AI visibility for local businesses

Your customers stopped Googling. They're asking AI now.

Is it recommending you?

01 — The problem

AI is already answering for you.

Ask ChatGPT for “the best plumber near me” and it gives a shortlist, not a page of links. Most local businesses never make that shortlist — and never know it.

98.8%

of local businesses are invisible to AI platforms

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46%

lack the knowledge to optimise for AI recommendation

FSB, 2026
1.2%

of local businesses get recommended by ChatGPT

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02 — How AI decides

Five signals decide who gets recommended.

When an AI platform names a business, it is weighing the same handful of signals every time. This is what the weighting looks like.

Review Signals

16%

Volume, recency and sentiment of your reviews across Google, Trustpilot and industry platforms.

Authoritative Lists

41%

Presence in “best of” articles, trusted directories and local press — the single biggest factor.

Awards & Accreditations

18%

Industry awards, certifications and memberships that AI treats as third-party proof of quality.

Customer Data

14%

Complete, consistent business data everywhere you appear — hours, services, structured markup.

Social Sentiment

11%

What real people say about you on social platforms and forums when nobody is marketing.

Source: FirstPageSage, 2026

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03 — Your score

What's your AiVS score?

The AI Visibility Score measures how likely AI platforms are to recommend your business. 0–100. Free. Instant.

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04 — The service

Three weeks from invisible to recommended.

A fixed, three-week engagement. You see exactly where you stand, we do the work, and you keep the results.

Week 1

AI Audit

We test your business across every major AI platform.

Week 2

Optimisation

We fix your digital infrastructure for AI discovery.

Week 3

Handover

Before/after report, maintenance guide, you're set.

05 — Results

The score moves. Fast.

RestaurantAberdeen
11 67/100

AiVS score, in 3 weeks

SalonEdinburgh
8 54/100

AiVS score, in 3 weeks

TradesGlasgow
15 71/100

AiVS score, in 3 weeks

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06 — The destination

You've arrived. Let's make AI recommend your business.

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Questions

Frequently asked

It's how often, and how favourably, AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity mention your business when people ask them for recommendations. Millions of buying decisions now start with an AI answer instead of a search results page — AI visibility is whether you appear in that answer.

SEO gets you ranked on a page of links. GEO (generative engine optimisation) gets you named in an AI's answer — where there's usually only room for two or three businesses. The signals overlap, but the weighting is very different: reviews, authoritative mentions and structured data matter far more than keywords.

The AI Visibility Score is a 0–100 measure of how likely AI platforms are to recommend your business. We test real customer-style questions across the major platforms and score how you show up against the five signals AI weighs: reviews, authoritative lists, awards, business data and social sentiment. Checking it is free and takes about a minute.

Week one is the audit — testing how you currently appear across every major platform. Week two is the optimisation work on your data, profiles and structure. Week three is verification and handover, so you can see the before-and-after and know how to keep it maintained. Rushing it produces changes AI hasn't picked up yet.

Everything AI reads about you: your structured data and schema markup, the consistency of your business information across the web, your presence on the directories and lists AI trusts, review signals, and how your website describes what you do. It's infrastructure work — no ads, no gimmicks.

No. The engagement is fixed. You get a maintenance guide at handover so you can keep the results yourself, and if you'd rather we handled ongoing upkeep, that's available — but it's optional, never required.

You get a before-and-after report showing your AiVS score at the start and end of the engagement, with the actual AI responses for each test question side by side. You can see the recommendations change with your own eyes — and re-run the free score check any time after.