Which AI platforms do you check?
Three of the platforms that matter most for local discovery today: ChatGPT (Basic + Pro), Claude (Basic + Pro), and Google AI Overviews (Pro only). We add new platforms as they reach meaningful adoption.
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Everything you'd want to know before subscribing — and a few things you'd want to know after.
Three of the platforms that matter most for local discovery today: ChatGPT (Basic + Pro), Claude (Basic + Pro), and Google AI Overviews (Pro only). We add new platforms as they reach meaningful adoption.
We run a curated set of real-world questions a customer in your category and city would ask. Your score reflects how often, how prominently, and how favorably your business appears across those answers — weighted by platform usage.
About 60-90 seconds — we run real queries against ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI in parallel, then analyze your competitors and generate recommendations. The cinematic loading sequence is intentional; you watch your visibility get measured in real time.
For a free scan, no — your website is optional. For paid scans it's required. Our recommendations engine crawls your site to find specific gaps your competitors don't have, and that comparison is the difference between generic advice and a real action plan.
No. There is nothing to install on your website, your point-of-sale, or your phone. We work entirely from the outside, the same way your customers experience these platforms.
Paid users can bypass the verification step — when our checker doesn't find your business on Google, you'll see a 'scan it anyway' option. Free scans require an existing Google Places presence so we can confirm the business is real before running an analysis on it.
Then you'll know — which is the entire point. From there, the Pro plan walks you through the specific changes that move you toward being recommended. No guesswork, no jargon.
Pro subscribers get a real-time alert email the moment we detect a drop. Basic subscribers see it summarized in their next monthly digest. In both cases, your action plan refreshes with new recommendations targeting whatever moved against you.
Yes. Your monitored business is the one MainSign tracks on schedule with digests and alerts. You can run additional one-off scans on competitors any time — those don't replace your monitored business.
The business MainSign tracks for you on a recurring basis. Set when you run your first scan as a paid user. The one your digests, alerts, action plan progress, and history are about.
Email hello@trymainsign.com and we'll update it for you. Self-serve editing is on the roadmap.
No. Your data is used solely to generate scans and recommendations for you. Note that to run scans, we send your business name and category to AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) — they process the queries to generate responses but don't retain your data for training. We never sell, share, or use your information for advertising. See our Privacy Policy for the full list of providers and their privacy policies.
AI search isn't static. Models retrain, competitors update their sites, and search trends shift constantly. A one-time scan tells you where you stand today. A subscription tells you where you stand every week — and surfaces every shift that affects your visibility before your competitors notice.
Yes. Both plans are month-to-month. You can cancel from your account in a single click, and you keep access through the end of the billing period.
Most existing AI search visibility tools are built for enterprise marketing teams and priced accordingly. MainSign is built for single-location small business owners — same core capability of monitoring AI search recommendations, calibrated for owners who don't have a marketing team, priced for one location.
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