For Plumbing Companies

Emergency calls go to whoever AI names.

A burst pipe can’t wait — the homeowner grabs their phone and asks “emergency plumber near me.” If a rival owns Google and the AI answer, you never get the call. ScoutRival shows you where you’re invisible, watches the competition, and publishes the content that wins the emergency.

Checks ChatGPT + GeminiPublishes to your WordPress siteNo shared leads, no lock-in
Live · 2 engines checked
AI-Visibility scanrapidflowplumbing.com

Prompt tested: “Emergency plumber in Austin for a burst pipe?”“Plumber near me?”“Water heater replacement Austin?”

ChatGPT grounded · 5 sources
Named 3 companies — yours wasn’t one
Not named
Gemini memory probe
Recalled “Blue Ridge Plumbing” by name
Not named
40

Your AI-Visibility score is 40/100 (±7). Blue Ridge Plumbing owns the local pack and the AI answer for “emergency plumber near me,” and just published 3 how-to guides.

Illustrative result · a weighted 0–100 score with a confidence band — AI answers change run to run, so this is a measurement, not a fixed rank.
Your morning brief · #1 actionPublish “Burst pipe? 5 steps before the plumber arrives” — the exact question homeowners ask AI in the panic before they call.
01The problem

Urgent, high-value work — decided in the first few seconds of a search.

Plumbing emergencies go to whoever shows up first in the Map-Pack and the AI answer. Miss it, and a rival takes the call and the water-heater job behind it.

#1
Emergency searches go to the first name people see.
A leak can’t wait. Homeowners call the plumber that shows up first — not the one they never found.
Src: local-search behavior · verify
0%
Of contractors don’t show up in AI at all.
Homeowners ask ChatGPT “who should I call?” If a rival is named and you’re not, you’re invisible in the moment that matters.
Src: industry analysis · verify
rising
Lead costs, while the marketplace shares every call.
You pay more each year for leads sold to several shops — while the organic and AI calls go to whoever’s visible first.
Src: industry CPL trend · verify
0
Dispatcher answers and “does the marketing.”
There’s no time to write how-to content or track rivals — so the same competitor keeps owning the emergency call.
Illustrative · owner reality
02A day in the life
Illustrative scenario

A burst pipe at Rapid Flow Plumbing

The pattern every independent plumbing company knows — and how it breaks. (scroll)

1
Sam · owner
A homeowner’s pipe bursts at 7am. She asks ChatGPT “emergency plumber Austin.” Rapid Flow isn’t named — Blue Ridge is, and owns the Map-Pack too. That call, and the repipe behind it, is gone.
2
The gap
Sam buys shared leads that cost more every year. Nothing tells him “are we in the AI answer, and what is Blue Ridge doing that we’re not?”
3
ScoutRival · morning brief
Sam runs a free scan: 40/100. The brief shows Blue Ridge owns the AI answer and posted 3 how-to guides. Action #1: “Publish a ‘burst pipe: steps before the plumber arrives’ guide.” BlogCraft drafts it; Sam approves; one click to WordPress.
Before the next emergency
His guides are indexed and getting cited. When the next pipe bursts, Rapid Flow is already visible — catching the emergency call at $0 per lead instead of losing it to a rival.
03How ScoutRival solves it

Everything a marketing hire would do — run from dispatch.

Tap a pain to see exactly what the product does about it.

AI-Visibility check

We ask ChatGPT (web-grounded, with citations) and Gemini (a memory probe) your money keywords — “emergency plumber {city},” “water heater replacement near me” — and score how often you’re named, with a confidence band. Re-check any day.

“emergency plumber Austin”not named
“water heater replacement near me”rival named
“drain cleaning {city}”named ✓
You see exactly where the Map-Pack and rivals are beating you.

Competitor watch + Daily Brief

Track your local rivals’ site, blog, and social. Each morning: new how-to guides, new financing offers, new service areas — plus the one action to stay ahead.

Blue Ridge posted “water heater sizing” guidetoday
New 24/7 service pageflagged
Action: publish your burst-pipe guidedrafted
You react the same day, not months later.

AI content in your voice

BlogCraft writes the guides homeowners search (“burst pipe steps,” “water heater sizing,” “{city} repipe cost”); Compose writes the posts; Prompt Studio makes the images. You approve, it ships.

“Burst pipe: steps before the plumber” — draftready
Content score (must clear 88)90
Schema + FAQ added for AI citationpassed ✓
A library of how-to content without hiring a writer.

One-click publish + SEO audit

Push guides straight to WordPress in a click, and get a graded site-wide SEO + AI-visibility audit with fix cards — so your site turns into an emergency-call engine, not a brochure.

Share of voice43%
AI access80
Citability82
High-value calls you own, at $0 per lead — not rented from a marketplace.
04Your free scan

In 60 seconds, see who’s taking your emergency calls.

