Local businesses · SEO & AI visibility

Get found when people search — and when they ask AI.

Most of your customers still start on Google. A fast-growing share now just asks an assistant. The work that wins you the first also earns you the second, and independent businesses that start now will be the ones getting named.

Search rankings and AI answers, both checked. One page back, no sales call.

“Best HVAC repair near me”
1Regional chain
nationwide-hvac.com
2Directory listing
yelp.com/hvac
3Your business
yourshop.com
Ranked
4Competitor
othershop.com
How it works

Fundamentals first. Then the edge.

Solid SEO is what gets you ranking today and what makes an AI assistant confident enough to name you tomorrow. Same work, two payoffs. We start where the return is fastest.

01

Find out where you stand

Two reads, one page. Where you rank for the searches your customers actually type — and how AI assistants describe your business today, including the facts they get wrong.

Searches tracked120
Top-3 rankings14
AI answers naming you6 of 40
Facts AI got wrong3
02

Fix the fundamentals

The unglamorous work that still wins: pages that load, listings that agree with each other, accurate hours and service areas, and real answers to the questions customers ask. This is the SEO that moves rankings — and it's the exact ground AI reads from.

This month4 items
Done3
03

Then get ahead of the shift

Once the foundation holds, we go after the answer itself — structuring your information so assistants quote you, and re-asking the same questions every month so you can see the line move.

Search visibility68 → 81
AI mentions6 → 17
Trend4 mo up
Why both at once

An assistant can only recommend a business it can understand.

AI answers aren't built from nothing. Assistants read the same web your customers do — your site, your listings, your reviews, the pages that answer real questions. When that information is thin or contradicts itself, you don't get a bad ranking. You get left out of the sentence entirely.

So there's no tradeoff to manage. Getting the fundamentals right raises your rankings this quarter and makes you quotable as more customers start asking instead of searching. The businesses treating it as one project will be the ones already there when the shift finishes.

The portal

One page you can read in a minute.

Advisor dashboard: overall site health with a plain-English summary of what changed

What to notice: rankings and AI mentions sit side by side, and the biggest thing on the page is the plain-English sentence telling you what changed and what to do next.

Free visibility check

See where you rank today, and what AI says about you.

Give me your website. I'll check your rankings for the searches your customers use, ask the assistants the questions they ask, and send back one page: where you show up, where you don't, and the first three things I'd fix.

One page · Back within two business days · No call unless you ask