98.8% of local businesses are never recommended by AI

Is AI sending customers to you — or to your competitor?

Your customers stopped scrolling Google. They ask ChatGPT "who's the best ___ near me" and call whoever gets named. Run a free scan and see the exact answer they're getting about your industry, in your city, right now.

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Free AI visibility scan

See what AI actually says about your industry

We ask the same question your customer would ask, read the real answer, and tell you whether you're in it — plus exactly what's keeping you out.

We run one real AI query about your category and city. Results appear on this page in under a minute. No spam — you can unsubscribe from the follow-up in one click.

Asking AI what a customer in your area would be told…

Why this is happening now

Search didn't die. It moved — and most businesses didn't follow.

Ranking on Google and getting recommended by an AI assistant are two different games with two different rulebooks. Winning one does not win you the other.

45%

of local searches now involve AI — up from 6% a year ago.

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98.8%

of local businesses are never recommended by AI search at all.

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45%

overlap between Google map-pack winners and AI recommendations. Over half of map-pack leaders are absent from AI answers.

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2.5×

more likely to get a site visit within 7 days if a brand is named in a ChatGPT recommendation.

Similarweb, 2026

Here's the uncomfortable part: an AI assistant returns one short list, not ten blue links. There is no page two. You are named, or you do not exist.

How we fix it

Three things decide whether AI names you

AI assistants don't crawl your site the way Google does. They assemble an answer from sources they trust and facts they can verify. We make you one of those sources.

1

Be machine-readable

Structured data (schema markup), a clean business profile, and answer-formatted pages that state your services, areas, hours, pricing and credentials as explicit facts — not as marketing copy an AI has to interpret.

2

Be corroborated

AI cross-checks. Your name, address, phone, hours and service list have to match across your site, your Google profile, directories and review platforms. Conflicting facts get you dropped from the answer entirely.

3

Be the obvious answer

Assistants quote sources that directly answer the question asked. We build the pages that answer the exact buying questions in your category — the ones people actually type into a chat box.

Pricing

Agencies charge $1,000–$4,000 for the audit alone

We productized it. Same work, fixed price, no retainer required, no twelve-month contract.

Visibility Report

$149

One-time · delivered in 48 hours

  • 25 real buyer-intent prompts tested
  • Across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Google AI Overviews
  • Full transcripts — see the actual answers
  • Which 3 competitors AI names instead of you
  • Prioritized fix list you can hand to any developer
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Done-For-You Fix

$497

One-time · live in 7 days

  • Everything in the Visibility Report
  • Schema markup built & installed on your site
  • Google Business Profile rebuilt for AI retrieval
  • 3 answer-engine pages written for your top buying questions
  • Name/address/phone corrected across core directories
  • Re-scan after 30 days — proof it moved, in writing
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$297/mo

Monthly · cancel anytime

  • Monthly re-scan across all four engines
  • Competitor movement alerts
  • One new answer-engine page every month
  • Schema & profile kept current as you change
  • Plain-English monthly report
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Our guarantee: if your 30-day re-scan shows no improvement in AI visibility for your target prompts, we keep working at no charge until it does — or refund you in full.

Questions

Fair things to ask before you pay anyone

Isn't this just SEO with a new name?

No — and the data says so plainly. There's only about 45% overlap between businesses that win Google's local map pack and businesses that AI assistants actually recommend. More than half of map-pack leaders are completely absent from AI answers. Traditional SEO optimizes for ranking a link. This optimizes for being quoted as the answer, which depends on structured facts, cross-source agreement, and answer-formatted content. Related skills, different scoreboard.

Can you actually guarantee ChatGPT will name my business?

Nobody can guarantee a specific AI output — anyone who promises that is lying to you. What we guarantee is measurable movement on your target prompts within 30 days, or we keep working free until it moves, or you get a full refund. We show you the before-and-after transcripts either way, so you're never taking our word for it.

How is the free scan different from what I'm buying?

The free scan runs one live query on one engine so you can see the reality for yourself — no obligation, nothing hidden. The paid report runs 25 buyer-intent prompts across four engines, maps which competitors are winning which questions, and identifies the specific technical and content gaps causing it. The Done-For-You tier means we implement the fixes rather than handing you a to-do list.

Do I need to give you access to my website?

For the report, no — it's entirely external analysis. For the Done-For-You Fix, we need either CMS access or a developer contact to install the schema markup, plus manager access to your Google Business Profile. If you'd rather not hand over credentials, we'll deliver installable files and written instructions instead.

I'm a one-person shop. Is this worth $497 to me?

Run the numbers on your own business, not ours. If one new customer is worth more than $497 to you over their lifetime, this pays for itself on the first job. If your average ticket is $40 and you have no repeat business, it probably doesn't — and we'll tell you that rather than take the sale.

What if the free scan shows I'm already being recommended?

Then you're in the fortunate 1.2%, and we'll say so. You may still want monitoring — AI answers shift as competitors optimize, and losing a position you already have is the expensive scenario. But we're not going to invent a problem to sell you a fix.

Find out where you stand in 60 seconds

The scan is free and it takes one minute. Whatever it shows, you'll know something about your business today that you didn't know this morning.

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