Your customers are asking AI for a recommendation. Will it name you?
We score how visible your business is across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity — then do the fix work ourselves. The reviews, local mentions, and listings AI engines actually trust, plus a site they can read and quote. End to end. No developer, no content team, no PDFs you have to act on alone.
─ The problem
AI doesn’t see most local businesses.
Google was built for keywords. AI search is built for answers — and the engines recommend the businesses the rest of the web vouches for. If your reviews are thin, nobody credible mentions you, your listings disagree with each other, and your service pages don’t plainly say what you do — the AI skips you and recommends the business down the street with the paper trail.
What we hear
“Our Google ranking is fine, our reviews are great — but we’re losing jobs to a competitor nobody’s heard of. How?”
Usually because that competitor is the one ChatGPT names when a customer asks. AI search is a different game with different rules — and you need someone who plays it for you.
─ How we're different
Real fixes, not just findings.
Most agencies email you a 40-page audit and disappear — or sell you schema markup and an llms.txt file, because that’s the part they can deliver. The evidence says citations come from somewhere else: reviews, real mentions, third-party profiles that vouch for you. We do the audit, then sit down and build exactly that — plus the site and listings work to support it. You don’t need a developer. You don’t need a content team. You need this fixed.
─ Inside our services
Audit + implementation
We find every gap. Then we close it.
── Find · the audit
What we find.
AI visibility score
We test your business against the prompts your customers actually use — “best plumber near me,” “HVAC repair in [your city],” “who fixes leaky faucets fast” — across four AI engines. And we run them repeatedly over several days, because single AI answers are noisy and a real score needs real sampling.
Competitor benchmark
We find the local businesses AI recommends instead of you, and pull apart why: their review footprint, where credible third parties mention them, the profiles and directories that vouch for them, and what their site says plainly that yours doesn’t.
Corroboration + reachability check
The two things that decide citations: whether the web vouches for you (reviews, mentions, consistent listings and profiles) and whether AI engines can actually reach and read your site — crawler access, clean HTML, indexed where each engine actually looks.
Prioritized fix plan
Every gap we found, sorted by impact, with the exact change to make. This is the scope our team works against in the implementation phase.
── Fix · the work
What we fix.
Review footprint on the platforms AI reads
Google, Yelp, BBB, and the review platforms that matter for your trade. Businesses with an active presence on major review platforms get cited by AI at roughly three times the rate of those without — this is the biggest lever, so it comes first.
Local mentions + earned coverage
Local news, community organizations, trade associations, manufacturer and supplier directories. Most AI citations point at third-party sources, not the business’s own site — we build that footprint the legitimate way. No bought links, no fake mentions.
Listings + entity consistency
Google Business Profile, Apple Business Connect, Bing Places, the directories AI actually pulls from. Same name, address, phone, and categories everywhere — so every engine can connect what the web says about you to one business it can trust.
A site AI can read and quote
Crawler access (AI bots are often blocked without anyone knowing), clean crawlable HTML, and service pages that answer customer questions plainly — with the content patterns peer-reviewed research shows get quoted: direct answers, real numbers, named sources.
─ Our method
The Visibility Loop
A five-step process that compounds month over month.
01
Audit.
Score visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity for the queries that drive jobs in your trade and your zip code. Benchmark against the local businesses AI currently recommends.
02
Map.
Identify the questions your customers actually ask AI assistants — not the ones a keyword tool surfaces. Match each one to the page that should be the answer.
03
Fix.
Your review footprint, real local mentions, consistent listings, crawler access, and service pages that answer plainly. The trust layer first, the site layer to support it. We do the work — no developer, no content team needed on your end.
04
Monitor.
Weekly tracking of citations across all four AI assistants — each query sampled repeatedly, because single AI answers are noise. You see when each engine starts naming you and how the trend is moving.
05
Iterate.
AI search shifts every month — new models, new retrieval sources, new signals. We adjust the strategy so the wins compound instead of fading.
─ What it's like to work with us
Built for the way local businesses actually run.
You talk to the person doing the work, not an account manager.
We don't email you a 40-page PDF and disappear. We do the fixes ourselves.
