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How AI assistants decide which local businesses to recommend, and what owners can do about it. Written from what we measure, not what we guess.
When a customer asks an assistant for “the best dentist near me,” one name comes back, not ten links. Here is what actually decides whose name that is.
Read the pieceA single number, 0 to 100, for how findable and recommendable your business is to AI assistants. Here is exactly what goes into it.
Read the pieceSearch used to hand you a list of links. AI hands your customer one answer. Optimizing to be that answer is a different job, and most local businesses are not doing it.
Read the pieceGenerative engines answer instead of listing. That does not throw out SEO, but it does change what wins. Here is the honest difference.
Read the pieceGet your free AI Score, and the signals to fix first.