# LEVEL UP NAIL SALON, Walnut Creek: a nail salon in Walnut Creek (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/walnut-creek/level-up-nail-salon-walnut-creek-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 9 sources. Updated 2026-08-14. Owner review: not yet. 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Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Nail salon | | Address | 1537 N Main St, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 9 AM to 7 PM | | Phone | (925) 360-3578 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.5 across 83 reviews on Google | | Known for | Level Up Nail Salon is best known for its outstanding Russian manicures and top-tier pedicures, consistently impressing clients with meticulous attention to detail and a welcoming atmosphere. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Thursday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 7:07 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1537 N Main St, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Description | SECOND LOCATION OF LEVEL UP NAIL SALON. BEST NAIL SALON IN TOWN. DRY/E-FILE MANICURE AND PEDICURE. EXTRA ATTENTION TO YOUR CUTICLE. STRUCTURE MANICURE/HARD GEL. We do Russian technique gel manicure and pedicure. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Name | LEVEL UP NAIL SALON | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (925) 360-3578 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Services | Service | Advanced 3 day course | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Beginners 5 day course | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Booking policies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Contacts | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Cuticle care | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Dry manicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Dry pedicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | E-file manicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | E-file pedicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Hard gel manicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Level up | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Level up lafayette | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Nail classes | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Russian technique gel manicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Russian technique gel pedicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Structure manicure | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Website | http://www.levelupnails.us/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 7 services LEVEL UP offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Level up lafayette | | | | Confirmed | | Nail classes | | | | Confirmed | | Beginners 5 day course | | | | Confirmed | | Booking policies | | | | Confirmed | | Contacts | | | | Confirmed | | Level up | | | | Confirmed | | Advanced 3 day course | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Level Up Nail Salon is best known for its outstanding Russian manicures and top-tier pedicures, consistently impressing clients with meticulous attention to detail and a welcoming atmosphere. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting LEVEL UP Address: 1537 N Main St, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA. Phone: (925) 360-3578. Hours: Mon to Sun 9 AM to 7 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by LEVEL UP on its Google Business Profile: "SECOND LOCATION OF LEVEL UP NAIL SALON. BEST NAIL SALON IN TOWN. DRY/E-FILE MANICURE AND PEDICURE. EXTRA ATTENTION TO YOUR CUTICLE. STRUCTURE MANICURE/HARD GEL. We do Russian technique gel manicure and pedicure." ### When to go Quietest day: Thursday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Main | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | 1613 Commercial Ln Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | Modern China | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk | | Phoenix Salon and Day Spa | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | 1499 N Main Street Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | La Sen Bistro WC | French restaurant | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.5 average across 83 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 14, 2026.) Level Up Nail Salon is distinguished by its skilled technicians and a focus on detailed, quality nail care, though service consistency can vary. (AI guess, from 83 reviews.) ### What people like - Hard gel application - Friendly and accommodating front desk staff ### What people do not like - Long waits past appointment times - Inconsistent quality with beginner technicians - Miscommunication about service details - Dry hands after manicure ### Press No press story about LEVEL UP found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from LEVEL UP LEVEL UP hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### bad experiences here, anyone? No answer yet ### Somewhere to park near LEVEL UP? No answer yet ### walk in at LEVEL UP in Walnut Creek, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### anything new from LEVEL UP lately? No answer yet ### Coffee near this salon on Main? No answer yet ### Any membership pricing at LEVEL UP? No answer yet ### cheaper than LEVEL UP in Walnut Creek without it being sketchy? No answer yet ### is there a day here that is not slammed No answer yet ### people keep recommending LEVEL UP, what for? No answer yet ### services here, what do people go in for? No answer yet ### LEVEL UP or The Lounge? No answer yet ### best nail salon in Walnut Creek No answer yet ### Booking a first appointment at LEVEL UP, what happens? No answer yet ### what time does this salon actually open? No answer yet ### Why do people rate LEVEL UP? No answer yet ### do they do payment plans here? No answer yet ### are prices in Walnut Creek higher than everywhere else No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about LEVEL UP We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about LEVEL UP. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 22, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 26 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Walnut Creek nail salons run 24 to 61. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. LEVEL UP scores 26, below the Walnut Creek average of 35. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | LEVEL UP | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 14 answers that recommended anyone. 8 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 48 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 64 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a nail salon When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a nail salon in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including LEVEL UP if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to LEVEL UP | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | LEVEL UP NAIL SALON | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.levelupnails.us/ | Subject of this page | | Walnut Creek, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City LEVEL UP is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the nail salons in Walnut Creek, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best nail salons in Walnut Creek: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/walnut-creek/nail-salon - Best businesses in Walnut Creek: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/walnut-creek ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own LEVEL UP NAIL SALON. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJaVNWCABhhYARJJYIlP7kSPk (accessed Aug 14, 2026) - [2] levelupnails.us, https://levelupnails.us/contacts (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [3] levelupnails.us, https://levelupnails.us/walnutcreek (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [4] levelupnails.us, https://levelupnails.us/lafayette (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [5] levelupnails.us, https://levelupnails.us/education (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [6] levelupnails.us, https://levelupnails.us/beginners (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [7] levelupnails.us, https://levelupnails.us/salonpolicies (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [8] levelupnails.us, https://levelupnails.us/advanced (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [9] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 22, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)