Be the answer when Kansas City asks.
45% of people now ask AI tools like ChatGPT where to eat, who to hire and who to trust. A year ago it was 6%. Every one of those questions comes back with a name. We make sure it's yours.
Search didn't die. It stopped showing its work.
Your customers still ask. They just ask things that answer back with one name and zero links. You never see the question. You only feel the quiet. Here's what it looks like from the inside.
of consumers now ask AI tools for local recommendations. It was 6% a year ago. Your customers moved. Most businesses haven't noticed yet.
fewer clicks reach the top Google result where an AI answer sits above it. You can win the ranking and still lose the customer.
more organic clicks for businesses cited inside the AI answer, and 91% more paid clicks. The answer box is the new front page and it only prints a few names.
Every number up there is a customer choosing somebody. The only question is whether they can choose you.
Sources: BrightLocal 2026 Local Consumer Review Survey · Ahrefs · Seer Interactive
SEO, GEO and AEO, minus the alphabet soup.
Three acronyms, one job: when a customer asks, in a search bar, a chat window or out loud in their kitchen, the answer is you.
Search engine optimization
Google is still where most customers start. We make sure that when your neighbors search, they find you before they find the shop across town.
Generative engine optimization
When ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity writes the answer, your business is in it. Nobody clicks a link that never appears. GEO puts your name inside the answer itself.
Answer engine optimization
Featured snippets, AI Overviews and voice assistants read out exactly one answer. AEO is the work of being it. Second place doesn't get read aloud.
Find out what AI says about you when you're not in the room.
Drop in your website and we run the questions your customers actually ask through Google, Google Maps and AI assistants, then show you who gets named. Maybe it's you. Maybe it's the place across town. Your report page starts building the moment you hit the button.
Check. Audit. Fix. In that order.
No retainers. No 12 month contracts. Each step has to earn the next one.
The free check
Sixty seconds, no signup. See what Google, Maps and the AI tools say about your business right now. Like what you see? Close the tab and carry on. If you don't, step two exists.
The audit
Everywhere you should be found, everywhere you aren't and what that gap costs you. A prioritized fix list in plain English and a walkthrough call, delivered in five business days. The report is yours to keep no matter who does the fixing.
The fixes
Work the list yourself or hand it to us by the hour. Most Kansas City businesses need 10 to 20 hours, then they're done. Optional. And never, ever a retainer.
One report. Every place you should be found.
Local business is our business.
The service side of Uwasa is based here and only works with businesses your neighbors can walk into: the bakery on 39th, the plumber in Waldo, the taqueria on Southwest Boulevard.
That focus is the edge. We know what this city asks, by neighborhood, by season, by “open right now”. While national agencies learn how to pronounce Wornall, we're already asking the questions your customers ask and checking whose name comes back. Our job is making sure tomorrow it's yours.
No dashboards for dashboards' sake. And if you're an agency looking for the software instead, that's the front page →
Why “Uwasa”?
Uwasa is Japanese for rumor: the things people say about you when you're not in the room. Customers asking a chatbot who to trust. A voice assistant reading out one name. The quiet conversation that decides who gets chosen. We named the whole product after it because that conversation is our entire job: hearing it, measuring it and making sure it gets you right.
Uwasa is a search and AI visibility service and software product from Octopolis, an independent product lab in Kansas City, Missouri founded by Elijah Kleinsmith. Its local service helps Kansas City businesses appear in Google results, Google Maps, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and voice assistant answers through SEO, GEO (generative engine optimization) and AEO (answer engine optimization), charging a fixed $500 for a visibility audit and $100 per hour for fixes, with no retainers or long term contracts.
Fair questions.
What do I actually get for $500?
A visibility audit: where you show up and where you don't, across Google, Maps, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and voice assistants. What's broken, what it's costing you and a prioritized fix list in plain English, plus a walkthrough call. The report is yours to keep either way. Most agencies charge a monthly retainer to tell you less.
How much does an SEO audit cost in Kansas City?
Most agencies answer that with a discovery call. We answer it with a number: $500, fixed, delivered in five business days. No retainer before, during or after.
What is the difference between SEO, GEO and AEO?
SEO gets you found on Google. GEO (generative engine optimization) gets you named when AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini write the answer. AEO (answer engine optimization) makes you the direct answer in featured snippets, AI Overviews and voice search. Three directions, one destination: when a customer asks, the answer is you.
Can't I just do this myself?
A lot of it, yes. The audit tells you exactly what to fix and the report is yours whether we ever talk again. Work it yourself at $0 an hour or hand it to us at $100. Either way you'll know precisely what's broken, which already puts you ahead of every competitor who's guessing.
How is this different from hiring an SEO agency?
Agencies sell retainers. We sell three steps, each with a price tag, each optional. And traditional SEO stops at Google while nearly half your customers now ask AI tools too. We follow them everywhere they ask.
How do I see what ChatGPT says about my business?
Ask us, free, at the top of this page. We run your customers' real questions through Google, Google Maps and AI assistants, then show you who gets named. The audit goes deeper: more questions, more surfaces including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and voice assistants, plus the why and the fix.
Do you guarantee first place?
No. And be suspicious of anyone who does. AI answers shift daily and nobody controls them, whatever their sales deck says. What we do guarantee: every claim in your audit is testable, every fix is documented and you will never pay us a dollar on autopilot.
Kansas City is already asking.
Somewhere in the city right now, an AI just recommended a business like yours. Find out if it was yours.
Be the answer when Kansas City asks.