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  1. 1Free GEO audit$0See who AI names for you today
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  3. 3Autopilot$79/moBeacon writes what wins the slot
  4. 4Oracle$199/moGet ahead of the next question
Our ethos

Beacon learns your industry and how you write, then writes you into the answers your customers get from AI.

45% of people now ask AI for recommendations; a year ago it was 6%.

Source: BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026

one question, every engine, every day

The engines watched
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Perplexity
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Where content lands
  • Hosted blog
  • Headless
  • WordPress
  • LinkedIn
  • X
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Engines answer from what they can cite. Beacon builds a sourced knowledge base of your industry and learns your voice from writing you already like. Then it fills the engines’ view of your market with cited answers on your own domain.

Autopilot gets you cited.

Cited content written for you: on a schedule you set, in your voice, published once you approve.

Observe tracks ranking.

The daily scoreboard: who holds each buyer question, and your rank moving as the content lands.

Oracle gets ahead.

A knowledge base of your market, publishing your answer before the question is asked.

Beacon Autopilot

Autopilot writes the content so you get cited instead of your competitors.

The content engine

Cited drafts against the questions you are losing: blog, LinkedIn and X.

1
Going out this week
approved, yours to post, or out
1
Waiting on you
your call before anything moves
ChannelAllBlogLinkedInTwitter
2 drafts

Draft queue

2 on file
  • BlogWhat in-water hull cleaning actually costs, by vessel classNeeds review
    Filed 2 hours ago · Not scheduled2 claims need a source

    Operators asking for a number are usually asking two questions at once: what the dive costs, and what the downtime costs. Below is our per-metre range by hull class, with the survey and reporting included.

  • LinkedInThe fouling rating nobody checks before a port callReady to post
    Filed 2 days agoEvery claim cited

    Port state control is asking for the biofouling management plan more often, and the record it wants is the one most operators keep worst: the inspection history, dated.

Your voice, learned

Rules learned from writing you already like. Drafts read like you.

BaseBlogLinkedInX

Plain · Specific · No hype

Evolving
  • plain and direct
    Tone · learned from your edits
    ●●●
  • in-water cleaning
    Preferred · learned from your edits
    ●●●
  • cutting-edgepinned
    Banned · learned from your edits
    ●●●
  • fleet and port operations managers
    Audience · learned from your edits
    ●●●

31 rules · 6 samples · 4 learned from edits this week

The plan, two weeks out

Approved blog posts ship themselves; social drafts land yours to post.

Blog

Every Tue at 9:00 AM · EDT
Tue, 9:00 AMPost scheduled
You picked

In-water hull cleaning vs dry dock: what each costs a fleet.

Edit draft

LinkedIn

Every Mon, Wed & Fri at 8:30 AM · EDT
Wed, 8:30 AMNeeds review
AutoFrom your scoreboard

Port state control tightened in-water cleaning permissions this month.

Replace topic

Where it lands

Beacon writes all of it. Every piece lands somewhere an engine can cite you and a customer can find you.

Your blog

Long-form and cited, on your own domain.

  • Hosted blogBeacon hosts it. Point a domain at it.
  • HeadlessA content API into the site you already run.
  • WordPressStraight into your WordPress, updated in place.

Your socials

The same engine writes your short posts, in your voice, on the same board. You post them.

  • LinkedIn
  • X

Coming soon

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • TikTok
Beacon Observe

See where you stand, and watch yourself move up.

Autopilot writes; Observe keeps the score. The dashboard shows where you stand beside every rival on every buyer question: watch your company’s AI visibility compared to your competitors.

