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For local service businesses

Local marketing built like a product. Not a monthly report.

We help local businesses get found, earn trust, and grow on Google, and now on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Real local SEO plus AI search (AEO + GEO), Google Business Profile management, paid demand, reputation systems, and a client dashboard that tells you what to focus on this week. Bay Area built. Serving local businesses nationwide.

Where local businesses lose customers

Most local businesses are losing customers they don't even know about.

Someone three blocks from your front door is searching right now for what you sell. They're finding your competitor. They're not finding you.

It's not bad luck. It's an outdated Google Business Profile. A website that hasn't been touched since 2021. Reviews you haven't responded to. Photos that look like they were taken with a phone in 2018. Each gap is small. Each one is fixable. Together, they're costing you customers every month.

The other thing costing you customers is the marketing agency that promised to fix this and instead sends you a 14-page PDF every month with charts you can't act on. Reports aren't growth. They're status updates. You hired an agency to make decisions, not narrate them. We do this differently.

What we do

Five things we do, all under one roof.

01 / Get found

Local SEO + AI search + GBP

The work that decides whether you show up when someone three blocks away searches Google, and whether ChatGPT or Perplexity names your business when a customer asks the AI for a recommendation.

Local SEO →   AI Search →   GBP →
02 / Earn trust

Reviews & reputation

Star ratings on your site, schema markup for Google rich snippets, and a response playbook that makes your best reviews work for you 24/7.

Reputation →
03 / Capture demand

Paid demand at intent

Google Ads, Local Service Ads (LSA), and Meta. We build the funnel, you take the calls.

LSA →   Paid search →
04 / Convert visitors

Websites that sell

Fast, mobile-first, SEO-optimized, with clear paths to call, book, and order. Plus the schema markup that makes Google show your business the way customers expect.

Website design →
05 / See it all happen

Beat, your dashboard

The client dashboard our local business clients see when they sign in. AI-written briefing in your voice, live data from Yelp, Google, GBP, and your site.

See Beat →
AI Search · AEO · GEO

SEO gets you found on Google. AI search decides whether ChatGPT names you.

Local search behavior split in half over the last 18 months. Half your customers still Google "coffee near me." The other half opens ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Mode and asks "best coffee shop in Willow Glen." The AI answers with two or three specific businesses by name. If yours isn't one of them, you don't exist to that customer.

Traditional SEO doesn't fix this. Getting cited by an AI chatbot is a different discipline, with different signals. We do both, wired into one program.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

Getting ranked in Google's blue links and Map Pack. Keywords, backlinks, page speed, local pack signals, GBP optimization.

Answers: "Will Google show me on page one?"

AEO

Answer Engine Optimization

Getting picked for AI Overviews, featured snippets, People Also Ask, and voice assistants. Structured content, schema markup, FAQPage schema, direct-answer copy.

Answers: "Will Google's AI Overview quote me?"

GEO

Generative Engine Optimization

Getting named by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Mode when they generate recommendations. Entity consistency, llms.txt, citation-worthy content, LLM training-data presence.

Answers: "Will ChatGPT name my business?"

How we get you cited by AI chatbots

Six moves that put your business inside the AI's answer.

01 · llms.txt
Machine-readable business summary
A purpose-built file at your root domain that LLM crawlers ingest cleanly. Says who you are, what you sell, where, and why the AI should cite you.
02 · Entity consistency
Name, address, phone, hours locked in
Identical NAP + categories across your site, GBP, Yelp, Bing, Apple Maps, and the 40-plus directories LLMs sample when training and grounding answers.
03 · Schema everywhere
LocalBusiness + Service + FAQ + Review
Structured data on every relevant page so machines read your business the way humans do. FAQPage schema is the single highest-leverage move for AI citations.
04 · Citation-worthy content
Direct answers, unique data, specificity
LLMs cite the most specific well-attributed answer. Neighborhood-level detail, unique data points, direct-answer paragraphs beat generic marketing copy every time.
05 · Review signal density
Volume, recency, keyword-rich
High-volume, recent, keyword-rich reviews across Google, Yelp, and industry-specific platforms. LLMs weight review-corroborated recommendations heaviest.
06 · Prompt monitoring
Ongoing citation tracking
Monthly prompts run across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Mode. When you drop out of an answer, we know why. When a competitor gets cited over you, we know the delta.
See AI search services → Track your share of LLM →
Proof

Same restaurant. Two websites. One gets found.

20Twenty Willow Glen came to us with a 4-page website, a generic "Wine Bar" Google category, and almost zero presence in restaurant searches. Within 90 days, we'd rebuilt their entire online presence: 14 SEO-optimized pages, schema on every page, a fully optimized Google Business Profile, professional food and drink photography, and a review system showcasing 600+ reviews.

14
SEO-optimized pages
95+
PageSpeed score
600+
Reviews showcased
92
Internal links
"They didn't just build us a website. They rebuilt our entire online presence: site, Google, Yelp, photography, content, everything. It's like having a full marketing department without the overhead."

Steve & Michele · Owners, 20Twenty Restaurant & Bar

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How we work

A four-step engagement, scoped to what your business actually needs.

01

Free audit

We grade your website, GBP, Yelp, and local search visibility. You get a custom report in one business day. No sales call required.

02

Strategy

We map the keyword, content, GBP, and paid demand plan specific to your business. No templates.

03

Build & ship

New site, GBP optimization, schema, photography, review infrastructure, paid demand setup. The work that gets your customers actually finding you.

04

Compound

Monthly content, GBP posts, ad management, reputation work, performance reporting through Beat.

Built for local

Across every kind of local business. In every city local SEO matters.

Industries

Restaurants & Bars Home Services Dental & Med Spas Auto Detailing Salons & Beauty Fitness & Gyms Legal Services Real Estate Chiropractors Accountants Med Spas

Bay Area

San Jose Palo Alto San Mateo Mountain View San Francisco Willow Glen Redwood City Burlingame

Nationwide

Los Angeles Austin Miami Phoenix Atlanta Chicago Dallas Houston Denver Nashville

Ready when you are.

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