The way customers discover businesses is evolving. Local Answers helps business owners understand how AI platforms evaluate, reference, and recommend businesses online.
We provide clarity, actionable insights, and ongoing guidance so you can stay visible in a world where search is changing faster than ever.
For decades, local businesses focused on showing up in search results. Today, more customers are asking AI platforms for recommendations instead of searching traditional search engines.
We created Local Answers to help business owners understand this shift and adapt with clarity and confidence.
We help businesses understand how AI platforms view, evaluate, and recommend local companies.
We identify practical opportunities to strengthen the signals AI platforms trust.
We track changes over time as AI-driven discovery continues to evolve.
Our family has called Forsyth County home for more than 25 years. We've raised our family here, built careers here, and watched this community grow.
As AI continues to change the way people discover and choose businesses, we saw a growing gap between great local companies and the way AI platforms recommend them.
Local Answers was created to help bridge that gap.
We combine decades of experience in marketing, technology, and local business growth with a simple mission:
Help great businesses get recognized, understood, and recommended by AI.
We believe local businesses are the backbone of every community.
AI recommendations are built on trust. So is our business.
We're building something our children can be proud of.
We focus on sustainable visibility, not shortcuts.
We succeed when our clients become the obvious recommendation.
Founder & CEO, Local Answers
Shawn Craig has spent more than 25 years in sales and marketing — working nationally with some of the most performance-driven organizations in the country. As Head of Marketing at CINC, he oversees demand generation, brand strategy, SEO, AEO, GEO, and marketing analytics at scale.
Shawn founded Local Answers for his sons and the small businesses of Forsyth County. He watched AI search quietly reshape how customers find and choose local businesses — and saw that most small business owners had no idea it was happening. Local Answers exists to close that gap: to give local businesses the same AI visibility advantages that national brands take for granted, so the best business in the room is also the one AI recommends.
Whether you're curious where you stand today or want to understand why competitors are appearing in AI recommendations, we're happy to help.