No card, no call. Enter your site and one competitor — we’ll show you the AI answers, your score, and what they’ve published that you haven’t.

05vs. what you use today

Renting shared leads vs owning your search.

Marketplaces sell you a lead and stop the day you stop paying. ScoutRival builds an asset that keeps bringing the emergency calls. The honest comparison:

CapabilityAngi / lead marketplaceScoutRival
The lead is exclusively yours Sold to several shops Calls come to you
Tells you if AI names you No 2-engine grounded check
Shows what rivals just published No Daily Brief
Writes + publishes your content No BlogCraft → WordPress
Cost holds as leads get pricier Rises yearly Flat monthly seat
Typical costper shared lead, rising$89 / mo (Pro)

ScoutRival isn’t a lead marketplace — we don’t sell leads. We help you own the searches and AI answers that generate your own emergency calls, at $0 per lead.

06Voices from the field

Built for the shop that wins on showing up first.

The voice we built ScoutRival to earn — real stories land here at launch.
Example voices, written from real industry pain points — we’re onboarding founding customers now.
07The math

Less than one repipe a month.

A water-heater or repipe job is worth thousands. The whole platform costs less than one emergency job you’d have lost to a rival.

Emergency jobs you’re losing / month3
Cost of staying invisible / yr
At a conservative ~$1,200 average job — high-value calls that went to whoever showed up first.
vs
ScoutRival Pro / yr
$1,068
Visibility, competitor intel, content & publishing — emergency calls you own.
08Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when it’s working.

Most shops land on Pro. Larger and multi-location companies go Agency.

Free
$0
to try it out
  • 1 brand · 1 seat · 1 competitor
  • 50 credits/mo
  • Daily Brief + competitor watch
  • A taste of AI-visibility
Starter
$29/mo
or $290/yr — 2 months free
  • 1 brand · 1 seat · 5 competitors
  • 1,000 credits/mo
  • Full content suite + WordPress publish
  • Best for a single solo location
Best for plumbers
Pro
$89/mo
or $890/yr — 2 months free
  • 3 brands · 3 seats · 5 competitors each
  • 3,000 credits/mo
  • BlogCraft long-form + one-click publish
  • Bring your own AI key = unlimited
Agency
$149/mo
or $1,490/yr — 2 months free
  • 5 brands · 5 seats · 7 competitors each
  • 5,000 credits/mo · +1,000 per extra seat
  • Bring your own AI key = unlimited
  • White-label · for agencies & multi-client

Extra Agency seats $25/mo each (+1,000 credits). BYOK zeroes content & AI-visibility costs on Pro and Agency. 14-day money-back on all paid plans.

09FAQ

The honest answers.

Do you sell plumbing leads?
No — we’re the opposite of a lead marketplace. ScoutRival helps you own the searches and AI answers that generate your own emergency calls, at $0 per lead.
Does the content really help me rank?
Publishing the guides homeowners actually search (“burst pipe steps,” “water heater cost {city}”) is what earns Google rankings and AI citations over time. We can’t promise a #1 spot on a date — nobody honest can — but we show you the gaps and give you the content to close them.
Is the “AI rank” a real number?
AI answers aren’t a fixed leaderboard — ask the same question twice and the list often changes. We measure it honestly: repeated prompts across ChatGPT (web-grounded, with citations) and Gemini (a memory probe), turned into a weighted 0–100 score with a confidence band. A real measurement, not a made-up rank.
I’m not techy. Can I run this?
If you can read a text and tap approve, you can run it. The brief tells you the one thing to do, the AI drafts it, and publishing is one button. Most owners spend about 15 minutes a day.
Which AI engines do you actually check?
Two: ChatGPT (web-grounded, so it cites live sources) and Gemini (a “memory probe” — what the model already believes, no citations). They’re deliberately different signals, and we label which is which. We don’t claim to track “every AI” — no honest tool can — we measure the grounded answers your customers are most likely to see.
How soon will I show up in AI?
Honestly: it compounds, and nobody can promise a date. Publishing the content that answers your buyers’ questions is what earns citations over the following weeks — some businesses see movement in a few weeks, some longer. What you get on day one is the measurement: exactly which prompts you’re missing and the actions most likely to change it. Anyone promising an overnight “#1 in ChatGPT” is guessing.
Can I cancel, and is there a guarantee?
Yes to both — cancel anytime, no lock-in, and there’s a 14-day money-back guarantee on paid plans. You can also start on the free plan and never pay a cent until it’s earning its keep.
Two minutes, no card

See who AI sends your emergency calls to today.

Run the free scan on your company and one rival. If the marketplace and the shop across town are catching calls that should be yours, you’ll see it — and know exactly how to take them back.

Publishes to WordPressDelivers to Slack & DiscordChatGPT + GeminiNo shared leads