Straight answers about the Visibility Score, AI citation, local search in 2026, and how Simply Visible works. Written to be the answer, for a human first and a machine second.
Yes, and it is written in plain English: the Simply Visible Service Agreement, posted in full at simplyvisible.online/service-agreement. You accept it with a checkbox at signup, right next to the payment button, and every acceptance is recorded with its version and date so both sides always know exactly what was agreed. The short version: we build and run your visibility, you own what you pay for, the Engine has a three month minimum and then you can cancel anytime with thirty days notice, and we never guarantee specific rankings because nobody honestly can.
It is a live read on how findable, trusted, and citable your business is right now. It scores four things that decide whether you get found in 2026: your website foundation, your Google Business Profile and reviews, your content presence, and your AI search signals. It updates continuously and compares you to your top three competitors, so you always know where you actually stand.
It is a weighted blend of four pillars, measured the exact same way for you and your competitors: Website Foundation (25%), Google Business Profile and Reviews (30%), Content Presence (15%), and AI Search Signals (30%). Each pillar is built from real signals, like page speed, structured data, review volume and recency, and how often the major AI tools name you when asked. We read your live website, your public Google data and reviews, and we ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude about your category directly. If a signal cannot be measured yet, we leave it out rather than guess. You can see every input, weight, and data source on the How We Score page.
AI recommends businesses it can read clearly and trust. It pulls from your reviews, your website, your Google Business Profile, and your consistency across the web. If those signals are thin, inconsistent, or missing the structured data that machines read, AI does not have enough to confidently name you, even if you are the best option in town. Fixing that is most of what we do.
People used to get a list of ten links. Now they often get one AI answer at the very top, with one or two businesses named, before they ever scroll. Showing up in the old list still matters, but being the business AI names is the new game. The signals that win it are reviews, consistent information, content that answers real questions, and a website built to be understood by machines as well as people.
No. Everything we do is built on organic reach. Ads rent attention and stop the moment you stop paying. The visibility we build compounds over time and keeps working. The only spend we recommend is a small amount on the software tools that make it all run efficiently, which is infrastructure, not an ad budget.
An AI citation is when a tool like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity names your business in its answer to someone’s question. It matters because that single named recommendation often gets the call before the person ever looks at a list of links. We measure how often the major AI tools cite you, and we do the technical work that makes them more likely to.
No, but most of what gets sold as SEO is a subscription to confusion. The fundamentals still matter: a clear, fast, well-structured website, consistent business information, real reviews, and content that answers real questions. What is dead is gaming rankings with tricks. Google and AI now reward businesses that are genuinely credible, which is good news if you do good work.
The technical foundation goes live inside thirty days. Real, community-level trust compounds over months, not overnight. Most owners see a meaningful difference in their first ninety days, and the businesses that stay consistent become the default recommendation in their market. The slow build is the point. It is the part competitors quit too early to ever reach.
No, and that is on purpose. Those are the human side of your business, and they have to come from you to be real. We teach you exactly how to run them with step-by-step guides built from the books, and your Visibility Score points you to the next move. We handle the technical work that scales. You handle the relationships that cannot be faked.
From observable, reproducible data, not a feeling. We measure your website, your Google Business Profile and reviews, your content presence, and your AI search signals, and we score your top three competitors the exact same way. The AI part comes from actually asking the major AI tools about your category and counting how often they name you. You can see the inputs behind every part of the score.
The build is the website and foundation, delivered once. You own it. The ongoing system is the real-time technical maintenance that keeps it current as AI search changes, plus your live Visibility Score and competitive intelligence. The build makes you findable. The system keeps you that way.
Before anyone calls, every buyer silently asks the same six questions: who you are, what problem you solve, who you serve, how you solve it, what others say, and how to get started. We read your homepage the way a customer would and score whether each one is clearly answered where they would see it. If a visitor cannot find an answer, they leave without calling, even if you are the best option in town. It is part of your Website Foundation score, and we show you exactly which questions your site answers and which it misses.
One login for your entire online presence. Your live Visibility Score and how you compare to your top three competitors, your monthly Vantage market plan, every lead from your website, your traffic and analytics, a running list of everything we ship for you, direct messaging and support, and news on AI search, plus the book and the podcast. No jumping between tools and no waiting on a monthly report. It is a command center you can watch work every morning.
Yes, from the real sources, not a guess. When you connect your Google Search Console (free and yours), your dashboard shows the exact terms you rank for, how often you show up, how many people click, and your average position. We also pull the full list of keywords your site ranks for, with search volume, and we flag your striking-distance terms: the ones sitting just below page one (positions 11 to 20) that a focused push can land on page one, where almost all the clicks are. Those become priority items in your plan.
When your score flags a technical fix on your site, you can approve it with one click in your plan. From there we handle it: our team makes the change to your site, reviews it, and deploys it, and your Visibility Score reflects it on its next reading. You watch the work happen and the number move. The human-layer items (reviews, photos, your Google profile) are never auto-changed, because those have to come from you to be real.
Vantage is the monthly market intelligence brief that tells you what to do next. Once a month it reads your actual market: the real questions people are searching and asking ChatGPT in your area, what is trending, the exact pages to publish to win those searches, your single biggest AI citation opportunity, and a threat scorecard on your competitors. The daily score tells you where you stand. Vantage tells you the next move.
Yes, and we only share what we can put on the screen. A few examples pulled straight from real clients’ own analytics: an online clothing brand reached 13.6 million impressions in a year, a neighborhood restaurant passed a million impressions with a Facebook following near 8,000, a garden center logged 328,000 impressions and 18,000 interactions in a single quarter, and a mobile repair shop drew more than 4,200 customer interactions, over half of them straight from Google. Different industries, different channels, same system. Nothing estimated, nothing padded.
Never. Your score only goes up when the work is real. We do not fake reviews, we do not pad reports, and we do not post on your behalf to inflate a number. That honesty is the entire point: because the score is an honest read of your actual visibility, you can trust what you are watching. It is also why the human layer, your reviews and your photos, stays with you. It has to be real to count.
No. Generic content that anyone could write, the "ten tips" articles AI can generate in seconds, is worthless now. Google itself tells site owners to make unique, non-commodity content. What wins is the content only you have: your real stories, why a job went the way it did, your honest opinions, your case studies. We turn your first-hand experience into the answer-first pages and FAQs that AI assistants actually quote, because you are the only one who has it.
No, and this is where a lot of businesses get burned. Mass-producing thin, near-identical pages for every keyword is something Google now calls scaled content abuse, and it can get you penalized, not ranked. Fewer pages done well beat a hundred thin ones. We build the service and area pages that genuinely serve your market, each with real, useful content, not filler.
It depends on your business and what you need, so we walk through it on your call rather than quote a one-size number. Here is what we will say up front: you are replacing a pile of separate tools and subscriptions, a website service, a review tool, a listings service, a social tool, and an SEO retainer, with one system that does more and proves it is working. Most owners find it costs less than the sum of the parts they are already paying for. Start with your free Visibility Score and we will show you exactly what would help most.
Locally owned businesses that are excellent at the work and ready to be seen for it. Service businesses, restaurants, nonprofits, contractors, home services, and community-rooted brands. If you get most of your work from referrals and know there has to be a better way, this is built for you.
Get your free Visibility Score. We will show you where you stand, how you compare to your top three competitors, and the moves that would help most. From there you decide if you want us to handle the technical side.