Google Maps + AI search · South Florida

Found on the map. Recommended by AI.

When a homeowner searches "roofer near me" — on Google Maps, or by asking ChatGPT — a few businesses get named. MappedFirst runs the profile, the reviews, and the structured data that decide which ones. From $297 a month.

Run by an operator in Miami. Approved by you before anything publishes.

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Sunline Roofing
★★★★★★★★★★4.8(142)· 2.1 mi
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Coastal Roof Co.
★★★★★★★★★★4.7(98)· 3.4 mi
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Bayview Roofing
★★★★★★★★★★4.6(211)· 1.8 mi
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Palmetto Roof & Gutter
★★★★★★★★★★4.5(63)· 4.0 mi
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Gables Roofing Pros
★★★★★★★★★★4.4(37)· 2.6 mi
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Apex Roofing
★★★★★★★★★★4.1(24)· 1.2 mi
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AI answer
Based on recent reviews and how quickly they respond, Apex Roofing is the strongest match near Coral Gables — 4.9 stars across 87 reviews, replies to every review, licensed and insured, and their site lists services and hours clearly.
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Illustration — not a client result

45%of consumers used an AI tool to find a local business last year — up from 6% the year beforeBrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026
52%of what decides local map ranking is your profile and your reviewsWhitespark, Local Search Ranking Factors 2026
42%of searchers click one of the top three results on the mapBrightLocal
Where the next customer looks

Two places a homeowner checks now. Most businesses show up in neither.

They used to type it into Google and pick from the map. Increasingly they ask an AI assistant instead. Each one decides differently — and each can be worked.

Google Maps

The map picks three

Before any website, Google shows three businesses on the map. Which three is decided mostly by your profile and your reviews — not your website, not your ad budget.

  • Primary category — the single most influential factor of the 187 studied
  • Hours that are actually right, so you're "open" when they search
  • Every service listed, photos that keep coming
  • Reviews: how many, how recent, and whether you answer them
AI answers

The AI names one or two

ChatGPT and Perplexity don't show a list. They name a business and say why. To do that they read your Google profile, your Bing listing, your website's structured data, and your reviews across the web — then decide whether you're safe to recommend.

  • Your name, address and phone identical everywhere they look
  • Bing Places claimed and matched — ChatGPT leans on Bing's index
  • Structured data on your site that says plainly what you do and where
  • Real answers to the questions homeowners actually ask

MappedFirst works both. One monthly service, one scorecard.

What we actually do

Three things, every month, without you touching it.

Not a report telling you what's broken. The work itself — done, published, approved by you first, and shown on a monthly scorecard.

Setup · first two weeks

Build the profile properly — and make it readable by AI

Primary category, every relevant service, accurate hours, attributes, description, photos. Then the part most agencies skip: structured data on your website, your Bing listing claimed and matched, and your name, address and phone made identical everywhere an AI might check.

#1Your primary category is the most influential local ranking factor of all 187 studied — and the one most businesses set wrong.Whitespark 2026
Weekly

Keep it alive

A post every week and every review answered within 48 hours, written in your voice and approved by you before it goes live. Nineteen percent of customers now expect a reply the same day.

Growth

Bring in new reviews

A request goes to every customer after the job — never only the happy ones. Target: four or more new Google reviews a month, collected the way Google's rules actually require.

Why the details pay

One signal. Look what it moves.

More phone calls+520%
More direction requests+2,717%
More website clicks+1,065%

Listings with 100+ photos vs. the average business · BrightLocal, 2019

Photos are one signal out of forty-eight. The 2026 Whitespark study puts your primary category first, with review recency close behind — about 74% of consumers say they only care about reviews from the last three months.

Most of what decides whether you show up lives inside the profile itself. That's the good news: it's fixable, it's free to fix, and almost nobody does it. That gap is the whole business.

Chris Barrientos — I run this exact setup on my own companies' profiles before I run it on anyone else's.

Pricing

Two tiers. Cancel any month.

No setup maze, no annual contract, and no "rank #1" promise — nobody can honestly make that one.

On the Map

$297 /month
  • Full profile optimization in the first two weeks
  • AI-search readiness: structured data, Bing Places, matching name/address/phone everywhere
  • One Google post every week
  • Every review answered within 48 hours
  • Monthly photo upload and scorecard — calls, direction requests, reviews, search views
Start with a free audit
Most chosen

Review Engine

$497 /month
  • Everything in On the Map
  • Review requests after every completed job — target 4+ new reviews monthly
  • Same-day replies on anything 3★ or below
  • Questions & Answers seeded with what homeowners actually ask
  • Quarterly scan of who's outranking you, and why
Start with a free audit

Straight talk on timing: local search moves over three to six months, not three to six days. Anyone promising the top spot next week is either guessing or breaking Google's rules — and the second one gets profiles suspended.

Free · no signup to use it

Not ready to talk? Score your own profile.

The same 48-point checklist we run on client profiles, free and on screen. Tick what's already true and watch your score render live — the ★ items are the ones that actually move the map.

Open the checklist →
How starting works

Audit first. No pitch until you've seen it.

1

Free profile audit

We score your profile against all 48 checkpoints and send you the sheet — yours to keep, whether or not you hire us.

2

Fifteen-minute walkthrough

We go through the gaps together and tell you which ones you can close yourself for free. Some businesses stop here. That's fine.

3

We take it over

You add us as a manager on your profile — never a password — and the monthly work starts. Cancel any month.

South Florida businesses

Find out what your profile is costing you.

The audit is free and takes us about a day. You get the scored sheet and a straight read on whether this is worth paying for at all.

Start the free audit →