For local service businesses

Your competitor
is already
visible to AI.
You are not.

Appear makes your business show up in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity — before your competitor does. The new discovery layer most businesses haven't reached yet.

AI search result
"Find me a good plumber in Denver"
Here are three highly-recommended plumbers in Denver:
Boulder Plumbing Co.
Recommended by 47 reviews · Denver, CO
Cited across 12 local directories, consistent Google Business Profile, and mentioned in community discussion forums.
Mile High Rooter Service
4.9 rating · 310 reviews · Denver, CO
Verified on Yelp, Google, and Angi with consistent contact info and rapid response times noted.
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Only 1.2% of local businesses appear in AI recommendations today.
The problem

Search changed overnight.
Most businesses missed it.

Only 1.2% appear

ChatGPT recommends just 1.2% of local business locations. The rest are invisible to the fastest-growing search channel.

No page two in AI

Traditional search gives you ten results. AI gives three. If you're not in them, you don't exist to the 45% of consumers now using AI to find local services.

Old SEO doesn't cut it

Google SEO built your old presence. It doesn't build AI visibility. The signals are different — and most agencies haven't adapted.

45% of consumers now use AI to find local services — up from 6% in one year
165x faster growth of AI search traffic vs. organic search
$847B+ estimated revenue lost by SMBs not visible in AI discovery
How it works

Three steps from invisible
to recommended.

01

Audit your AI presence

We test how your business appears — or doesn't — across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. You see exactly what AI knows about you right now, and what it's missing.

02

Build your AI profile

We optimize your business data, citations, and web presence so AI systems can verify and recommend you. Consistent data across directories, structured signals, and authoritative mentions.

03

Track and stay visible

Monthly monitoring shows where you appear and where competitors are cited instead of you. You get alerts when your AI visibility changes — and recommendations to improve it.

What you get

Built for businesses
that can't afford to be invisible.

Core

AI Presence Audit

See how your business shows up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Identifies exactly what signals are missing and what competitors have that you don't. Delivered as a clear report — no jargon.

Core

Profile Optimization

We structure your business data — directory consistency, schema markup, citation building — so AI systems trust and recommend you. The same work that helps AI also improves your Google ranking.

Monitoring

Visibility Tracking

Monthly reports showing where you're cited, where competitors outrank you, and what changed. Actionable intelligence, not just numbers.

Alerts

Competitor Alerts

Know when a competitor appears in an AI recommendation where you didn't. Act before the damage compounds.

Upsell

Citation Acceleration

We build authoritative mentions of your business across the platforms AI systems rely on — directories, review sites, local publications. The signals that make AI confident enough to recommend you.

Reporting

Monthly AI Report

A plain-language briefing: where you stand, what moved, what to do next. Built for busy business owners who don't have time to decode SEO dashboards.

800M
ChatGPT weekly active users — many asking for local business recommendations
45%
of consumers now use AI to find local businesses, up from 6% in one year
58%
reduction in clicks to position-one pages due to AI Overviews — traditional SEO is losing ground
4.4x
higher conversion rate from AI referral traffic vs. standard organic traffic
The window to establish AI visibility before the category saturates is open now.
The opportunity

Most local businesses
will never optimize
for AI search.

That means the businesses that do will stand out to the growing majority of consumers using AI to find local services. The window is open. It won't be forever.