Local visibility for service businesses

Know where you're invisible.

Your customers don't search "HVAC". They search "furnace repair near me", and Google answers with three map results that change street by street. We measure where you show up across your whole service area, name who's winning the blocks you're losing, and do the work. You get on with your work.

What kind of business?

    45 checks across 9 zones, in about 60 seconds. No call. Nothing to install.

    Or check whether ChatGPT names you: the free AI visibility check.

    Merkat Grid

    Your territory, block by block
    3×3 · 5 searches · sample

    1 of 9

    zones in the top three. Four zones have no listing at all.

    • 1
    • 2–3
    • 4–10
    • 11–20
    • 20+

    Sample layout with illustrative positions. Your scan uses your real business name and the towns you actually serve.

    Also free · about 30 seconds

    Does ChatGPT name you when someone asks who to call?

    More people now ask an AI assistant before they open the map. We ask it the questions your customers ask, in your town, and show you whether you are named and who is named instead.

    Run the free AI check →

    Example

    “Who should I call for furnace repair in Abbotsford?”

    • Valley Comfort Heating
    • Northside Mechanical
    • Your business, not named
    Made-up names. Your check shows the real answer.

    3 spots

    in the map pack. There is no fourth place, and the three change street by street. Your customers are not scrolling past them.

    Google Search, checked September 2026

    52%

    of Canadian small businesses use a Google Business Profile at all. Half your competition has not claimed the thing you are being judged on.

    CFIB, surveyed September 2025

    Only one of you

    One business per trade or practice, per area

    Three spots in the map pack means your gain is somebody's loss. So we work with one company per trade in each area, and never hand your competitor the plan to take your spots back.

    Checked before you pay Full refund if a conflict slips through Different trades share a town

    How we decide who gets an area →

    What else is out there

    What you would pay elsewhere, and what is still missing

    Most local businesses already pay for one or two of these. Each does part of the job. None of them does the work, shows it to you every week and ties it to booked jobs.

    Map-tracking appabout US$10–60/month Listings-sync serviceUS$199–999/year, per location Reviews and messaging platformabout US$300–600/month Local SEO agencyaverage US$1,557/month Merkat
    Who does the work You do Syncs listings only Sends messages; you run it They do We do, all of it
    Your whole area, measured When you run it No No Usually a monthly report Every week, in your dashboard
    Every change listed and dated Nothing is changed Listings only No Varies With a link to each one
    Rankings tied to booked jobs and appointments No No No Rarely From your own job exports
    ChatGPT and AI answers tracked Some, often extra No No Often a separate retainer Included
    Your competitor can buy it too Yes Yes Yes Rarely ruled out No. One per trade, per area
    Contract Monthly Yearly, often renews itself Often 12 months Often 6–12 months Month to month, cancel by email
    Sales and review calls None A sales call A sales call Calls and monthly meetings None. Recorded updates
    • Apps tell you where you are invisible We fix it. The same measurement, then a person does the work in the zones you are missing.
    • Agencies send a report You see it every week. The same grid, re-measured, with every change dated and linked.
    • Nobody ties it to money We put booked jobs beside the map, from your own job software's exports, not from a guess.
    • Anyone can hire them Your competitor cannot hire us. One business per trade or practice, per area.

    Prices are what each kind of product charged in September 2026, in US dollars, from the sellers' own pricing pages. The agency figure is the average monthly price for local SEO in a survey of 439 SEO providers (Ahrefs, updated August 2024); agencies that specialise in trades charged US$2,800–10,000 a month on their own pricing pages. Map-tracking apps measure well and cost little: they tell you where you are invisible, and the work is still yours to do.