
Will Colachis
Head of Growth, Lighthouse Local
Somebody in your category is getting recommended by AI today, and most businesses have no idea if it's them. That's what Will tracks. Where you show up, who's getting named instead, and what you should fix next. At Lighthouse Local, he helps local businesses and the agencies that serve them turn AI-visibility data into their next concrete move.
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Top-Rated AI Search Visibility Tools for Small Businesses in 2026
Ten AI search visibility tools, scored on five things a one-location business cares about. Free snapshots, trackers under $50, the band where coverage fills out, and the prompts to load on day one.

What Is a White-Label AI Audit? One Prospect, Start to Finish
Follow one roofing company through a white-label AI audit, from a cold email to a scored report to a lead in your inbox, and see where the audit stops and the tracker starts.

AI Search Visibility Is a Revenue Channel. Here's How to Earn It.
AI answers already send buyers who convert better and spend more. Here's the 2026 research on how the assistants pick what to cite, a worked revenue calculation you can copy, and the order to fix things in.

How to Track Your Brand's Visibility in AI Search Results
Ask an assistant the same question twice and you can get two different businesses. Here's how to track your brand's AI visibility as a rate instead of a snapshot, with four metrics and a scorecard.

AI Visibility Tools for Agencies, Compared for 2026
Agencies don't need the tracker with the most engines. They need one a client can see under the agency's brand, at a price that still leaves a margin. Twelve tools, five axes, one table.

Do You Need a Google Business Profile for AI Visibility?
Every major assistant reads Google Business Profile data somewhere in its answers, even ChatGPT. Here's what your profile feeds them, and what to do if Google won't let you have one.

How to Speed Up Your Website, Biggest Wins First
Most slow sites are slow for the same few reasons, and images top the list. Here's how to speed up your website in order of impact, the biggest wins first, and how to hand the whole list to AI.

SEO vs. AEO, and Why You Now Need Both
Ranking on Google and getting recommended by AI are two different games. Here's the difference between SEO and AEO, why you can win one and lose the other, and how to cover both.

How to Check If AI Recommends Your Business
Your customers are asking AI for a business like yours. Here's a simple way to check whether the major assistants name you, read the answers like an auditor, and turn it into a habit.

AI Visibility Is the New Service for Agencies
AI answers are where more of your clients get found or filtered out. For agencies, that's a new service line that extends the local SEO work you already do. Here's how to package, price, and report on it.