AI-powered growth for local business

Be THE Answer when AI speaks.

Your next customer isn't scrolling ten blue links. They're asking ChatGPT who to call — and getting one name. AnswerCraft makes sure it's yours: a fast professional site, a 24/7 chatbot, an AI receptionist that never misses a call, and the answer-engine work that puts you in the recommendation. One subscription. Fully managed.

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Live in 5–7 days · Month to month · No long-term contract

AI assistant · live query
YouWho's the best plumber in Los Angeles?
Based on local reviews and service coverage, a few names come up consistently. The one most frequently recommended is your business — cited for same-day availability, transparent pricing and a strong track record on emergency callouts.
ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude Google AI Mode

What is AnswerCraft?

AnswerCraft is a managed AI presence service for local businesses in the United States. It combines four things in one monthly subscription: a fast, server-rendered website; a 24/7 AI chatbot trained on the business's own services and pricing; a 24/7 AI phone receptionist that books appointments by voice; and Answer Engine Optimization — the structured-data, entity and citation work that makes a business appear when someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude or Google AI Mode for a recommendation. Plans run from $297 to $1,497 per month, month to month, and most businesses are live within five to seven days.

58%
of users say they've replaced traditional search with AI tools
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63%
of websites now report traffic arriving from AI search engines
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15–35%
drop in organic search traffic since generative AI went mainstream
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27%
of agencies offer answer-engine work as a standalone service — the field is wide open
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The 20-second test

Find out if AI already knows you exist.

Pick your trade, type your city, and watch what a real AnswerCraft audit fires at every major answer engine. Then we'll go run it for real and send you the results.

Our services

Five pillars. One platform.

Everything you need to capture every lead, convert every visitor, and show up when AI gets asked.

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A site built to be read — by people and by machines

Server-rendered, fast, and structured so answer engines can actually parse it. Most agency sites fail this quietly: AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, so a page that renders in the browser can be a blank page to a model.

  • Built and live in 3–7 days
  • Server-rendered — readable without JavaScript
  • Schema and entity markup from day one
  • Mobile-first, SSL, fast hosting included
  • Online booking and contact capture
<script type="application/ld+json">
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Your Business",
  "areaServed": "Los Angeles",
  "sameAs": [ … ]
</script>
How it works

Live in 7 days. Four steps.

No long-term contract. No hidden fees. No technical skills needed on your end.

01

Free business audit

We mystery-shop your business with three calls and review your site. Detailed report within 24 hours.

02

Choose your plan

Four tiers. Start small and scale, or go all-in. Change or cancel any month.

03

We build everything

Five-minute questionnaire from you. Website, chatbot, receptionist and visibility baseline from us.

04

You watch the leads

Go live and start capturing calls and chats. Monthly reports lead with numbers you can verify.

Pricing

Simple pricing. Real margins for you.

One new customer usually pays for the whole month.

Starter

Your digital foundation — a professional site and an AI chatbot capturing leads around the clock.

$297/mo
  • Professional AI-built website
  • 24/7 AI chatbot
  • Hosting and SSL
  • Lead capture and notifications
  • Monthly performance report
  • Email support
Start with an audit

Growth

Never miss a call or a click. Adds AI phone answering so every lead is captured, online and off.

$597/mo
  • Everything in Starter
  • 24/7 AI phone receptionist
  • Call summaries via SMS and email
  • Appointment booking by phone
  • Call analytics
  • Priority support
Start with an audit

Pro

The answer-engine tier. When someone asks ChatGPT or Gemini for a recommendation, the work starts here.

$997/mo
  • Everything in Growth
  • Answer Engine Optimization
  • Presence tracking across 60+ prompts
  • Competitor mention monitoring
  • Monthly AEO strategy report
  • Dedicated Slack channel
Start with an audit

Dominate

Everything managed, optimized and scaled — built for multi-location and higher-volume operations.

$1,497/mo
  • Everything in Pro
  • Multi-location support
  • Advanced AEO strategy
  • AI-assisted social content
  • Google Business Profile management
  • Dedicated account manager
Start with an audit

Typical lead-capture progression

Illustrative model based on answer-rate improvement, not measured client results.

Before AnswerCraft35%
After 30 days85%
Fully optimized (90 days)95%
Not ready for a subscription?

Buy it once. Own it outright.

Two options for businesses that would rather pay once and keep the keys. No retainer, no lock-in.

One-time · 24 hours

The Visibility Audit

The full diagnostic, delivered as a document you own. Three mystery-shopper calls, a website conversion and crawlability review, and a real AI presence baseline across five engines and 60+ prompts. Every finding comes with the fix, written plainly enough to hand to any developer.

