SearchLight™ · Search visibility monitoring for every locationSee yourself the way the machines do.

    Rank, reviews, listings, spend and AI answers, monitored around the clock for every location you run, with alerts that name the cause and the owner.

    For regional managers, brand teams and agencies with two or more locations.

    SearchLight™ baseline requestAbout a minute

    Know before your customers do.

    Free. See what the watch would have caught last month.

    Locations to watch Pick one

    Each location gets its own keywords and its own map grid.

    Read by a person within the hour on weekdays. Never shared.

    • Built for two locations or moreRank, reviews, listings and spend, per location and rolled up.
    • Alerts that name the cause and the ownerA sentence, not a red number.
    • Listings, leads and spend checked every 30 minutesListings drift is caught and reverted. Rank runs on a schedule, AI answers weekly.
    5.0 on GoogleMonth to monthYour accounts stay yoursTalk to the founder
    30 min

    median time to notice a drop

    A multi-location brand
    99%

    listings correct across directories

    A franchise
    0

    months with an unnoticed spend spike

    An agency partner
    What happens next

    Send the form. Here is what happens.

    1. A strategist reads itWithin the hour on weekdays.
    2. We set a baselineRank, reviews, listings and spend for each of your locations.
    3. Fifteen minutes, your exceptionsWhat the watch would have caught last month, in plain sentences.
    Inside SearchLight™

    Every location, one wall.

    Rank, reviews, listings, spend and AI answers for every location you run. The calm stays quiet, and each exception arrives as a sentence with a cause and an owner. Press a marked cell to read one.

    SearchLight™ · Six locationsExample account
    99%97 of 98Listings correct across directories
    30minMedianTime to notice a drop
    17Each one a sentenceAlerts, last 30 days

    The watch wall3 exceptions of 30

    RankReviewsListingsSpendAI answers
    Dallas#24.817/17On pace4/5
    Plano#14.916/16On pace5/5
    Frisco4.716/16On pace3/5
    Fort Worth#34.8On pace4/5
    Arlington#24.716/16On pace3/5
    McKinney#316/16On pace4/5
    CalmOpen alertFixed overnightListings and spend checked every 30 minutes. Rank runs on a schedule, AI answers weekly.

    The overnight thread

    The intel agent caught a third party changing Fort Worth’s hours on its business profile. Reverted and locked. One directory that copied the change is being corrected. No action needed.
    The search agent saw Frisco fall from 3rd to 6th on the map. Cause: a new competitor profile a mile away, now on the intel agent's watch. Rechecking at noon.
    The paid media agent checked spend every 30 minutes. All six locations on pace.
    The reviews agent found two one-star reviews at McKinney, both about wait times. Rating 4.7 to 4.6. Two replies drafted.
    Waiting on you. Two replies for McKinney. Nothing posts until you say yes.

    Alerts, last 30 days

    Rank6

    Reviews4

    Listings3

    Spend2

    AI answers2

    Last night

    An example account. Your own numbers replace these the day we connect.

    Deliverables

    Everything in the engagement.

    Rank and map grid

    Per location, on a schedule.

    Reviews and rating

    Per location, with velocity.

    Listings drift

    Caught and reverted.

    Spend anomalies

    Caught before the month ends.

    AI answer mentions

    Weekly, per category and city.

    Forecast bands

    A range per metric per location.

    Alerts with a cause and an owner

    Not a red number. A sentence.

    Escalation rules

    Who hears what, and when.

    A weekly digest

    Per location and rolled up.

    A monthly deck

    For the group.

    How it runs

    From baseline to first result.

    1. ConnectGoogle, directories, ad accounts, review sites.
    2. BaselineA forecast band per metric per location.
    3. WatchListings, leads and spend every 30 minutes, every location.
    4. Alert and fixThe cause, the owner, and what was already done.
    The team

    Who is on it.

    The crew

    The intel agent

    Watches competitors and profiles.

    The crew

    The search agent

    Reads rank and the site.

    The crew

    The reviews agent

    Reads reviews.

    The crew

    The paid media agent

    Reads spend.

    People

    A strategist

    Reads the exceptions with you.

    Who it is for

    Three people we built it for.

    Two to twelve locations

    The regional manager

    You find out about a problem when a customer tells you.

    Gets: Listings and spend problems within thirty minutes, with the safe fixes already started.

    Franchise

    The brand team

    Forty territories cannot be watched by hand.

    Gets: Listings and spend across forty territories, checked every thirty minutes, exceptions only.

    Agency

    The account director

    Clients expect you to know before they do.

    Gets: You do. With a sentence to send them.

    Compared

    Against the usual options.

