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Five free tools for local businesses in AI search.

Use any of them without creating an account. We built all five on top of the same engine that powers the paid RankingLocal platform — you're getting real scans, not lead-capture shells.

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Tool #1 · P0

AI Visibility Foundation Check

Enter your business name + city. See if ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok recommend you for your core queries. Returns a GEO Score, a tier benchmark, and the top issue blocking you.

Run free scan →
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Tool #2 · P1

LocalBusiness Schema Generator

Generate LocalBusiness schema as copy-paste JSON-LD for your NAP, services, address, hours, reviews, sameAs profiles, and FAQPage schema. Use it to make your local entity easier for Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI systems to parse.

Generate LocalBusiness schema →
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Tool #3 · P1

Robots Check

Enter a URL. We check whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, and the other AI crawlers are allowed to read your site. Silent blocks in robots.txt are the #1 invisible failure mode we see.

Check robots.txt →
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Tool #4 · P1

GEO Grader

Deeper scan than the AI Visibility Foundation Check — graded against the four-factor GEO framework (entity readiness, answer coverage, evidence strength, crawlability) used by the RankingLocal pipeline and the Flare weekly reports.

Grade my site →
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Tool #5 · P3

Review-to-Recommendation Calculator

Your current rating + review count vs the thresholds AI engines look for before they'll cite a local business. Tells you how many more 5-star reviews you need to cross the line. Takes 30 seconds, nothing to install.

Run the math →
Why five tools and not one big one? Each tool covers a different failure mode we see most often on local-business sites: invisibility to AI engines, missing structured data, blocked crawlers, weak GEO signals, and sub-threshold review profiles. If you're not sure where to start, run the AI Visibility Foundation Check first — it points you at whichever of the other four matters most for your site.

Free local SEO and AI visibility tools

These free local SEO tools cover the two discovery systems a local business now competes in at once: classic local search (Google's map pack and blue links) and AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, and Google AI Overviews). Each tool is genuinely free, needs no signup, and returns a result you can act on immediately — a score, a fix list, or copy-paste code.

If you only do one thing, run the AI Visibility Foundation Check: it estimates how likely AI engines are to recommend your business and tells you which of the other tools — schema, robots, GBP, or GEO signals — to fix first.

Free local SEO tools FAQ

Are these local SEO tools really free?

Yes. Every tool here — the AI Visibility Foundation Check, LocalBusiness Schema Generator, Robots Check, GEO Grader, and Review-to-Recommendation Calculator — is free to use with no signup and no credit card. The result shows on the page.

Do I need to create an account?

No. None of the free tools ask for an email or login. Paid plans add ongoing weekly monitoring and the full report, but the diagnostics here cost nothing.

What is the difference between local SEO and AI visibility (GEO)?

Local SEO is about ranking in Google's map pack and blue links. AI visibility, or GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), is about being recognised and cited inside AI answers. These tools cover both.

Which free tool should I start with?

Start with the AI Visibility Foundation Check. It gives you an overall readiness picture and points you to whichever of the other tools — schema, robots, GBP, or GEO signals — matters most for your site.

Do these tools work for any local business?

Yes — dentists, restaurants, law firms, contractors, real estate agents, medical spas, and more. The checks are based on local-business signals that apply across categories.