woodmart-child/assets/rir-ilya.pngYour rankings are fine. Your reviews are fine. And the phone still isn’t ringing like it used to. Drop in your website and see exactly where you show up when customers search — and who’s getting the calls instead of you.
Google, Maps, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Apple Maps — the seven places customers actually look.
Your Visibility Score™ — the share of AI answers naming your company. It goes up, the phone rings.
More qualified calls from people who already decided you’re the one to call.
Local homeowners who found you first, chose you on merit, and tell their neighbours.
Dear fellow business owner,
Last Thursday I sat in my truck outside a Sacramento HVAC shop I’ve worked with for nine years. Engine off. Coffee in the cupholder. The owner was inside on a call I could hear through the open shop door.
His wife. Asking when he was coming home. He said “soon.” She asked about the trip they’d planned in October. He said “we’ll see.”
He runs a $4.2M HVAC business. Eight trucks. Eleven techs. Twenty-two years building it up from one truck. And his revenue had been sliding for six straight quarters.
His Google rankings? Fine. His website? Same as always. His reviews? 4.7 stars, 342 of them, almost all glowing.
So what changed?
Nothing about his business got worse. The way his customers find him changed — and nobody sent a memo.Two years ago, someone with a broken AC typed “AC repair Sacramento” into Google, saw a list, and called somebody on it. Today that same person opens ChatGPT, or asks Siri, or reads the AI answer sitting above the search results.
And the AI doesn’t give them a list of ten. It gives them three names. Sometimes two.
If your company is one of those three names, your phone still rings. If it isn’t, the customer never sees you, never knows you exist, and calls someone else — even if your rankings, reviews and reputation are flawless.
I call it The Quiet Phone Problem.
I’ve watched it happen across 43 local home-service businesses in the last 24 months. Same pattern every time. And it explains, almost by itself, why good operators with great reputations are watching their schedules thin out for no reason their accountant can explain.
Six months of retainer, a PDF showing “improved rankings” on keywords nobody searches anymore, and the phone keeps not ringing.
Cost per click doubles. Lead quality drops. The phone rings — with tire-kickers hunting free estimates, not real jobs.
Six weeks of filming in front of a condenser. Zero customers. Sore back.
Worst move on the list. Margin disappears, the wrong customers show up, techs get rushed, reviews slip. Death spiral.
None of them fix it, because none of them address the actual reason. The customer never saw you in the first place — the AI answered them before they ever reached the part of the internet where your listing lives.
Four steps, in order. Each builds on the one before it. Ninety days.
We find every place your customers are actually searching — Google, ChatGPT, Maps, Siri, Perplexity, AI Overviews. Not the keywords you think they use. The questions they're typing today, in your zip code.
We put the right answers in the right places — your site, your Google Business Profile, and the directories the AI assistants actually read when deciding which three businesses to name. Surgical, not more blog posts.
Your name into the seven places customers find local businesses now: Google Search, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Maps, Apple Maps, and the niche directories your category gets recommended through. All seven, coordinated.
One page every month with a single number at the top — your Visibility Score™: the share of AI answers in your category that name your company. It goes up, your phone rings more. No 40-page report nobody reads.
You don’t need to learn SEO or AI. You need to answer the phone when it rings. I handle the rest.
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Enter your website. We’ll send back your Visibility Score, the competitors taking your calls, and the three things to fix first.
P.S. — Here’s the honest math. One missed customer a week in HVAC is roughly $600 in lost revenue. Over a year that’s $31,200. Most businesses I audit are missing several a week from this single problem. The audit shows you the number — and once you see it in writing, it’s hard to un-see.
P.P.S. — I run two discovery calls a week. No sales team, no automated webinars. If you decide to apply after the audit, there may be a wait for the next slot. Run the audit now so you’re in the queue.
P.P.P.S. — The guarantee is real. 50 new customers in 90 days or I work free until you have them. I’ve written it into 14 contracts in the last 18 months and honored it on all 14. The risk here is mine, not yours.