Free Root Cause Review

Find out where you’re losing customers.

The Root Cause Review measures how your business shows up on Google Maps, in Google search and in AI answers, against the three competitors Google ranks above you. Then it ranks your biggest leaks by what they’re likely costing you.

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  • Free, no obligation
  • About ten fields
  • Your top leaks, each with its evidence
  • An optional 20-minute call to walk through it
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How it works

How do you get a review?

Four steps. You do the first two; we do the rest.

  1. Step 1: Fill in the form

    About ten fields: your business, your website, the city you serve and how to reach you.

    2 minutes

  2. Step 2: Confirm it’s you

    Confirm your email, then pick your business from the Google listings we find.

    1 minute

  3. Step 3: We run the checks

    Searches, map positions, AI answers, your website and your competitors, measured at the same moment.

    About 10 minutes

  4. Step 4: Get your private link

    Your report arrives by email with a private link. If our accuracy checks flag something, we look at it before it goes out.

    About 10 minutes
The method

What does the review check?

It checks five things, each against your top three competitors on Google Maps:

  • How you show up on Google Maps for the services you sell, and who’s beating you
  • Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity recommend you, or a competitor
  • Your Google profile, reviews and ratings against your top competitors
  • How fast your website loads on a phone, and whether it’s built to turn visitors into calls
  • Whether your service page answers what customers ask, with facts your competitors don’t state
25map points, 2.5 miles apart, for each service you sell
4AI assistants asked who to hire and what they know about you
3competitors measured the same way, at the same moment
1source on every finding, so you can see how we know

When we can’t measure something, the report says so. It never counts as a fail.

Read a full sample report: a real review with the names removed →

The money

How is the dollar figure worked out?

It’s the business your searches already send to competitors, not a promise of what you’d gain. For each service:

  1. Monthly searches for the service in your metro (Google Ads data, 12-month average)
  2. × the share of your area where you’re not in the Google Maps top 3 (from the 25-point grid)
  3. × the share of searchers who pick a top-3 business (published click studies)
  4. × the share who then contact that business (published industry rates)
  5. × what a new customer is worth in their first year (published price data)

Every figure in the report links to its source. Local prices vary, and the estimate assumes each lead becomes a customer, so it’s the most those leads could be worth.

Limits

What can’t the review see?

  • Your own search results. Google and AI answers change by person, place and day. We measure from fixed points at one moment.
  • What happens after the click. We don’t see your calls, inbox, CRM or close rate. That’s what the 20-minute call is for.
  • Your response time. The review doesn’t send test inquiries.
  • Private data. We read public information only: your Google listing, public search results and your public web pages.
Our crawler

What is RootstockReviewBot?

RootstockReviewBot is the program that reads public web pages for a Root Cause Review. It identifies itself with a link to this page. For each review someone asks for, it reads that business’s home page, robots.txt and up to ten other pages, and the main pages of the three competitors it’s compared with. It doesn’t log in, fill in forms or crawl whole sites.

Questions about a visit from it: reviews@rootstockgrowth.com.

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