Guides · October 17, 2026 · Matthew Merrick

Local business AI guide or AI visibility kit: what you actually need

Search for a local-business AI guide and you get checklists called GEO, AEO, AI SEO, and AI visibility kits. The names differ. The work in the top results is the same: a clear Google listing, a website Bing and ChatGPT are allowed to read, matching details on other sites, and real reviews.

This project is that work, written as a guide you can follow. It is not a score you rent, and it is not a file you upload so an assistant “learns” the business.

What those search results are selling

A typical 2026 article titled “how to get recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity” tells an owner to:

Finish or correct Google Business Profile
Keep the name, address, and phone identical on the site and on directories
Write service pages that say what you do, who it is for, and where, in the first paragraph
Allow the search crawlers, including OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot
Earn reviews that mention the job, without buying them
Ask a set of customer questions every month and record who gets named

Some of those pages then offer software that runs the questions for you and returns a score. A score can be a convenience. It does not update your hours. You still sign in to Google and Bing and press save.

What you do not need

Google’s documentation on AI features says there are no extra requirements beyond being indexed and eligible to show in Search with a snippet. There is no official AI file a local business must add. A product that says ChatGPT will recommend you after you install one is selling past what OpenAI and Google publish. OpenAI says a public site can appear, and that placement is not guaranteed.

You also do not need a chatbot to do the listing work. The forms are in a browser. A chatbot is optional, and only for a draft based on facts you supply. If you use Cursor to edit the website, a person still saves the Google and Bing changes. The editor does not log in to those accounts for you.

What this guide is

Get Recommended by AI: The Local Business Guide is $25, once. You get a 27-page PDF and, after payment, a private page on this site with the same material in a form you can click through. The private page is not linked here. Stripe sends you there. Bookmark it.

Inside, in plain language:

How ChatGPT, Google, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot find businesses, from the platforms’ own pages
How to update a Google Business Profile you already have
How to submit the website in Bing Webmaster Tools and claim Bing Places
A way to ask for reviews that stays inside Google’s rules and the FTC’s review rule
Website outlines, footer text, a LocalBusiness schema block, and robots.txt notes
Questions to test what the assistants say, a 30-day plan, and worksheets
For people who edit site files in Cursor: a facts rule and two skills that refuse to invent prices, reviews, licenses, or towns

The public guides on this site are the short version of the first jobs. Start with ChatGPT, the Google profile, and Bing.

Who it is for

Owners of local services, shops, restaurants, salons, practices, and trades. People who never open a chatbot, and people who use one every day. Office managers and web designers helping one business.

It is a poor fit if you want a guaranteed ranking, fake reviews, or a national brand program run by an in-house SEO team.

The guide is a digital product, delivered when you pay. All sales are final. Nothing here is legal, tax, or financial advice.

Sources for the job itself

The $25 guide

Get Recommended by AI is the checklist version of this work: update Google Business, submit the site to Bing, and fix the pages assistants can read. It includes the PDF and a private page after payment. Digital, sent right away. All sales are final.

Buy the guide

This page is educational. It is not legal, tax, or financial advice, and it is not affiliated with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Perplexity. No one can guarantee that any assistant will recommend, mention, or rank a business.