Who do AI assistants recommend in Richmond, VA?

    The top 15 firms AI assistants name for Richmond — each a verified registered investment adviser — from 100 location-specific queries across the four major platforms.

    100 city queries1 of 64 covered metrosUpdated September 15, 2026 · Methodology

    Top firms ranked

    15

    #1 firm's city score

    629

    Godsey & Gibb Wealth Management

    Average city score

    271.0

    City scale — not the 0–100 national score

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    National Leader

    Ranks #1 locally and #24 nationally — consistently high visibility across markets.

    National rank

    #24

    National score

    61.6/100

    Avg. position here

    3.5

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    22%

    Mentions8
    ClaudeClaude

    17%

    Mentions6
    PerplexityPerplexity

    42%

    Mentions15
    GeminiGemini

    19%

    Mentions7

    Balanced visibility across 4 AI platforms — 36 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    🌎

    National Leader

    Ranks #2 locally and #23 nationally — consistently high visibility across markets.

    National rank

    #23

    National score

    61.9/100

    Avg. position here

    4.4

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    29%

    Mentions9
    ClaudeClaude

    29%

    Mentions9
    PerplexityPerplexity

    16%

    Mentions5
    GeminiGemini

    26%

    Mentions8

    Balanced visibility across 4 AI platforms — 31 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Specialist

    Ranks #3 here but #84 nationally — a genuinely local presence.

    National rank

    #84

    National score

    55.0/100

    Avg. position here

    3.9

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    23%

    Mentions6
    ClaudeClaude

    23%

    Mentions6
    PerplexityPerplexity

    23%

    Mentions6
    GeminiGemini

    31%

    Mentions8

    Balanced visibility across 4 AI platforms — 26 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    📍

    Local Focus

    Ranks #4 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    4.5

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    15%

    Mentions4
    ClaudeClaude

    19%

    Mentions5
    PerplexityPerplexity

    35%

    Mentions9
    GeminiGemini

    31%

    Mentions8

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 26 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #5 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    6.2

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    6%

    Mentions1
    ClaudeClaude

    44%

    Mentions7
    PerplexityPerplexity

    0%

    Mentions0
    GeminiGemini

    50%

    Mentions8

    Split between Gemini (50%) and Claude (44%) — 16 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    📍

    Local Focus

    Ranks #6 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    5.0

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    0%

    Mentions0
    ClaudeClaude

    7%

    Mentions1
    PerplexityPerplexity

    33%

    Mentions5
    GeminiGemini

    60%

    Mentions9

    Split between Gemini (60%) and Perplexity (33%) — 15 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #7 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    6.9

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    13%

    Mentions2
    ClaudeClaude

    27%

    Mentions4
    PerplexityPerplexity

    47%

    Mentions7
    GeminiGemini

    13%

    Mentions2

    Mixed visibility across platforms — 15 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Specialist

    Ranks #8 here but #249 nationally — a genuinely local presence.

    National rank

    #249

    National score

    48.9/100

    Avg. position here

    5.1

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    31%

    Mentions4
    ClaudeClaude

    31%

    Mentions4
    PerplexityPerplexity

    0%

    Mentions0
    GeminiGemini

    38%

    Mentions5

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 13 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Regional Player

    Ranks #9 in this city and #69 nationally — moderate visibility beyond this market.

    National rank

    #69

    National score

    56.3/100

    Avg. position here

    7.8

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    8%

    Mentions1
    ClaudeClaude

    31%

    Mentions4
    PerplexityPerplexity

    62%

    Mentions8
    GeminiGemini

    0%

    Mentions0

    Primarily visible on Perplexity (62%), with secondary presence on other platforms — 13 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    National Leader

    Ranks #10 locally and #1 nationally — consistently high visibility across markets.

    National rank

    #1

    National score

    89.7/100

    Avg. position here

    4.2

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    50%

    Mentions6
    ClaudeClaude

    25%

    Mentions3
    PerplexityPerplexity

    8%

    Mentions1
    GeminiGemini

    17%

    Mentions2

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 12 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #11 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    6.0

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    9%

    Mentions1
    ClaudeClaude

    64%

    Mentions7
    PerplexityPerplexity

    0%

    Mentions0
    GeminiGemini

    27%

    Mentions3

    Primarily visible on Claude (64%), with secondary presence on other platforms — 11 total mentions across 4 platforms.

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    Local Focus

    Ranks #12 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    6.5

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    27%

    Mentions3
    ClaudeClaude

    27%

    Mentions3
    PerplexityPerplexity

    27%

    Mentions3
    GeminiGemini

    18%

    Mentions2

    Balanced visibility across 4 AI platforms — 11 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    📍

    Local Focus

    Ranks #13 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    3.9

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    0%

    Mentions0
    ClaudeClaude

    20%

    Mentions2
    PerplexityPerplexity

    40%

    Mentions4
    GeminiGemini

    40%

    Mentions4

    Balanced visibility across 3 AI platforms — 10 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    📍

    Local Focus

    Ranks #14 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    7.2

    Good — often in the top 10 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    0%

    Mentions0
    ClaudeClaude

    0%

    Mentions0
    PerplexityPerplexity

    70%

    Mentions7
    GeminiGemini

    30%

    Mentions3

    Primarily visible on Perplexity (70%), with secondary presence on other platforms — 10 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    📍

    Local Focus

    Ranks #15 in this city with no national ranking — AI visibility concentrated in local markets.

    National rank

    Not in top 300

    National score

    —

    Avg. position here

    5.0

    Very good — typically in the top 5 when mentioned

    AI platform breakdown · this metro

    ChatGPTChatGPT

    22%

    Mentions2
    ClaudeClaude

    0%

    Mentions0
    PerplexityPerplexity

    0%

    Mentions0
    GeminiGemini

    78%

    Mentions7

    Primarily visible on Gemini (78%), with secondary presence on other platforms — 9 total mentions across 4 platforms.

    Showing Richmond's top 15 — every listed firm is a registered investment adviser, verified against the SEC/state Form ADV registry. Firms below the cutoff are still tracked: search any firm name above.

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    Disclaimer

    This is independent research, not investment advice or an endorsement. Scores measure how often and how prominently AI assistants surface a firm as of September 15, 2026 — not its competence, credentials, performance, or fit for any client. Rankings reflect clean, non-personalized queries and may differ from what any individual user sees. AdvisorFinder is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Perplexity; their names and logos identify the tools we test.

    This board ranks independent RIA firms only. National wirehouses, banks, broker-dealers, and asset managers — Morgan Stanley, Merrill, Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, and similar — are out of scope by design: they compete in a different category, and their household-brand ubiquity in AI answers would turn an independent-advisor ranking into a big-brand recognition contest. Independent advisor teams affiliated with those institutions are evaluated as their own firms.

    Scores and ranks are recomputed each edition from a fixed query library. Because assistant outputs vary run to run, small movement between editions is expected — rank changes outside the top 25 are shown as approximate. See the full methodology, or request a correction.