AI Brand Visibility for Local Businesses
Four AI platforms are answering questions about your business right now, whether you know it or not. We audit every response, score your visibility, and show you exactly where you stand.
ChatGPT
"The Hargrove Group is a luxury real estate team serving Marin County and Sonoma County, known for..."
RecognizedClaude
"I don't have specific information about The Hargrove Group in my training data for the Marin area..."
Not foundGemini
"The Hargrove Group specializes in high-end residential properties across Marin and Sonoma counties..."
RecognizedPerplexity
"The Hargrove Group is led by Dana Hargrove and is based in San Rafael, focusing on commercial real estate..." [incorrect]
InaccurateBuilt for local and regional businesses
When someone asks AI to recommend a real estate agent, a financial advisor, or an estate attorney in their city, the answer is not a directory listing. It is a specific name. We test whether that name is yours.
The shift is already happening
weekly ChatGPT users
Asking questions your business should be answering
consumers use AI before hiring
Local professionals are already being evaluated without their knowledge
of Google searches show AI answers first
Before a single organic result appears on the page
spent by most local businesses
On understanding or improving their AI visibility
Purely AI-driven
No surveys. No manual checks. The same platforms your customers use tell us exactly what they know about your business. We capture every response and score it.
You submit your brand
Name, city, and industry. No integrations, no technical setup required.
We ask four AI platforms
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity each receive the same structured set of questions about your brand and your market.
AI self-reports its perception
Every response is scored across five visibility dimensions. You get a clear picture of how each platform perceives your business.
The risk most businesses don't know about
AI platforms answer confidently. That doesn't mean they answer correctly. These are the most common things AI gets wrong about local businesses, reaching your customers before you ever see them.
Wrong address or contact details
"Hargrove & Associates Realty is located at 1200 Fourth Street, Suite 300, San Rafael, and serves buyers and sellers across Marin County."
AI pulls from old Google Business listings, cached directory pages, and expired MLS profiles. A former office address becomes a confident, current fact.
Services you no longer offer
"Coastal Wealth Group provides comprehensive financial planning, investment management, and tax preparation for Bay Area individuals and families."
The firm moved to investment-only two years ago. AI still lists tax prep. A prospect calls expecting a service you no longer provide, and the conversation starts with disappointment.
Credentials or designations you don't hold
"The Hargrove Group holds active membership in the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing and is recognized as a Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist."
AI infers designations from category tags and directory patterns. A credential you never earned becomes part of your profile before a buyer ever contacts you.
Another firm's profile merged with yours
"Summit Financial Group, in partnership with Pacific Tax Advisors, specializes in tax strategy and IRS dispute resolution for small business owners."
Similar names and overlapping service areas cause AI to combine two separate firms into one profile. The positioning it attributes to you belongs to someone else.
Client quotes that were never said
"Clients consistently describe Redwood Property Group as 'the most responsive team in Marin' and credit them with turning listings around in under a week."
AI synthesizes what clients "probably say" based on category review patterns. The quote is invented, and it may contradict the specific voice and values your brand has spent years building.
Former partners still listed as current
"Westside Estate Law was founded by Margaret Chen and partner David Lau, who together lead the firm's trust administration and elder law practice."
A founding partner retired 18 months ago. AI's picture of your leadership is frozen in time, and prospects who ask about the team before hiring may be confused or misled.
How it works
Tell us your business
Name, city, industry. No integrations, no technical setup, no developer required.
We audit four AI platforms
Each platform receives the same questions. Each answers independently. We capture and score every response.
Get a scored report
Delivered to your portal automatically. What each AI says, how accurate it is, and what to fix first.
What we measure
Your AI visibility is not a single number. Five scored dimensions, each telling you something different about how AI systems perceive your business.
Brand Recognition
Does AI know who you are, even without being told?
Category Presence
Do you appear when someone searches your category without your name?
Sentiment and Reputation
When AI talks about you, is the tone working for you or against you?
Factual Accuracy
Is what AI says about you actually true?
Pricing
No contracts. Your first audit runs within 24 hours of signup.
