A AnswerRank

Friday Mercer / Catalyst Technical Marketing

Know what AI says when buyers ask who to hire.

AnswerRank checks ChatGPT-style search, Perplexity-style answers, Google AI summaries, and source signals so local service businesses can see whether they are visible, misrepresented, or missing entirely.

What we test

Buying-intent prompts, competitor mentions, source/citation gaps, structured data, Google Business Profile signals, review language, and pages AI systems can quote cleanly.

What you get

A practical report with the exact prompts, observed answers, competitor comparison, and the highest-impact fixes.

What this is not

No ranking guarantees. No fake AI magic. Just evidence, source cleanup, and better machine-readable authority.

Agency economics, modern buyer behavior

Classic SEO waited for Google. Buyers are asking answer engines now.

When a customer asks an AI assistant who to hire, the answer is stitched together from public sources: your website, business profile, reviews, citations, schema, service pages, FAQs, and third-party mentions.

If those sources are thin, stale, or hard to cite, AI search usually fills the gap with someone else. Convenient for them. Expensive for you.

No-call checkout

Start with the scan. Upgrade only if the evidence is useful.

Visibility Scan

$49

Prompt results, visibility score, competitor mentions, and top source gaps.

Monthly Monitoring

$499/mo

Recurring prompt checks, competitor movement, and monthly source/content recommendations.

Start scan

Tell Friday what to check.

After checkout, the scan uses this context to test the right buyer prompts.