Yellow Pages 2026 - Small Business Starting Point
30 Minutes: Make sure your Small Business is discoverable by AI
30 Minutes: Office Hours - Bring your problem.
45% of consumers now use an AI assistant to find a local service. Only 1.2% of local businesses ever get recommended.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot for "same-day emergency dentistry near me" or "best florist open Sunday," most businesses are simply invisible — even ones ranking page-one on Google. The fix isn't a marketing spend. It's three specific, bounded pieces of work, and there's now an open protocol for the hard one.
In 20 minutes, we'll walk through the three steps — following one real business (a six-operatory dental practice) from invisible to booked:
1. Discovered — You're in the answer when someone asks. What actually feeds ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity (hint: it's not just Google), and the exact profiles, markup, and listings to fix.
2. Understood — When they arrive, your site answers like a person would. Why the old chat widget confidently gives wrong answers — and how an open protocol (NLWeb) lets your site answer with your own facts, for both human visitors and AI agents.
3. Booked — The conversation ends in a commitment, not a phone number. Agentic checkout for products, live booking integration for services, and the realistic path when your industry software hasn't caught up.
Then pick your pathway:
Leapfrog — no website, no budget: the highest return-per-hour path (a weekend, near-zero cost)
Platform — you're on Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, or Square: the toggles and fields already waiting in your dashboard
Vibecoded — you built your own site: ship the real ask + mcp endpoints yourself
Every attendee leaves with:
The full capability map — which platforms support which feature, today
The SMB Support Packet: tool guide by industry, setup links, data-safety basics, and verified free AI courses
Access to standing office hours for hands-on setup help
Who it's for: Any small business owner — salons, trades, solo practices, retail, food. No technical background needed. If you can write a text message, you can do this.