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Can it tell what you are?
Structured data stating your category, location, hours and services. Ambiguity is the enemy of recommendation, and most local sites are ambiguous.
AI search visibility for local businesses
When customers ask AI who to hire, does it name you?
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI don't hand customers ten pages of choices. They hand them a handful of names. We work out why yours isn't one of them — and fix the signals these systems actually read.
No sales callNo passwords14-day refund
Customer question
The new local search result
"Who's the best HVAC company near me?"
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Competitor AStrong citations, clear service-area signals
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Competitor BAnswers the exact questions customers ask
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Competitor CConsistent profiles, recent web mentions
There is no page two. If you're not in the answer, the customer may never see you.
Illustrative example
45%
of consumers now use AI to find local businesses
BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026, n=1,002
6% → 45%
the same figure just one year earlier was 6%
BrightLocal, 2025 vs 2026
77%
of AI citations come from sources other than your own website
Omniscient Digital, 23,000+ citations
The shift most local businesses haven't adapted to
Ranking on Google does not put you in the AI answer.
Your existing SEO isn't wasted. But AI recommendation systems read a different mix of signals — a business can own page one and still be invisible inside the answer.
Traditional search
A page of links
- Customers scan many choices
- Being anywhere on page one still produces traffic
- Your website ranking carries most of the burden
- Searchers click through and compare for themselves
AI search
A short list of names
- The assistant compares before the customer clicks
- Facts must be machine-readable to count
- Direct answers to real questions become citations
- Third-party mentions carry enormous weight
What assistants need before they'll name a business
Three signals decide whether you're easy to recommend.
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Have you answered the question?
A service list is not an answer. Pages that answer "how much," "which should I choose," "is it worth it" give assistants something to quote.
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What does the rest of the web say?
Directories, review platforms, local roundups and industry sites corroborate who you are. Most of the winnable ground sits beyond your domain.
The process
Find the gaps, write the fixes, and — if you want — implement them.
Step 01
Scan
We inspect how your business currently presents to AI assistants and the sources they draw on.
Step 02
Compare
We find where competitors are giving assistants stronger signals than you are.
Step 03
Fix
We write the structured data, the answer content, the profile rewrites and the citation plan.
Step 04
Compound
Ongoing content, citations and review velocity keep building the signal month over month.
Choose how far you want us to take it
Start with the blueprint. Or have us do the work.
Clear deliverables. No contract. No vague "SEO package."
Blueprint
AI Visibility Report & Fix Pack
$199
Everything you need to understand the gaps and hand the fixes to your web person.
- Custom audit of how your business reads to AI assistants today
- Structured data written for your business, ready to paste in
- Three answer-pages written for questions your customers actually ask
- Google Business Profile description and categories rewritten
- The specific directories and roundups AI pulls from in your city
- Delivered within 48 hours
You or your web developer implement it. If you'd rather not, that's the next tier.
Most chosen
Done for you
Done-For-You AI Search Setup
$497
The off-site legwork no amount of asking ChatGPT will do for you.
- Listing and citation placement across directories, aggregators and industry sites
- Name, address and phone corrected everywhere they're inconsistent
- Google Business Profile rebuilt — categories, services, description, Q&A
- Apple Business Connect and Bing Places claimed
- Yelp, BBB, Nextdoor, Chamber and industry listings placed
- Structured data installed and validated on your site
- Five answer-pages written and formatted
- Review-velocity system set up
- Delivered within five business days
About 15 minutes of your time: one Google Business Profile manager invite, a short intake form, and being reachable for two or three verification codes. You never send us a password.
Ongoing
AI Visibility Watch
$249/month
Keep expanding the footprint instead of treating this as a one-time project.
- Two new answer-pages every month
- Three to five new citation placements every month
- Monthly rescan across ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Gemini and Perplexity
- One-page report on what moved
- Google Business Profile posts and updates
- Review velocity monitored, response templates when needed
- Competitor watch
- Cancel anytime
Roughly two hours of production every month. Ongoing work, not a monitoring fee.
One client per category, per area. For businesses customers travel to, that means no second client in your service category within 15 miles of you. For businesses that travel to customers, we assess service-area overlap first. We'll confirm exactly what's reserved in your market before you buy. · We sell the work, not a ranking. Nobody can honestly guarantee an AI assistant will name a particular business — for the same reason nobody could ever guarantee a #1 Google ranking. Every service above is defined by what you receive.
Not ready to buy?
Find out how AI sees your business first.
Send your website address and we'll send back a one-page breakdown of how your site currently reads to an AI assistant. No charge, no sales call, nothing to sign up for.
One pageFreeStraight answer
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGeminiPerplexity
Questions
What owners ask first.
What is AI search visibility?
Whether an AI assistant names your business when someone asks it for a recommendation. When a person asks ChatGPT or Google's AI Overview "who is the best roofer in Phoenix," the assistant returns a short answer naming two or three companies rather than a list of links. This work makes your business one it can confidently name.
Does ranking well on Google mean AI will recommend me?
No. They are different systems reading different signals. A business can rank first on Google for a term and never be named when an assistant is asked the same question. Traditional SEO is not wasted, but it does not transfer automatically.
How do AI assistants decide which local business to recommend?
Three things matter most: machine-readable structured data on your site stating category, location, hours and rating; pages that answer customer questions in plain language, because assistants quote whoever wrote the answer down; and mentions across the wider web, since roughly 77% of cited sources are not the business's own website.
How much does AI search optimization cost?
Agencies serving mid-market clients typically charge $2,000 to $10,000 per month. We serve local businesses at $199 for a one-time report and fix pack, $497 for done-for-you implementation, and $249 per month for ongoing work.
How many people actually use AI to find local businesses?
45% of consumers, according to BrightLocal's 2026 Local Consumer Review Survey of 1,002 US adults. The equivalent figure a year earlier was 6%.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?
No, and nobody honestly can. We sell the work — structured data, answer pages, profile optimization, citation building — not a ranking. We describe deliverables, never results we cannot control.
How long does it take?
The Report & Fix Pack is delivered within 48 hours of purchase. Done-For-You Setup within five business days. AI Visibility Watch reports monthly.
What is your refund policy?
Full refund on request within 14 days of delivery, no questions asked. Monthly subscriptions can be cancelled at any time and are not charged again after cancellation. See our refund policy.
Small team. Direct accountability.
You deal with the people doing the work.
North Slope Digital is a small independent consultancy in the United States. There are no account managers here and nothing gets handed to a junior — the people who audit your business are the people who write the fixes.
We deliberately keep the client list short, and take only one business per service category per area — so our work is never used against someone we've already worked for.
What "per area" means. For businesses customers travel to, we won't take a second client in the same service category within 15 miles of your location. For businesses that travel to customers, we assess service-area overlap before accepting the work. Either way, we'll tell you exactly what's reserved in your market before you buy anything.
Questions before buying are welcome, and there's never a sales call. Email us and you'll get a straight, specific answer — usually the same day.
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