foundly

Local AI Search Specialists For US Businesses

Be The Business Locals Find First.

Google doesn't just list local businesses anymore, it picks who to recommend with AI. Foundly makes sure it picks you.

  • 14 days free
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Getting found locally has never mattered more

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of all Google searches are looking for something local

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of local mobile searches lead to a visit within 24 hours

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of people trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations

Industry research: Google consumer insights; BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey.

Google Maps has changed

Google Maps doesn't work like it used to.

A few years ago, getting found was simple. A few keywords, the right categories, a stack of citations, then wait. That era is over.

Today Google reads far more before it decides who to show. What your reviews actually say. How fresh your photos are. Which services you list. How consistent your details are across the web. Whether your profile looks alive and trusted this week, not three years ago.

Tidy your profile once and hope, and you drift down the map while busier businesses climb past you.

You're brilliant at what you do.
Google just doesn't know it yet.

These are the problems owners bring us every week, now the rules have changed, and exactly what we do about each one.

The phone's quieter than it should be

People search for what you do every single day, but the three businesses in Google's map pack take the calls before anyone scrolls down to you.

We get you climbing into the map pack, where the calls actually happen.

Ads that stop working the second you stop paying

Every lead costs you again and again, the clicks get dearer every year, and the moment you pause the budget the inquiries vanish overnight.

A ranked profile sends you customers around the clock, with no per-click bill.

You know you should post, reply and add photos… but when?

Evenings are for your family, not for Google. So your profile sits dormant, and dormant profiles slide down the rankings.

We publish, reply and update every few days. You do precisely nothing.

One unanswered bad review is costing you customers

88% of people trust reviews as much as personal recommendations, and they notice when a business doesn't respond.

We grow your five-star reviews and answer every single one within 24 hours, in your voice.

ChatGPT isn't recommending you

More and more local searches now happen in AI tools as well as on Google. Most local businesses are completely invisible there.

We build the evidence AI reads and show you your AI visibility every month.

You've been burned by a marketing agency before

Twelve-month contracts, jargon-filled reports, and no real idea what you were paying for. We hear it every week.

No contract, plain-English reports, and a live dashboard showing the work as it happens.

Your five star reviews barely mention what you do

A review that just says "Great service!" hardly helps you rank. Google rewards detailed reviews that describe your actual services, and most businesses have almost none.

Our review system makes it effortless for happy customers to leave the detailed kind.

Google updated your listing and didn't tell you

Google edits profiles without asking: services vanish, hours change, categories get swapped. Most owners find out weeks later, if at all.

We manage your profile around the clock and put changes right before they cost you.

You're invisible everywhere that isn't Google

Customers also search Apple Maps, Bing and Yelp, and ask Siri and Alexa. If your details are missing or wrong there, those customers go elsewhere, and Google trusts you less too.

We list and sync your business across 60+ directories and voice platforms.

Get my Local AI Visibility Audit

Free audit of your profile, reviews, competitors and AI visibility. Yours to keep, no strings.

You've tried this before

This isn't the local SEO you tried before.

The old way

Old Local SEO

  • Hours of fiddly Google Business Profile work, week after week
  • Guessing at what Google wants this year
  • Years of waiting to see if any of it moves the needle
  • Rankings that creep up, and quietly slide back down
  • Never quite sure you're being found when it matters

A second job you never asked for, and little to show for it.

The Foundly way

The Foundly Visibility Engine

  • Done for you, start to finish
  • A proven system, built for what Google and AI want
  • Real movement you can see, with transparent reporting
  • Get found first, right when locals are ready to become customers
  • Clear proof every month, so you actually know it's working

You get found and recommended. We handle everything for you.

The Foundly Visibility Engine

One system, built for how local search actually works now. Three parts, running every week, so your visibility compounds instead of stalling.

1

Optimize

We rebuild your Google Business Profile the way Maps rewards today. Every service, category, description and setting, done properly. It's the foundation the rest stands on.

2

Build evidence

Then we give Google the proof it now looks for: detailed, authentic reviews that name your services, fresh and relevant photos, regular posts, and matching details across the 60+ places customers and Google check.

3

Grow visibility

We keep the engine running every week, watch your listing around the clock, and show your progress street by street. As AI-powered search takes over, you're already built for it.

