Three businesses show in the map pack.
Everyone else needs a tap most people never make.
A $497 local search audit for practices and home-service businesses. We check your Google Maps position, your site’s technical health and whether AI answers cite you, then hand you a priced 90-day plan within 48 hours of read-only access.
48h from access · evidence screenshots on every finding · no ranking promises, ever
Search your own category and city on a phone. Google shows three businesses, and reaching the fourth takes a deliberate tap on “more places” that most people never make. Most local clicks land in that 3-pack. The second battleground is AI answers, which can cut the top result’s clicks by more than half when they appear, so being absent from both is quietly expensive. The $497 audit shows exactly where you rank on both, with screenshots.
White-hat only, no ranking promises. Growth phase is 4–12 months and we say so upfront. Every claim in the audit carries a screenshot; every recommendation is priced and ordered.
Get the free local search checklist
Three checks on whether you show in the map pack, whether an AI answer names you when someone asks who to call, and what it costs when neither happens. No call, no pitch sequence. One email, and we will read your site if you send it back.
Technical crawl, local-pack position check, AI-answer citation review, and a 90-day plan that is priced and ordered. Delivered within 48 hours of access. Credited 100% toward any project or retainer within 60 days. You’re not paying twice.
48h from access · evidence screenshots on every finding · no ranking promises, everTwo checks you can run before paying anyone
Do these today. Any vendor worth paying should survive them:
- Search your main service and city from an incognito window (your logged-in results lie to you). Note who owns the 3-pack. That’s who’s taking the calls.
- Ask an AI assistant (ChatGPT, Gemini, whatever your next client uses) “who should I hire for [your service] in [your city]?” If a competitor is the answer and you’re absent, that’s the new front line.
The audit does both systematically: 10 money queries, screenshots, and the exact gaps that decide the citations.
Ran the checks and a competitor owns your 3-pack or the AI answer? The audit shows exactly why, within 48 hours of access.
Original data: which sites Google’s AI Overviews cite across 117 marketing searches. An AI Overview showed on 97 of them, and YouTube was cited in 60% of the overviews that listed sources.
What you get
- Your real map position: a maps-grid read on your money keywords, not a single lucky search from your own office.
- The AI-answer verdict on your 10 money queries: who is cited today, whether you are, and what the click math says it costs.
- A technical crawl that finds the silent killers: index bloat, broken canonicals, schema gaps.
- A 90-day plan, priced and ordered: run it yourself, hand it to your current agency, or have us execute it. The $497 credits 100% within 60 days.
What’s included
- Local: GBP, citations, reviews, maps-grid tracking on your money keywords
- AI search: answer-block architecture, llms.txt (a site index built for AI crawlers), AI-citation targets, baseline → delta reporting
- White-hat only, no ranking promises. Growth phase is 4–12 months and we say so upfront
Search Audit $497 (credited) · Maps and Local $997/mo · Organic Growth $2,997/mo · AI Answers $1,997/mo on its own, or +$997/mo added to our Maps and Local or Organic Growth · Total Search (all three) $4,497/mo, about 10% under itemized · Maps and Local plus Organic Growth together take 10% off
Before you decide: the full scope and guarantee per audit, and exactly what happens after you pay (2-minute read-only access checklist, no call needed).
The AI-answer side, measured: Full field note: what an AI Overview citing your page actually means.
The map-pack math: the 3-pack rankings that deliver calls.
When the citation arrives without the click: what cited-but-not-clicked traffic does to your numbers.
Frequently asked questions
Do you guarantee rankings?
No, and nobody honest does. Growth phase is 4–12 months; you see the work log and the movement monthly: rank deltas, maps-grid positions, AI-overview citations. Month-to-month billing keeps the pressure where it belongs, on the results, not the contract.
What actually happens after I pay?
A 2-minute checklist gets us read-only Search Console access. The 48-hour clock starts at access. You get the walkthrough video and the 90-day plan. No call needed, and the $497 credits 100% toward a retainer within 60 days.
We already rank fine on Google. Why care about AI answers?
Because the people who need you already ask AI, and when an AI Overview appears above your top ranking, it can take more than half the clicks. The audit measures your citation presence before your competitors buy theirs. Already have an SEO agency you like? Keep them. AI Answers runs alongside anyone’s SEO for $1,997/mo and does the part they don’t. If Maps and Local or Organic Growth runs with us, it adds on for $997/mo.
I paid an SEO agency $1,500/month and can’t tell if anything happened. How is this different?
That story is why every invoice here ships with before/after screenshots: your maps-grid positions, your rankings, your AI-answer citations. Not a PDF of “impressions.” Month-to-month billing means the evidence has to keep you, not a contract. And it starts with a $497 diagnosis, not a retainer pitch. If the audit says your current setup is fine, it says so.
My Google Business Profile got suspended. Can you help now?
Yes. That’s a same-week emergency, not a retainer conversation. A suspension takes you off Maps entirely while competitors take the calls; the Fix Sprint ($2,500) handles reinstatement evidence, profile compliance (keyword-stuffed names are the usual trigger), and the hardening that keeps it from recurring. Book below and mention the suspension.
Delivered within 48 hours of read-only access, and credited 100% toward any retainer within 60 days.
48h from access · evidence screenshots on every finding · no ranking promises, ever