How it works
From invisible to cited.
AI search changed where customers find you. CiteLocal gives you visibility into that shift — and the tools to fix it.
Why this matters now
The behavior shift already happened.
of consumers use AI for local recommendations — up 7.5x in a year
of Google searches now end with no click — the AI answer is the destination
monthly users each on Google AI Mode and ChatGPT
Ten blue links became one AI answer. That answer names two or three businesses. If your name isn't one of them, you don't exist for that query — and unlike SEO, there's no dashboard telling you you've disappeared.
How AI search works
How an AI assistant decides who to name.
When someone asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for the best med spa nearby, the model doesn't roll dice. It composes an answer from the signals it trusts — and then names two or three businesses. These are the levers that decide whether you're one of them.
Structured data the AI can read
Schema markup (LocalBusiness, MedicalBusiness, service and FAQ types) tells the model precisely what you offer, where, and on what terms — in the machine-readable form it trusts most.
The sources the AI quotes
Assistants synthesize answers from Google Business Profile, Yelp, RealSelf, mapped directories, and authoritative local publications. If you're absent or stale there, you're absent from the answer.
Review signals
Recency, volume, response rate, and sentiment all feed how confidently an AI recommends you. A wall of old reviews reads very differently than a steady, well-tended stream.
Relevance and proximity
The model matches the customer's intent and location to your described services and corridor. Vague or location-thin pages get passed over for competitors who spell it out.
The process
A free scan that hooks — monitoring that keeps you found.
Free Scan
Enter your business name and city. CiteLocal probes ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews across the high-intent queries your customers actually ask — "best med spa near me," "laser hair removal [city]," "Botox deals near me" — and shows exactly where you appear and where you're invisible.
No credit card. No account required. You get a full visibility report in under 60 seconds.
The surfaces that matter
We don't probe every AI tool equally. Our priority is where your customers actually search: ChatGPT (600M+ monthly users asking local questions) and Google AI Overviews / AI Mode (shown on billions of queries, dominant in local). These two surfaces drive the vast majority of AI-assisted local discovery.
Google AI Overviews requires SERP-level analysis — there's no API. We do the work so you don't have to.
Multi-city corridor concept
Customers don't only search from inside your city. They search from neighboring suburbs, adjacent zip codes, transit corridors. CiteLocal tracks your citation share across the full local corridor — not just your exact address — so you see the complete competitive picture.
A med spa in downtown LA should be found by someone searching from Santa Monica, Culver City, or Silver Lake. We track all of it.
Weekly monitoring
AI models are retrained frequently. Citations that appear today can vanish next week. CiteLocal runs your full probe weekly and alerts you the moment your citation share drops — or a competitor overtakes you in an important query cluster.
You get a weekly digest with trend lines, query-level changes, and competitor movement.
Remediation — we make you citable
Visibility without action is just a report. CiteLocal provides concrete, sequenced fixes: structured data (schema markup the AI cites), on-site content that matches how AI surfaces answer local queries, review profile optimization, and sourcing from the publications AI pulls when deciding who to recommend.
Then we re-scan. Before/after citation lift is the proof — not generic advice.
Remediation
We don't just tell you. We fix it.
When the scan shows you're invisible, remediation is the path back. CiteLocal addresses every signal AI models use when deciding who to cite for a local query.
Schema markup
LocalBusiness, MedicalBusiness, and service-level schema that AI crawlers read directly.
Source citations
We identify which publications and directories AI pulls when answering local queries — then help you appear there.
On-site content
Structured FAQ, service pages, and geo-specific copy written in the pattern AI uses to compose answers.
Review signals
Recency, response rate, and keyword density in reviews all feed AI ranking. We show you exactly what to improve.
Before/after re-scan
We re-run the full probe after remediation and show you the citation lift. No vanity metrics — just proof.
Ready?
Find out if AI can find you — free.
The scan takes 60 seconds. Most med spas are surprised by what they find. Either way, you'll know.