# BrightLocal

BrightLocal is a local SEO platform for local businesses, agencies, consultants and SaaS platforms. It tracks local rankings and visibility in Google and AI search, manages business listings and citations, and monitors and requests customer reviews. It also offers APIs and a fully managed local SEO service.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/brightlocal · data of 2026-11-02

## Facts

- Founded: 2009
- Headquarters: Brighton, UK
- Employees: 51–200
- Latest funding: Funding entry (no series or investors stated)
- Best for: Local businesses that want an easy local SEO tool, agencies and consultants managing local SEO for many clients, and SaaS platforms that want local SEO data through an API.

## Products

- All-in-one Platform (Track, Manage, Grow plans): Tracks local rankings, manages listings, and monitors reviews from one dashboard, from $31 per month billed annually.
- Citation Builder: Manually builds and cleans up business citations on listing sites, priced per citation.
- Managed Local SEO Services: A service in which BrightLocal's experts handle listings, content, reviews and optimization, from $499 per month.
- API Solutions: APIs that let agencies and platforms add listings, reviews, rankings and reporting to their own tools.
- Local AI Visibility Tracker: Shows how a business appears across ChatGPT and Google's AI tools.
- Local Search Grid: Visualises Google local rankings on a geo-grid map.
- AI Insights: Turns local search data into prioritised recommended actions.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEO Tools | 19 of 58 | 3.1 | 7 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 4.1 | 7.4% |
| google_ai_mode | 1.7 | 3.7% |
| perplexity | 3.7 | 14.8% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “BrightLocal AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/brightlocal, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).