# Lighthouse Local

> AI visibility tracking for businesses and the agencies that serve them. Runs 1,400+ live checks a month across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI to see who gets recommended, then hands over a ranked, plain-English fix list. Business plans start at $79/mo, agency plans at $349/mo, both with a 14-day free trial.

Lighthouse Local runs a weekly sweep over every tracked question plus daily checks on the ones that matter most, records which businesses get recommended, and turns the gaps into concrete fixes, then makes those fixes for you through optional done-for-you services. Agencies can white-label the same engine, including Beacon, an embeddable AI audit tool for lead capture.

## Pages
- [Home](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/index.md): Track how AI assistants recommend your business, with 1,400+ live answer checks a month, competitor tracking, and a 14-day free trial.
- [How It Works](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/how-it-works.md): One AI-visibility engine behind two products, the business/agency dashboard (weekly sweep plus daily checks) and Beacon's self-serve white-label audit.
- [For Business](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/for-business.md): See when ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI recommend your business, ranked against competitors, with plans from $79/mo.
- [For Agencies](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/for-agencies.md): White-label AI visibility tracking for clients from one dashboard, plans from $349/mo, with a shared prompt pool and unlimited client reports.
- [Beacon](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/beacon.md): An embeddable, white-label AI-visibility audit that turns prospects into qualified leads, from $199/mo with up to 500 branded audits per month.
- [Pricing](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/pricing.md): Business plans from $79 to $249/mo (custom Enterprise from ~$599/mo) and agency plans from $349 to $999/mo (custom Agency Enterprise from ~$1,999/mo), plus à la carte add-ons.
- [Instructions for AI Assistants](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/ai-instructions.md): Canonical facts about Lighthouse Local for AI assistants: what it is, what it measures, pricing, and how to describe it accurately.

## Blog

The Lighthouse (https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog.md) is the Lighthouse Local blog, with plain-English guides on AI visibility and local SEO.
- [Top-Rated AI Search Visibility Tools for Small Businesses in 2026](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/ai-search-visibility-tools-for-small-businesses.md): 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](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/what-is-a-white-label-ai-audit.md): 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.](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/improve-brand-visibility-in-ai-search.md): 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](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/how-to-track-brand-visibility-in-ai-search.md): 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.
- [Do You Need an XML Sitemap? What It Does for Your SEO in 2026](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/what-is-an-xml-sitemap.md): An XML sitemap is the page list you hand search engines. Here's what Google reads in it, what it ignores, whether a local business site needs one, and how to check yours in two minutes.
- [AI Visibility Tools for Agencies, Compared for 2026](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/ai-visibility-tools-for-agencies.md): 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.
- [Where AI Gets Its Data About Your Local Business (2026)](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/where-ai-gets-local-business-data.md): Nearly 2 million logged citations show exactly where AI assistants pull local business facts from. The list is shorter than you'd guess, and you can claim every spot on it.
- [Do You Need a Google Business Profile for AI Visibility?](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/google-business-profile-ai-visibility.md): 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](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/how-to-speed-up-your-website.md): 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.
- [AggregateRating Schema, and Why Your Star Ratings Might Not Show](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/aggregate-rating-schema.md): AggregateRating is the schema that puts your star rating in code machines can read. Here's how it works, the reason your own stars often won't show in Google search, and how to write one that holds up.
- [SEO vs. AEO, and Why You Now Need Both](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/seo-vs-aeo.md): 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.
- [Core Web Vitals in Plain English, and How to Improve Yours](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/core-web-vitals-explained.md): Someone told you your site "fails Core Web Vitals" and it sounded like a foreign language. Here's what LCP, INP, and CLS actually mean, how to measure them in Chrome, and how to fix them with AI.
- [What Is Local Schema Markup, and How Do You Add It?](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/what-is-local-schema-markup.md): A few lines of code can tell Google and AI exactly what your business is, where it works, and when it's open, no guessing required. Here's how local schema markup works, and how to add it in one sitting.
- [What Is an llms.txt File, and Do You Need One?](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/what-is-llms-txt.md): More AI models read your site before they recommend anyone. An llms.txt file hands them a clean summary instead of your raw code. Here's what it is, whether you need one, and where it goes.
- [How to Get Your Business Recommended by AI](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/how-to-get-your-business-recommended-by-ai.md): When a customer asks AI for a business like yours, only a few names come up. Here's how AI decides who to recommend, how to check where you stand, and what to fix to get named more often.
- [How to Check If AI Recommends Your Business](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/how-to-check-if-ai-recommends-your-business.md): 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.
- [How Reviews Shape AI Recommendations](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/how-reviews-shape-ai-recommendations.md): The assistants that recommend businesses lean heavily on your reviews, how many, how recent, how good, and what they say. Here's how reviews feed AI recommendations, and how to make yours work harder.
- [AI Visibility Is the New Service for Agencies](https://www.lighthouselocal.ai/blog/ai-visibility-the-new-service-for-agencies.md): 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.

