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Your client owns their street.
Three quarters of a mile south, they are gone.

Run the search from dozens of points across their service area and show them the map. The position at every point, and the competitors holding the ones they wanted.

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Nine real searches around any address you type. No card, no account, and it works on a business that is not yours.

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pizzaDi Fara Pizza

Best rank
3
Not in the pack
2 points
  • Point 1, between eighth and nineteenth, position 11.
  • Point 2, in the top three, position 3.
  • Point 3, between fourth and seventh, position 5.
  • Point 4, between eighth and nineteenth, position 9.
  • Point 5, between fourth and seventh, position 4.
  • Point 6, between eighth and nineteenth, position 8.
  • Point 7, no result returned.
  • Point 8, not in the local pack.
  • Point 9, not in the local pack.
  • Top 3
  • 4 to 7
  • 8 to 19
  • 20 or lower
  • Not in the pack
Di Fara Pizza, keyword pizza, nine points around 1424 Avenue J in Brooklyn. The number in a cell is the position the business held when the search ran from that point. Grey means it was not in the local pack there, and the dashed cell is the one point that returned nothing.

Built for people who run this for other people

One client or forty, the job is the same: find where they disappear, work out who took the spot, and show them.

Scan any client address

Draw the grid inside a real city, zip or metro boundary, or drop a circle with a radius you pick. 25, 100 or 225 points per scan. The answer comes back as a color banded picture rather than a spreadsheet: green in the top few, yellow through orange further down, red where they do not come up at all.

See who took every cell

Each point stores the businesses that showed up in the local pack there: name, place ID, website, address and the position they held. Click a cell and you have the slide. Not “we are weak in the east” but “these three own the east, here is the overlap”.

Send the client a link

Publish one scan to a public URL and copy the iframe snippet into your own report. The client opens it with no login and no account. You see how many times it was opened, and you can revoke it. It is on every paid plan, not gated behind a higher tier.

Run it on a prospect while you are still on the call

Type their address and a keyword. Nine real searches around the business, back in about a minute, no account and no card. It is the same search pipeline the paid product uses, held to nine points across about a mile. Nothing sells a local retainer faster than a business owner watching their own map go grey three quarters of a mile from their door.

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How a scan works

Four steps from a client address to something you can put in front of them.

Step 1

Set the area the client actually serves

Pick a polygon, which is anchored to a real administrative boundary so points stay inside the metro, state, city or zip instead of landing in the next county. Or drop a radius grid, a circle with a distance you choose, for the delivery radius businesses and the one off competitive digs. Then choose 25, 100 or 225 points.

Step 2

Search from every point, one credit each

Each point is its own Google Maps search, anchored to that point’s coordinates, exactly the way a person standing there would see it. One credit per point, and a credit is half a cent, so a 5x5 on one keyword is about 13 cents and a 10x10 is about 50. If a recent result already exists for that schedule you get it back rather than paying for it twice.

Step 3

Read the map, then read the cells

Every point is banded by the position it came back with: green in the top three, yellow to seven, orange to nineteen, red past that or missing entirely. Click into a point and you get the businesses that were in the local pack there, with name, place ID, website, address and their position at that point.

A geo-grid scan for the keyword surgeon near me across greater Melbourne, with a numbered pin at every point searched and red crosses where the business did not appear.
One keyword, 3,142 searches a month, run from every point across greater Melbourne. Each pin holds the position at that point, and behind it the list of businesses that came up there instead.

Step 4

Hand it to the client

Hit Share on a scan and you get a public URL plus an iframe snippet. Paste the snippet into your own reporting page or send the link. The client opens it with no login. The dialog lists your live links with a view count next to each one, and you can revoke any of them. Everything exports to CSV as well, for the deck you were going to build anyway.

The detail, if you want it

The parts a technical evaluation asks about. Every line below describes something that runs today.

  • Polygon grids. Points are generated inside a real administrative boundary, a metro, state, city or zip, rather than inside an arbitrary rectangle. You do not spend credits on points that land in the next county.
  • Radius grids. A circle with a distance you choose and a grid size you choose, say 5 by 5. Right for delivery radius businesses, for a competitive dig, and for anything that does not map onto an administrative shape.
  • Density. 25, 100 or 225 points. Density changes the point count and nothing else, so the cost scales exactly with it and the method at each point is identical.
  • One search per point. Each point is a separate Google Maps search anchored to that point’s coordinates. We keep the whole position vector, one number per point, so a scan can be compared against the one before it.
  • Cost. One credit per point, half a cent a credit, shared with the other things credits buy. Buy more at the same half cent and those roll over.
  • Color bands. Top three is green, four to seven yellow, eight to nineteen orange, twenty and up red, and gray where the business was not in the local pack at all. The bands map onto the decisions a local operator makes: top three prints money, top seven is visible, eight to nineteen is technically there and invisible, twenty plus is not on the map.
  • Sharing. A share link resolves without authentication and is rate limited per address. The token is stored hashed rather than in the clear, and revoking a link kills it immediately.
  • Apple Maps. Not today. It is the riskier roadmap item on the local side, because the results are shaped differently enough that the per point pipeline needs its own scaffolding.

What a client costs you

Two plans carry local rank tracking. The free plan does not. Both numbers below are the published ones, and the roadmap rows are marked as roadmap.