$497one time
  • 3 mystery-shopper calls, timed across the day
  • AI presence baseline, 5 engines, 60+ prompts
  • Crawlability check — can models read your site at all?
  • Competitor comparison: who AI names instead of you
  • Prioritized fix list, yours to keep or hand off
Buy the audit

Credited in full against your first month if you subscribe within 30 days.

One-time · 2–3 weeks

The Build & Handoff

We construct the whole answer-engine foundation and then hand you the keys. Knowledge source, schema and entity markup, structured FAQ corpus, a server-rendered site that models can actually read — plus a two-hour training session so your own person can maintain it. You own everything at the end.

$2,500–$5,000
  • Full knowledge source built from your business
  • Schema, entity and sameAs markup deployed
  • Server-rendered site — readable without JavaScript
  • Structured FAQ corpus models can quote
  • 2-hour training for your in-house person
  • You own the site, the content and the accounts
Scope a build

Optional monitoring afterward at $297/mo. Genuinely optional — plenty of clients don't take it.

Founding clients onboarding now

We're onboarding our first cohort and publishing their real numbers as they come in — audited answer rates, real before-and-after. We'd rather show you nothing than show you something we made up.

Industries

Built for any business people search for.

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Home services

HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing

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Healthcare

Dental, chiropractic, med spas, clinics

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Professional services

Law, accounting, consulting

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Restaurants & food

Restaurants, catering, food trucks

✂️

Retail & personal care

Shops, salons, spas, boutiques

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Real estate

Agents, property management, mortgage

Free business audit

See exactly where you're losing leads.

Three mystery-shopper calls, a full website review, and an AI visibility baseline. Report in 24 hours. Free, and yours to keep either way.

9:00
AM

Morning peak

We call to book an appointment and measure how fast you answer — and whether the caller reaches a person.

12:00
PM

Midday inquiry

A lunch-hour service question, during the window most businesses quietly miss calls.

5:00
PM

Evening rush

End of day. We check whether you're still answering and how the caller experience holds up.

Your report includes

Call answer rate0%, 33% or 100%
Website conversion score1–100
Crawlability checkCan AI read your site?
AI visibility baseline5 engines, 60+ prompts
Competitor comparisonWho AI names instead
Action itemsPrioritized, plain English
FAQ

Got questions?

What exactly does AnswerCraft do?
A complete AI-powered online presence: a professional website, a 24/7 AI chatbot, a 24/7 AI phone receptionist, and Answer Engine Optimization so tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity can recommend your business. All fully managed — you don't touch anything.
How is AEO different from SEO?
SEO optimizes for a ranked list of blue links. AEO optimizes for a single synthesized answer. When someone asks an AI to recommend a business, the model composes a response from a handful of sources it trusts — and your website probably isn't one of them yet. AEO is the work of becoming one: structured data, entity consistency, third-party mentions, and content a model can quote directly.
How do you measure AI visibility — and can I trust the number?
Carefully, and with stated limits. Independent research published in 2026 found that asking an AI the same question twice returns the same list of brands less than one time in a hundred. Any tool selling you a precise "rank position in AI" is overstating what it knows. We report presence rate across a large repeated prompt set as a 30-day trend, never a single-run rank, and we always pair it with numbers you can verify without us: calls answered, chats converted, forms submitted.
What's the difference between the chatbot and the receptionist?
The chatbot lives on your website and handles text — answering questions, capturing contact details, booking appointments. The receptionist answers your phone 24/7, qualifies callers, books by voice and sends you a summary. Together they cover every channel a lead can arrive through.
Will the AI receptionist handle every call?
No, and anyone promising that is overselling. In production, AI voice agents resolve roughly 62–88% of calls without a human. We tune for the high end and route the rest to you — urgent, unusual or upset callers get transferred rather than trapped. You should expect 15–35% to reach you, and you'll see exactly which ones and why.
How long does setup take?
Most businesses are fully live within five to seven business days. You complete a five-minute questionnaire and we handle the website, chatbot training, phone configuration and visibility baseline.
Can I start small and upgrade later?
Yes. Many clients start on Starter and move up as they see results. No penalty for changing plans; upgrades take effect within 24–48 hours.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Every plan is month to month. Your website and phone number transfer arrangements are spelled out in the agreement before you sign — no hostage-taking.

Ready to become THE answer?

We'll call you three times, review your site, check five answer engines, and show you exactly where leads are slipping away. Report in 24 hours.

Free, no obligation. We'll tell you our call-recording policy before we call.