Every day, people ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity where to eat, book and go. Most small businesses never appear because AI can't read them.
The assistant answers with a shortlist. Most people never look past it. If you're not in it, that customer never knew you existed.
That's our job. We guide AI agents to small businesses.
The honeyguide is a wild bird that leads people to beehives they'd never find on their own — and shares the reward.
An AI assistant can only recommend what it can read. Most of what makes your business worth recommending is unreadable to it.
Many site platforms switch AI crawlers off automatically. You never chose it — and you'd never know. To an assistant, your site is a wall.
The menu is a PDF. Prices are on a booking site. Hours are on Google. Treatments are in an Instagram post. None of it is connected, and none of it is in a form a machine can use.
The quiet back room. The set lunch. The practitioner's twenty years of experience. The things customers actually ask about — and no crawler will ever find.
The result: when someone nearby asks for exactly what you do, the assistant recommends whoever it could read.
Honeyguide turns what makes your business distinct into verified information AI agents can use.
We connect your website and existing listings to every major AI platform, removing the barriers that make your business difficult to reach.
We bring menus, services, prices, hours, specialities and the details only you know into one verified data layer.
As your offer changes, Honeyguide keeps your AI presence accurate — and can connect the systems you already use when you're ready.
See your first customers arrive through AI recommendations. Then keep your AI presence live and current. Cancel anytime.
Test Honeyguide with your real business.
Kept accurate as AI platforms change.
In February I was in Paris and asked ChatGPT for a restaurant within a mile with steak tartare and a rating over 4.5. It couldn't find any. We walked around instead and passed several places that fit exactly — the AI just couldn't read anything about them.
The big brands are already preparing for this. Most independents don't know how fast it's moving, and I think we'll soon see the same scramble we saw when every small business suddenly needed a website.
Honeyguide is the piece that helps small businesses get that visibility in the new AI world. If you run a small business and want to be found by AI, I'd love to hear from you.
Honeyguide is in build. Starting with restaurants and aesthetic clinics — but any small business is welcome. The first to join will test it free, help shape it, and be visible to AI agents before their competitors are.
Bistro Marcel