FindLoc.ai

Local search is quietly moving away from the ten blue links. When someone asks an assistant for a plumber in Leeds or a dentist in Austin, the answer is a short list of two or three names, and nobody outside the model knows how that list is chosen. FindLoc.ai's contribution is to measure it: it runs local queries across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini in more than a hundred markets and publishes which businesses get named, so agencies and owners can see their citation position instead of guessing at it. That framing is more useful than a generic 'AI visibility score'. Because the data is collected per market and per engine, you can tell the difference between being invisible everywhere and being strong on one assistant and absent on another — which points at different fixes, since the models lean on different underlying sources. Weekly reports make movement visible over time, and a free site check gives owners a first read without a sales call. The honest caveats: assistant answers vary by phrasing, personalisation and the day you ask, so any single measurement is a sample rather than a ranking, and no tool can promise placement in an output nobody controls. Treated as a directional signal — are we cited, where, and is that improving — it fills a genuine gap for local SEO work in 2026, where the old rank trackers simply do not look at the surface customers are increasingly using.