Proof, monthly

One report. Plain English. Numbers you’d bet on.

Marketing you can’t measure is marketing you can’t trust — and vanity-metric reporting is how this industry earned its reputation. Every AnswerStack plan includes a dashboard and monthly report built around three questions: are you more visible, are you getting more leads, and what’s next.

Published pricingMonth-to-monthYou own everything
AI answer · live ChatGPT
Who do you recommend in my area?
01 [Your business] Recommended
02A competitor
03Another competitor

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

The problem

Reporting is where agencies hide.

01

Impressions are not income

Reach, impressions, ‘engagement’ — metrics chosen because they always go up and never pay a bill.

02

Forty pages, zero answers

Reports engineered to exhaust you into not reading them. Confusion is a retention strategy.

03

Nobody measures AI visibility

The channel deciding half your future leads isn’t on your current report at all.

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
What you get

The dashboard the industry should’ve built.

Answer Share, leads, and next steps — the whole report fits on one screen.

Headline

Answer Share tracking

How often AI engines name you when your market asks — tracked monthly, engine by engine.

Reality

Lead & call tracking

Forms, calls, and bookings attributed to source — what actually reached your phone.

Context

Search visibility

Rankings and map-pack presence for terms that matter, alongside — never instead of — leads.

Honesty

What didn’t work

Every report names what underperformed and what we’re changing. Trust is built in the down months.

Access

Live dashboard

Your numbers whenever you want them — not hostage to a monthly PDF.

Direction

Next-month plan

Each report ends with what we’re doing next and why — reporting as steering, not history.

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

From kickoff to compounding results.

Weeks 1–2

Foundation & fixes

We audit, reconcile your data, and repair the failures that silently disqualify you — the fastest wins land here.

Weeks 3–8

Build & publish

The system goes live: structure, content, signals, and automation, each piece measured as it ships.

Ongoing

Compound & adapt

Engines change their sources constantly. We adapt monthly and report your Answer Share and real leads in plain English.

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.

The percentage of AI-generated answers in your category and market that name your business — measured with real prompts across the major engines. It’s the market-share metric of the AI era, and it headlines every report.

No. Dashboard and monthly reporting are included in every plan — charging extra for proof would say something we don’t want said.

That’s the design constraint. If a busy owner can’t read the report in five minutes and know exactly where things stand, we rewrite the report.