Getting started: your first 30 days

RadiusLocal.ai is the home of four products for local service businesses: CallRadius for managed Google Local Services Ads, ClickRadius for managed AI search visibility, and their self-serve versions, CallRadius Signal and ClickRadius Signal. You do not need to pick one on day one. This plan helps you measure first and choose second.

Week one: run the free tools

1. Get your free LSA Score. It reads your public Local Services position against your market in about a minute. No sign-up and no Google account connection. Find it under free tools.
2. Scan your website. The free AI Readiness Score gives a 0 to 100 AI Readiness Score across six categories, with what to fix first.
3. Look around the demos. The CallRadius Signal live demo and the ClickRadius Signal demo show what the reporting looks like. Both use fictional businesses and synthetic figures, so treat the numbers as illustrations, not benchmarks.

Write down both scores and the date. They are your starting point.

Week two: check your lead numbers

If you already run Local Services Ads, export your leads for a recent month. Include the date, call or message, contact details, service category and whether each lead was charged.

1. Count distinct people. Link repeat calls and messages from the same customer, so one person is not counted as three leads.
2. Mark booked jobs. Note which people became work, and what that work was worth if you know it.
3. Divide spend twice. Spend divided by distinct people is your real cost per person. Spend divided by booked jobs is the number that matters most.

The full spreadsheet method is in Google says $39. The real number is $62. If you do not run Local Services Ads yet, skip this week and note whether your business type appears on the Industries page.

Week three: do the AI self-audit

Write ten questions customers ask before they know your name, ask each one in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the same way, and record whether you were mentioned, whether your site was cited, your position, which competitors appeared and which sources the answers used. Then ask each assistant what it knows about your business and check the facts. The 20-minute AI self-audit walks through every step.

Week four: choose managed or self-serve for each channel

The products are independent, so decide channel by channel. The question is who will actually make the changes.

If you are unsure, Managed or self-serve? has four questions to ask yourself, including when the honest answer is neither yet.

What to expect from each product

CallRadius

$499 per LSA a month, with no setup fee, month-to-month on 30 days' notice. A card goes on file at sign-up, but nothing is charged until Google approves your Local Services account and it can receive leads. If it never goes live, you are never charged. An experienced LSA manager is assigned to your account. Google ad spend is separate and paid directly to Google.

ClickRadius

$499 a month for a standard site, starting with a 14-day trial. A payment method is required to start, and cancelling before the trial ends avoids the first charge. After that it is month-to-month with no cancellation fee. The plan includes an onboarding call, and a 50-article Knowledge Foundation is built during your first 60 days. Fixes deploy through WordPress, Shopify, a JavaScript snippet or Cloudflare, and every change can be reverted.

CallRadius Signal

Enrollment is opening soon; you can join the early-access list from the Signal page. When it opens, the plan is $29 a month or Pro $79, with a 14-day trial that needs no card. You connect Google after sign-up, and Signal reads and archives your data without changing bids, budgets, campaigns or settings. Sign-in is by emailed one-time link. If you never add a card, live reporting pauses after day 14.

ClickRadius Signal

Planned for 2027. The $29 Report and $79 Pro prices are proposed, and prices and delivery still require a paid pilot. You can join the early-access list now.

Set a baseline and a rhythm

Whatever you choose, end the month with a short record: your two free-tool scores, your cost per person and per booked job, and your self-audit results, each with a date. Then pick a monthly review day. Make a few changes at a time and write down when you made them, because a change after an action does not by itself prove the action caused it. How we label numbers explains how we apply the same standard to our own reporting.

Talk to a person

If you would rather skip the reading, tell us about your business and we will recommend a starting point, even if it is just a free tool. Use the contact page, email info@radiuslocal.ai or call (866) 927-1855. A real person will reply, usually within one business day. Agencies can start from the agency program.

Common questions

Do I need to connect my Google account to get started?

No. The free LSA Score and the free AI Readiness Score work without any account connection. CallRadius Signal asks you to connect Google after sign-up, once enrollment opens.

Can I use one product for ads and a different one for AI visibility?

Yes. For example, you might run your own Local Services Ads with CallRadius Signal and choose managed ClickRadius for your website. Choose by channel, not by package.

When does CallRadius start charging?

Nothing is charged until Google approves your Local Services account and it can receive leads. A card goes on file at sign-up.

Is any of this guaranteed to bring more leads?

No. Ad results depend on Google and AI answers depend on each provider. What we can promise is transparency about what was done and what changed.