AI growth platform for small business

When customers ask AI,
be the answer.

45% of Americans now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity who to hire — and AI names only a business or two. AnswerStack runs your website, SEO, and AI Engine Optimization so the business it names is yours.

Published pricing Month-to-month You own everything
Your visibility dashboard Live view
Answer Share
34%
▲ +9 pts this month
Leads captured
27
this month · all sources
Engine visibility
ChatGPT
Recommended
Perplexity
Recommended
Gemini
Mentioned
Claude
Mentioned
Grok
Indexed
Stage 4 · Recommended updated 2h ago

Illustrative preview — every plan includes this dashboard, showing your real numbers.

The engines your customers ask →ChatGPT·Claude·Gemini·Perplexity·Grok·Copilot·Google AI Overviews The engines your customers ask →ChatGPT·Claude·Gemini·Perplexity·Grok·Copilot·Google AI Overviews
45%

of consumers now use AI to find local businesses — up from 6% last year

BrightLocal, 2026
1.2%

of local businesses ever get recommended by ChatGPT

SOCi Index, 350K+ locations
45%

overlap between Google’s top local results and AI’s picks — half the winners are missing

SOCi, 2026
88%

of local businesses have no AI search strategy at all

Industry survey, 2026
The quiet-phone problem

Ranking on Google is no longer
the same as being found.

AI engines don’t show ten blue links. They name two or three businesses and stop. If yours isn’t one of them, there’s no page two — there’s nothing.

01

AI doesn’t read your rankings

ChatGPT builds local recommendations from Foursquare, Yelp, Bing, the BBB, and your own site’s structure — sources most businesses haven’t touched in years.

02

Reviews are the gate

Perplexity uses reviews in 100% of local answers. Thin or stale review profiles quietly disqualify you before you’re ever considered.

03

No alarm ever goes off

There’s no “AI ranking report” in your inbox. Businesses lose the new channel silently — the phone just rings a little less each month.

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Based on reviews and reputation, I’d recommend Competitor A Roofing or Competitor B Exteriors. Both are well-reviewed and respond quickly. Your Company

Illustrative example — this is the moment we exist to fix. Your name, inside the answer.

How AI decides — the Recommendation Stack™

AI engines pick businesses in layers.
We optimize every one.

01Entity & data consistency
02Review authority
03Answerable content
04Machine readability
05Third-party corroboration

Layer 1 is the foundation — tap any layer to see how engines weigh it

Layer 1 of 5

Entity & data consistency

Before an AI recommends you, it must be certain you exist and that your details agree everywhere it looks — Foursquare, Yelp, Bing, the BBB, Google, your own site. Most businesses fail this layer silently.

Only 68% of business contact info on AI platforms matches Google Business Profile data — and AI punishes mismatches harder than Google does.
One partner, the whole engine

Everything visibility requires,
run for you.

Not six vendors pointing at each other. One accountable team running the system end to end — and one dashboard showing what it’s producing.

Build

Websites that machines can read

Design, rebuilds, hosting, and security — structured so AI engines can parse, quote, and trust every page.

Optimize

AI Engine Optimization

Entity cleanup, schema, answer-ready content, and citation building across the sources AI actually consults.

Rank

SEO — local to national

Google still matters. Local, national, and technical SEO run alongside AEO, never instead of it.

Reputation

Review velocity systems

Automated, honest review generation — because engines treat your review profile as the gate to being recommended.

Convert

CRM & automation

Lead capture, routing, booking, email and SMS follow-up — so the demand we create never leaks.

Compound

Content & authority

A publishing engine that makes you the cited expert in your market, article by article.

DASHBOARD Every client sees their Answer Share, engine-by-engine visibility, and real leads in one plain-English dashboard. No vanity metrics, ever.
The 5 Stages of AI Visibility

Every business is at one of five stages.
Most never leave the first.

Stage 1

Invisible

AI engines can’t verify you exist. No consistent data, no presence in their sources.

Stage 2

Indexed

Engines know you exist, but nothing makes you worth mentioning.

Stage 3

Mentioned

You appear in some answers — inconsistently, and rarely first.

Stage 4

Recommended

Engines actively suggest you for your core services in your market.

Stage 5

Default answer

You’re the name AI reaches for first. The position we build toward.

Proof you can run yourself

Don’t take our word for it.
Ask the engines.

The 10-second background check

Our results live in public. Open ChatGPT or Perplexity and ask it to recommend a business our clients compete as — our clients are in the answer. Ask about AI visibility companies — we hold ourselves to being the answer in our own category too. If we can’t do it for ourselves, we shouldn’t be selling it to you.

TRY THIS PROMPT
> “Who should I trust to help my small business show up in AI search?”
“[PLACEHOLDER — real client quote goes here after first results. We don’t publish invented testimonials.]”
— Client name, Company, Industry
“[PLACEHOLDER — second client quote. Until then, this space holds our promise: every testimonial on this site will be from a real, verifiable client.]”
— Client name, Company, Industry
An honest comparison

Your real options, side by side.

AnswerStackMarketing bundlersAI visibility toolsDoing it yourself
Built for AI search Core focus Legacy playbook Monitoring onlyGuesswork
Does the work for you Full executionPartial, opaque Dashboard only Your nights
Pricing published On this site Quote-only Usually
ContractMonth-to-month6–12 month lock-inMonthly
You own your website & data Always, in writing Often held hostagen/a
Reports in plain English Answer Share + leadsVanity metricsTechnical
Simple, published pricing

Three plans. Every price on the page.
No quotes, no ambushes, no lock-in.

Month-to-month. Earn-it-every-month terms. You own everything. Site, data, CRM — in writing. Honest timelines. Visibility compounds over 8–12+ weeks.
See our pricing
Straight answers

Questions owners actually ask.

AEO is the work of making your business visible, verifiable, and recommendable to AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — consistent business data everywhere they look, a review profile that clears their bar, content that answers real questions, and a website structured so machines can read and quote it.

No — and nobody honest can. AI engines change their sources constantly. What we do is systematically build every signal they’re known to check, measure your Answer Share monthly, and adapt as engines evolve. That’s also why we’re month-to-month: we re-earn the engagement with results, not a contract.

Data and entity fixes land in weeks. Review velocity builds over 1–3 months. AI visibility typically compounds meaningfully over 8–12+ weeks — anyone promising overnight AI rankings is guessing or lying, and we’d rather tell you the truth on day one.

Yes. Google still handles the majority of searches, and its AI answers pull from the same signals. We run SEO and AEO as one system — the whole answer surface, not one engine.

You keep everything — website, domain, content, CRM, data, reviews. It’s yours in writing from day one. We think that should be the industry standard; it isn’t, which tells you something about the industry.

Find out what AI says
when customers ask about you.

The free audit is a human review of your real data, reviews, and AI presence — with your Answer Share and your stage, whether you hire us or not.

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