local SEO + AEO citation engineering · $1,997/mo
The Beacon is Ascero AI's local + AI-search visibility product. We engineer your Google Business Profile, your hyperlocal landing pages, your schema, and your Wikidata entity so that when a prospective customer asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini for the best operator in your category near them — your name is the answer.
the eight pillars
We claim and tune your Google Business Profile end to end: primary + 9 secondary categories tested against your competitive set, Services tab populated with 300-word descriptions per service, Products tab with branded photography, attributes set, and Q&A seeded with the top 20 buyer questions. GBP is 60% of local visibility in 2026; most SMBs leave 40% of that on the table.
We ship 5-12 hyperlocal pages per engagement — `/locations/[your-city]`, `/[neighborhood]`, `/[zip-cluster]` — each with 800+ unique words, local landmarks, embedded GBP map, and `areaServed` JSON-LD. Brooklyn-salon and SF-hotel case studies prove +189% local traffic from landmark-anchored pages.
When a prospect asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini for 'best [your category] near me' — we engineer your site to be the citation. FAQ schema, HowTo schema, llms.txt + llms-full.txt, schema.org entity graph, author attribution, original media. Perplexity citations measurable inside 2 weeks; ChatGPT and Gemini follow at 6-10 weeks.
Reviews are ≈16% of local-pack rank weight in 2026. We wire a Resend automation: review-link SMS at 7 days post-engagement, 30 days post-deliverable, every quarterly milestone. Vary copy and send-time ±36 hours to dodge Google's robotic-pattern penalty. 3-5 reviews/month gets you top-3 pack 75% of the time.
We submit/claim across Apple Business Connect, Bing Places, Foursquare, Data Axle, Neustar, Acxiom, Yelp, BBB, Clutch, G2, LinkedIn Company — identical NAP, identical primary category. These aggregators feed hundreds of downstream directories where AI search models scrape entity-resolution data.
We create a Wikidata item for your business — instance of, located in, founded by, website, social profiles. LLMs disambiguate brands via Wikidata. Linked from every page's sameAs array. **The single move that compounds across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity simultaneously.**
2-3 GBP posts per week (case studies, "AI tip of the week," local event sightings), 5+ new geo-tagged photos weekly, self-posted/self-answered top 20 buyer Q&A. Each post is a fresh data point that keeps Google's AI model of your business current.
Five .org/.edu/local placements in 30 days — Chamber of Commerce, local techHub, vertical association, regional press, niche meetup writeup. Local backlinks carry outsized weight for entity verification and unlock AI Overview inclusion.
pricing + guarantee
$1,997 / month, billed monthly on a 12-month commitment. No setup fee. Backed by our 90-day guarantee. Includes everything in the 8 pillars + monthly reporting + a 30-minute review call with a co-founder.
If The Beacon does not produce a measurable Perplexity citation for your business within the first 90 days, we refund the first 3 months in full. The artifacts (GBP optimization, hyperlocal pages, Wikidata entity, schema) are still yours to keep.
questions
Traditional local SEO optimizes for Google's 2018-era ranking signals. The Beacon optimizes for the 2026 stack: GBP weighting changes, Wikidata-disambiguated entity recognition, AI-search citation engineering (FAQ + HowTo + llms.txt). We score against AI-search citation rates, not just Google rank — because that's where SMB buyers actually search now.
You add us as a Manager on your GBP through the standard Google interface. We never need your password. You can remove our access in one click any time.
GBP Insights data starts showing changes in week 1-2. Perplexity citations measurable in 2 weeks. Google local pack movement typically 30-60 days. ChatGPT + Gemini citations: 6-10 weeks. We report all four monthly with screenshots.
The Beacon works nationwide — the hyperlocal pages adapt to your city, the citation push is national directories, and the AEO engineering is geography-agnostic. We have particular depth in Greater Boston but ship the same product anywhere.
About 90 minutes total in the first week (kickoff, GBP access, photo handoff). After that: 0 hours/month. We post on your behalf, monitor reviews, and ship the monthly report to your inbox.
Yes. Every artifact we create — the GBP optimization, the hyperlocal pages, the Wikidata entity, the schema blocks — is yours. We do not gate any of it behind continued engagement.
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