For Landscaping & Design-Build

January decides May.
Most people find
out in June.

Homeowners plan spring projects over the winter, reading cost guides and collecting images for months. That research window is when your season is actually won — and right now a national cost site owns all of it.

ChatGPT + Gemini, labelledPublishes to your WordPressFree to start, no card

Free · no card · result in about 60 seconds

Live · 2 engines checked
scoutrival.com/scan · stoneridgelandscapes.com Live
Prompt tested
 
ChatGPT
Cited 4 sources — two national cost sites, no local company.
Web-grounded
Gemini
Recalled a national home-services marketplace.
Memory probe
0
AI-visibility 34/100 (±8). A national cost site answers the patio question with a number you would argue with. No local design-build company is cited at all.
Tomorrow’s brief · action #1

Publish “What a paver patio actually costs in Minneapolis — 2026 numbers from a builder.” It is the first thing homeowners search and no local company has answered it.

See it in 84 seconds

The morning this replaces.

One brief, one action, one approved post — before your first appointment. No feature tour, just the loop.

1:24 runtime10 beats4K light themeVO included
01The problem

Your best season is decided in your quietest months.

Design-build projects are researched for months before anyone requests a quote. By spring the shortlist already exists — and you were not on it.

$25–85
Cost per landscaping lead by channel.
Rising through the season as every operator bids on the same spring terms at the same time.
Landscaping marketing benchmarks 2026 · verify
0–12%
Of revenue on marketing for growth.
Real budget, almost all of it spent in-season when competition is highest and attention is cheapest to lose.
Landscaping marketing cost 2026 · verify
Months
Of homeowner research before a quote request.
Spent reading cost guides and collecting images — mostly in winter, mostly on national sites with no idea what stone costs in your market.
Category buying-journey analysis · verify
0%
Of people now ask AI to find a local business.
Up from 6% a year ago. They ask what a patio costs long before they ask who builds one.
BrightLocal 2026 · verify
02A day in the life
Illustrative scenario

A Tuesday in January at Stoneridge Landscapes.

The quiet months, and what they decide.

1
January · Deb, owner

The spring book is thinner than last year and there is nothing to do about it in April. She knows the work is won now and has no system for winning it.

Thin spring bookNo winter activity
2
The gap

She asks ChatGPT what a paver patio costs in Minneapolis. A national site answers with a number 35% below her market. No local company appears.

Wrong number quoted0 local companies cited
3
The same week · ScoutRival, day one

The scan scores her 34/100 and shows the whole research phase unclaimed. She starts on Starter over the winter to see whether it moves anything before committing.

60 seconds$29/mo
By May

Nine cost and materials guides live, published through the winter. Homeowners arrive quoting her range and already knowing why stone costs what it does. The spring book filled in March.

~3 min/day9 guides liveBooked by March
03How ScoutRival solves it

Four jobs a marketing hire would do — in one seat.

Pick the pain. See exactly what the product does about it.

BlogCraft cost content

BlogCraft writes the cost and materials guides homeowners research over the winter — patio cost, pavers versus concrete, when to start planning — with local pricing context a national site cannot provide.

BlogCraft cost contentlive
“Paver patio cost in Minneapolis” draft ready
Citation-probability score 88
Answer-first block + FAQ schema passed
Winter becomes productive instead of anxious.
Per article under 1 minYou approveDraft-safe

AI-Visibility check

We ask ChatGPT and Gemini the cost and design questions homeowners research, and score how often you are named against the design-build companies you actually compete with.

AI-Visibility checklive
“paver patio cost” national site cited
“landscape designer Minneapolis” marketplace named
“outdoor kitchen cost” named ✓
You see the months of planning you have been absent from.
Setup 2 minRe-check 60 sec

Competitor watch + Compose

Watch rival design-build companies across nine channels — Instagram and Pinterest especially, where project discovery genuinely happens — and turn your own finished projects into branded posts in minutes.

