We are a small local business. Is there a minimum?

What the starting price buys

Managed GEO was built for small and medium businesses, so the starting figure is not a token tier. At that scope you get the full engagement: the audit and a prioritized roadmap, website fixes we write and ship, content for the questions your customers ask AI, tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, Grok, and AI Overviews, competitor and local-pack monitoring, and a monthly report and call. A single-location business in one market, measured against a handful of nearby competitors, is the kind of scope that sits near the starting price.

The retainer grows only with scope: more questions tracked, more competitors, more markets, more content. It does not grow with seats or usage.

When we say no

The audit comes first, and it is free, so the minimum is never the first thing you commit to. If the audit shows the engines already name you for the questions that matter locally, or that the gap is small enough for your own team to close with the findings in hand, we say so on the call. You keep the findings either way, and nothing is billed.

Why local businesses ask this question

When someone asks an AI for the best option nearby, the answer names two or three businesses. For a local business that shortlist is the whole game, which is why the engagement includes local-pack monitoring alongside the engine tracking. The starting price is set so that a business of that size can be one of the names.