AI-search marketing for local business
Your customers are asking AI. Make sure you are the answer.
Search is moving into ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers. SightLine works to get your business named there, and builds the website and local presence those tools read.
From $300/mo · month to month · free demo site before you pay
The shift
People stopped scrolling ten blue links. They ask, and AI answers.
When someone asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for "the best [your service] near me," one or two businesses get named. If that's not you, you never knew the customer existed. No missed call, no lost quote, nothing to notice. And it tends to compound: AI tools tend to keep naming the businesses they already trust. Getting named is a different job than ranking, and every month you wait, the gap gets harder to close.
What SightLine does
Three things, done well.
Built for AI search
We work on what AI tools read when they pick who to name: your site's structure, your Google profile, your reviews, and whether your details match everywhere. AI visibility is the core of every plan, not an upsell.
AI does the work, you see it
AI handles most of the production work, which is how plans start at $300. A live dashboard shows your visibility and what's done, in progress, and next.
No lock-in
Month to month. Cancel anytime. We earn the next month by showing you the work and the results, not by trapping you in a contract.
How it works
From invisible to found, fast.
Free visibility check
We show you where you appear (or don't) in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews versus your local competitors.
Free demo site
We build your site from your real services, details, and hours, with your own photos where we have them: a homepage plus your key service and area pages. You see it before you pay anything.
Get named & found
We optimize your profile, content, and signals so AI tools and local search start putting you in the answer.
Watch it work
Track AI visibility, local rankings, and every task in your dashboard. Add content, ads, or automation as you grow.
Why we're different
Not your typical agency.
Most local-marketing shops still sell Google rankings on a long contract you can't read. We're built for how customers actually search now, and we show you the work.
- ✕ Long contracts that lock you in
- ✕ Built for Google rankings, not AI answers
- ✕ Vague monthly reports you can't act on
- ✕ Agency prices, slow turnaround
- ✕ You wonder what you're paying for
- ✓ Month to month, cancel anytime
- ✓ Built for how AI tools pick who to name
- ✓ Live dashboard: every task and result, visible
- ✓ AI-run delivery, plans from $300/mo
- ✓ Free demo site before you pay
Plans
Simple, transparent pricing.
AI-search visibility is in every plan. Month to month, no lock-in. Grow into content, a channel, and automation as you go.
- Hosted, maintained website
- Google Business Profile setup
- AI-search visibility tracking
- Local schema + analytics
- Always-on dashboard
- Everything in Foundation
- 4 AI-optimized pieces/mo
- Auto-posted to social + GBP
- On-page + local SEO
- Review generation
- Everything in Growth, 6 pieces/mo
- A human reviews every piece
- One channel: managed Google or Meta ads (spend billed at cost), or the automation suite (web-to-text, missed-call text-back, site chatbot)
- Conversion work on key pages
- Quarterly check-in call
- Everything in Pro
- Both channels: managed ads and the automation suite, or multi-location
- Priority turnaround
- Monthly call + quarterly strategy plan
- Ad spend billed at cost, never marked up
Not sure yet? We'll build you a free demo site so you can see it before you decide. Outgrow Command? We'll hand you to our partners at Search Influence.
Track record
The team behind SightLine has done this for 20 years.
SightLine is built by the team at Search Influence, our referral partner, a New Orleans SEO and digital marketing agency. Same people, same work.*
Trusted by teams like Tulane University, Liberty Senior Living, Audubon Nature Institute, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
"Our account manager was hands on, responsive, and you could really tell she wanted to help us and our practice succeed."
"An invaluable partner in the development and expansion of my online presence."
"The team members are intelligent, creative, and professional, and knowledgeable in the work provided to our organization."
"One of the biggest advantages is their transparency and collaboration in reporting on analytics."
* These reviews and client names are from work by the Search Influence team, SightLine's referral partner, not from SightLine engagements directly. We share them because the people doing the work are the same.
Learn
Get found, explained.
Plain-spoken guides on showing up where your customers now look.
Your Facebook page is not a website
What a local business loses without a site it owns.
Read →Your presence is everywhere AI looks
Why scattered, stale info costs you the answer.
Read →Get named in AI answers
What GEO is, and how a local business wins at it.
Read →A claimed profile isn't an active one
The simple cadence that keeps you visible.
Read →Speed to lead
The cheapest way to win more local jobs.
Read →Reviews are the proof AI looks for
Why volume, recency, and replies beat one star rating.
Read →By trade
What AI looks for depends on what you do.
A roofer, a nail salon, and a law firm get asked about by AI in different ways. See how we set up each trade, with a live example site.
Questions
Common questions
What is AI search marketing for a local business?
It is the work of getting your business named when customers ask AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI for a local service, instead of typing a search. It is a different job than ranking in a list of links, and it relies on a clear website, an active local presence, and the signals AI tools use to decide who to recommend.
How is getting named in AI answers different from SEO?
SEO aims to rank in a list of ten blue links. AI answers name only one or two businesses. Getting named depends on entities, structure, reviews, and a consistent presence across the sources AI tools read, not just keyword rankings.
How much does SightLine cost?
Plans start at $300 per month for Foundation, $900 for Growth, $1,500 for Pro, and $2,400 for Command. Every plan is month to month with no lock-in, and AI-search visibility is included in all of them.
Is there a contract?
No. Every plan is month to month and you can cancel anytime. SightLine also offers a free AI-visibility check and can build a free demo site before you decide.
See where you show up in AI search.
Free check, no commitment. We'll show you where you appear today, where your competitors already do, and what it takes to get named. Every month you wait, that answer keeps going to someone else.