Cannone Marketing

United States · $49/mo + $199 setup

3.29/ 5

M1 · Own AI-visibility 2 · 9%

Absent from category recall on both engines (US local GEO/AEO shortlists named Omniscient Digital, Siege Media, Victorious, iPullRank, Markitors, BrightLocal — not Cannone). Brand recall thin/self-sourced on both: ChatGPT — 'mostly its own website, Facebook and marketing pages; very little independent recognition'; Claude found a real small shop (owner Mike Cannone, Baiting Hollow NY; BBB profile + 0-review Facebook) but the independent footprint is thin.

M2 · Method transparency 3 · 16%

A simplified three-step onboarding flow is published ("Tell Us About Your Business / We Get to Work / See Your Free Video Call Demo") plus "Live Traffic Stats", but the actual GBP/citation/schema workflow and what is measured stay in marketing terms — no methodology or measurement page. source ↗

M3 · Evidence verifiability 3 · 23%

A portfolio shows screenshots of named client sites (e.g. "maximusriverhead", "drstuartsilverman") and a /case-studies link exists, but no bounded result, metric or named testimonial is surfaced; the "Real Reviews from Business Owners" section carries no quotes or names on the page (only a BBB badge). source ↗ · provisional

M4 · Pricing openness 5 · 12%

Full published price — "$199 setup & $49/Month. Zero Contracts" — month-to-month, no hidden fees claimed. source ↗

M5 · AI reachability 4 · 10%

robots.txt does not block the key AI crawlers and the homepage is server-rendered (2234 words to a non-JS reader); no llms.txt.

E1 · Segment fit 5 · 12%

editorial — Built for local small businesses across "more than 300 industries nationwide" at a $49/mo price point with "No technical knowledge required"; SMB-proportionate, not enterprise. source ↗

E2 · Promise cleanliness 3 · 18%

editorial — Marketing puffery but no guarantees: "dominate local search" recurs (3+ times) alongside "Stop Losing Business To Competitors" and "Win Local Visibility". No ranking guarantee, money-back pledge, fake-review or AI-manipulation language found. source ↗

◧ M1 cross-engine — ChatGPT: self-sourced-thin — own site, Facebook, marketing pages; little independent recognition · Claude: self-sourced-thin — real small shop (Mike Cannone, Baiting Hollow NY; BBB + 0-review FB), thin footprint · recorded, not averaged

Open, cheap, contract-free pricing and an SMB-native pitch make it easy to read and easy to buy. What holds it back: no named, checkable client proof on the public pages (M3) and recurring "dominate local search" language (E2). A budget local-SEO/AEO shop whose marketing runs ahead of its evidence. Own-visibility (M1) is provisional.

Focus: SEO-led hybrid · -0.20 applied to composite

SMB-primary: pass

Self-serve offer: pass

GEO substance: pass

Live business: pass

What this ruler does NOT measure Track-record depth and the volume of named cases favour older incumbents we cannot fully see; NDA-bound outcomes are unscored. We weight reproducible, buyer-checkable signal on purpose — and we list ourselves on the same ruler.

Data as of 2026-06-30