Essentials
$99 / month
Monthly audit
Your AI score, delivered monthly. See what the platforms say about your business without needing a portal or a dashboard.
Get startedGrowth
$199 / month
Weekly audit
Know if your improvements are working. Weekly audits, trend data, and the full picture of how each platform perceives your brand.
Get startedPro
$349 / month
Weekly audit
A personalized action plan rebuilt every week from your actual website. For businesses that want more than a score.
Get startedFrequently asked questions
What is AI brand visibility?
AI brand visibility refers to how accurately, consistently, and favorably AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity represent your business when users ask questions about your category, location, or services. Unlike search rankings, AI visibility is not determined by backlinks or keywords. It is shaped by the quality and breadth of information those models have encountered about your brand.
Which AI platforms do you audit?
Every audit covers ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), and Perplexity. These four represent the dominant AI answer engines your customers are actively using to research local businesses and make purchase decisions. Each receives the same structured set of prompts and answers independently, so you can see where your brand is represented well and where it falls short.
What is AEO and how is it different from SEO?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring your brand's online presence so that AI systems can accurately understand and confidently represent it. Traditional SEO optimizes for search engine rankings through links, keywords, and crawlability. AEO optimizes for how AI models synthesize and cite your brand when answering conversational prompts, a fundamentally different mechanism that requires different signals and strategies.
How long does it take for AEO optimizations to show results?
Most businesses begin to see measurable score improvements within 60 to 90 days of consistent AEO work. AI platforms re-index content at different rates, so some platforms move faster than others. The weekly audit cadence lets you track changes as they happen rather than waiting months to find out if your efforts worked.
What kinds of businesses benefit most?
The tool is built for local and regional service businesses where trust, reputation, and local category presence are critical to winning new clients. This includes real estate, financial advisory, legal services, healthcare, home services, insurance, hospitality, and consulting. If your customers are asking AI who to hire, call, or trust in your city, your AI visibility directly affects your business.
Can AI platforms say inaccurate things about my business?
Yes, and it happens more often than most businesses realize. AI models synthesize information from many sources and can confidently state outdated addresses, discontinued services, credentials you never held, or merge details from similarly named competitors into your profile. Every audit includes a Factual Accuracy score and an AI Gaps analysis that surfaces exactly what each platform was uncertain or incorrect about.
What is the Local Visibility Score?
The Local Visibility Score measures how prominently your brand appears in the high-intent local prompts your customers are actually typing into AI, such as "best financial advisor in Denver" or "top real estate agent near me." It combines a local capture score with discovery prompt performance across all four platforms and is updated with each audit cycle.
What is the AEO Action Plan?
The AEO Action Plan is a prioritized set of recommendations generated from your audit results that tells you exactly what to change, create, or update to improve how AI platforms represent your brand. Growth plan action plans are driven by your audit data. Pro plan action plans are also informed by a crawl of your actual website, making recommendations more specific to your content and positioning.
How often do audits run?
Audit frequency depends on your plan. Essentials runs monthly, which is suitable for businesses that want a periodic check-in on their AI representation. Growth and Pro run weekly, which is recommended for businesses actively working to improve their visibility or operating in competitive local markets where the AI landscape shifts frequently.
How is this different from traditional SEO tools?
Traditional SEO tools like Semrush, Ahrefs, or Moz measure keyword rankings, backlink profiles, and site authority in Google search. This tool measures something entirely separate: how AI answer engines perceive, represent, and surface your brand in conversational responses. There is no overlap in what they measure, and optimizing for one does not automatically improve the other.
Do I need a website to sign up?
No. The audit only requires your brand name, city, and industry. A website URL is optional for Essentials and Growth plans and improves the quality of your AEO Action Plan. For the Pro plan, a website is required because it is crawled to build a custom action plan based on your actual content and positioning.
How do I get started?
Choose a plan on the signup page, enter your brand details, and complete checkout. Your first audit runs within 24 hours. No technical setup, no integrations, and no developer is required. If you want to see a sample before committing, request a free single-audit report to get a preview of what the full scored report looks like for your brand.
Start with a free audit. No credit card, no commitment.
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