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Be the business AI sends nearby

"Best dentist near me." "An emergency plumber that opens on Sunday." "A family lawyer in this neighborhood." Local discovery is shifting from map searches to voice and AI assistants — and the assistant returns a short list of recommended businesses. RankRush is the platform that gets your listing onto those short lists.

Who this is for

You run a local service business — a dental practice, a law firm, a plumbing or HVAC company, a restaurant, a clinic, a salon. You already get the foot traffic that walks past or finds you on a map. But review-driven AI assistants are increasingly the first place prospects ask for a recommendation, and you're invisible to the language model unless your site speaks its structured-data language. You don't need a bigger ad budget; you need the AI to know you exist.

The AI visibility problem

Local businesses are especially vulnerable to AI invisibility — a few schema gaps and one inconsistent phone number can drop you out of the citation set entirely. Common gaps RankRush surfaces on day-one audits:

  • LocalBusiness schema with accurate hours, service area, and categories
  • Name, Address, Phone consistency across the site and structured data
  • Service pages that AI can map to "near me" and category queries
  • Review markup and aggregated rating signals that language models trust
  • Internal linking from service → location → contact with consistent CTAs

AI assistants extract a high level of confidence from clean Local Business markup and consistent business identity. Every inconsistency — different phone format, mismatched address, missing service area — is a reason for the model to recommend someone else.

How RankRush helps

The RankRush audit scans your site against 80+ AI-readability checkpoints calibrated for local businesses — Local Business schema, NAP consistency, service-area coverage, review signal, and the internal linking that ties service pages to location pages. You get a prioritized fix list — what to update this week to move the most citations, what's deferrable, what's already strong. The visibility scanner then tracks how often your business is recommended across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for the "near me" and service-name queries that matter to you.

When on-site is clean, the Buzz module seeds authentic mentions and reviews on the discussion sites and local-recommendation threads where language models continually pull retrieval signal. The compounding effect: make your business easy for AI to identify and locate, then build the off-site authority that keeps you in the recommended set season after season.

What to do next

Run a free visibility scan on your business site. The audit takes a few minutes and returns a scored report — you'll see exactly which schema, NAP, and service-page gaps are costing you AI recommendations. Starter plans cover a single location; Growth and Agency scale to multi-location businesses and agencies managing several local-service clients.

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