Local SEO software that wins the Local Pack and the AI answer.
Geo-grid rank tracking, AI visibility scans, Google Business Profile audits, citation management, and review monitoring — in one workspace, priced for businesses and agencies that actually serve a real-world location.
of all Google searches have local intent
of consumers ask AI for local recommendations
of mobile local searches end in an offline visit
businesses Google shows in the Local Pack
Everything you need to rank locally — and in AI.
Built from the ground up for businesses and agencies that compete in the Google Local Pack, Maps, and AI search results.
See exactly where you rank — block by block.
Stop checking your Google Maps rank from one ZIP code.
Win the answer when customers ask AI.
45% of consumers now ask ChatGPT or Google's AI Overview for local recommendations.
Audit your GBP like Google's own algorithm does.
Connect your Google Business Profile and we'll score completeness, photo coverage, post cadence, review response rate, category fit, and suspension risk against the businesses currently ranking above you.
Find every place your business is listed wrong.
We scan the directories that move local rankings — Apple Maps, Bing Places, Yelp, Yellow Pages, Foursquare, BBB, and 30+ more — and flag NAP inconsistencies, duplicate listings, and missing citations that quietly suppress your rank.
Catch every review across every platform.
Pull a single feed of reviews from Google, Yelp, Facebook, TripAdvisor and the directories you actually care about.
Don't let strangers answer questions about your business.
Capture every public question asked on your Google Business Profile and flag the ones you haven't answered or where a customer left a (possibly wrong) reply.
See exactly where you rank — block by block.
Stop checking your Google Maps rank from one ZIP code. Drop a grid up to 11×11 around your business and we run a real Local Pack search from every cell — so you know whether you actually own the neighborhoods you serve.
- Grid sizes from 3×3 to 11×11 (up to 121 search points)
- Radius adjustable from 300m to 15km per scan
- Side-by-side scan diffing to spot drops in 24 hours
- Per-cell competitor breakdown for every keyword
Win the answer when customers ask AI.
45% of consumers now ask ChatGPT or Google's AI Overview for local recommendations. We run your prompts across every major AI engine and tell you whether you, a competitor, or no one got cited — with the full response text and citations.
- ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Perplexity, Gemini supported
- Up to 20 location-intent prompts per scan
- Mention-rate, share-of-voice, and competitor matrix
- Per-engine drill-down with the actual AI response
| Prompt | ChatGPT | AI Overview | Perplexity |
|---|---|---|---|
| best coffee shop near me | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| specialty espresso downtown | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| open coffee shop now | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| dog-friendly cafe | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Audit your GBP like Google's own algorithm does.
Connect your Google Business Profile and we'll score completeness, photo coverage, post cadence, review response rate, category fit, and suspension risk against the businesses currently ranking above you.
- Connect via Google OAuth — no credentials shared
- Composite 0–100 health score with weighted findings
- Suspension-risk flags (category mismatch, NAP drift)
- Competitor benchmark from a recent grid scan
Find every place your business is listed wrong.
We scan the directories that move local rankings — Apple Maps, Bing Places, Yelp, Yellow Pages, Foursquare, BBB, and 30+ more — and flag NAP inconsistencies, duplicate listings, and missing citations that quietly suppress your rank.
- 30+ top US, UK, AU, and EU directories
- Name / address / phone consistency scoring
- Duplicate listing detection across networks
- Missing-citation list with submission priority
Catch every review across every platform.
Pull a single feed of reviews from Google, Yelp, Facebook, TripAdvisor and the directories you actually care about. Sentiment, theme, and rating-trend analysis runs automatically — so you know the gist of the last 200 reviews without reading them.
- Cross-platform review aggregation
- Auto-extracted themes (pricing, staff, wait times)
- Sentiment and rating-trend charts over time
- Snapshot diffing to spot review-bombing fast
Don't let strangers answer questions about your business.
Capture every public question asked on your Google Business Profile and flag the ones you haven't answered or where a customer left a (possibly wrong) reply. We even draft suggested answers tuned to your brand voice.
- Daily snapshot diffing for new questions
- Owner-answered vs. customer-answered flags
- AI-drafted reply suggestions, ready to post
- Question-intent classification (hours, pricing, services)
Do you take walk-ins on weekends?
UnansweredIs parking validated?
Customer replyAre you open on Christmas Day?