Everything Google now rewards.
Done for you, every week.

  • A deep Google Business Profile rebuild — keywords, description, every service, categories and links, all tuned to how Maps ranks today
  • A review engine that builds a steady flow of detailed, authentic 5-star reviews (QR codes & tap-to-review cards included)
  • Fresh posts every few days, matching Google's top-ranked profiles
  • 24/7 monitoring, unfair reviews flagged, and a monthly street-by-street heatmap report
  • Every review answered within 24 hours, in your voice
  • Relevant business photography, optimized and regularly published as part of your Google Business Profile strategy

Plus, included as standard

  • Branded videos published to your profile and YouTube
  • Listed and synced across 60+ directories, Apple Maps, Siri & Alexa
  • Website FAQs & schema, and visibility in AI-powered local search (Google AI, Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity)

Reviews are rocket fuel for local businesses.

Google reads what your customers write and uses it to work out what you do and who you're right for. A wall of "Great service!" tells it almost nothing. Reviews that name the job, the service and the town are some of the strongest signals you can send, and most of your competitors haven't got them.

  • Your own review link and QR codes

    On invoices, receipts, email signatures and the counter. One scan and the review page is open.

  • Tap-to-review cards for the van or front desk

    Customers tap their phone on the card and the review screen appears. No app, no typing a web address.

  • Smart follow-ups from your own email address

    Lands in inboxes rather than spam, and we only nudge customers who haven't left a review yet, so nobody gets pestered.

  • Reviews that describe the work

    We help happy customers mention the service they had and the town they're in, which is exactly the evidence Google ranks you on.

  • Every review answered

    We reply within 24 hours in your voice, and unfair reviews get flagged for removal for you.

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"Great!"

Nice, but it does almost nothing for your ranking

Week 1

Your review kit goes live

Link, QR codes and tap cards ready; follow-ups connected to your own email.

Within days

Reviews start landing

Past happy customers are the easiest wins. The first new reviews typically arrive within days.

Every month

They compound

A steady flow of detailed reviews, each answered within 24 hours, is a signal competitors can't fake.

Real reviews only. We never buy, fake or filter reviews; that's how profiles get suspended. We just make it easy for genuinely happy customers to say so properly.

Get my Local AI Visibility Audit

Your free audit includes a review gap check: how many detailed reviews your top competitor has, and what it would take to close the gap.

Built for where local search is going next.

More people now ask Google's AI, Gemini or ChatGPT to just recommend a good local business, instead of scrolling a list of ten. Those answers are built from the very evidence we grow for you. Get the fundamentals right today, and you're already turning up in AI-powered local search.

Conversational search

“Find me a reliable damp-proofing specialist near me” now returns a short, confident shortlist, not ten blue links to wade through.

Built from your evidence

AI leans on your reviews, profile and services to pick who to recommend, the same signals the Engine strengthens every week.

Shown in your report

Your monthly report tracks how visible you are in AI results, not just on Maps, so you can see the shift as it happens.

We already have a track record.

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farm shop near me30 days later

Retailer

7,320%

ranking improvement in 30 days — from invisible to top-3 across Google Maps and AI search.

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Contractor

19,862%

improvement over 3 months — now top-3 for competitive terms like “metal roofing” and “roof repair.”

Illustrative local ranking heatmap for the search "massage therapy"
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massage therapy30 days later

Medical clinic

2,674%

improvement in 30 days — top-3 for “holistic health,” “weight loss” and “massage therapy.”

The percentages are real results from the platform we run your profile on. The ranking grids illustrate how local visibility spreads across a town; individual results vary by market and competition. Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Why Foundly

The best local businesses shouldn't be their town's best kept secret

That's our whole mission. Businesses doing the best work are so rarely the ones getting found online, and we think that's backwards. We exist to get brilliant businesses the visibility their work deserves, and the growth that comes with it.

  • We're a friendly team, not a massive call center

    When you call us, you get the person who actually works on your profile, not a ticket number.

  • We only talk plain English, always

    You'll understand every report we send. If you don't, we'll get on a call and walk you through it.

  • We earn your business

    No long contracts. Feel free to leave and join back as you wish.

