Own your market

When your city searches, be the first name.

The map pack, the local results, and now the AI answers about ‘near me’ — local visibility is where service businesses live or die. We optimize the whole local surface: Google Business Profile, citations, reviews, and the local signals AI engines consult.

Published pricingMonth-to-monthYou own everything
AI answer · live ChatGPT
Plumber near me, open right now?
01 [Your business] Recommended
02A competitor
03Another competitor

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

The problem

Local visibility fails in boring, fixable ways.

01

Your data disagrees with itself

Different hours on Yelp, an old address on Bing, a missing profile on Foursquare — engines read inconsistency as unreliability and quietly drop you.

02

The map pack is three slots

Google shows three local businesses before anything else. Position four is page two now.

03

‘Near me’ moved to AI

Local intent is exactly what people ask ChatGPT and Perplexity — and those answers are built from sources most businesses ignore.

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

Every local signal, reconciled and maintained.

Local visibility is plumbing — unglamorous, decisive, and never ‘done’.

Foundation

Google Business Profile

Categories, services, photos, posts, and Q&A — optimized and actively maintained, not set once.

Data layer

Citation reconciliation

Name, address, phone, and hours made identical across Foursquare, Yelp, Bing, BBB, and the directories engines trust.

Trust layer

Review velocity

A steady pulse of genuine reviews on the platforms your market and its engines actually read.

Content

Local landing pages

Service-area pages written as real answers, not doorway spam — the kind engines cite instead of filter.

Defense

Listing monitoring

Ongoing watch for hijacked, duplicated, or drifting listings — local data decays without a custodian.

Proof

Market-level reporting

Your visibility in your city, tracked across the map pack and AI answers alike.

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.

Yes. Multi-location and service-area businesses get per-market data reconciliation and per-market pages, with reporting split the same way, so you can see exactly which territory is winning.

You can and should — the audit will show you how. The hard part is the other twenty sources and keeping all of them agreeing month after month. That maintenance is the product.

Perplexity uses reviews in effectively every local answer; ChatGPT references them in most. A thin or stale profile disqualifies you before quality is ever considered.