Get every location onto the AI shortlist
Search stopped handing customers a ranked list. AI now returns a shortlist of one or two names. Two practical guides on how head office teams win that shortlist across hundreds of locations, and keep it.
Strong local SEO does not carry over
AI visibility has to be earned separately, and it is estimated to be several times harder to achieve. The numbers make the case for treating it on its own terms.
of local business locations are recommended by the leading AI assistant, versus roughly 36% appearing in Google's local 3-pack.
of consumers used AI to find local services in a single year, one of the fastest behavioural shifts on record.
overlap between brands winning Google's map pack and brands appearing in AI answers. The rest is a blind spot.
Two guides, one system
Read either guide online for free, no form. Fill in the short form to download the full working version: every section, the copy-paste schema and the fillable 30-point audit, yours to keep, print and share.
White Paper · ~14 min
The Visibility Checklist
Why AI search recommends roughly one in a hundred local businesses, why strong local SEO does not carry over, and why the failure at scale is execution, not knowledge.
- ·How ranking became a recommendation
- ·Why an AI leaves a brand off the list
- ·The five layers that hold at scale
The Guide · ~35 min + worksheets
The AI Visibility Blueprint
The working system: the governance model, a copy-paste schema stack for your web team, a 30-point location audit you can run this week, and a phased 90-day rollout.
- ·Distributed governance: who owns what
- ·Copy-paste schema + 30-point audit
- ·A 90-day rollout with no dev bottleneck
Get the full working version
Both guides are free to read online above. Fill in the form to download the complete working documents: every section, the copy-paste schema and the fillable 30-point audit, yours to keep, print and share with your team. We use your details to send these and related AI visibility resources, and so our team can point you in the right direction.
Enjoy the guides, there
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Two products built for exactly this
The blueprint is the method. These turn the two hardest layers, structure and measurement, into managed infrastructure.
Listings suite
AI Local Pages
A hyper-local, AI-optimised page for every location and product, auto-generated from your existing data with LocalBusiness, Product and FAQPage schema built in, published on your own domain and kept in sync as your data changes.
See how it works →
AI Insights Hub
AI Visibility
See where AI assistants recommend you. A weekly visibility score for your brand and for each individual location, showing how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them, with share of voice against the competitors you name.
Check your AI visibility →You don't have to do this alone
AI search changes weekly. We pair the platform with a team that stays on top of ranking factors and how the assistants choose, and helps you put the changes in place, so you are never chasing a moving target on your own.
A full onboarding service
A guided onboarding gets your locations structured, published and AI-ready, without the whole programme landing on your team alone.
A dedicated account manager
One person who knows your brand and works on strategy with you, from the first audit through every location you add.
A team on top of the changes
Ranking factors and AI assistants keep shifting. We track how they choose and adjust your setup, so your visibility holds as the landscape moves.
Knowing is not the moat. Running it across every location is.
See exactly where your locations stand before deciding anything. We score your AI search readiness alongside listings, reviews and local pages, so you start with the gaps, not a guess.
Figures on AI recommendation rates, Google overlap and consumer adoption reflect 2026 third-party local search research. They are point-in-time estimates summarised here for context. AI search behaviour changes rapidly. Treat these guides as working frameworks, not fixed specifications. Provided for general information and does not constitute a performance guarantee.