Plain-language writing for owners and operators who’d rather build than read about building. What’s worth shipping, what’s hype, what we see across home services, agencies, ecommerce, and everything else.
One firm appears in 49% of all AI answers about Jacksonville estate planning, the most dominant AI-visibility position we have measured in Florida. 95% of the practices we screened never came up at all. Full data from 114 answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
Aug 07, 2026
ReadSawyer & Sawyer and Family First Firm are in a near-dead heat for first, ChatGPT and Google disagree with the other engines about the leader, and 85% of the 99 practices we screened never appeared once. Full data from 115 answers across five AI engines.
Two firms tie for first at 25% of answers each, every engine has a different favorite, and 94% of the 50 practices we screened never appeared once. Full data from 112 answers across five AI engines.
45% of US consumers asked AI for a local business recommendation last year, up from 6% the year before. AI recommends about 1% of local businesses, and 9 in 10 owners have done nothing about it. What GEO (generative engine optimization, also called AI SEO) is, the verified numbers behind the shift, and what to do about it.
An illustrative Maxera scenario: how a 60-second AI lead response system, running 24/7, flipped the booked-job rate at a typical home services company.
An illustrative scenario showing what a typical Maxera engagement looks like inside a mid-market ecommerce operations team: customer service co-pilot, inventory intelligence, supplier comms, and what changes after launch.
An illustrative Maxera scenario: how a custom AI workflow stack pulled 28 hours a week of senior team time out of repetitive client admin work, freeing the team for strategy instead of status emails.
Most owners we talk to have read every AI thread on LinkedIn and watched every YouTube tutorial. They’re more confused than when they started. Here’s the simpler way to think about it.
