NYC-founded
2	Roadway Moving	46/90	NYC local
3	Two Men and a Truck	43/90	National franchise
4	Piece of Cake Moving & Storage	31/90	NYC local
5	Intense Movers	24/90	NYC local
6	JP Urban Moving	19/90	NYC local
7	Sven Moving	17/90	NYC local
8	Mayflower	14/90	National van line
9	Dumbo Moving and Storage	12/90	NYC local
10	United Van Lines	12/90	National van line
11	Allied Van Lines	10/90	National van line
12	U-Haul	9/90	Truck rental
13	Empire Movers	9/90	NYC local
14	Cool Hand Movers	9/90	NYC local

Source: Busy Season Local AI Visibility Index, busyseasonlocal.com/ai-visibility/movers-nyc. Journalists and researchers: cite freely with a link. Data license CC BY 4.0.

Method, in full

The whole recipe, because the numbers only matter if you can trust them.

The questions. Ten queries real customers type, from "movers nyc" to "best moving company for a 1 bedroom apartment nyc". Each asked fresh, three separate times, to each assistant.

The assistants. ChatGPT (gpt-4o-mini), Claude (Haiku 4.5), and Google Gemini (Flash), sampled 2026-07-11. 90 answers total.

The counting. Every business named in any answer was extracted and counted once per answer it appears in. Longer canonical names are matched to their short forms.

The verification. Every published name was checked against the live web. Excluded: "NYC Moving", "Movers NYC", "NYC Movers", "The Moving Company" (generic phrases), "Urban Moving" (inflated by substring of JP Urban Moving), and one unverifiable name. What remains is real.

The mode. We sample the models directly, without web browsing or a set location, to measure what they know on their own. A logged-in assistant that browses the live web and knows where you are may answer differently. What does not change: if the web does not describe you clearly, neither mode can recommend you.

The caveats. Sampled and directional, not market share. Answers vary run to run; that is why we ask three times. AI answers change as the models and the web change; this page refreshes monthly, and movement is the story.

The scoring rubric behind our per-business reports is public too: how I score.

Not on the list? That is measurable, and fixable.

The assistants build these recommendations from your Google profile, reviews, listings, and website. The free visibility snapshot measures exactly where your business stands on every one of those signals, movers or any other trade, anywhere in NYC and Long Island.

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