The process

No mystery, no ceremony. Here’s exactly how it goes.

Agencies hide their process because the process is the product’s weakest part. Ours is below, in order, with the honest timelines attached — because you should know what you’re buying before you buy it.

Published pricingMonth-to-monthYou own everything
AI answer · live ChatGPT
Who actually delivers near me?
01 [Your business] Recommended
02A competitor
03Another competitor

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

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

After week eight: the compounding phase

Visibility work is a flywheel, not a project. From month three onward the rhythm is: measure, adapt, publish, maintain — because 40–60% of AI-cited sources change monthly and the engines never stop moving. This is why we’re month-to-month: continuous work should carry continuous accountability.

Every month ends the same way — a report that leads with the two numbers you actually care about: how often you’re the answer, and how many leads that produced.

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.

How it works

Kickoff to compounding, step by step.

Step 1 · Free

The audit

Before any money moves: your Answer Share, your stage, your Stack scorecard, your first fixes. If we’re not the right fit — or you don’t need us yet — this is where we say so.

Weeks 1–2

Foundation sprint

Data reconciliation, technical fixes, and the failures that silently disqualify you — the fastest, most provable wins land first, on purpose.

Weeks 3–8

The build

Website, content, review systems, automation — each piece ships, gets measured, and starts working before the next begins.

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.

Front-loaded and small: a kickoff conversation, quick approvals in the first weeks, then roughly 30 minutes a month reviewing the report. We built this for owners who have a business to run.

A named team you can talk to — not a ticket queue. You’ll know who runs your account, and they’ll know your business well enough to argue with you about it.

One plain-English report a month: Answer Share, leads, what worked, what didn’t, and what’s next — readable in five minutes, with a live dashboard whenever you want the numbers between reports.