Is Your Business Readyto Be Recommended by AI?
Learn how to evaluate your business's true AI visibility, understand what influences AI recommendations, and implement practical strategies to increase your chances of being recommended consistently.
What You'll Learn
- What AI visibility is and why it now matters for local service businesses
- How ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok & Google AI Overviews choose which businesses to recommend
- How to audit your current visibility across all six major AI platforms
- The content and signals that make AI platforms cite and recommend you
Walk Out With the AI Visibility Playbook
Every attendee leaves with a practical, step-by-step playbook to get recommended consistently — the exact checklist we use to move a local service business from invisible to named and cited across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, and Google AI Overviews. No fluff. No upsell. Just the plays, in order, you can run the same week.
Date
Date to be announced
Time
Time to be announced
Admission
Free — seats limited
Format
Live online — 90 minutes
The New Front Door
What Is AI Visibility?
AI visibility is whether AI assistants and AI-powered search results mention, recommend, and cite your business when someone asks a question your business could answer. It is not a ranking position. It is whether your name appears in the answer at all.
They ask
"Who's the best [plumber] near me?"
AI answers
"You're in great hands with your business — 5-star rated and trusted nearby."
A homeowner used to type "plumber Walnut Creek" and scan a list of links. Today they type or say:
"Who's the best plumber near me, and who should I actually call first?"
They get back a short, confident answer with two or three business names and a reason for each. There is no page two. Either the AI knows enough about your business to name you — or, as far as that customer is concerned, you do not exist.
The Shift
Ten Blue Links vs. One Written Answer
Nothing about search broke. The interface changed — and with it, what it takes to get found.
How search used to work
- Someone types a keyword and sees ten blue links.
- You compete for position — page one, then top three.
- Being on page one usually means being seen.
- Traffic arrives, and you get a chance to convince the visitor.
- You measure rankings, clicks, and impressions.
How search works now
- Someone asks a full question and gets one written answer.
- You compete to be mentioned inside that answer at all.
- There is no page two — there are three or four names.
- The AI does the convincing, using whatever it can find about you.
- You measure mentions, citations, and whether you were named.
Six Front Doors
Six Places People Ask. One Question Every Day.
Each of these platforms builds its answer from a slightly different mix of sources. The workshop covers what each one reads — and what it means for a local business.
Google AI Overviews
The AI summary that now sits above the blue links — and answers the question before anyone scrolls.
ChatGPT
People ask it for a recommendation in plain language and act on the handful of names it gives back.
Google Gemini
Pulls from your profile, your reviews, and your site to decide whether you belong in the shortlist.
Perplexity
An answer engine that cites its sources — so the businesses it links to get the click and the credit.
Claude
Increasingly used for research and shortlisting, drawing on the web content it can verify.
Grok & Local AI Search
Real-time, social-fed answers plus the map-pack results that still drive most 'near me' calls.
Six places. One question every day. The workshop is about making sure your business is the answer.
The Agenda
What You'll Learn in 90 Minutes
No slideware theory. You will leave able to check your own AI visibility and fix the gaps yourself.
How AI search actually decides who to name
A plain-English walkthrough of where these tools get their information — your website, your Google Business Profile, your reviews, directories, and third-party mentions — and how they weigh it.
Check your own AI visibility live
You will run the same prompts we use, across multiple AI platforms, and see with your own eyes whether your business gets named for the services you sell in the area you serve.
The signals you can fix yourself this month
Entity consistency, service and location clarity, review substance, structured answers on your own pages, and citation cleanup — what each one is, why AI reads it, and how to fix it without a developer.
Writing pages an AI can quote
Why the way you format an answer matters as much as the answer itself, and how to structure a service page so an AI can lift a clean, accurate sentence about your business out of it.
Local specifics that decide 'near me' answers
Service areas, categories, hours, photos, and reviews — the local layer AI leans on hardest when the question ends with 'near me'.
Live Q&A
Bring your business. We will look at real examples from the room and talk through what to do first.
Stay to the End
Take Home the AI Visibility Playbook
Every attendee who stays through to the end of the session receives the AI Visibility Playbook in digital format — the same step-by-step checks and fixes we walk through together, written out so you can work through them on your own schedule. It is free, and it is yours to keep.
Who Should Attend
Built for Local Businesses and DIY Marketers
If you own the outcome of your own marketing, this session is for you.
Local service business owners
- Home services, health and wellness practices, and professional service firms
- You rely on being found by people nearby who need you today
- You have a website and a Google Business Profile, but no idea what AI says about you
- You want to understand the shift before you spend money on it
DIY marketers and in-house SEOs
- You already manage your own SEO, content, or listings
- You know traditional SEO but have not adapted it for answer engines
- You want the checks and the fixes, not a pitch
- You would rather do the work yourself with the right roadmap
Your Host
Subrata Guha, Founder, GrowSmallBiz
Subrata leads GrowSmallBiz, a Bay Area digital marketing practice that works with local service businesses on local SEO, AI search optimization, and marketing automation. He runs these sessions the same way he works with clients: show the evidence first, explain the mechanics in plain language, then hand over the steps.
Sessions are hosted in partnership with local chambers of commerce.
Reserve Your Seat
Register for the Free AI Visibility Workshop
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No commitment. No pressure. Just a straight explanation of how AI search works and what to do about it.
FAQ
Workshop Questions, Answered
Everything people ask before they register.