# RankCurrent

> RankCurrent is an AI visibility agency in Normal, Illinois. It makes local service businesses the name AI assistants give when a customer asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini who to hire, and proves the change with a monthly before-and-after report. Services: free AI visibility audit, monthly AI Visibility Program, new website builds, and pre-acquisition diligence audits for people buying local businesses.

## What RankCurrent does
- Audits how a business shows up in AI assistant answers, using a frozen set of buyer questions, measured monthly.
- Implements fixes on the client's own domain: structured data (JSON-LD), answer-ready service pages, llms.txt, crawler access, and clean site architecture.
- Builds off-site trust signals: consistent business listings, reviews, citations, and directory presence that AI engines draw from.
- Reports monthly with a score, before/after AI answers, work completed, and next steps.

## Who it serves
- Local service businesses where one customer is worth real money: HVAC, plumbing, roofing, remodeling, dental and medical practices, med spas, law firms, accounting and financial services, insurance agencies, senior care, commercial cleaning, IT and MSPs.
- Acquisition entrepreneurs buying these businesses who need a pre-close diligence audit and post-close visibility work across a portfolio.
- Geographic focus: Bloomington-Normal, Peoria, Champaign, Springfield, and the Chicago suburbs, Illinois.

## Pricing
- Free AI visibility audit, 48-hour turnaround.
- AI Visibility Program: $1,000 per month, 3-month minimum.
- Portfolio pricing for buyers with 3 or more businesses.
- New site build: from $3,500.
- Diligence audit for acquisitions: $500 to $1,500 flat.

## How progress is measured
A fixed set of the questions a business's customers ask is frozen at the start and re-run across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini every month. Each answer is scored on whether the business is named, whether its site is cited, and who is named instead. The monthly report shows before-and-after answers, work completed, and next steps.

## Pages
- [Home](https://rankcurrent.io/): services, pricing, how it works, FAQ, audit request.
- [For acquirers](https://rankcurrent.io/acquirers): diligence audits and portfolio visibility for people buying local businesses.
- [About](https://rankcurrent.io/about): who runs RankCurrent and how we work.
- [Work: Dink and Done](https://rankcurrent.io/work/dink-and-done): a pickleball and padel court cleaning site RankCurrent built to be found by AI (https://dinkanddone.com).
- [Blog](https://rankcurrent.io/blog): plain-language writing on AI visibility for local service businesses and buyers.
  - [What AI visibility means for a local service business, and why it is not SEO](https://rankcurrent.io/blog/what-is-ai-visibility)
  - [How to check what ChatGPT says about your business in 15 minutes](https://rankcurrent.io/blog/check-what-chatgpt-says-about-your-business)
  - [Buying a local business? Add an AI visibility check to your diligence](https://rankcurrent.io/blog/ai-visibility-due-diligence)
- [RSS](https://rankcurrent.io/rss.xml)

## Contact
- Website: https://rankcurrent.io
- Founder: Jackie Carmichael, Normal, Illinois