# Sola Salons, Needham: a beauty salon in Needham (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/needham/sola-salons-needham-ma. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 19 sources. Updated 2026-09-07. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ma/needham/sola-salons-needham-ma

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## In short

Sola Salons is a beauty salon in Needham, MA. Its AI Score is 40 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 ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Beauty salon |
| Address | 33 4th Ave, Needham, MA 02494, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 8 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (781) 649-7233 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.8 across 33 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Nothing found |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 19, 2026, 11:39 AM |


## 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 | 33 4th Ave, Needham, MA 02494, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Sola Salons Needham offers private, fully equipped salon suite rentals for beauty and wellness professionals ready to grow their business. Our location features 31 move-in ready studios designed for hairstylists, barbers, estheticians, nail techs, lash artists, massage therapists and more. Each suite includes premium cabinetry, a shampoo bowl, styling chair, and modern lighting, with access to shared amenities. Your space is fully private, giving you the freedom to customize your studio. Enjoy 24/7 secure access, keep 100% of your earnings and set your own schedule. Schedule a tour of our Needham location today and join 21,000+ independent professionals who call Sola Salons home. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Sola Salons | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (781) 649-7233 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Athens | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Atlanta area corp | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Barber services | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Charlotte area corp | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Denver boulder | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Education | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Florida corp | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Going independent | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Greater philadelphia corp | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Green bay | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Hair styling | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Lake county kenosha | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Lash extensions | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Longview | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Lubbock | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Massage therapy | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Nail services | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Racine county | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Raleigh area corp | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Regions | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Vancouver | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Yakima | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/solasalons | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/solasalons | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@solasalons | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.solasalonstudios.com/locations/needham?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=organic | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 25, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 17 services Sola offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Education |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Florida corp |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Longview |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Regions |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Lubbock |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Raleigh area corp |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Racine county |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Going independent |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Greater philadelphia corp |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Yakima |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Atlanta area corp |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Green bay |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Lake county kenosha |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Denver boulder |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Charlotte area corp |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Athens |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Vancouver |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Sola

Address: 33 4th Ave, Needham, MA 02494, USA. Phone: (781) 649-7233. Hours: Mon to Sun 8 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 25, 2026 at 9:36 AM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Sola on its Google Business Profile: "Sola Salons Needham offers private, fully equipped salon suite rentals for beauty and wellness professionals ready to grow their business. Our location features 31 move-in ready studios designed for hairstylists, barbers, estheticians, nail techs, lash artists, massage therapists and more. Each suite includes premium cabinetry, a shampoo bowl, styling chair, and modern lighting, with access to shared amenities. Your space is fully private, giving you the freedom to customize your studio. Enjoy 24/7 secure access, keep 100% of your earnings and set your own schedule. Schedule a tour of our Needham location today and join 21,000+ independent professionals who call Sola Salons home."


### When to go

Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Wednesday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Neighbor Car Storage | Storage | 2 min walk |
| 254 Second Avenue | Bus stop | 3 min walk |
| 89 A St (MCPF-Needham LLC) | Bus stop | 3 min walk |
| 189 B St (NBC Universal) | Bus station | 4 min walk |
| Riverside Park | Park | 5 min walk |
| 110 A St (Intex) | Bus stop | 5 min walk |


## Reputation

4.8 average across 33 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 25, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 33 reviews.)


### What people like

Nothing found


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about Sola found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Sola

Sola hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### Busiest day at Sola, anyone know?

No answer yet


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing

No answer yet


### is there parking at Sola or is it street only?

No answer yet


### anything good on 4th to kill time near Sola?

No answer yet


### opening hours here, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### cancellation list here, is there one

No answer yet


### people keep recommending Sola, what for?

No answer yet


### best beauty salon in Needham

No answer yet


### what is actually on the menu here?

No answer yet


### On a budget in Needham, is Sola the one?

No answer yet


### Booking a first appointment at Sola, what happens?

No answer yet


### last update from here was when?

No answer yet


### Does this salon split it over a few months?

No answer yet


### do I need to book Sola in Needham or can I just turn up?

No answer yet


### how much is a first visit around here

No answer yet


### genuinely, what is good about this one

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Sola

We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Sola. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 7, 2026. Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 25, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 40 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Beauty salons on the registry run 13 to 74. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Sola scores 40. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Sola |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | 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 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 1 of 2 answers that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 58 | 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. | Fair |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 65 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 26 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a beauty 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 beauty salon in Massachusetts, 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 Massachusetts.


## 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 Sola 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 Sola |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sola Salons | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.solasalonstudios.com/locations/needham?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=organic | Subject of this page |
| Needham, Massachusetts | City | #city | Nothing found | City Sola 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 beauty salons in Needham, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best beauty salons in Needham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/needham/beauty-salon
- Best businesses in Needham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/needham


### Nearby

- /boston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/boston
- /cambridge: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/cambridge
- /newton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/newton
- /somerville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/somerville
- /brookline: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/brookline
- /waltham: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma/waltham


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Massachusetts: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ma


## 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 Sola Salons. 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

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