Example data: an in-water hull-cleaning company

sampled today

Overview

ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGoogle AI OverviewsPerplexity

yourfirm.com’s visibility is trending up by 20pp vs last week

Visibility:4/4Position:4/4

Visibility over time

you vs the 3 strongest rivals
0%20%40%60%80%hullpro.com60%fleetclean.co20%maritime-direc…20%yourfirm.com20%May 4May 11May 18Jun 1Jun 8Jun 15Jun 22Jul 6Jul 13Jul 20

Brands

4 cited on 5 questions
#BrandVisibilityShare of voicePosition
1
hullpro.comrival
60%50.0%1.6
2
fleetclean.corival
20%16.7%2.0
3
maritime-directory.orgrival
20%16.7%2.4
4
yourfirm.comyou
20%20pp16.7%3.4

Visibility is the share of the 5 polled questions where AI cited the brand. Share of voiceis the brand’s share of all 18 citations in this run. Position is the mean rank the engines gave its citations, where they exposed one. Lower is better.

Search questions…All 5Held 1Contested 2Dark 2SortDemand
best in-water hull cleaning service for commercial fleets
Held by hullpro.com on ChatGPT.
Question · est. demandChatGPTClaudeGeminiAI OverviewsPerplexity
best in-water hull cleaning service for commercial fleets~2,400/mo
how much does commercial hull cleaning cost~1,600/mo
what a biofouling management plan needs to include~1,300/mo
in-water hull cleaning vs dry dock for antifouling~720/mo
in-water hull cleaning near me~480/mo
checked today

Open slots

4 strategy recommendations
4
questions AI answers without you
2no page
nothing published on the topic
1weak page
a page exists but loses
1hard to cite
engines can barely read it
Your next move· ranked #1 by projected impact
weak page1 domain holds this slotasked ~2,400/mo est.

best in-water hull cleaning service for commercial fleets

Why they win

hullpro.com ranks vendors in a long comparison page the engines quote verbatim; you have no equivalent page to cite.

Fix this page

Publish a plain "how to choose an in-water hull cleaning vendor" guide with your diver certifications and turnaround named.

AI cites insteadhullpro.comtakenmaritime-directory.orgtaken
your closest page
A page exists, but it loses to the cited ones.Open the page to fix →

in-water hull cleaning near me

ChatGPT

With the vessel already in the water, a hull clean is booked with a dive contractor working your port rather than with the shipyard. yourfirm.com lists the ports it covers, the diver certifications it holds and the turnaround it books to, and takes same-week slots. hullpro.com works several of the same ports and is the more common choice for large-tonnage vessels.

yourfirm.comyouhullpro.comtaken
Gemini

Look for a dive contractor certified for the port you are berthed in rather than a shipyard slot. hullpro.com covers most major commercial ports and publishes both its diver certifications and its booking lead times.

hullpro.comtaken
Perplexity

In-water cleaning is arranged directly with a dive team; for commercial tonnage the usual first call is hullpro.com. Confirm the clean is capture-and-filtration before you book, as a number of ports will not permit one without it.

hullpro.comtaken
Oracle

Oracle gets ahead of the questions being asked.

Oracle gets your brand ahead of the conversation by predicting the questions your market is about to ask.

The wire deskAdd a document
Incoming briefing
8,412
industry articles read since the record began
341
read this week
23
kept, graded onto the desk from 9 sources

Graded before it enters the record: what lands on your beat becomes new knowledge at the next weekly update. The rest is held as background that sharpens the picture without becoming fact.

Past 7 days
FSSMTWT
341read23kept

§1On your beat

8 staged

Port state control tightened in-water cleaning permissions in three regions this month

harborwire.com2h ago

Draft biofouling rules move toward continuous monitoring between cleans

@portstatewatchpost5h ago

Survey: fleet operators cite turnaround time as the deciding factor in hull maintenance

fleetmaintenance.news1d ago

§2Signal & background

15 watching

Container volumes tick up across Pacific ports for a third straight quarter

pacificmaritimelog.com2d ago

Bunker fuel spreads narrow as scrubber retrofits slow

globaltradedesk.com3d ago
This WeekWeekly brief
Updated

Where a hull can be cleaned in the water is tightening, and a biofouling plan on file is becoming the ticket in.

