A small honest tool for local businesses.

Local Visibility Scanner is built by one person — not an agency, not a VC-backed SaaS company. The whole point is to make local-SEO audits honest, specific, and affordable for the small businesses who can't justify $500–$2,000/month for a consultant.

Why this exists

Most "local SEO audit tools" either (a) cost more per month than a small business can spend, or (b) use fake-precision numbers that look authoritative but are just made up. We've all seen scans that grade a missing schema markup as "92/100 — Excellent!" while the next field is graded "8/100 — Critical!" — those scores are not real.

This tool has a strict rule: if we can't verify a signal, we say so. The signal gets labeled "Limited Signal" and we tell you exactly what to share with us to unlock it — a Google Business Profile URL, a competitor's name, etc. We never invent a number to look thorough.

How it actually works

Behind the scenes, the scanner runs five specialized agents in parallel:

• Website agent — fetches your homepage (and, in the paid tier, /contact, /services, /about) and audits local-intent signals: title tags, schema, NAP, city pages.
• Google Business Profile agent — pulls verified data via the Google Places API (paid tier only — free tier uses what's publicly visible).
• Reviews agent — analyzes rating, recency, and sentiment themes when review text is available.
• Competitor agent — fetches up to 3 competitors you name, plus verified Places data for each in the paid tier.
• Trust agent — checks NAP consistency and location signals visible on the website.

The findings are synthesized into the score + report by Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 4.6 for writing, Haiku 4.5 for extraction and how-tos). For the paid tier, real Google Maps Local Pack ranking comes from SerpAPI, and JavaScript-rendered sites fall back to Browserless headless Chrome.

The pricing logic

Free scan is genuinely free. No credit card, no trial, no upsell email storm. We send you the scan + at most two follow-up emails (day 1 and day 5) and then stop.

The full report is $9.99 one-time. Not subscription. Not "first month free then $49/mo." One charge, permanent access, 14-day no-questions refund. We make a few dollars on each one and keep the lights on.

What this isn't

• Not a replacement for an SEO consultant if you have $1,000+/month to spend and want someone else to do the work. We tell you what to do; we don't do it for you.
• Not a ranking guarantee. Anyone who guarantees Google rankings is lying — Google's algorithm is not contractable. We commit to the inputs (the signals we audit are documented ranking factors); the output depends on your category, city, and how consistent you are.
• Not for non-local businesses. If your business doesn't have a physical service area (pure-online SaaS, etc.), this tool isn't built for you.

Get in touch

Email: [email protected]. Replies come from a real person, usually within 24 hours on weekdays. Refund requests, questions about your report, feature suggestions — all welcome.