    SearchLight™A dashboardA monthly report
    FrequencyEvery 30 minutes for listings, leads and spendWhen you lookMonthly
    AlertsCause and ownerA red numberNone
    ForecastA band per metricNoNo
    FixesStarted automatically where safeNoNo
    CoverageRank, reviews, listings, spend, AISomeSome
    Pricing

    Scoped after your baseline.

    Rank and map gridPer location.
    Reviews and ratingPer location.
    Listings driftCaught and reverted.
    Spend anomaliesCaught before the month ends.
    AI answer mentionsWeekly.
    Quotedafter your baseline

    Managed engagements are scoped to your market and your goals. Software is always included. Month to month, your accounts stay yours. We ask for a quarter on a handshake, so you can judge the work on more than one quiet month.

    Request my SearchLight baseline
    Service levels

    What you can hold us to.

    Check frequencyEvery 30 minutes for listings, leads and spend.
    Time to alertMedian 30 minutes from the change.
    Alert formatCause, owner, what was already done.
    CoverageEvery location you connect.

    Why a monthly rank check is too late

    Most businesses check their rankings once a month, if they check at all. By the time they notice a drop, they have already lost weeks of leads and hundreds of impressions. A rendering problem that breaks your pages can go unnoticed for a full crawl cycle, and a competitor that publishes a wave of new pages can take your position before you know they moved.

    SearchLight closes that gap. Drops get diagnosed and handled before they compound, and openings get spotted and acted on before competitors notice. That is the difference between managing your search visibility and engineering it.

    Every search surface SearchLight watches

    • Google Search rankings on desktop, mobile and AI Mode, for every target keyword.
    • Google Maps and the local pack, for every location and every near me search.
    • AI answers: whether the major AI assistants name your brand for the searches that matter.
    • Google AI Overviews: whether your content is cited or summarized.
    • Voice assistants: whether they choose your content for spoken answers.
    • Crawling and indexing: how Google crawls and indexes your site, including rendering health.
    • Competitor movement: when competitors gain or lose positions on your searches.
    • Rendering and speed: pre-rendering health, cache performance and page speed.

    SearchLight or SearchLab?

    SearchLight watches and tells you where you stand. SearchLab Engineered™ does the work that moves you up: technical SEO, on-page work, AI visibility, local search, content and a dedicated strategist. SearchLight suits businesses that run their SEO in-house or with another agency. When you want us to do the work, SearchLab is the next step.

    Questions

    SearchLight™ questions, answered.

    Is SearchLight worth it for a single location business?

    SearchLight shines from two locations up. A single location gets the same kind of watch inside Local SEO, which tracks your map rank, audits the site and follows the AI answers. SearchLight adds what a group needs: a baseline for every location, a roll-up view and alerts that go to the right manager.

    Who receives SearchLight alerts?

    You decide, per alert type and per location. An alert can go to you, to a location manager or to the crew. Each one arrives as a sentence that names the cause, the owner and what was already done, instead of a red number on a dashboard you have to remember to open.

    Does SearchLight fix problems or only report them?

    It fixes what it safely can, such as reverting and locking a business listing that a third party changed. Everything else arrives as a proposal, like replies drafted to two new one-star reviews, and nothing posts until you say yes. Each alert says what was already done and what is still waiting on you.

    How often does SearchLight check rankings, listings and spend?

    Listings, leads and spend are checked every 30 minutes for every location, so listing drift is caught and reverted and a spend spike is caught before the month ends. Rank runs on a schedule for each location across Google Search and Google Maps, and the AI answers are checked weekly by category and city.

    Does SearchLight track AI answers and Google AI Overviews?

    Yes. Every week SearchLight checks the AI answers for your category and city and records whether the major AI assistants and Google AI Overviews name your business. Those results sit next to rank, reviews, listings and spend for each location, so when an AI answer drops you, it arrives as an alert like any other.

    How is SearchLight different from SEO research tools?

    Research tools help you decide what to target, and SearchLight tells you whether it is working. Keyword and backlink research tools are good at discovery and competitive analysis, but they are research tools, not a watch. SearchLight follows rank, reviews, listings, spend and AI answers for every location you connect, and sends an alert with a cause and an owner when something changes. The two work well together.

    What does SearchLight cost?

    SearchLight is scoped after your baseline, and you get a quote on the call before you commit to anything. The quote follows how many locations you run and how much you want watched. Managed engagements always include the software and run month to month, and your accounts, content and data stay in your name. We do ask for one quarter on a handshake, since a single month can be a quiet one.

    Can agencies offer SearchLight to their own clients?

    Yes. Agencies can offer SearchLight monitoring under their own brand through our partner program, with branded dashboards and our engineering underneath. For an account director, that means knowing about a client's problem before the client does, with a plain sentence ready to send them.

    Begin

    Know before your customers do.

    Tell us how much you want watched. A strategist sets a baseline for each location, then shows you what the watch would have caught last month.