Local & Places

Local AI Visibility Audit

Reveal which local businesses Google's AI recommends for 'best X in city' and which strong ones it ignores

What it does

Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode now decide who gets recommended for 'best X in city.' Diffing the AI-cited set against the real high-rated businesses on Maps surfaces strong companies that are invisible to AI, which is a clean sales wedge.

Who it's for: Local SEO and AI-visibility agencies prospecting for work

Inputs

How your agent runs it

1. 1
   google_ai_mode

   google_ai_mode(prompt="best {category} in {city}")

   Capture reply_parts and reference_links to record which businesses Google's AI names and cites.

2. 2
   search_web

   search_web(query="best {category} {city}", include_ai_overview=true)

   Pull ai_overview.text_parts and reference_links, then union with the prior step to build the full AI-recommended set.

3. 3
   search_places

   search_places(query="{category} {city}", pages=10)

   List every OPERATIONAL business with strong rating and review_count, the ones that deserve to rank.

4. 4
   place_details

   place_details(place_id=<place_id>)

   For high-rated businesses absent from the AI-recommended set, pull contact info to pitch an AI-visibility fix.

Tools used

The full playbook

This is exactly what the MCP returns to your agent (via the local-ai-visibility-audit prompt or get_skill tool), with your inputs filled in.

SKILL: Local AI Visibility Audit
Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode now decide who gets recommended for 'best X in city.' Diffing the AI-cited set against the real high-rated businesses on Maps surfaces strong companies that are invisible to AI, which is a clean sales wedge.

You are running this skill on API Direct via its MCP tools. Execute the steps below yourself by calling the named tools in order — values in <angle brackets> come from a previous step. Then deliver the result described at the end.

INPUTS:
  - category (required): <category — ASK THE USER>
  - city (required): <city — ASK THE USER>

STEPS:
  1. Tool `google_ai_mode` — google_ai_mode(prompt="best <category> in <city>")
     Capture reply_parts and reference_links to record which businesses Google's AI names and cites.
  2. Tool `search_web` — search_web(query="best <category> <city>", include_ai_overview=true)
     Pull ai_overview.text_parts and reference_links, then union with the prior step to build the full AI-recommended set.
  3. Tool `search_places` — search_places(query="<category> <city>", pages=10)
     List every OPERATIONAL business with strong rating and review_count, the ones that deserve to rank.
  4. Tool `place_details` — place_details(place_id=<place_id>)
     For high-rated businesses absent from the AI-recommended set, pull contact info to pitch an AI-visibility fix.

DELIVER: A gap report of strong local <category> businesses that Google's AI never mentions, each with contacts for an AI-visibility pitch

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