What to expect, honestly

Here's exactly what happens once you're on board:

Week 1

Your Local AI Visibility Audit, then a full rebuild of your profile: keywords researched, description and every service rewritten, categories, links and photos all sorted.

Weeks 2-4

The Engine starts running. Posts every few days, photos publishing, your review kit in your hands (QR codes and tap cards included), first videos live and 60+ directories synced.

Every week

We keep publishing, reply to every review within 24 hours and watch your listing around the clock. You get a summary of everything we did.

Every month

Your street-by-street heatmap report lands: where you rank, how it's moving, your AI visibility and what we're doing next. Most profiles build real momentum over the first 90 days.

Questions

Everything owners ask us

It's a free 20-minute Zoom. Beforehand we map exactly where you rank across your town, street by street, and how you compare to your nearest competitors. On the call we walk you through it together: what your reviews are telling Google (and what they're missing), where your profile is quietly losing you visibility, and how you show up in AI-powered local search like Google's AI and ChatGPT. It's in plain English, in pounds, and it's yours to keep whether or not we end up working together.

Most 'GBP SEO' does the old playbook: a few keywords, the right categories, a stack of citations, then not much. That worked years ago. Google now decides who to show using far more, what your reviews actually say, how fresh your content is, how consistent your details are everywhere, and whether your profile looks active this month. Foundly runs all of that as an ongoing system, not a one-off tidy up, which is why it keeps working instead of stalling after week two.

We do the full onboarding and start work straight away. The optimization, your first posts and your review campaigns all happen inside the trial, and you can watch it from your own dashboard from day one. You won't be charged until the trial ends. We'll remind you before it does, and cancelling is one email.

Honest answer: it depends on your competition and your starting point. Most businesses see profile activity and search views climb in the first 2 to 4 weeks. Ranking and inquiry improvements usually build over 30 to 90 days. Google rewards consistency, and consistency is the whole point of a managed system. Your monthly heatmap report shows progress street by street, so you never have to take our word for it.

No, and that's rather the point. Ads stop the moment you stop paying. We grow your organic ranking in Google Maps and local search, which keeps working around the clock without a per-click cost. Plenty of our clients cut their ad spend once their profile starts ranking.

About 20 minutes at onboarding, then almost nothing. We'll ask for manager access to your Google Business Profile (you stay the owner, always), a bit about your services and best customers, and photos when you have them. You can send photos straight from your phone through your dashboard. We handle the rest.

Yes, completely. You remain the owner of your profile at all times and we work as a manager on the account. If you ever leave, everything we've built stays with you: the reviews, the photos, the posts, the rankings. No hostage taking.

Several ways, all done for you. You get your own review link, printable QR codes and tap-to-review cards for the counter or the van. We send polite follow-up emails from your own email address, and only to customers who haven't already left one, so nobody gets pestered. Our review system also helps happy customers write detailed reviews that mention the services you want to rank for. That last part matters more than most people realise. A five-star review that just says "great" barely helps, while reviews that describe your services are one of Google's strongest ranking signals.

If a bad review breaks Google's rules (fake, abusive, or from someone who was never a customer) we flag it with Google for removal straight away, and we keep doing that automatically for new ones. Google never guarantees removal, but flagging quickly and correctly genuinely improves the odds. Either way we draft a calm, professional reply for every review, because your response is what the next customer reads.

A fast-growing share of people now ask Google's AI, Gemini, ChatGPT or Perplexity to recommend a local business, instead of scrolling a list. Those tools lean heavily on your Google Business Profile, your reviews and the structured data about your business, the very signals we strengthen for Maps. We optimize for all of it, and your monthly report shows how visible you are in AI-powered local search as well as on Google.

Everywhere. The audits, posts, review campaigns and heatmap reports work exactly the same wherever your business is, coast to coast, from a single storefront to multiple locations. Everything is done remotely and you watch it happen in your own dashboard, so distance makes no difference to your results.

No contract, no minimum term, no cancellation fee. It's £295 every 28 days per location after your free trial, and you can cancel anytime with a single email. We keep clients by getting them results, not by locking them in.

See how your business performs under the new system.

Your free Local AI Visibility Audit shows where you rank street by street, how you stack up against your nearest competitors, what your reviews are (and aren't) telling Google, and how visible you are in AI-powered local search. No call required, no obligation, and it's yours to keep.

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