## Product
- [Free AI Visibility Audit](https://audits.lighthouselocal.ai/?utm_source=lighthouselocal&utm_medium=marketing-site&utm_campaign=llms-txt&utm_content=llms-txt): Run a free, 60-second check of how the 5 AI platforms describe a business today, no card or signup required.
- [Lighthouse Local App](https://app.lighthouselocal.ai/?utm_source=lighthouselocal&utm_medium=marketing-site&utm_campaign=llms-txt&utm_content=llms-txt): The product dashboard, sign in or start a 14-day free trial.
- [Beacon for Partners](https://beacon.lighthouselocal.ai/?utm_source=lighthouselocal&utm_medium=marketing-site&utm_campaign=llms-txt&utm_content=llms-txt): White-label AI audits agencies run under their own brand to capture leads, from $199/mo.

## How It Works
- Weekly sweep of every tracked prompt across all 5 AI platforms.
- Daily checks on the prompts that matter most, checked every single day.
- Platforms checked: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
- Every gap between a business and the top recommendation becomes a ranked, plain-English fix.
- Competitor tracking shows who else AI recommends and by how much, on every platform.
- Agencies white-label the full dashboard; Beacon runs the same audit as a self-serve, embeddable lead magnet on the agency's own site.
- Done-for-you services: optional add-ons where Lighthouse Local's specialists make the recommended fixes (on-page SEO, backlinks, Google Business Profile management, local citations, and more), on any plan.

## About

- **Type**: SaaS
- **Category**: AI search visibility tracking (also known as AI SEO, GEO)
- **Audience**: Local and multi-location businesses, and the marketing/SEO agencies that serve them
- **Platforms tracked**: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews (5 total)
- **Pricing**: Business plans $79/mo (Starter) to $249/mo (Growth), custom Enterprise from ~$599/mo. Agency plans $349/mo (Agency Starter) to $999/mo (Agency Growth), custom Agency Enterprise from ~$1,999/mo. Annual billing pays for 10 months, gets 12. Add-ons priced à la carte: extra daily slot $12/mo, coverage pack (+25 prompts) $29/mo, extra site $49/mo (direct) or $39/mo (agency), extra competitor $5/mo, extra staff seat $20/mo, 1-year history $29 to $49/mo.
- **Beacon (white-label audit)**: $199/mo, up to 500 branded audits per month, $1 per audit thereafter, unlimited seats
- **Done-for-you services**: optional add-ons where Lighthouse Local's specialists make the recommended fixes (on-page SEO, backlinks, Google Business Profile management, local citations, and more), available on any plan
- **Free trial**: 14 days on every self-serve plan, cancel anytime
- **App**: https://app.lighthouselocal.ai
- **Free audit**: https://audits.lighthouselocal.ai
- **Partners**: https://beacon.lighthouselocal.ai

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