We work the way contractors work — text us, we respond same day.
You'll know in 30 days whether AI is naming you. We'll know how to fix it if it isn't.
No annual contracts. Month to month. If we're not earning it, leave.
Reporting in plain English. No 'impressions per session' nonsense.
─ Getting started
From intake to implementation, in four steps.
01
Tell us about your business
Name, website, service area, what you actually do. Two minutes — by email, phone, or in person.
02
We run the audit
We query four AI engines for your zip code and category, scrape your site, and benchmark you against the local competitors AI currently recommends. About a week.
03
We walk you through what we found
A short call or in-person sit-down where we go through the scorecard, the competitive analysis, and the fix plan together, and agree on scope.
04
We implement every fix
Reviews, mentions, listings, site and content fixes — we carry out the work end to end. You don’t need to bring in a separate web team, and you don’t need to manage the project.
─ Common questions
Things people actually ask us.
For the deeper version — how AI assistants actually decide who to cite, what to skip, and the full Visibility Loop in detail — read The Local AI Visibility Playbook.
Is this just SEO with a new name?+
No. Traditional SEO competes for a ranking on a results page. AI search competes for being the answer — and the strongest driver isn't on your website at all. The largest studies to date consistently find that AI engines cite the businesses the rest of the web vouches for: reviews, real mentions in credible publications, consistent third-party profiles. Roughly 30% of the domains AI Overviews cite aren't even on the first page of Google. It's a different game, and it's won mostly off your own site.
Do I need llms.txt or special schema markup?+
No — and be wary of anyone selling them as the secret. Google has said publicly that its AI features ignore llms.txt, and that no special schema is required to show up in AI answers. We keep your structured data clean because it's cheap housekeeping that removes ambiguity about who you are — but the evidence says citations come from your review footprint and what credible third parties say about you, so that's where we put the effort.
Will this hurt my Google rankings?+
It almost always helps them. The work we do — building your review base, earning real local mentions, consistent listings, clearer service pages — is exactly what Google has rewarded for years. We've never seen this work hurt traditional search performance. We've often seen it lift both at once.
Do I need a new website?+
Almost never — because this mostly isn't a website job. Your site needs to be reachable (AI crawlers are often blocked without anyone knowing), readable, and clear about what you do and where. We fix that on the site you already have. The bigger work is off-site: the reviews, mentions, and profiles that make AI engines trust you. We only recommend a rebuild when the foundation is genuinely broken, and we'll tell you straight if it is.
How fast will the phone start ringing?+
Realistically: thirty to ninety days for the first AI citations to start showing up, and three to six months before it's a meaningful share of your inbound. Listings and Google Business Profile work shows up faster (often inside two weeks); earned mentions and review momentum build over months. Anyone promising you AI citations next week is selling a fantasy.
How do I know it's working?+
We measure the honest way: the same customer queries, run repeatedly across all four AI assistants, week after week — because AI answers are volatile and a single screenshot proves nothing in either direction. You get a short monthly report in plain English: which engines named you, for which queries, how the trend is moving, plus call and lead volume from your tracking. Visibility is the leading metric; booked jobs is the lagging one. We hold ourselves accountable to both.
Does this work for my trade?+
If your customers are real people who could plausibly ask an AI assistant for a recommendation, yes. We work mostly with home services (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping), trades (auto repair, body shops), personal services (med spa, salon, dental), and contractors. If you're not sure, ask — we'll tell you straight whether AI search is a fit or a waste for your business.
What does it cost?+
The audit is free. The fix work is custom-scoped — it depends on how much corroboration you're starting with (reviews, mentions, listings), how many service areas you cover, and how competitive your market is. Engagements are month-to-month, no annual contracts. Easiest way to understand the investment is to do the free audit and we'll talk numbers from there.
─ What you walk away with
A clearer picture, and the work to back it up.
- A full AI visibility scorecard for your business and your top local competitors.
- A short call (or sit-down) where we walk you through every finding in plain English.
- Every fix on the plan — reviews, mentions, listings, site and content changes — implemented in full by our team.
- An after-report showing the visibility lift, so you can see what changed.
Ready to be the recommendation?