Hours and scope only inside an image
A model will not read hours out of an image or a PDF. Without structured data, somebody else wins.
Who it is for · Local and service businesses
45% of customers now ask AI for a local business. A year earlier it was 6%.
The shift is sharp and uneven: in a first-quarter 2026 study roughly 78% of independent local operators had effectively zero AI citation share, with chains and aggregators dominating the answers. Which means the place in those answers is still open.
The data
Why now.
78%
of independent local operators have effectively zero AI citation share
5WPR, Q1 2026Questions
What a customer nearby asks
[Service] in [city] that can see me today
Best [specialist] in [district], what are the reviews
Who does [service] at the weekend in [city]
How much does [service] cost in [city]
[Service] with financing or installments
Does [company] in [city] give a warranty
Gaps
What most often blocks a local business
Contradictory data across services
A different address, phone and name across three directories. Contradictory signals lower confidence.
Too few independent customer reviews
This is the widest gap against chains and aggregators, and also the one that closes fastest.
No page for a single specific service
One page listing every service does not answer a question about one of them. A model needs one to cite.
Common questions
Straight answers.
I have one location, is it worth it?
Yes, because you compete for a narrow set of questions rather than the whole market. With one location the question set is small and the change shows faster than in a broad category.
I have a Google Business Profile, is that not enough?
It is one signal among many. AI answers also use your site, review services, trade directories and local publications. We check all of them and show where you are missing.
Do you help collect reviews?
We organize the process of collecting reviews from real customers and complete the profiles. We do not create reviews or accounts, in any variant.
What exactly do I get in the fix plan?
Strategic priorities: what is weak, what the gap against alternatives is, which condition has to improve, why it matters and how strongly the evidence supports it. It is not a task list of the add-this-tag, get-that-many-links kind, because implementation depends on your market and your resources. A ready implementation plan with human verification is the $499 Expert Audit, and our team doing the work is an Implementation Sprint.
Why pay when there are free AI visibility checkers?
A free checker generates prompts automatically and returns a number on a dashboard. You do not know what it asked, you cannot repeat it and you have nothing to hand to anyone. With us you approve the question set yourself and flag up to fifteen as the most important, the set is sealed with a hash, and the result is a report with the measurement, the benchmark and the priorities.
How does the $49 audit differ from Expert Audit?
The $49 audit runs the full research, measures visibility across five providers and says which condition has to improve. Expert Audit adds human verification of every finding, written expert commentary in the report and an ordered implementation plan on your side: what, where and in which order.
Find out who AI sends your local customers to.
The $49 audit asks the questions people in your area actually ask and records what five providers answer. Most local firms find out that a network or an aggregator is answering in their place.
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