When local buyers ask AI who to hire, do you get named?

They overlap, and we say so. Good local SEO helps here too, because assistants read many of the same public sources. What FirstPick adds is the measurement: we watch the AI answers themselves, record who is being named for your services, and target the fixes at what the assistants actually read and cite. Your SEO person can run with everything we hand you.

We ask the assistants the questions your buyers actually ask, several times each, and measure who gets named. That produces your AI Visibility Score, which is the percentage of sampled AI answers about your services in which your business is named. It is a different number from your share of named mentions, which is your share of every time AI named any business in the answers we sampled, split between you and the competitors named alongside you.

Yes. Findings can be opened to show examples from the AI answers they came from, in the assistant's own words, so you can judge for yourself whether a finding is fair. We keep the answers we sampled for your questions, which is what makes the comparison with last month possible.

Because the first problem is not knowing. Right now most owners have no idea whether AI answers name them, what those answers say, or who else is being named. FirstPick answers that every month, and the answer stays useful whether your next result rises, falls, or holds steady: a flat month is information, and a falling one is the earliest warning you can get. The Fix Kit then gives you specific actions to consider. What we will not do is tell you what the result of those actions will be.

You can, and it is a reasonable thing to try. The difference is consistency and memory. We ask a set of buyer questions across several AI services, repeat each one enough times to see past a single unusual answer, record who was named every time, and keep the answers so you can compare this month with last month. A check you do by hand answers one question, once, and leaves no record to compare against later.

Those tools measure your rankings, your listings, and your citations. FirstPick measures a different output: which businesses an AI assistant names when a buyer asks it for a recommendation. That is not something a rank tracker or a listing manager reports on today. They are complementary, and most of what good local SEO does helps here too, which is why the Fix Kit is written so your existing SEO or web person can act on it.

You can still use it. The Fix Kit marks the quick wins you can do yourself, usually in your Google Business Profile or on your own site, and for the more technical items it says what needs attention and what kind of help it takes. That is enough to hand to a freelancer or to decide an item is not worth doing. FirstPick never makes changes for you either way.

It is built for single-location and small multi-location local service businesses: med spas, dental and medical practices, home services, contractors, and similar. Those are exactly the businesses buyers ask assistants to recommend by neighborhood, and the ones least likely to have anyone watching what the answers say.

You may not need to act yet, and we are not going to tell you your referrals are about to dry up. What we would say is that this is measurable now and cheap to watch, and the useful version of this data is the version with a year of history behind it. Starting while it is a small part of your market gives you a baseline to compare against if it becomes a large one.

We measure what public AI assistants say when buyers ask for businesses like yours: who gets named, how often, and for which services. We never access your website analytics, booking system, or customer data. Nobody controls what an assistant says, so everything we report is a directional observation, never a promise.

Yes. Your report, your numbers, and your competitor list are yours; we don't publish them without your permission. We only observe public AI answers and read public pages.

Ready-to-install structured data (LocalBusiness, Service, and FAQ schema), a Google Business Profile description, FAQ content matched to the question patterns buyers ask assistants, and review-reply drafts on Standard and up. Every item says where it goes and how to verify it worked.

AI answers can vary over time, and between two repeated questions, so some movement is normal. That is why we repeat the measurement rather than checking once: a single snapshot is directional, and the history is what shows whether a pattern is holding or genuinely changing.