Mirrors the pricing page. Credits are shared across geo-grid, national rank checks, AI rank runs and audits, so treat the monthly figure as a pool rather than a scan quota.
What you getStarter, $50 a monthPro, $250 a month
Client locations you can track
One Google Business Profile per location, each with its own grids and keywords.
1 locationUnlimited locations
Multi-location dashboard
Every location rolled up on one screen: average position, movement, and the cells that slipped.
Not on Starter
Monthly credits
One credit per grid point, so a 5x5 scan is 25 and a 10x10 is 100. The pool is shared with rank checks, AI rank runs and audits.
5,00030,000
Top-up credits that roll over
Buy more at $0.005 each. Purchased credits carry forward and do not expire. Plan credits reset each cycle.
Polygon and radius grids
Draw the grid inside a real city, zip or metro boundary, or drop a circle with a radius you pick.
25, 100 or 225 points per scan
Low, medium and high density. Density changes the number of points, nothing else.
Competitor record in every cell
Name, place ID, website, address and the position they held at that point.
Public link and iframe for the client
Publish one scan to a URL your client opens with no login. Revoke it whenever you like.
Export to CSV
Every ranking table, for the client deck you build anyway.
Free 3x3 scan on any business
Always free and always no account, on every plan and none.
Your branding on the client link
The public scan page carries ours today. Per-agency branding is on the roadmap and is not shipped.
In roadmapIn roadmap
Apple Maps coverage
Scans against Apple Maps as well as Google.
In roadmapIn roadmap
Knowledge Panel ownership
Marking the cells where the client owns the panel, not just the local pack.
In roadmapIn roadmap

Where we would not switch either

Three things a local agency reasonably asks for that we do not have. If one of them is the reason you are shopping, you now know before you book a call rather than after.

  • Your brand on the client link. The public scan page and the reports carry ours. Per-agency branding is on the roadmap. If white label is why you are moving, wait for us.
  • Apple Maps. Google only today.
  • Lead capture on the embedded scan. Our embed shows a result. It does not collect a visitor’s contact details, so it is a client report rather than a lead magnet on your own site.

A fuller breakdown against Local Falcon, row by row, lives on our comparison page.

Frequently asked.

Can I run scans on a business that is not mine?
Yes, and that is the point. The free 3x3 scan takes an address and a keyword and gives you nine real searches around that address in about a minute, with no account and no card. Agencies run it live on a prospect's business during the call and show them they are invisible less than a mile from their own front door. Inside the product you add a client location by picking their Google Business Profile, so you never need their password or their login.
What does a scan actually cost me?
One credit per grid point, and a credit is half a cent. So a 5x5 scan on one keyword is 25 credits, about 13 cents. A 10x10 is 100 credits, about 50 cents. Starter includes 5,000 credits a month for $50 and Pro includes 30,000 for $250. That pool is shared with national rank checks, AI rank runs and audits, so it is not a geo-grid allowance, but the unit never changes and you can price a client engagement off it before you sell it.
Do unused credits carry over?
The credits included with your plan reset at the start of each billing cycle. Credits you buy on top, in a top-up pack at half a cent each, roll over and do not expire. So the usual agency pattern is a plan that covers your steady monthly scanning plus a pack you draw down during a pitch-heavy month.
Can a client see the result without a login?
Yes. Open a scan, hit Share, and you get a public URL plus a ready-made iframe snippet you can paste into your own report or client portal. The client opens it with no account. You can set a view limit by revoking the link, and the dialog shows you how many times each link has been opened. One thing to be straight about: the public page carries Rank.ai branding today, not yours.
How many locations can I manage?
Starter covers one client location. Pro covers as many as you like and adds the multi-location dashboard, which rolls every location into one screen with average position, movement and the cells that slipped since the last scan. Most agencies start on Starter to run one account properly, then move to Pro at the point where opening each location separately stops being reasonable.
What is geo-grid rank tracking?
A single rank check asks 'where does this business rank' from one point, usually their own address. A geo-grid asks the same question from dozens or hundreds of points spread across the service area. Every point is a separate search, and the answer is a picture: green where they are in the top few, red where they do not come up at all. It is the only way to show a client that their rank is really a function of where the searcher happens to be standing.
Polygon or radius, which should I use?
Polygon grids sit inside a real administrative boundary, a metro, state, city or zip, so points fall inside the area the client actually serves instead of bleeding into the next town. Radius grids are circles with a distance you pick, which is easier to set up and better when the service area does not line up with any boundary, like a 15 mile delivery radius around one warehouse. Multi-location brands tend to use polygons per location and radius grids for one-off competitive digs.
What do I get per cell besides a number?
Every cell stores the businesses that appeared in the local pack at that point, with name, place ID, website, address and the position each one held there. Click into a cell and you can see who beat your client at that specific corner. This is the data that turns 'we are weak in the east' into 'these three businesses own the east, and here is where their strength overlaps ours'.
How often do scans refresh?
You choose when a schedule runs, and a scan that already has a recent result serves that result instead of spending credits again. We are not going to promise you an automatic daily refresh, because that is not what the product does today. If you need a scan on a specific date for a client report, run it.
How many points are in a scan?
Three density tiers: 25 points, 100 points, or 225 points. Density changes the number of points and nothing else, so a 225 point scan is nine times the cost of a 25 point scan and uses exactly the same method at each point. Low is enough for a rural service area where the next town is twenty minutes away. High earns its cost in a dense metro where the answer changes every few blocks.
Do you track Apple Maps?
Not today. It is on the roadmap and it is not shipped, so if Apple Maps coverage is a hard requirement for a client this quarter, we are not your tool for that surface. Local Falcon ships it. Our comparison page goes through the rest of the differences row by row.
Can I put my agency's brand on the reports?
Not yet, and we would rather say so than let you find out after you buy. Per-agency branding on client-facing pages and reports is on the roadmap. Today the public scan link and the exported tables carry Rank.ai. If white label is the thing you are switching for, wait for us or buy elsewhere.

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