"Best [trade] near me" now returns an AI answer. If your company isn't in it, the job goes to whoever is.
When a homeowner needs an HVAC tech, a roofer, or a dentist, they no longer scroll a page of listings — they ask AI and Google's AI Overview for a name. AICiteBeam tells you if that name is yours.
This is what customers in your area are asking right now:
The phone doesn't ring — and you never learn why
- ✕Google's AI Overview names three competitors and skips you, above every map result.
- ✕Your reviews are strong, but the model pulls a rival's name because their citations line up.
- ✕A ready-to-book customer takes the AI's shortlist and calls the first name on it.
- ✕You blame a slow week. It wasn't slow — you were invisible at the exact moment of need.
For local business, the moment of need is everything, and it just moved. The homeowner with a leaking roof used to scan a page of names and pick one. Now the answer arrives pre-decided, three names deep, spoken with authority before a single listing loads. Being the best in town no longer guarantees you're the name the machine says out loud.
Tell us the questions
The exact prompts your buyers type into AI.
We ask the machines
Every engine, on a schedule, capturing the answer and its sources.
You see the truth
Named or not, at what rank, and which competitor took your spot.
Fair questions.
Don't customers still use Google Maps?+
They do — but the AI Overview now sits above the map, and many people take its shortlist without scrolling. If you're not in it, you're competing for second place before the map even appears.
I already pay for local SEO.+
Local SEO gets you into the map pack. This is a different surface — the AI answer — with its own winners. We show you where you stand there.
I'm not technical.+
You don't need to be. Type your service and city, hit run, and see a plain-English answer: named or not, and who beat you.
Not your industry?
See how AICiteBeam works for other kinds of business.
See if AI sends local customers to you — or your competitor.
Type your trade and your city. Five minutes later you'll know exactly where you stand.
P.S. Every "best [trade] near me" answer that skips your name is a booked job on someone else's calendar. Find out how many you're missing.