Competitor watch + Composelive
Rival posted 14 project transformations vs your 3
New outdoor-kitchen service line flagged
Your move: publish the patio cost guide drafted
Finished work becomes content instead of sitting on your phone.
Read time 2 min/dayYou publish

SEO audit + one-click publish

A 31-point audit finds what gallery-heavy sites always suffer from — page weight, missing structure, no answerable content — with the fixes and the code.

SEO audit + one-click publishlive
Page weight 8.4s to interactive
Answerable content 0 pages
Citability 28
The portfolio that wins the job finally gets found.
Fix cards includedPublish 1 click
04The impact

Less time. Less spend. More found.

What a normal month looks like before ScoutRival, and after. Same crew, same season, a fuller book.

Your time, per month
~0 hr
given back — and it lands in the months you actually have time
Checking what rivals posted ~2 hr a month 0
Writing one social post ~25 min ~5 min
Writing one cost guide ~4 hr under 1 min
Reading the morning brief ~5 min a day
Your stack, per month
4 → 1
four subscriptions and four logins become one seat
AI-visibility tracker $25–83 included
AI writing tool $39–99 included
Design tool for graphics $15–30 included
Competitor / social listening $99+ included
What actually moves
0+
cost and materials questions answered before the season starts
Prompts where you’re named unknown measured
Cost questions answered 0 9+
Project posts per month 3 30+
Spring book filled by April March

Figures are modelled from a design-build operator. The third card is what the product measures. ⚠️ If you run maintenance rather than design-build, this is a much weaker fit — mow-and-blow contracts renew on relationship and price, not research.

05Your free scan

In 60 seconds, see who is quoting your prices.

No card, no call. Drop your site in — we’ll show you the number AI is telling homeowners a patio costs, and which company it names instead of you.

Scanning…2 engines
ChatGPT · grounded
Cited 4 sources — two national cost sites, no local company.
not named
Competitor activity
Recalled a national home-services marketplace.
tracked
34

The full report lists every prompt you’re missing and the top 3 actions to fix it.

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Free · no credit card · this is a sample — your real scan runs live

01 Enter your site
02 We test your money prompts
03 You get the report — no call
06vs. what you use today

Three ways to solve this. One fits a design-build.

An agency, a stack of tools, or one seat. The honest comparison — including the two things we don’t do.

Option A

Marketing agency

$1,500–4,000 / month
  • Rarely measures AI visibility
  • Competitor watch not in scope
  • Direction on a monthly call
  • Writes content — in 2–4 weeks
  • Manages reviews and posting
  • You own the content — check the contract
Real expertise, real cost. You wait on someone else’s calendar, and the knowledge leaves when they do.
Option B

Four separate tools

~$180–290 / month
  • Tracks AI visibility
  • Listening is enterprise-priced
  • You interpret all of the data
  • Generic content unless you prompt well
  • Four logins, none share context
  • You own everything you make
Cheaper than an agency — but you become the integration layer, and that’s the job you didn’t want.
Built for a business like yours Option C

ScoutRival

One seat · see pricing →
  • Two engines, labelled — re-check any day
  • Nine channels + founder-level tracking
  • A daily brief with one clear action
  • Content in your voice, drafted in ~90 seconds
  • Branded graphics + one-click WordPress
  • Yours forever — export anytime
  • Doesn’t manage your Google Business Profile or map-pack rank
  • Doesn’t post to Instagram or Pinterest for you
The last two are deliberate. We’d rather you knew now than found out in month two — everything else is in one seat.
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Visual discovery drives this category and we generate the content but do not publish it. Combined with the map-pack gap, these two are worth stating before someone buys expecting either.

07What owners tell us

Built for the owner who is the marketing team.

The winter that decides the season — in the words of the builders who use it now.

08The math

One patio covers five years.

Drag to your reality: how many projects a month do you think you lose to the company that got found first?

