Trust monitoring for local businesses
The trust signals that decide whether customers — and AI — recommend you.
Website security, domain health, email safety, and AI/chat search visibility, monitored monthly and explained in plain English. No dashboards to learn. No cybersecurity jargon.
A public-facing trust review — not a penetration test or compliance audit.
What we check
Five things that quietly cost local businesses trust and leads — and that your web person and IT usually don't watch.
Can someone spoof you?
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC decide whether scammers can send email that looks like it came from your business. Most SMBs have gaps here.
Can customers email you?
Misconfigured domains send legitimate email straight to spam. We check deliverability signals and MX/DNS health.
Is your site quietly broken?
Expiring SSL, missing HTTPS, broken forms, and missing security headers erode trust before a visitor ever calls.
Is your domain safe?
Expiration, DNS changes, blacklist status, and WordPress/plugin exposure — caught before they become emergencies.
Do AI assistants recommend you?
We test whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini mention your business when customers ask who to trust — and why competitors show up instead.
Would a customer trust you?
Google Business Profile, reviews, NAP consistency, and trust pages — the signals people and search engines both rely on.
Why trust signals matter
Customers, Google, and AI assistants all make a fast judgment about whether your business is safe to recommend. That judgment runs on signals most owners never see: email authentication, a clean secure site, consistent public information, and credible third-party mentions.
When those signals are broken, the damage is invisible until it isn't — a spoofed invoice, emails in spam, a hacked page in Google, or a competitor being named by ChatGPT while you're left out. We watch them so you don't have to.
Free · No sales call
Free Business Trust Snapshot
I'll check your domain, email security, website trust signals, and whether AI assistants can find and recommend your business. If anything looks risky, I'll send a plain-English report.
- Domain & email security snapshot
- Website trust & SSL snapshot
- AI / chat-search visibility snapshot
- Three prioritized fixes
Simple pricing
Start free. Pay only when you want the full report or the fixes done for you.
Quick trust score and the most obvious risks.
Free ReportFull plain-English risk report, AI/chat visibility, and a 30-day fix plan.
Full Trust AuditWe fix your prioritized trust and security gaps for you.
Book a Fix SprintMonthly monitoring, alerts, and light managed fixes.
Protection PlanFAQ
We already have a web guy / IT.
Great — this doesn't replace them. It's an outside snapshot of public-facing trust and visibility signals, and it gives them a prioritized checklist for things outside design and content.
Is this cybersecurity? We're too small for that.
This isn't enterprise cybersecurity. It checks whether customers can trust and reach you online. Small businesses are exactly where email spoofing, expired domains, and broken trust signals get missed.
Can you guarantee AI or Google rankings?
No — and anyone who does is bluffing. AI answer engines change frequently. We track how your business appears, show why competitors are recommended, and improve the public trust signals those systems rely on.
Is this a security test / hack attempt?
No. This is a public-facing trust and configuration review, not a penetration test or compliance certification. We only look at what's already visible to the public.