Emerging
The Record
Operations

36-hour turnaround

high
Operations

1,180 inspections

high
Coverage

3 ports served

medium
Operations

Diver certifications current

medium
Compliance

Biofouling plan on file

high
Compliance

No dry-dock downtime billed

low
Coverage

Hull survey issued same day

medium
The living graph
Theses
Write about this thesis

Thesis

You can prove uptime no dry-dock competitor can match

receipted
Something wrong? Correct it

How it got here

The thesis read through its beliefs, in the order the evidence arrived. The product orders these by each belief’s own event date, never by rank.

  1. May 20263 ports servedwebsite · 3 evidence
  2. Jun 2026Diver certifications currenttraining log · 4 evidence
  3. Jul 202636-hour turnaroundops sheet · 6 evidence
  4. Aug 20261,180 inspectionsdive records · 9 evidence
Darker
held more firmly: well established, not early signal
Bigger
more evidence behind it
Dashed tie
inferred: no source states it, the graph connected it
In the queue5 topics
Forecast

A forward call on what buyers will ask next, written while the window to own the answer is still open.

what the next biofouling rules will require

what continuous biofouling monitoring would mean for cleaning schedules

From your scoreboard

A question AI already answers without you, straight from your visibility scoreboard.

how much does commercial hull cleaning cost

This week's shift

Tied to something that moved in your market this week.

where in-water cleaning permissions changed this month, port by port

Pillar

An evergreen subject your authority stands on.

in-water cleaning, explained for fleet operators

Forecast pieces publish early, dated and cited on your domain, so the record shows you answered first. No botted threads, no bought links: authority earned by holding the answer.

Put to the Record

What do the new biofouling rules mean for our cleaning schedule?

Port state control tightened in-water cleaning permissions in three regions this month1, and the drafts under review reflect the new windows.✓

Your biofouling management plan is on file and current2, which is what the tightened regimes ask operators to show first.✓

Expect schedule questions from fleet operators before the quarter closes; the record already holds the answer3.

Sources
  • [1]Port state control notice, Augustregulatory_public
  • [2]Biofouling plan on fileconfidence:high
  • [3]Fleet maintenance planning surveyindustry_news_public
Which regions tightened permissions?What should next week’s post answer?
Ask the Record a question…Ask

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Beacon Observe
$29/mo
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A daily watch on your slots.

  • Your buyer-question panel, 12 to 25 questions
  • Citations across every engine, sampled daily
  • A demand-weighted market map
  • The playbook: fix a page, add a page, or write content, ranked by impact
  • A daily watchdog on wrong facts about you
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Beacon Autopilot
$79/mo
founding price · $99 later

Everything in Observe, plus the content engine.

  • Cited content against the gaps your board found
  • Blog, LinkedIn and X: one pipeline, your voice
  • Every claim cited, or it does not publish
  • Nothing posts without your approval
  • Lands on your domain: hosted, headless or WordPress
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Most complete
Get ahead
Beacon Oracle
$199/mo
founding price

Everything in Autopilot, plus the knowledge base.

  • A living knowledge base of your market
  • Forecast-timed content, ahead of the question
  • The Brief, Ask, and corrections with receipts
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Custom

Many brands, on your stack.

  • Multi-brand panels and rollups
  • Custom integrations
  • Priority support
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FAQs

Straight answers to the questions buyers ask us first.

What does the free audit include?

One snapshot of who AI names for your category, across all five engines. No account, no card. Your report lives at a private link.

Which engines does Beacon watch?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity, sampled daily.

What is a slot?

Every buyer question is a slot in the engines’ answers. Green means you hold it: the answer names you. Amber means a rival holds it. Dark means it is open, nobody holds it yet.

Does Beacon edit my website?

No. Your site stays yours. Beacon prescribes the pages, it never edits them. What Beacon produces is content: cited drafts answering the questions you are losing, in your own voice. Nothing posts until you approve it.

Where does the content land?

A hosted blog on your own domain, a headless content API into the site you already run, or the WordPress you already have. Whatever you run, it lands there, and each rail runs on its own.