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AI Local SEO Citation and Google Business Profile Manager

AI tool that audits NAP consistency across Google, Yelp, Apple Maps & Bing for multi-location businesses, then drafts corrected listings and GBP posts.

A regional dental group with 14 locations opens its 15th office in a new suburb. The office manager updates the phone number on the website, forgets to touch Google Business Profile, and never even knows Yelp, Apple Maps, and Bing Places exist as separate systems that need separate logins. Six months later a patient calls the old number, gets a disconnected line, and books with the competitor three listings down. Multiply that by every phone-number change, every relocated suite, every rebrand, and every seasonal-hours update across dozens of directories, and you get what local SEO practitioners call "NAP drift" — Name, Address, Phone data that quietly diverges from reality across the web while nobody in the business is watching.

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Suggested stack: Next.js 15 (App Router) + Vercel, Postgres (Supabase or Neon), Google Business Profile API + Yelp Fusion API + Apple Business Connect + Bing Places API, Anthropic Claude (Sonnet), structured JSON output, Inngest or Trigger.dev, Stripe Billing. Weekend scope: about 12 hours.

The Problem

A regional dental group with 14 locations opens its 15th office in a new suburb. The office manager updates the phone number on the website, forgets to touch Google Business…

The Solution

A multi-location citation and Google Business Profile management platform that connects to a business's core location data once, then continuously audits every linked directory…

Market Research

The local SEO software market is estimated at roughly $9-10B in 2025, on a path toward $19.4B by 2031 at a 13.37% CAGR — and within that market, listings/citation management is…

Competitive Landscape

Yext — The enterprise standard for listings, pages, reviews, and search, but pricing runs roughly $1,000-3,000 per location per year for listings alone at small scale, sold…

Business Model

Starter ($39/mo, up to 3 locations) — Citation audit across 20 core directories, GBP + Yelp + Apple Maps + Bing sync, weekly AI-drafted GBP post per location, email alerts on new…

Recommended Tech Stack

Next.js 15 (App Router) + Vercel — Franchise-ops dashboard with Server Actions for the approval queue; Vercel Cron drives the nightly audit sweep across all connected locations.

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  1. 1. Project Setup

    Create a Next.js 15 (App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind) project for a multi-location local SEO citation manager called "CiteSync." Provision Supabase Postgres with these tables: organizations (id, name, brand_voice_profile JSONB, plan), locations (id, org_id, name, address_line1, address_line2, city, state, zip, phone, hours JSONB, source_of_truth BOOLEAN default true), directories (id, name, api_type ENUM['api','scrape'], base_url), citations (id, location_id, directory_id, live_name, live_address, live_phone, live_hours JSONB, status ENUM['match','mismatch','pending','unknown'], last_checked_at), corrections (id, citation_id, drafted_payload JSONB, approval_state ENUM['pending','approved','rejected','submitted'], created_at), content_queue (id, location_id, type ENUM['gbp_post','qa_reply','review_reply'], draft_text, approval_state, created_at). Enable row-level security scoped by org_id so franchise groups only see their own locations. Add env vars for GOOGLE_BUSINESS_PROFILE_API_KEY, YELP_FUSION_API_KEY, BING_PLACES_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. Install the Vercel AI SDK and Playwright for the scrape-fallback workers.
  2. 2. Citation Audit + AI Correction Drafting

    Build a nightly Inngest job that audits every location's citations. For each location with source_of_truth data, loop over its linked directories:
    
    1. Fetch the live listing via API where available (Google Business Profile, Bing Places); otherwise run a Playwright scrape against the directory's public listing page.
    2. Diff each field (name, address, phone, hours) against the source-of-truth record using a normalized comparison that strips punctuation/casing noise that isn't a real mismatch (e.g. "St" vs "Street").
    3. Where a real mismatch exists, call the Anthropic Messages API with a structured JSON schema: { field, current_value, corrected_value, directory_format_notes }. System prompt: "Correct this business listing field for [directory_name]. Given the live (incorrect) value and the correct source-of-truth value, output the corrected value formatted exactly as this directory expects (e.g. Yelp uses 'Ste' not 'Suite'; Google Business Profile requires E.164 phone format)."
    4. Store the result in the corrections table with approval_state='pending', update the citation's status to 'mismatch', and recompute the location's health_score (percentage of citations with status='match').
    5. Send admins a digest summarizing new mismatches, grouped by location, once the run completes.
  3. 3. Bulk Approval Queue UI

    Build a mobile-friendly approval queue at /dashboard/corrections for franchise/regional managers to review AI-drafted citation corrections in bulk.
    
    Requirements:
    - List pending corrections grouped by location, each card showing directory name, field, the current (wrong) value struck through, the AI-corrected value highlighted, and a confidence indicator.
    - Bulk-select checkboxes with an "Approve all selected" action, plus per-row "Approve" / "Edit & Approve" / "Reject" buttons.
    - On approval: if the directory has write-API access, immediately submit the correction and mark approval_state='submitted'; if scrape-only, mark it 'approved' and generate a screenshot-annotated manual submission guide since no programmatic write path exists.
    - Show a running "citation health score" per location (0-100%) at the top of the queue with a trend arrow vs. last month.
    - Add a second tab for content_queue items (GBP posts, Q&A replies, review responses) using the same approve/edit/reject pattern, previewed in a card styled like the real GBP post/Yelp reply UI.