The map pack has three slots. AI reads them too.
When a buyer asks Google — or an AI assistant — for the best option near them, the answer comes from the map pack, your Business Profile, and a dozen directories you barely think about. Local watches all of it: live pack positions, your profile as buyers see it, and your listings across 13 platforms — verified with proof, not name-matching.
Checks your listings on every map & directory that feeds local search and AI
Local is the map layer of your visibility: your Google Business Profile the way buyers see it, your live position in the map pack for searches your buyers actually type, your listings across 13 platforms verified with evidence, and the name/address/phone conflicts on your own site that quietly break how machines resolve your identity.
"Near me" is decided in three slots you can't see from your office.
Local buyers don't scroll. The map pack answers them — and the AI assistants they're switching to lean on the same listings, the same profile, the same identity signals.
The pack is the shortlist
Three businesses get the map block; everyone else is below the fold. If you don't know your position on the searches that matter, you don't know whether you exist to local buyers.
Your identity is scattered
Maps, Yelp, BBB, Foursquare, a dozen more — some listings yours, some unclaimed, some belonging to a business that shares your name. Machines cross-reference all of it to decide you're real.
Your own site can betray you
One page says one city, another page says another. Cross-page name/address/phone conflicts are the silent killer of entity resolution — and almost nobody audits their own pages for them.
The pack, the profile, the listings, and your own pages.
Six angles on one question — do local buyers and the machines guiding them find you, trust you, and pick you?
Business Profile health
Rating, review count, categories, address, phone, and hours — read from public Maps data, exactly as buyers see them. An unclaimed listing is flagged only when Maps itself shows it unclaimed.
Map-pack rank tracker
Tracked searches built the way your buyers actually search, checked against the live Google map pack — position per query, in or out of the 3-pack, with real position history accruing over time.
Citations, 13 platforms
Google Maps, Yelp, BBB, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Clutch, Foursquare, OpenStreetMap, Apple Maps, Bing Places, Waze, and HERE — each with an evidence-tiered verdict and a claim link.
NAP conflicts, on your site
Your canonical name, address, and phone read across your own pages — with every cross-page disagreement flagged and ranked by severity.
Identity completeness
A 0–100 identity score for how complete and consistent your published identity looks to machines — with the gaps listed. The formula stays ours.
GBP connect + local schema
Connect your Google Business Profile to bring the owner-only detail in — and a live check of the LocalBusiness schema tags on your homepage, read from your real audit, not a checklist.
Anyone can find a listing with your name. We prove which ones are you.
Name-matching is how local tools inflate their dashboards — and how a same-name business three states over ends up in your report. Local grades every claim by the evidence behind it, and says so when it can't prove one.
How local tools pad the dashboard
- Count any listing with your name on it as yours — including the other business with your name.
- Stamp NOT FOUND on platforms search engines barely index, where a miss proves nothing.
- Show photo counts and Q&A stats that are demo numbers, styled like live data.
- Rank-check generic filler queries no buyer types, so the tracker always has rows.
How Local decides
- Verified needs evidence. We prove a listing is yours before it counts — and we don't publish which proof signals we check. Name-only reads "possible match — confirm."
- A miss that proves nothing says so. Apple Maps, Bing Places, Waze, and HERE downgrade to "check manually" with the real console link — never a false NOT FOUND.
- Awaiting beats invented. Owner-only metrics show "—" and what unlocks them until the data is real.
- Queries you'd actually be searched by. Built from your real business, not a keyword template — and when they can't be built yet, an honest card instead of fake tracked rows.
Four searches. Three slots. Where are you?
This is the map-pack tracker running — real-category queries checked against the live pack, your position stamped on each, and the claim list waiting at the end.
What one check hands you.
- Your position, query by query. In the pack, below it, or not showing — on searches a buyer in your city actually types, with history accruing every check.
- The listing verdicts with receipts. Verified yours, possible match to confirm, not found, or check manually — each with how it was proved and the claim link to fix it.
- Your own pages, cross-examined. The name/address/phone conflicts hiding on your site, ranked by how badly they confuse the machines resolving your identity.
- Included with every plan. Business Profile health, the pack tracker, the citation grid, and NAP conflict detection — no add-on, no listings-syncer subscription.
Listings syncing vs. proof you can act on.
| What you get | Not checking | Listings-sync tools | Local |
|---|---|---|---|
| The core question | — | "Are your listings synced?" | "Do the pack, your profile, and your listings prove you're the one to pick?" |
| Citation verdicts | — | Sync status on their network | Evidence-tiered: verified / possible / not found / check manually, with claim links |
| Pack tracking | — | Keywords you guess at | Searches your buyers actually type, live positions + history |
| Your own site | — | — | Cross-page NAP conflict scan + LocalBusiness schema check |
| Who owns the listings | — | Leased — sync lapses when you stop paying | You — claimed directly via the links we hand you |
| Cost | Invisible to "near me" | $30–100+/mo, separate tool | Included with every plan, all-in |
Look. Track. Verify. Fix.
