For Restoration & Water-Damage Companies

You pay $542 a lead.
This homeowner
found you free.

Emergency calls will always be a race. The insurance-claim work — where the homeowner reads for two days before calling anyone — is winnable, and right now a franchise brand owns it.

ChatGPT + Gemini, labelledPublishes to your WordPressLive in ~5 minutes

Free · no card · result in about 60 seconds

Live · 2 engines checked
scoutrival.com/scan · rapidrestorationco.com Live
Prompt tested
 
ChatGPT
Cited 5 sources — a national franchise brand twice.
Web-grounded
Gemini
Recalled the same franchise brand.
Memory probe
0
AI-visibility 26/100 (±9). A national franchise is named for 8 of your 10 money prompts. The insurance question — asked two days before anyone calls — cites them too.
Tomorrow’s brief · action #1

Publish “Does homeowners insurance cover water damage? What an adjuster actually looks for.” It is the highest-volume pre-emergency question and no independent 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

You are paying franchise prices for leads you could own.

The 2am emergency is decided on Google Maps. The claim work — planned remediation, mould, contents — is decided days earlier, on research nobody local is competing for.

~$542
Average cost per restoration lead, nationally.
Competitive metros run near $775. Exclusive leads reach $750+, and shared ones still go to three competitors at once.
Restoration CPL benchmarks 2026 · verify
$15–60
Effective cost of an organic lead.
Companies ranking top-three organically generate 20–60 leads a month at a fraction of paid cost. The channel exists — almost nobody builds it.
Restoration SEO benchmarks · verify
0–12%
Of gross revenue going to marketing.
Real committed budget, mostly rented. A lead vendor can reprice you overnight and there is nothing you own to fall back on.
Restoration financial benchmarks · verify
0%
Of people now ask AI to find a local business.
Up from 6% a year ago. They ask whether insurance covers it before they ask who to call — and that answer shapes who they trust.
BrightLocal 2026 · verify
02A day in the life
Illustrative scenario

A Thursday at Rapid Restoration.

The two days before the call — and who owns them.

1
Thursday · Ray, owner

A homeowner calls having already decided the insurer’s preferred vendor is the safer choice. She read that somewhere. Ray spends the call undoing a position he had no part in forming.

Lost before the callNo trust to build on
2
The gap

He is paying $610 a lead in his metro, shared with two other companies. His site has a services list and no answer to a single insurance question.

$610 per lead0 claim guides
3
Monday · ScoutRival, day one

The scan scores him 26/100 and shows a national franchise cited for eight of ten prompts. It also finds the real technical issue: twelve near-identical service-area pages, which is why none of them rank.

60 seconds$0
Ten weeks later

Eleven claim-process guides live — what is covered, what an adjuster looks for, whether to use the insurer’s vendor. Homeowners now arrive having read his explanation. The paid spend still runs; it is no longer the only channel.

~3 min/day11 guides liveOrganic leads at ~$0
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 claim content

BlogCraft writes the insurance-process guides homeowners read before they call anyone — what is covered, how to document, what an adjuster looks for, whether to use the insurer’s preferred vendor — structured so AI engines quote them.

BlogCraft claim contentlive
“Does insurance cover water damage?” draft ready
Citation-probability score 91
Answer-first block + FAQ schema passed
A channel where the lead costs nothing after the first publish.
Per article under 1 minYou approveDraft-safe

AI-Visibility check

We ask ChatGPT and Gemini the claim questions and the service queries, and score how often you are named against the franchise brands you actually compete with — with a confidence band.

AI-Visibility checklive
“does insurance cover water damage” franchise cited
“water damage restoration near me” franchise named
“mold remediation cost” named ✓
You see the two days of research you have been absent from.
Setup 2 minRe-check 60 sec

Competitor watch + Daily Brief

Watch the franchise brands and independents in your market across nine channels, and get a morning brief on what they published and the one thing worth doing about it.

Competitor watch + Daily Brieflive
Franchise published a claims guide today
New “free inspection” offer flagged
Your move: publish yours, better drafted
Their national marketing becomes visible in your market.
Read time 2 min/dayNine channels

SEO audit + one-click publish

A 31-point audit finds the duplication problem almost every restoration site has — a dozen near-identical city pages competing with each other — and hands you the fix with the code.

SEO audit + one-click publishlive
Service-area pages 12 near-duplicates
AI access 58
Citability 29
The pages you already built start earning.
Fix cards includedPublish 1 click
04The impact

Less time. Less spend. More found.

What a normal month looks like before ScoutRival, and after. Same company, same crews, same hours.

Your time, per month
~0 hr
given back — mostly the content that never got written
Checking what competitors ran ~2 hr a month 0
Writing one social post ~30 min ~5 min
Writing one claim guide ~5 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+
claim questions answered on your own site, in ten weeks
Prompts where you’re named unknown measured
Claim questions answered 0 11+
Cost per organic lead n/a ~$0 after publish
Franchise moves caught late most none

Figures are modelled from a typical single-market restoration company. The third card is what the product measures — organic leads compound over months and we won’t promise a call volume nobody can promise.

05Your free scan

In 60 seconds, see who owns the insurance question.

No card, no call. Drop your site in — we’ll show you which franchise gets cited, and the technical reason your service-area pages aren’t ranking.

Scanning…2 engines
ChatGPT · grounded
Cited 5 sources — a national franchise brand twice.
not named
Competitor activity
Recalled the same franchise brand.
tracked
26

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

Get my full report →

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 an independent.

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

Option A

Marketing agency

$2,500–8,000 / 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 buy or replace emergency leads
The last two are deliberate. We’d rather you knew now than found out in month two — everything else is in one seat.
Run my free scan

The 2am emergency search is decided in the local pack and we don’t touch it. Saying so plainly is the difference between a customer who understands what they bought and one who churns angrily in month two.

07What owners tell us

Built for the owner who is the marketing team.

The two days before the phone rings — in the words of the operators who own them now.

08The math

One claim job covers three years.

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

Jobs you’re losing / month3
151015
Cost of staying invisible / yr
At roughly $4,800 — conservative average value of a mitigation and remediation job.
vs
ScoutRival / yr
$1,068
Visibility, competitor intel, content and publishing — less than what you’re losing.

Job values vary enormously by loss type — 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 your claim questions and service queries, a 31-point audit — which in restoration almost always surfaces duplicated service-area pages — and your first claim guide drafted and ready to approve. About five minutes to set up.
Will this replace the leads I’m buying?
Not overnight, and anyone promising that is guessing. What it does is build the channel you own, so that in a year the vendor is a supplement rather than the whole pipeline. Organic restoration leads run a fraction of the ~$542 national average once the content is live.
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 we deliberately don’t do: manage your Google Business Profile, and replace emergency lead buying. If the 2am search is your only channel, we’ll tell you a different tool is the better spend.
Two minutes, no card

Find out who owns the insurance question in your market.

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

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Partner programme

Your audience runs restoration companies. Send them something useful.

If you train restoration operators, run an industry community, or consult on claims, 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