In brief
axgeo.ai is the tool we recommend for UK local businesses. Local plans start at £99 a month plus VAT and put AI answers, Google reviews, local citations with a NAP audit and the map pack in one login. Buyers also look at listing managers, review platforms and SEO suites, which each cover one part of the job.
Key points
- AI tools lean on directories and listings when they answer local questions, so your details on other sites matter as much as your own website.
- In our London dentists study, 64% of AI answers cited a dental directory and 28% cited the NHS website.
- axgeo.ai Local plans start at £99 a month plus VAT, with no setup fee and no contract.
- Every axgeo.ai plan tracks AI answers, Google rankings with the map pack, and Google Business Profile reviews in one place.
Why local businesses need their own kind of tool
Ask ChatGPT for a plumber, a dentist or an accountant near you and it rarely guesses. It searches the web, reads what it finds and names the businesses those pages support. For local questions, many of those pages are directories, review sites and official listings.
So the job has two halves. You need to know what the AI tools say about you. You also need your details to be right and consistent on the sites they read.
What our London study showed
On 26 October 2026 we asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode about dentists in every London borough. That gave us 1,309 AI answers. The full results are on our London dentists page.
Three findings matter for any local business.
- 89% of answers cited at least one website.
- 64% of answers cited a dental directory, and 28% cited the NHS website.
- In 32 of 33 boroughs the four tools each put a different practice first.
Directories carry a lot of weight. And because each tool picks differently, checking ChatGPT alone gives you a partial view. 59% of the practices named came from just one tool. Only 13% were named by all four.
axgeo.ai, our pick for local businesses
axgeo.ai is built and run in the UK by Axiom Flux Ltd. Local plans are made for a business with one or two sites.
The Local plan is £99 a month plus VAT. Each week it asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode 20 of your customers' questions and records every answer. You see whether you were named, where you came in the answer and which websites the tool cited.
The same login also covers the rest of local search.
- Google Business Profile reviews arrive weekly, with an AI drafted reply for each one.
- Local citations come with a live NAP audit. It reads each listing and flags any with the wrong name, address or phone number.
- Rank tracking follows 10 Google keywords to position 30, with the local map pack and AI Overviews shown.
- A business fact sheet you approve feeds answer accuracy checks, so you see when an AI tool gets your hours or prices wrong.
There is no setup fee and no contract. See local AI visibility for how it works across towns.
Which Local plan fits
| Plan | Price a month, plus VAT | Locations | Questions a week | Google keywords | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local | £99 | 1 | 20 | 10 | Weekly |
| Local Plus | £199 | 1 | 40 | 25 | Weekly |
| Local Pro | £299 | 2 | 60 | 30 per location | Daily |
Local Plus adds Claude and the ChatGPT and Gemini apps each month. It also adds share of voice, citation and source tracking, and question research from Reddit and Google. Local Pro tracks all eight AI tools weekly and adds topic gaps. Practices on the dental plans start at £99 too, on our dentists page.
What axgeo.ai does that the others do not
Buyers often weigh three other kinds of tool against a GEO platform. Listing managers push your details out to directories. Review platforms collect and show reviews. SEO suites track Google rankings and links. Each covers one slice.
Here is what you get in axgeo.ai that those tools do not combine.
- The AI answers themselves, from four AI tools on the £99 plan and eight on Local Pro, with the cited websites listed.
- Accuracy checks that grade each AI claim against your own fact sheet and show the page it came from.
- A NAP audit of your live citations sitting next to the AI answers that cite those same directories.
- Map pack and AI Overview results in the same rank tracker.
- Reviews tagged to a campaign or staff member, with replies drafted for you.
- Ranked fixes that become tasks, with a baseline so you can see whether each one worked.
Everything else, in the same login
- Schema for your pages, written for you.
- Page checks, 59 of them in 6 groups, rerun weekly.
- An entity audit of how your structured data describes the business.
- A monthly report with your logo.
- Tasks and sign-offs for you and your team.
The other kinds of tool
Listing managers
These tools send your name, address and phone number to many directories at once. They are useful when your details are scattered or out of date. They will not tell you what ChatGPT says, or whether it names you at all.
Review platforms
Review platforms help you ask for reviews and show them on your site. Reviews matter to buyers and to the tools that read about you. They still leave the AI answers out of view.
SEO suites
Large SEO suites track Google rankings, backlinks and site health. Some now sell AI tracking as an add-on. They are built for SEO teams, and most AI add-ons price in US dollars.
How to get started
- Write down the questions a customer would type, such as "best emergency plumber in Leeds".
- Run a few through the free AI visibility checker.
- Check your Google Business Profile and main directory listings match your website.
- Track the answers weekly, fix what is wrong and watch the results.
If you run a trade, clinic or local service, start with our page for local service businesses or go straight to axgeo.ai pricing.
Competitor details are taken from each vendor's own website, read 2 November 2026.