You probably landed here because I emailed you.

Fair enough. Here's who's behind it.

I help service businesses get found when people ask AI tools and search engines for someone in their trade — whether you're the name that comes up, or the one that doesn't. Twenty years in direct marketing, now pointed at how AI changed the way customers find you.

bea10 is just the address I run outreach from. Keeps the main inbox clean. The company, the work, and the people I've done it for all live at Smartech.

Chris Small

Founder · Smartech Marketing Systems

The tool behind it

Meet Scout.

Not by hand, and not by guesswork. Scout is a tool I built to run a business through the AI engines people actually use — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google's AI answers — and measure what they say about you, how often, and against whom. Then it digs into your own site for the signals quietly deciding whether the AI trusts you or skips you. It's a measurement, not a hunch.

01Your AI visibility scoreWhere you turn up when someone asks AI for your trade in your city, and how often it's a competitor's name instead of yours.

02The known-but-skipped gapWhether the AI knows you when asked by name, but leaves you out of the "best in town" answers that actually win the job.

03Who's beating you, and whyThe businesses the AI does recommend, and the specific things they're doing that you aren't.

04The signals on your own siteThe schema, structure, and technical markers the engines read to decide if you're a real, trustworthy answer.

05Where your reputation is strandedReviews and mentions sitting on platforms the AI isn't connecting back to you.

06Your citation footprintWhere you show up across the web versus where you need to be for the engines to vouch for you.

I pointed Scout at my own business before I ever pointed it at yours. The result was humbling — which is exactly why I trust what it finds.

Smartech's own AI visibility audit cover - the cobbler's shoes

— We audited ourselves first

Smartech's own audit result: 2 out of 100 AI visibility score

— Our own starting score: 2/100. No adjustments, no excuses.

The full picture — the work, the clients, all of it — lives at Smartech.

→ smartechsystems.com

Or, if you want to know why I reached out about your business specifically, reply to the email or reach me at [email protected].