AI visibility for local businesses

When someone asks AI for the best dentist near them — do you show up?

Customers don't scroll results anymore. They ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude — and the AI names a handful of businesses. Scout tells you if you're one of them, and exactly how to become one.

Free audit · No call required · Results in minutes

Scout Prompt Score Scout watched this answer
“Who's the best coffee shop near Maplewood?”
AI answer · names 3 businesses
1Harvest & Grind“consistently praised for its espresso and service…”
2The Corner Roastery (chain)“convenient hours and locations…”
3Bluebird Coffee House“a favorite with locals for years…”
Your business isn't in this answer.And no one will ever tell you — except Scout.

The search results page is disappearing.

Your customers are asking AI assistants for recommendations — and now get a straight answer, not a list of links.

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Customers ask, AI answers

"Best near me" questions increasingly go to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude instead of a search box. The answer is a sentence — not page two.

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Only a few names make it in

AI names two or three businesses, with reasons. There's no ranking to climb slowly — you're either in the answer or you don't exist.

Being left out is silent

You'll never see the answers that skip you. No analytics, no alert — just customers who quietly went somewhere else.

Who Scout is for

Built for the businesses AI is already being asked about.

Every vertical gets the same treatment: the real questions your customers ask AI, where you stand today, and the fixes that get you named. Not seeing yours? Tell us — we're adding more, one at a time.

Dental practices

See how AI recommends your dental practice

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your practice on the questions patients actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

Veterinary clinics

See how AI recommends your veterinary clinic

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your clinic on the questions pet owners actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

Med spas

See how AI recommends your med spa

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your med spa on the questions clients actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

HVAC companies

See how AI recommends your HVAC company

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your HVAC company on the questions homeowners actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

Plumbing companies

See how AI recommends your plumbing company

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your plumbing company on the questions homeowners actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

Roofing companies

See how AI recommends your roofing company

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your roofing company on the questions homeowners actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

Electricians

See how AI recommends your electrical business

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your electrical business on the questions homeowners actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

Pest control companies

See how AI recommends your pest control business

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your pest control business on the questions homeowners actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

General contractors

See how AI recommends your contracting business

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your contracting business on the questions homeowners actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

Auto repair shops

See how AI recommends your auto repair shop

Scout helps you own how AI describes and recommends your auto repair shop on the questions drivers actually ask — it never promises map or local-pack placement, and no honest tool can guarantee you'll be number one.

One number that tells you where you stand.

The Prompt Score measures how often AI assistants name your business when real customers ask real questions — from 0 (invisible) to 100 (the name AI reaches for first).

  • Built from real questions, not keywords — the things your customers actually ask AI.
  • Tracked across every major engine, so one blind spot can't hide in another's numbers.
  • Designed to move. Every report comes with the specific fixes that raise it — and how much each one is worth.

A score you check once is already out of date.

AI answers aren't fixed. The engines update, new competitors get named, and the questions your customers ask keep shifting. A business that's dominant today can quietly drop out next month — and nobody sends a warning.

AI rewrites its answers

Ask the same question twice and the names can change. Engines update, competitors edge in, the wording shifts. One reading captures one moment — not the trend.

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Scout watches every month

Scout re-runs thousands of real questions every month and reads the answers for you. The moment your visibility slips — or a new name shows up in your place — you get a heads-up, not a surprise.

Visibility is held, then built

The lead isn't won once. Each month's report builds on the last, so you can hold the ground you've gained and keep climbing — instead of starting over.

Your free Prompt Score shows you where you stand today. Scout's job is everything that happens after today.

Three steps. No technical skills required.

1

Tell us who you are

Enter your business name and location. That's the whole setup — Scout takes it from there.

2

Scout runs the questions

Thousands of real customer questions, asked across the major AI engines — the way your customers actually ask them.

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Get your score and your plan

Your Prompt Score, who's beating you, and a plain-English plan to fix it — prioritized by impact.

Checked across every engine that matters

ChatGPTGoogle AIClaudePerplexityGemini

Not just a dashboard that says you're losing.

Plenty of tools can show you a problem. Scout's job is to hand you the fix.

Track

Visibility, engine by engine

See exactly which questions you're named in — and which ones skip you — on every major AI engine, re-checked every month so you watch it move, not just where it landed once.

Compare

Know who's winning instead

The businesses AI recommends in your place, how often, and why — so "we're losing to the chain" becomes specific and fixable.

Fix · the Scout difference

The fixes, done for you

Structured data ready to paste, content gaps to fill, and positioning guidance — prioritized, in plain English, with the score impact of each one.

Scout Prompt Score

The chains have agencies. You have Scout.

Big corporate chains are already optimizing for AI search. Scout gives independent businesses the same edge — without hiring anyone, learning anything technical, or spending agency money. AI recommends whoever looks most credible to it. Scout makes sure that's you.

Simple pricing. Cancel anytime.

Every plan starts with your free Prompt Score — see where you stand before you pay a cent.

Starter

See where you stand
$79/mo
  • Monthly Prompt Score & trend
  • Visibility across 3 AI engines
  • Listing & review health checks
Start with Starter

Agency

Multi-location & agencies
$499/mo
  • Everything in Pro
  • 5 businesses included (+$99/mo each extra)
  • Team seats & roles
Start with Agency

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Scout Prompt Score

Find out if AI knows you exist.

Your free Prompt Score takes minutes, costs nothing, and requires no call with anyone. Just your business name and where you are — Scout does the rest.

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