Look
Your Business Profile is read from public Maps data — rating, reviews, categories, address, phone, hours, unclaimed status — and your own pages are scanned for your canonical name, address, and phone.
Track
Searches built the way your buyers actually search are checked against the live Google map pack — position per query, in or out of the 3-pack, with real history accruing over time.
Verify
Thirteen platforms are probed for your listings. Verified needs proof it's really you; a miss that proves nothing reads "check manually," never a false NOT FOUND.
Fix
NAP conflicts ranked by severity, a claim link for every gap or unclaimed listing, LocalBusiness schema tags checked from your real audit, and GBP connect for the owner-only detail.
The vocabulary of local visibility.
The terms your Local report uses — defined plainly.
- Map pack
- The three-listing map block Google shows for local-intent searches. Being in it is the difference between being called and being scrolled past — and AI assistants lean on the same local data.
- Citation
- A listing of your business on an external platform — Google Maps, Yelp, BBB, Foursquare, and the rest. Machines cross-reference citations to decide you're real.
- Evidence-tiered verdict
- Local's citation grading: verified (proof says it's you), possible match (name-only — confirm it), not found, or check manually (where a miss can't be proven).
- NAP conflict
- A disagreement in Name, Address, or Phone across your own pages — a silent killer of machine identity resolution, flagged by severity.
- Unclaimed listing
- A business profile no owner has verified. Local flags yours only when Maps itself shows it unclaimed — never by guesswork.
- Tracked query
- A search Local rank-checks in the live map pack, built from how buyers in your market actually search — never generic filler.
Questions about Local.
What is Local?
Local is AI Syndicate's map-pack and listings monitor. It watches your Google Business Profile the way buyers see it, tracks your live position in the Google map pack for searches your buyers actually type, verifies your listings across 13 map and directory platforms with evidence-tiered verdicts and claim links, and catches the name/address/phone conflicts on your own site that quietly break how AI and search engines resolve your identity.
Where does the Google Business Profile data come from?
From public Google data — your rating, review count, categories, address, phone, and hours exactly as buyers see them, plus a flag when Maps shows your listing as unclaimed. Connecting your Google Business Profile by OAuth brings the owner-only detail in on top; anything the public data can't prove shows an honest awaiting state, never an invented number.
How are the tracked searches chosen?
From your real business, the way a buyer actually searches — not a keyword-stuffing template. The exact recipe stays ours. What we promise: Local never rank-checks generic filler, and when real searches can't be built yet, you get an honest card explaining what unlocks tracking instead of fake tracked rows.
How does citation verification work?
With evidence, not name-matching. A listing only counts as verified yours when there's real proof behind it — and we deliberately don't publish which proof signals we check, because that's exactly what look-alikes would game. A name-only match is reported as a possible match to confirm, never as found. Every result carries a claim link so the fix is one click away.
What about Apple Maps, Bing Places, Waze, and HERE?
They're checked too — but on those platforms a miss can't be proven, so instead of a false NOT FOUND you get an explicit check-manually verdict with a direct link to each platform's business console. Where a miss is provable, you get an honest not-found.
What is a NAP conflict?
A disagreement in your own published Name, Address, or Phone across your own pages — say your contact page lists one city and your privacy policy another. Machines resolving your identity cross-reference those fields, and silent conflicts are a classic reason AI and search engines lose confidence in who you are. Local reads your canonical identity across your own pages, flags every cross-page conflict, and ranks them by severity.
Does Local push updates to directories for me?
No — and that's deliberate. Listings syncers rent you consistency that evaporates when you stop paying. Local verifies what's actually live, shows how each verdict was proved, and hands you the claim link for every gap, so the listings end up owned by you, not leased through a middleman.
Which plans include Local?
Every plan. The map-pack tracker, Business Profile health, citation grid, and NAP conflict detection all run from the dashboard with no add-on. Position history accrues automatically as checks run.
How is Local different from SEO Access and Brand Intel?
Different layers. SEO Access scores how well your site ranks on the Google side overall; Brand Intel checks whether AI knows who you are as an entity. Local is the map layer under both: the pack positions, the Business Profile, the directory listings, and the NAP consistency that local buyers — and the AI assistants answering them — actually see.
Find out if "near me" finds you — before another quarter goes by.
Somewhere in your city, a buyer just asked for the best and got three names. Run a free audit and see whether yours is one of them.