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Sample assessment · composite business

Meridian Heating & Air.

You are winning the customers who already know your name, and you are invisible to the ones who do not.

Not a real company

The findings below are the shape real ones take, strong where a good local business is usually strong and blind where nearly everyone is blind, assembled into one business so nobody's actual scorecard is on display. Yours names your competitors, your rankings, your listing and your own words.

Meridian is a local contractor, so its scorecard leans on the map pack and the businesses standing beside it there. A national brand's report swaps that check for category share: the same question, asked against the brands it competes with everywhere rather than the ones down the road.

C

Assessment grade

50/100

Checks run
8 of 8
Market
Greenville, South Carolina
  1. Measurement 1 / 5
  2. AI visibility 1 / 5
  3. Website experience 2 / 5
  4. Search 3 / 5
  5. Maps visibility 3 / 5
  6. Social pulse 3 / 5
  7. Paid presence 3 / 5
  8. Reputation 4 / 5

The scorecard

8 of 8 checks scored · 0 Absent → 5 Best-in-class

  1. Broken · 1 / 5

    Measurement

    You are spending on ads you cannot possibly evaluate.

    AnalyticsinstalledMeta pixelinstalledAds conversionnot installedConversion Linkernot installedCall trackingnot installedForm trackingnot installed
    • Analytics is installed and collecting, so you can see traffic.
    • No conversion is defined anywhere in your tag container. Nothing tells Google which visits turned into a customer.
    • Without Conversion Linker, the ad click and the phone call that follows are recorded as two unrelated strangers.
    • Your form submissions are not tracked at all, so "how many leads did we get" has no answer that is not somebody counting emails.
  2. Broken · 1 / 5

    AI visibility

    Asked who to call for heating repair in Greenville, only one engine in six named you.

    • ChatGPT Not named OpenAI ChatGPT did not name you
    • Gemini Named you Google Gemini recommended you
    • Claude Not named Anthropic Claude did not name you
    • Perplexity Not named Perplexity did not name you
    • Meta AI Not named Meta AI did not name you
    • Grok Not named xAI Grok did not name you
    • We asked each engine the question a homeowner in your market would actually type, and read the answer it gave back.
    • The question: “who is the best emergency AC repair company in Greenville, SC?”
    • Five engines recommended a competitor instead, two of which have fewer reviews than you do.
    • The engines are reading the same public material Google reads: your site, your listing, and what other sites say about you. It is not a placement anyone can buy.
  3. Weak · 2 / 5

    Website experience

    Your site takes 4.8 seconds to show a phone anything at all.

    Your homepage headline

    “Quality Heating and Air Conditioning Services You Can Trust Since 1998”

    Largest Contentful Paint, mobile4.8s

    Target 2.5s · you are 1.9× over it

    • Google measured your largest content element at 4.8 seconds on a mid-range phone over mobile data. Its own threshold for "good" is 2.5.
    • Roughly half the people who tap your ad leave before that finishes. You paid for every one of those clicks.
    • Your phone number is not tappable above the fold, so a visitor has to scroll past three sections to find a way to reach you.
  4. Adequate · 3 / 5

    Search

    You are on page one, near the bottom of it.

    "emergency ac repair greenville sc"#8
    #1page one ends#20

    Above you:carolinacomfortpros.com · upstateheatingair.com · yelp.com

    • For your highest-intent search you sit at position 8, which is real, but below every competitor a customer sees first.
    • You rank for your own company name and little else. Someone who does not already know you has to get lucky.
    • The three results above you all publish a dedicated page for this exact service.
  5. Adequate · 3 / 5

    Maps visibility

    You are in the map pack, at the edge of it.

    Your Google category

    “HVAC contractor”

    • Carolina Comfort Pros4124.8★
    • Upstate Heating & Air2684.6★
    • Meridian Heating & Air (you)2314.7★
    • Blue Ridge Climate1944.5★

    37 more reviews would move you past the business currently holding second.

    reviews, compared with the businesses in your results

    • You hold the third and final slot in the local pack, the block that takes most of the clicks on a local search.
    • Third place is the one that moves. Two competitors are within 40 reviews of you and both are collecting them faster.
    • Your profile is complete: website linked, address published, category set.
  6. Adequate · 3 / 5

    Social pulse

    Facebook is alive. Everything else looks abandoned.

    • Facebook412 followers6d ago
    • Instagram288 followers147d ago
    • YouTube3 videos613d ago
    • LinkedIn

    Days since the last post, where the channel publishes one.

    • Facebook is posting roughly weekly, and it is the channel doing the work.
    • Instagram has not posted since spring. A customer who checks it sees a business that may have closed.
    • Your YouTube channel has three videos from 2022 and 900 views between them.
  7. Adequate · 3 / 5

    Paid presence

    You are running ads. So is the competitor beating you in search.

    • Four active ads in Meta’s public ad library, all running since March, all pointing at your homepage.
    • Your closest competitor is running eleven, and theirs land on a page about the one service the ad mentions.
    • Sending paid traffic to a homepage means every visitor has to find their own way to the thing they clicked for.
  8. Strong · 4 / 5

    Reputation

    Your reputation is the strongest thing you own.

    • Carolina Comfort Pros4124.8★
    • Upstate Heating & Air2684.6★
    • Meridian Heating & Air (you)2314.7★
    • Blue Ridge Climate1944.5★

    reviews, compared with the businesses in your results

    • 4.7 stars across 231 reviews, with 19 arriving in the last 90 days: a live, current stream, not a legacy pile.
    • You reply to most of them, and the replies read like a person wrote them.
    • This is the asset the rest of the report is failing to spend. People who find you, hire you. Not enough people find you.
Start here

Three things, in this order.

Every report ends by ranking its own findings. Not eight equal problems, but the one that has to happen first, and why the other two wait.

  1. Define a conversion for calls and form fills, then connect it to the ad account.

    Every optimisation decision after this one depends on it, and until it exists the ad platform is bidding blind on your behalf.

  2. Compress the hero image and defer the booking widget until after first paint.

    Two changes account for 3.1 of the 4.8 seconds, and neither one requires rebuilding the site.

  3. Publish the three service pages the engines keep citing competitors for.

    The businesses being named have pages answering the exact question. You have one page covering all of it.

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We measure far more than the eight cards above: who outranks you and for what, the rivals holding your map pack, what your tag manager is actually recording. The 90-day roadmap turns all of it into a sequenced plan: what to fix first, what it changes, and who does it. Every report ends here, and it costs nothing.

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What this sample cannot show you

The part where a real person calls your business.

Everything above runs automatically and costs nothing. The $49 Secret Shopper is the one thing software cannot do. Someone contacts you as a first-time customer, fills out your own form, and times how long a new lead actually waits. You can add it from your report once the free assessment is done.

That took two minutes to ask for.

Yours will have your competitors' names in it, your rankings, and the answer five AI engines give when somebody in your market asks who to call. Free, no card, and no sales call afterwards.

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