Market Opportunity
Measure local business visibility inside LLMs and prove AEO ROI targets a $4.8B = 1.6M local SMBs × $3K ACV (annual spend on local search, listings, SEO and verification services averaged across market) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 25% YoY (source: industry estimates combining local SEO growth and rising AI search adoption from reports by Forrester and Google Trends).
Key trends driving demand: LLM-first discovery — Consumers increasingly use conversational agents (ChatGPT, Gemini) for discovery, creating demand for visibility inside those models.; Agency shifts — Marketing agencies are packaging AEO services without standard metrics, creating an immediate need for independent verification tools.; Attribution tightness — Advertisers and SMBs demand direct ties between channel activity and revenue, and AI discovery introduces new attribution challenges that analytics can solve.; Knowledge graph and structured data importance — As LLMs lean on knowledge graphs and structured sources, businesses that manage canonical data have measurable advantages..
Key competitors include Yext, BrightLocal, Semrush.