Monthly AI impressions
12-month average across MFB-operated brands
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Local Visibility for Home Services
The Made For Builders visibility layer ensures your business appears first when a customer searches for your trade in their area — whether on Google or when asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Claude. We cover local SEO, Google Business Profile, review management, schema markup, and Google and Meta ads. The full stack deploys in 14 days on top of your existing website or a new one, with zero downtime. Built specifically for home improvement and construction SMBs across the United States.
Fact sheet
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Typical results · first quarter
What happens when this layer enters your business
Average Google local rank
after 90 days of deployment (n=12 brands)
Citations in ChatGPT and Perplexity
90-day average based on 240 baseline prompts
The problem we solve
What this layer fixes in your business
P/0174.1%
Calls are lost at the critical moment
Most end-customer searches are hyper-local with urgent intent: plumber near me, 24-hour electrician, locksmith downtown Chicago. A poorly maintained Google Business Profile loses those calls at the exact moment the customer decides whom to hire.
Fuente: NextPhone dataset - n=130,175 calls - 7 months - 45 contractors USA
P/0214.3%
ChatGPT and Perplexity are already recommending tradespeople
By end of 2025, one in seven B2C searches in the sector passes through generative engines. The business that does not appear when ChatGPT recommends a plumber loses that share of traffic permanently. It cannot be bought like Google Ads.
Fuente: Semrush - 325k prompts - Q4 2025
P/0331%
NAP inconsistency tanks local rankings
Operating in multiple areas with different phone numbers and hours, without consistency across your website, Google Business, and directories, kills the local pack. Fixing it manually every month is pure administrative overhead.
Fuente: MFB audit - 534 profiles analyzed - January 2026
Services included
Everything inside this layer
Six blocks. Hire them together or one by one. Each has its own deliverable and a named MFB lead.
S/01
Industry-specific local SEO
On-page and technical SEO focused on city + service + urgency queries. LocalBusiness schema with areaServed by ZIP code.
S/02
GEO and AEO for AI engines
Presence in AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity Pages, and Claude. Markdown mirrors, Answer Capsules on home and pillar pages, DefinedTerm schema.
S/03
Full schema markup
Organization, Service, FAQPage, HowTo, Review, BreadcrumbList, Person. CI validation with schema-dts on every PR.
S/04
Google Business Profile
Initial optimization, weekly updates, posts, Q&A, photos, and monitoring for unauthorized changes.
S/05
Review management
Response within 24 hours in your brand voice. Critical vs. minor complaint detection. Post-service review requests sent to satisfied customers.
S/06
Google and Meta Ads for the sector
Only where the CAC makes sense. Offline conversion tracking for calls and in-person visits.
How we deploy
From audit to production in 4 weeks
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WEEK 0 Initial audit
30-minute conversation plus technical analysis of your website, Google profile, and current rankings. Within 24 hours you receive a document identifying the three highest-impact levers for your specific situation.
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WEEKS 1-2 Technical setup
Full schema markup, profile optimization, tracking configuration. Your team touches nothing. We operate on top of your existing website.
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WEEK 3 Content activation
Publication of pillar pages, sub-pillar pages, and the first five blog posts. URL structure organized by market and language.
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WEEK 4 Ads activation
When applicable. Campaigns start with a conservative budget and scale based on tracked offline conversions.
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MONTH 2+ Continuous optimization
Monthly report on one page showing what changed and why. Keyword iteration, schema adjustments, content expansion.
Real comparison
Why this is not a traditional agency
MFB vs market alternatives
| MFB Visibility | Traditional SEO agency | Human call center | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | Clear and agreed with you | Variable, with leads | Variable, with commission |
| AI citations | Yes, with tracking | Rarely | Not applicable |
| Advanced schema markup | Complete, with CI | Basic | Not applicable |
| Time to first result | 14 days | 90-120 days | Immediate but no SEO |
| Average ROI timeline | 4-7 months | 8-14 months | Not measurable |
| Data owner | Client | Mixed | Agency |
We answer before we start
What people ask us
The questions our sales team gets every week. If yours is missing, we answer it in the free audit.
Direct help
Question not listed here?
Thirty minutes by video or phone. No decks, no jargon. The team answers with data from your case on the table.
Talk to the teamQ/01What types of businesses does the Visibility layer work for?
Home improvement and construction SMBs with local presence: plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, remodelers, window installers, HVAC contractors, small general contractors, and painters. It works for sole traders up to companies with around 40 employees. It is NOT designed for large national construction firms or manufacturers.
Q/02Do I need a new website to get started?
Not always. We audit first. If your current site loads fast, contains the right information, and can be modified, we keep it and add the local SEO, schema, and citability layer on top. If the site is from 2015 or cannot be edited, we rebuild it in two to three weeks.
Q/03How long does it take to see results?
Google Business Profile: 14 days to start appearing in the local pack. Organic rankings: 60 to 90 days for stable improvements. Citations in AI engines: 90 to 180 days depending on sector and competition. The free 30-minute audit gives you an exact timeline for your situation.
Q/04Do you block AI crawlers? Why not?
We do not block any of them. The Rutgers/Wharton study from December 2025 showed that blocking training bots reduces monthly visits by 23.1%. ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended are explicitly allowed in your robots.txt from day one.
Q/05What happens with negative reviews?
We respond within 24 hours in your brand voice, without sounding robotic. The AI distinguishes a genuine complaint requiring immediate human intervention from a minor complaint that a well-crafted empathetic reply can resolve. Your team is alerted only for the ones that need a phone call.
Q/06How does MFB handle data privacy under CCPA?
All tracking and data collection we configure complies with CCPA requirements for California residents and follows GDPR-grade standards across the board. We do not sell customer data. Analytics are set up with IP anonymization enabled, consent banners where required, and your business retains full ownership of all collected data from day one.
Q/07Can the Visibility layer be purchased on its own, or must it be combined with others?
It can be purchased on its own, but ROI improves significantly when paired with the Conversion layer (AI receptionist, WhatsApp). The reason: Visibility brings in the calls, and if those calls are not handled well, the money invested in visibility evaporates.
Q/08Do you work with multi-location businesses or only single-location?
Both single-location and multi-location. If you operate in three cities, each city gets its own Google Business Profile, its own local content, and its own conversion tracking. For franchise groups we manage all profiles with consistent NAP data and unified branding.
Q/09How much does it cost?
It depends on your business size and service area. We work with you as a partner and have several models depending on where your brand is right now, so there is no single fixed price. The free 30-minute audit shows you exactly which model fits your specific situation.
Start with the audit
We audit your business in 30 minutes. Free.
We tell you which three levers in this layer move the most impact in your case, with data on the table. No decks, no jargon. Document in 24h.