AI visibility for local businesses
Ask Google's Gemini or Claude for the best pilates studio in Somerville and two or three names come back. We check whether yours is one of them, who gets named instead, and which sources the answer leaned on. Then we fix those sources.
Free. No call, no card. Your fix pack arrives by email within two business days.
Customer asks an AI assistantbest pilates studio in Somerville, MA?
A few well-regarded options:
Your business: not mentioned Your business: named second
Cited Google Business Profile · Yelp · a “best of” list
01How it works
No guesswork about what AI “probably” thinks of you. We look at what it actually says.
Step 1
We ask Gemini (with Google Search) and Claude the questions your customers ask, three times each on every engine, because the answer changes from run to run.
Step 2
We record who gets named, how often, and which sources each answer cites: Google profiles, Yelp, competitors' sites, local “best of” lists.
Step 3
We turn that into specific fixes for the sources the answers lean on, then ask the same questions again to see whether you're named more often.
02The free fix pack
A short report built from real answers to the questions your customers ask. Yours to keep, whether or not you hire us.
Primary category Gym → Pilates studio
“Reformer and mat pilates near Union Square, Somerville. Classes of eight or fewer, private sessions, and a beginner series every month.”
03How we measure
Ask the same question three times and you can get three different lists. One screenshot proves very little. We run every question three times on each engine and report how often you're named across all of them. That's the number worth moving.
Nobody controls what an AI says. We work on the sources it reads and show you, run by run, what changed.
Changes go on your own site and your own profiles. We don't host pages for you, so nothing disappears if you stop.
The review kit helps you ask real customers at the right moment. We never write or buy reviews.
04Founding plan
The fix pack is free. The fix kit is paid only once the changes are live. The retainer is month to month, at a founding price for the first 3 clients.
Start here
$0
See who AI names instead of you, and exactly what to fix.
$400one time
We make the changes for you. You pay only once they're live.
Founding price
$400per month
Ongoing work, measured every month against the same questions.
05The monthly report
Same questions, same engines, every month. You see the counts and the answers themselves.
Baseline Aug 4Re-check Oct 6
Baseline · Aug 4 · Gemini
“Top picks include , known for its reformer classes, and , which reviewers praise for small groups.”
Re-check · Oct 6 · Gemini
“Top picks include and Your business, which offers reformer classes of eight or fewer near Union Square.”
Each number is how many of 3 runs named you. Real reports include the full answers and the sources each one cited.
06Questions
Anything else, just email.
Related, but not the same. SEO is about where you rank in Google's list of links. This is about whether AI assistants name you when they answer. The two overlap, since both lean on your Google profile, reviews and website. But AI answers also draw on places like Yelp and “best of” lists, and we measure the answer itself, not a ranking.
Google's Gemini with Google Search turned on, and Claude. Both get the same questions, and each is reported separately, because they don't always agree.
No. Nobody can, whatever they tell you. AI answers vary from run to run, and no one controls them. What we can do is fix the sources those answers lean on and show you, with dated runs, whether you're named more often. On the retainer, if the count of answers naming you hasn't gone up by the re-check two months in, month 3 isn't billed.
AI assistants don't look up a fixed list. Each answer is written fresh, and the ones that search the web may pull different pages each time. That's why we ask every question many times and count how often you're named, instead of quoting a single rank.
For the free fix pack: your business name, website, what you do, and the city or neighborhood you serve. For the fix kit: access to make the changes on your site and profiles. We'll tell you exactly what's needed.
No. Every change lives on your own website and your own profiles. If you stop working with us, all of it stays.
Nothing, unless you want more. Make the fixes yourself and we'll re-check the same questions in 30 days, free. Or have us make them with the fix kit, which you pay for only once the changes are live.
AI assistants recommend the businesses they can find clear, consistent, well-reviewed information about. In practice that comes down to a few things:
Which of those matters most depends on your town and your field. That's what the free fix pack finds: the sources the answers about your kind of business really lean on, and where you're missing from them.
Today we test on Google's Gemini (with Google Search) and Claude (with web search), because we can run them the same way every time and keep the full answers and sources. ChatGPT and the others draw on the same kinds of sources, so the fixes carry over, but we only report numbers for the engines we actually asked.
Website and profile fixes are usually live within a week of getting access. AI answers tend to move over the following weeks as the engines re-read those sources, which is why the fix kit is re-checked at 14 days and the retainer every month. Some changes show up quickly; listings and reviews build over time.
The fix pack is free and needs no card. The fix kit is $400, invoiced only after the changes are live. The founding retainer is $400 a month, billed monthly, with no long-term contract. You can stop any time.
We're based in Boston and most of our work is with Greater Boston businesses, but everything is done remotely, so the check works for any local business in the US.
Use the get-started form, or email hello@askaims.com, or call or text . You'll hear back from Cole, usually within one business day.
07Who's behind this
I'm a finance senior at Suffolk University in Boston.
More people now ask an AI assistant who's best instead of scrolling through links. The answer usually names two or three businesses, and they aren't always the best ones. Often they're just the ones the AI found the clearest information about.
So I built a tool that asks those questions over and over, counts who gets named, and traces which sources the answers used. It's a small operation. You deal with me directly.
Cole Scheels · Founder, AIMS
Tell us your business name, website and city. Your fix pack comes back by email within two business days. Free, no call, no card.
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