Opening Act
When your customers ask, who gets named?
The free Roadies Opening Act shows you which businesses come back when your customers search or ask an AI assistant for what you sell, what's keeping AI from recommending you, and a score out of 100.
Tell us your websiteWhat does the free Opening Act show me?
Three things, in plain language.
- Who's winning your customers.
- The businesses that come back when your buyers search or ask AI, and what each one really is: a direct local competitor, a national chain, or something that only looks like competition.
- What's keeping AI from recommending you.
- Your AI visibility: what on your site makes you hard for AI tools to find, understand, or choose.
- Your score.
- One number out of 100, and where the missing points are.
Why doesn't my business show up when customers ask AI?
Someone gets named. It should be you.
More people looking for a business like yours now ask an AI assistant instead of scrolling a list. The assistant names two or three businesses and moves on, so a business can look fine to a person and still be passed over. The Roadies Opening Act asks the questions your customers ask, shows you who got named, and tells you what on your site is keeping it from being you. You don't write prompts or set anything up.
What does an Opening Act look like?
Here is one, for a sample company.
A quick read of how visible you are to AI, who your website speaks to, and which businesses are reaching your customers ahead of you.
Opening Act for Oxbend Heating & Air
Score 51/ 100
Band: Coming through faint
AI tools can find you. They can't yet say why you.
Your crew
The moment the address landed, a Roadies crew was assembled for Oxbend Heating & Air. It knows exactly one thing so far: the website.
Everything the system learns about doing this work well, every customer gets. Everything it learns about you stays yours.
Two searches, as a customer would type them
- “emergency AC repair near me”: the AI answer named three companies. Oxbend Heating & Air was not among them.
- “furnace replacement near me”: Oxbend's first listing sat at position 7, behind four other named businesses.
- 1
Pellstone Heating & Cooling
Direct local competitor
Family-owned, leads with 24-hour emergency service.
- 2
Wrenfield Comfort Co.
Direct local competitor
Installation-focused, leads with financing on new systems.
- 3
Evercourt Home Services
National chain
Multi-state home services brand with a local branch.
This business: not on the bill.
The finding is not “here are your competitors.”
It is “here is who is capturing the demand you are not.”
You may look at this list and think some of these are not really your competition. You may be right, and it is a fair question that we would answer properly with you in a deeper engagement. What is not in dispute is that these were the answers your buyer got.
AI tools can reach the site. They leave without the facts that would make them name it.
Worth up to 18 points.
The site says what the business does. It does not say who it is for, or prove it.
Worth up to 14 points.
The strongest claim, 24-hour emergency service, appears on one page and is backed up nowhere.
Worth up to 17 points.
What does it ask me for?
Just your website.
The Roadies Opening Act starts with nothing but your website address. It never asks you to connect an account or give access to anything you own.
How we handle your dataWhy is it free?
Some things you should know for nothing.
Whether customers can find you is something you should be able to know for nothing, so Roadies gives the Opening Act away. What you decide to do about it is where your Roadies team earns its place.
What do I do after I read it?
Keep it. It's yours.
Your Opening Act is yours to keep and share. If you want the complete outside picture, ranked by what each problem costs you, a Roadies Sound Check is the next step. When you want to talk through what it found, you talk to a person.
What a Sound Check findsHow do I start?
Tell us your website.
Send us your website and what you're trying to solve. A person on the Roadies team reads every message and replies inside one business day.
No demo gate. No scheduling link.
Questions business owners and leaders ask us
- Why doesn't my business show up when people ask ChatGPT?
- AI assistants name the businesses that the sources they read describe clearly and consistently, so a business can look fine to a person and still be passed over in an AI answer. The free Roadies Opening Act shows you who gets named instead of you and what on your website is keeping it from being you.
- Is AI visibility the same thing as ranking on Google?
- No. Ranking puts you in a list a person scans, while AI visibility is whether an AI assistant names your business in the answer it writes, and a business can rank well and still be left out of that answer.
- Is it safe to give Roadies my business data?
- Your data is yours: nothing material happens without your approval, and the free Opening Act starts with nothing but your website and never asks you to connect an account. We don't publish our clients' names, for the same reason they trust us with their information.