The Shift

Your customers are asking AI who to call. Make sure AI knows the answer.

Customers aren't just opening Google anymore. They're asking ChatGPT, Apple Intelligence, Gemini, and Perplexity for local recommendations — and acting on those answers without ever seeing a search results page.

58%

of consumers now use AI-powered tools to search for local businesses — up from just 19% the year before.Source: BrightLocal, 2026

Where your business needs to show up

These platforms make local recommendations to millions of customers every day. Every one of them operates on the same logic: they only recommend businesses they can verify.

ChatGPT

300M+ weekly users

Pulls local business data from Bing's index and Foursquare. Consistent, complete data across the web is what gets businesses recommended — inconsistent data gets them skipped entirely.

Apple Intelligence

2.2B active devices

Siri pulls exclusively from Apple Maps. An incomplete Apple Maps listing means zero visibility across the entire Apple ecosystem.

Google Gemini

300M+ places analyzed

Powers Ask Maps — conversational search inside Google Maps. Your Google Business Profile is what Gemini reads. Incomplete profiles don't rank lower; they get left out.

Perplexity

22M+ monthly users

One of the fastest-growing AI search engines, favoring businesses with consistent, well-structured information across trusted web sources.

Microsoft Copilot

Built into Windows

Built on the same Bing/GPT infrastructure as ChatGPT and embedded in every Windows PC and Edge browser — a massive AI discovery surface.

Amazon Alexa & More

Millions of US homes

Alexa, Claude, Meta AI, and emerging platforms all draw from the same signals. Get your data right once; benefit everywhere.

The Root Cause

Why AI skips most local businesses

Inconsistent Data

Different addresses, phone numbers, or hours across platforms create conflicting signals. AI can't verify your business and moves on to one it can.

Incomplete Listings

Missing photos, categories, FAQs, and attributes give AI less to work with. Businesses with richer profiles consistently win recommendations.

Duplicate Listings

Multiple conflicting listings for the same location erode trust. AI systems interpret duplicates as a reliability problem and deprioritize you.

One source of truth fixes all three.

Levered manages accurate, complete, consistent business data across 200+ publishers simultaneously — the exact signal every AI system uses to decide who gets recommended.

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