Costco vs Hey Telo

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Costco leads in AI visibility (75 vs 35)

Costco

LeaderConsumer Retail

Warehouse Retail

NASDAQ: COST warehouse club at $249.6B FY2024 revenue with 73.4M cardholders and $50B+ Kirkland Signature; 90%+ renewal rate with $65/$130 membership fee competing with Sam's Club for warehouse retail.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
B75
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
76%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
75
Perplexity
84
Gemini
77

About

Costco Wholesale Corporation is an Issaquah, Washington-based membership warehouse club — listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: COST) — operating 897 warehouse locations globally (as of mid-2025) across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, China, and Iceland, providing paid members (73.4 million cardholders representing 136.8 million authorized users as of fiscal year end 2024) with bulk merchandise, groceries, electronics, appliances, tires, optical services, pharmacy, and the Kirkland Signature private label brand at prices consistently below traditional retail channels. Costco generated $249.6 billion in total revenue in fiscal year 2024 (ended September 2024, +5% year-over-year), with membership fee revenue of $4.83 billion providing the financial foundation that enables Costco's famously low product margins.

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Hey Telo

EmergingHome Services

General

German craftsman AI voice agent answering calls and scheduling 24/7 for 1M+ Handwerk businesses; YC-backed targeting phone automation for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical trades in Germany.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D35
Category Rank
#608 of 1167
AI Consensus
73%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
30
Perplexity
27
Gemini
30

About

Hey Telo is a Berlin-based AI voice agent company building phone-answering and administrative automation specifically for Germany's 1 million+ independent craftsman businesses (Handwerksbetriebe) — HVAC technicians, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and other skilled trades — who lose significant revenue daily to unanswered calls and administrative burden. A Y Combinator-backed startup, Hey Telo provides voice AI agents that answer calls professionally 24/7, schedule appointments, and provide quotes while the craftsman is on-site working.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

75
Overall Score
35
#1
Category Rank
#608
76
AI Consensus
73
stable
Trend
stable
75
ChatGPT
30
84
Perplexity
27
77
Gemini
30
81
Claude
32
83
Grok
39

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