Draft readyUp and running in 5 minutes.
No agency onboarding, no integrations to configure. Sign up, add a business, run your first scan.
Add your business
Enter your business name, service address, and target area. We'll pull your Google listing and pre-fill what we can.
Pick the tools you need
Run a grid scan, kick off an AEO check, audit your GBP, scan citations, or pull reviews — all from one workspace.
Act on the gaps
Every report ends with prioritized fixes — not raw data dumps. Hand them to your team or your agency in one click.
Modern stack vs. legacy local SEO tools.
Most tools were built for the era of citations and rank checks. We added the two things that matter in 2026: geo-grid and AI visibility.
| Feature | RankNow.ai | BrightLocal | Whitespark | Semrush Local |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geo-grid rank tracking up to 11×11 | limited | limited | — | |
| AI visibility (ChatGPT, AI Overview, Perplexity) | — | — | — | |
| GBP audit with OAuth-connected score | ||||
| Citation / NAP audit across 30+ directories | — | |||
| Review monitoring with auto-themes | — | — | ||
| GBP Q&A monitor with AI-drafted replies | — | — | — | |
| Free trial | — | — |
Comparison based on publicly available product pages as of 2026. Competitor names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Built for the people doing the work.
Local business owners, in-house SEO teams, and the agencies that serve both.
“We cut our weekly local SEO reporting time from 4 hours to about 20 minutes. The grid map alone is worth it — we finally see exactly which neighborhoods we're losing in.”
“RankNow's AI visibility scan caught us getting cited in Google AI Overviews while our competitor wasn't. We doubled down on the content that triggered it. Nothing else on the market does this.”
“I run 22 GBPs for clients. The audit + citation scan combo replaced two separate tools and a spreadsheet. The pricing isn't even close — it's like a third of what I was paying.”
Who it’s for.
Single-location owners
Restaurants, clinics, contractors, dentists, lawyers — anyone whose customers come from a 10-mile radius and find them on Google Maps or in an AI answer.
Multi-location chains
Manage 5 to 500 locations from one workspace. Per-location grid scans, GBP audits, and AEO checks — with rollup reporting for HQ.
Local SEO agencies
White-glove client reports, multi-workspace billing, and pricing that scales with you instead of crushing your margins. Replace 3 tools with one.
A bundle of six tools designed for businesses that serve a real-world location: a Geo-Grid Rank Tracker, an AI visibility scanner, a Google Business Profile audit, a citation consistency checker, a review monitor with sentiment analysis, and a Q&A monitor. They all work against the same project (your business) so the data lines up across every report.
You pick a business and a keyword, choose a grid size (3×3 up to 11×11) and a radius (300m to 15km), and we run a Local Pack lookup from each cell of the grid. The result is a heatmap showing where you rank in the top 3, top 10, top 20, or not at all — across the whole neighborhood. You can compare scans over time to see if your visibility is growing or shrinking.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, or Perplexity "best plumber in Austin", the AI cites a handful of businesses. Local AEO checks whether your business is one of the cited names — across multiple prompts and engines — and tells you which prompts you're missing on. Showing up in AI answers is a separate ranking game from organic search results.
No, but it unlocks deeper data. Without OAuth we use the public profile (rating, reviews, photos, hours, posts) for the audit. With OAuth, we can read owner-only insights like search query data, suspension risk signals, and post performance. You only need to connect once per workspace.
Yes. The Grid Tracker uses Google's coordinate-based local search, which works worldwide. Citation Audit, Review Monitor, and Q&A all support international directories and platforms. AI visibility prompts work in 7 languages out of the box.
Yes. Add any business as a Competitor project (or one-shot Ad-hoc project) and run the same scans against it. The GBP Audit also automatically benchmarks your business against the top 3 competitors in your local pack.
Each report runs against your monthly credit budget. Grid scans are roughly 0.003 credits per cell, AEO scans are per (prompt × engine), and the rest are flat per-call. We show the exact credit cost on every Run button before you click.
Yes — every sub-tool has a "Test report" button that seeds a synthetic report with realistic data, so you can see the entire UI before upgrading. We also offer a quick-scan mode for one-shot competitor lookups that auto-expire after 30 days.
Win local. Win the AI answer. Start free.
Run your first geo-grid scan, AEO check, and GBP audit in under five minutes — no card required.