Projects you’re losing / month3
151015
Cost of staying invisible / yr
At roughly $7,500 — conservative gross margin on a mid-size hardscape or design-build project.
vs
ScoutRival / yr
$348 (Starter) or $1,068 (Pro)
Visibility, competitor intel, content and publishing — less than what you’re losing.

Project margins vary widely by scope — use your own. Full plan details on the See the pricing page →

09FAQ

Everything owners ask before they start.

What exactly do I get on day one?
A measured AI-visibility score across ChatGPT and Gemini for the cost and design questions homeowners research, a 31-point audit of your gallery site, and your first cost guide drafted and ready to approve. About five minutes to set up.
When should I start — and is Starter enough?
Start in the autumn or winter. Content takes 60–90 days, so what publishes in November fills March. And over the winter Starter at $29 is usually the right plan — move to Pro in season if you want Pinterest tracking and the full channel set.
Which AI engines do you check, and how?
Two, and we label which is which. ChatGPT runs web-grounded, so it cites live sources and we show you those citations. Gemini runs as a memory probe — what the model already believes about your market, without citations. They’re deliberately different signals, and reading them together tells you more than a single number would.
Is the score something I can trust and act on?
Yes — because we show you the working. You get a weighted 0–100 score with a confidence band, share of voice against the competitors you actually have, and the receipts behind every answer. AI answers shift between runs, so we show the band rather than a false-precision ranking — and you can re-check any day to watch it move.
I already pay an agency. Does this replace them?
It can, and plenty of owners use it that way. But the sharper move is to ask your agency what your AI-visibility score is. If they have an answer, keep them — you have a good agency. If they don’t, you’ve found the gap, and one seat gives you an independent instrument to measure their work every month for a fraction of the retainer.
What does one seat actually include?
AI-visibility tracking across both engines, nine-channel competitor monitoring with founder-level LinkedIn, the daily brief, content generation in your voice, branded graphics from a 330-design library, long-form articles with one-click WordPress publishing, a 31-point site audit, and Google Search Console plus Bing traffic. On Pro and Agency you can connect your own AI key and generate at zero credit cost. [See the full comparison →](/pricing)
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. 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.
What if it isn’t right for us?
Start free — no card, and the scan costs nothing. Paid plans carry a 14-day money-back guarantee, you can cancel anytime with no lock-in, and everything you generate exports as HTML, Markdown, PDF or plain text. What you create is yours whether you stay or not. Two things worth knowing: we don’t manage your Google listing, and we don’t post to Instagram or Pinterest for you. And if you run maintenance rather than design-build, this is a weaker fit and we’d rather say so.
Two minutes, no card

Find out who is quoting your prices.

Then decide. The scan is free, the report is yours, and nobody calls you.

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Partner programme

Your audience runs landscaping companies. Send them something useful.

If you coach green-industry owners, run a trade community, or serve design-build companies, ScoutRival pays recurring commission on every company you refer — for as long as they stay.

  • Recurring commission, not one-off. You earn every month they stay, not just on the first payment.
  • Your rate is set on fit. Reviewed individually on your audience and authority — not a flat rate everyone gets.
  • A link that does the work. Send this page. The free scan gives them a specific finding in about a minute — no demo call to book.
  • Nothing you have to defend. Two engines, labelled. No invented rankings. We say what the product doesn’t do, so you’re never the one over-promising.
  • A 30-day attribution window and a partner dashboard showing clicks, signups and earnings.

How it works

1
Apply in about two minutes
Tell us who your audience is. No traffic minimum.
2
We review it by hand
Every application is read by a person. Rate set on audience fit, not a tier table.
3
You get a link and your rate
Share this page, the free scan, or your own write-up. Tracked for 30 days.
4
You earn every month they stay
Commission clears after a 45-day hold, $50 minimum payout, visible in your dashboard.
Recurring
not one-off
30 days
attribution window
Per-partner
rate set on fit