Outcome · The switch

Locked in, priced blind, and behind on AI? There’s a door.

If your current provider hides pricing, holds your website hostage, reports vanity metrics, and hasn’t said the letters ‘AI’ to you — you’re describing the industry standard. Switching is easier than they’ve made you believe, and we’ve made it our specialty.

Published pricingMonth-to-monthYou own everything
AI answer · live ChatGPT
Who’s the top-rated company in town?
01 [Your business] Recommended
02A competitor
03Another competitor

Illustrative preview — the goal of every engagement, not a promise of placement.

The problem

The playbook you’re probably trapped in.

01

The hostage website

They built your site on their platform — cancel and it vanishes. Your own web presence, held for ransom.

02

The opaque invoice

‘Custom pricing’, setup fees, and a real cost that only becomes clear after signing — by design.

03

The 2019 playbook

Zero AI strategy while 45% of customers moved to asking engines. You’re paying full price for last decade’s game.

The numbers behind all of this

An entire channel moved.
Most businesses never got the memo.

45%

of consumers now use AI to find local businesses — up from 6% a year ago.

BrightLocal, 2026
1.2%

of businesses ever get recommended by ChatGPT across 350K+ locations.

SOCi, 2026
45%

overlap between Google’s local winners and the businesses AI actually names.

SOCi, 2026
88%

of local businesses have no AI strategy at all. That’s the window.

Industry surveys, 2026
How engines actually decide

The Recommendation Stack™.

Five signal layers decide who AI engines name. Every engagement builds them in order — tap a layer to see the work behind it.

Layer 1 is the foundation — nothing above it works if the base disagrees with itself.

Know where you stand

The 5 Stages of AI Visibility.

Every business sits on exactly one rung right now. Which one decides what to fix first — and roughly 99% are stuck below Stage 4.

STAGE 112%

Invisible

Engines can’t confirm you exist. Data missing, wrong, or contradicting itself.

STAGE 234%

Indexed

You exist to the machines, but you’re never chosen. In the data, absent from the answer.

STAGE 356%

Mentioned

You surface occasionally — usually in lists, rarely as the recommendation.

STAGE 478%

Recommended

Engines actively name you in your market. This is where the phone changes.

STAGE 596%

Default Answer

First name, consistently, across engines. The position competitors can’t buy overnight.

Proof — coming soon

This is where the receipts go.

Every testimonial and result on this site will come from a real, verifiable client — named, with permission. Until we have them, this space says so out loud rather than borrowing someone else’s words.

[PLACEHOLDER · client quote]

“Replace with a real client quote once results land — ideally naming the outcome (‘AI started recommending us in 11 weeks’) and the person, business, and city.”

— Name, Role · Business, City

[PLACEHOLDER · result card]

Replace with a real, measured result: starting Answer Share → current Answer Share, over a stated number of weeks, for a named client who approved it.

Never publish a number we can’t evidence.

[PLACEHOLDER · case study]

Replace with a short case study: the situation, what we changed across the Recommendation Stack™, and what happened — including anything that didn’t work.

Link to the full write-up when it exists.

Delete this entire section once real proof replaces it — an empty promise is worse than no section.

The rules that never change

Six promises — all checkable
before you pay us a dollar.

01

Published pricing

Every price on the page. No quote calls, no setup-fee ambush.

02

Month-to-month

No contracts. We re-earn the business every single month.

03

You own everything

Site, domain, content, data, CRM — in writing, from day one.

04

Free audit, no strings

A real human review, yours to keep whether you hire us or not.

05

Honest timelines

Visibility compounds over 8–12+ weeks. We say so before you buy.

06

We name what didn’t work

Every report lists the misses. Trust is built in the down months.

The difference

Same industry. Opposite rules.

How it works
Typical provider
AnswerStack
Pricing
“Custom quote” after a discovery call
Published on the site. All of it.
Contract
12–24 months, auto-renewing
Month-to-month. Always.
Your website
Theirs. Leave and it disappears.
Yours in writing, from day one.
Reporting
40 pages of impressions
Answer Share + leads, on one screen.
AI strategy
None — 88% have no plan
The entire point of the company.

Find out where you stand before you spend a dollar.

The free audit shows your Answer Share, your visibility stage, and your first three fixes — yours to keep either way.

Straight answers

Questions owners actually ask.

Not done properly — the danger is uncontrolled migration, not migration itself. Full crawl first, complete redirect map, staged cutover, monitoring after. Preserving equity through transitions is a core competency here.

Usually more than you think: we can audit now, plan the migration, and time the build so you switch the day your term ends without a gap — and without paying two providers for overlapping months.

You don’t have to trust copy: pricing is published, terms are month-to-month, ownership is in writing, and the audit is free before any commitment. Every one of those is checkable before you spend a dollar.