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AI visibility for local businesses

AI SEO for local businesses: be the name AI gives

When someone asks ChatGPT who to call, it names a handful of businesses. Every week we ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews the questions your customers ask, see who they name, and fix what keeps you out.

Measured with AEO Sonar, our own AI visibility tracker.

Weekly report · exampleAEO Sonar

Question a customer asked

Who's the best emergency plumber in Bromley?

ChatGPT
Not named
Perplexity
Named 2nd
Gemini
Not named
Claude
Wrong hours
AI Overviews
Named 1st
Sources AI trusted: Google reviews, Checkatrade, Yell2 of 5 name you

Why AI leaves you out

Why AI recommends your competitors instead

AI tools build their answers from what the web says about you. These four gaps keep good local businesses out, and each one can be fixed.

Where AI looks for a plumber in Bromley
Google reviews12 vs rivals' 300
CheckatradeNot listed
YellOld address
Gap 01

It can't find you where it looks

AI answers lean on review sites and directories. If you're thin there, you're left out, however good your work is.

The fix: your listings and reviews built up on the sites AI trusts for your trade.

What AI can quote from your site
"We cover South East London"Too vague
"24-hour emergency plumber in Bromley, BR1 to BR7"Quotable
Gap 02

Your site doesn't answer the question

AI quotes pages that say plainly what you do, where, and roughly what it costs. A vague home page gives it nothing to repeat.

The fix: service and area pages written to be quoted, with the facts AI looks for.

Your details across the web
Website: J. Smith PlumbingMatch
Google: JS Plumbing & HeatingDifferent name
Directory: old phone numberOut of date
Gap 03

Your details don't match

Different names, numbers or areas make AI unsure which business is which, so it names someone it's sure about.

The fix: one set of details everywhere, and a site that tells AI clearly who you are.

What AI told a customer this week
"Closes at 5pm"Wrong: open 24 hours
"Covers Croydon only"Wrong: 9 areas
Gap 04

Nobody checks what AI says

AI can give the wrong hours, prices or areas, and you'd never know. The customer just calls someone else.

The fix: weekly checks across five AI tools, with wrong facts corrected where AI found them.

What you get

AI visibility, tracked every week and fixed every month

  • Weekly tracking of 20 questions your customers ask, by service and town, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews.
  • Fixes every month: your Google Business Profile, reviews and listings, pages written to be quoted, and the files that tell AI who you are.
  • Wrong facts corrected at the source, when AI gets your hours, prices or areas wrong.
  • A monthly report: who AI names, how often it names you, and what changed.

AI visibility

From £499 a month

Month to month. We recommend three months: AI answers change slowly, and reviews and pages take time to count.

Book a free call

On a Local SEO plan already? It covers your Business Profile and reviews; AI visibility adds the tracking and the fixes made for AI.

How it works

From the free check to a weekly report

  1. 1

    Run the free check

    See what five AI tools say about your business today, and who they name instead.

  2. 2

    Agree your 20 questions

    The questions your customers ask, for the services and towns you want more work from.

  3. 3

    We fix the gaps

    Listings, reviews, pages and details, starting with what keeps you out of the most answers.

  4. 4

    Track it every week

    A weekly check across all five tools, and a monthly report you can read in two minutes.

Measured with AEO Sonar

Our own AI visibility tracker

AEO Sonar is the AI visibility product we built for software, crypto and fintech companies. Your weekly report runs on the same engine, with questions about your services and your towns.

See AEO Sonar

AI tools checked
5
Questions tracked
20 a week
What it records
Who is named, sources, wrong facts

Before you book

Questions about AI SEO

What it is, what it costs and what we can promise, answered straight.

What is AI SEO, AEO or GEO?

They are names for the same work: making sure AI tools like ChatGPT can find your business, trust it and recommend it. AEO stands for answer engine optimisation and GEO for generative engine optimisation. We call it AI visibility.

How much does AEO cost?

Ours starts from the price shown above, month to month. What you pay depends on how many services and towns you want tracked, and we quote a fixed price after a short call.

Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend us?

No. Nobody controls what an AI tool says. We show you every week what each one says, and the fixes we've made, so you can judge the work on that.

How long does it take to show up in AI answers?

Some fixes show within weeks, like a corrected listing. Others, like new reviews and pages, build over two to three months, which is why we recommend three months.

Do I still need Local SEO?

AI tools lean on the same things Google does: your Business Profile, reviews and pages. If you're on a Local SEO plan, AI visibility adds the tracking and the fixes made for AI. If you're not, we'll tell you which you need first.

Which AI tools do you check?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews, every week.

See what AI tells your customers about you

The free FOUND Score checks the five places customers look before they call, ChatGPT included.

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