Reviews are what a stranger reads before deciding to trust you. Every customer is asked for one after the job, we draft a reply to every review within one business day, and all of it stays inside the rules that Google and the Federal Trade Commission set.
Who it is for
Review management suits any business where a customer compares a few names on a map and picks one. In particular:
Businesses that do good work but have only a handful of reviews, because nobody ever asks.
Owners who read every review and mean to answer, then run out of week.
Businesses with an old complaint sitting unanswered near the top of the list.
Dental, medical and other healthcare practices that need replies which never reveal who is a patient.
What is included
A review request by email to every customer after every job, worded the same for everyone. At a law firm or a practice that treats people, we draft it and the business sends it from its own records.
A drafted reply to every new review within one business day, good or bad.
Monitoring of your Google profile, so every new review gets a drafted reply.
Replies to negative reviews that mention facts, held for your approval before they post.
Reviews that break Google's policy flagged to Google, with the reason written down for you.
The rules every review request has to follow
Google's policy for reviews on Maps is short and firm. A business may not discourage negative reviews, may not ask only the customers it expects to be happy, and may not offer anything in return for a review (Google Maps content policy). That rules out the familiar shortcuts: a request that goes only to the customers you liked, a survey that steers unhappy people to a private form first, or money off the next visit for leaving a review.
Federal rules now spell out what is banned, too. In 2024 the Federal Trade Commission finalized a rule that bans fake reviews, including ones generated by AI, paying for reviews that must say something positive or negative, reviews by insiders that hide their connection to the business, and suppressing reviews through threats. The FTC can seek civil penalties from businesses that break it knowingly (FTC announcement).
So every request goes to every customer, in the same words, with nothing attached. It is slower than the shortcuts, and it stays inside both sets of rules.
Replies are public, and the hard ones wait for you
A reply sits under the review for anyone to read, and it shows your business name; your personal name is not shown. Google also requires a verified profile before a business can reply at all (Google Business Profile Help), so if yours is not verified, that comes first.
A thank-you for a good review picks up on what the customer actually said, so it never reads like a form letter. Replies to negative reviews that mention facts, such as a price, a date or what happened on the job, wait for your approval, because you were there and we were not.
At a law firm, every reply waits for the firm's approval, and the firm sends its own review requests, since who its clients are can itself be confidential. We draft the wording, and when a matter closes the firm sends it from its own records to every client, in the same words.
In healthcare, a reply never confirms that the reviewer is a patient, even when they say so themselves. A dental practice paid $10,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations after its replies to Yelp reviews disclosed patient information (HHS announcement). Our replies for practices thank the reviewer, stay general and invite them to call the office. A practice that treats people sends its review requests from its own system, and we draft the wording. We sign no business associate agreement for any service, and we hold no patient contact lists. This is general information, not legal advice.
How requests reach your customers
The requests we send go out by email. During setup we agree how we hear that a job is finished, so each customer is asked soon after the work, while they still remember it.
Texting is not something we offer yet, so a customer who would rather get a text still gets our request by email.
At a law firm or a practice that treats people, Review Engine is the same plan at the same price: we draft the request wording, draft a reply to every review within one business day and monitor your reviews, and the business sends the requests from its own system. There, the business's own system decides how the requests go out.
Published plans that include this service: Review Engine, Local, Growth and Authority. Every price is published, and monthly plans run month to month.
Review Engine
$295/mo per location
Review requests after every job, drafted replies to every review within one business day, and monitoring.
At a law firm or a practice that treats people, Review Engine is the same plan at the same price: we draft the request wording, draft a reply to every review within one business day and monitor your reviews, and the business sends the requests from its own system.
GBP Care and Review Engine, citation cleanup, two data-backed local pages a month, map-pack tracking and a monthly report against your day-one baseline.
All prices, add-ons and the terms that apply to every plan are on the prices page.
How the work gets done
You add us as a Manager on your Business Profile. If the profile is not verified yet, you verify it first, because replies depend on it.
We agree how we learn that a job is done. Every customer is asked, with no filtering by how the job went.
Each finished job starts a review request by email. At a law firm or a practice that treats people, the business sends it from its own system, in the wording we draft.
Monitoring picks up each new review, and we draft a reply to it.
Replies to negative reviews that mention facts wait for your approval, and so does any reply with a medical, legal or financial claim. At a law firm, every reply waits. The rest are posted.
If you leave, every review and reply stays on your profile, and you remove our access.
You grant each role from your own account, and you can remove it from the same screen. We never ask for a password. The access guide shows every step.
What you approve
Replies to negative reviews that mention facts.
Any medical, legal or financial claim.
At a law firm, every review reply and every Business Profile post. The firm sends its own review requests.
At a practice that treats people, the review request wording we draft. The practice sends its own review requests from its own system.
What we do not promise
A star rating or a number of reviews. Every customer is asked the same way; each decides what to write.
Removing a genuine negative review. We can flag a review that breaks Google's policy and explain why, but Google decides whether it comes down.
Reviews from anyone who was not a customer, including your staff and their families.
Questions
Can you get a bad review taken down?
Not by us. Google decides whether a review comes down, and only a review that breaks its policy is a candidate. If one does, we flag it and tell you why. If it is a real customer's honest account, the best answer is a calm, factual reply, which you approve before it goes up.
Can we ask only the customers we know were happy?
No. Google's policy forbids selectively asking for positive reviews (Maps content policy). Every customer gets the same request.
Can we offer a discount or a prize for leaving a review?
No. Google's policy bans any incentive for a review, whether money, a discount or a free service (Maps content policy).
Will you write reviews to get us started?
Never. Every review on your profile comes from a real customer in their own words. We do not write a single one, with AI or without it, and the FTC rule bans fake reviews, AI-generated ones included (FTC announcement).
We are a medical practice. What happens to patient data?
Your practice's own system sends the review requests, in wording we draft, so patient details never reach us. We sign no business associate agreement for any service, and we hold no patient contact lists. Replies never confirm that anyone is a patient. This is general information, not legal advice.
Which review sites do you cover?
Google, because that is the profile our access reaches and the one shown beside your map listing. If your customers also review you on a site that matters in your trade, tell us at setup, and your written scope says what we cover there.
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Law firms: Local search for law firms: practice area pages written within the advertising rules, a profile for each office, and reviews asked for fairly.
Chiropractors: Local search for chiropractic practices: condition pages with no health claim you have not approved, reviews within privacy rules, and booking.
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