Runexus Is Open: See How Ready Your Local Business Is for AI Recommendations
Runexus scores AI readiness from your business's website and public facts, then shows the gaps and fixes. Local and service-area businesses can start with a free quick snapshot. Paid plans start at $49 a month.
A homeowner with a leaking water heater asks an AI assistant who can come out today. The assistant names three companies. It builds that short list from what it can read about each business: the website, the listings, the reviews. If your site never says which towns you serve, or your old phone number is still on a directory, you give it less to work with than the plumber down the road.
Runexus is built for that problem, and as of today any local or service-area business can sign up. This post covers what the product does now, what it doesn't do yet, and what it costs.
What does Runexus do for a local business?
Runexus scores how ready your business is for AI recommendations: the scan checks whether your site clearly states who you are, what you do and where, whether other sites back that up, and whether AI tools can get answers from you.
In practice the free quick snapshot looks at three areas:
- Your website basics. It reads the first page of HTML it receives, plus your robots.txt, sitemap and any machine-readable files you publish. Six checks are scored: page title, meta description, main heading, readable text that loads without JavaScript, business schema tied to your domain, and a canonical URL.
- Outside corroboration. A small, bounded search for independent profiles, reviews and mentions of your business.
- Agent readiness. If your site declares a machine-answer endpoint, the scan sends it two fixed test questions: what the business name is, and a request for a guarantee it should refuse. That test goes to your own endpoint. It doesn't ask any AI assistant anything.
The three areas combine into one readiness score with a band (Limited, Developing, Strong or Advanced), your top strengths, your top gaps and the next actions to take. Each finding names the page or missing fact behind it, and each fix is written in plain English, for example: "List the towns you serve on your homepage."
How do I check if my business is ready for AI recommendations?
Run the free quick snapshot at runexus.io/scan: enter your website and in a few minutes you get an AI readiness score with your top findings, with no account or card needed.
A few things are worth knowing before you run it:
- It reads one page. The snapshot checks the URL you enter, not your whole site. If your homepage is a thin splash page and the real content sits on /services, scan both.
- JavaScript-only text doesn't count. If your business description only appears after scripts run, the snapshot treats it as missing, because many crawlers see the page the same way.
- "Couldn't check" isn't "missing". A timeout or a blocked request shows up as an interrupted check. Run it again before you treat it as a gap.
If the results point to listings and facts that don't match, The Business Facts AI Must Agree On walks through which ones to fix first.
How much does Runexus cost?
Starter is $49/mo or $469/yr and Core is $149/mo or $1,429/yr; both start with a 14-day trial (card required), and you can cancel anytime from your Billing page.
| Starter | Core | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49/mo ($469/yr) | $149/mo ($1,429/yr) |
| AI readiness score and snapshot | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rescans | Monthly | Weekly |
| Recommendations | Top 3 | Full list |
| SEO Health | Read-only | ✓ |
| Site Agent, Domain Scanner, SEO report | ✓ |
You aren't charged if you cancel before day 14.
Who should pick which? Starter suits a single-location business that wants a monthly score and its three most important fixes. Core suits a business that is actively making changes and wants weekly rescans to see whether they moved the score, plus the Domain Scanner, full SEO Health, and Site Agent, which publishes facts you've approved (services, hours, service areas) in a machine-readable form so your site gives one consistent answer.
Who is Runexus built for, and who isn't it for?
Runexus is built for local and service-area businesses: plumbers, dentists, roofers, salons, clinics, restaurants and anyone whose customers ask "who's good near me?" It isn't built for online-only stores or enterprise brands, whose problems are national reach and catalog data rather than a clear local footprint.
Can Runexus guarantee AI will recommend my business?
No. AI answers change and nobody controls them, so Runexus doesn't guarantee rankings or recommendations. What we can do is show you how ready your business looks to AI today, what's holding it back, and what to fix first, then rescan so you can see whether your score moved.
The platforms say the same about themselves. Google says meeting its requirements doesn't guarantee inclusion in its AI features: a page that follows every best practice still may not be crawled, indexed or shown. OpenAI says placement is not guaranteed in ChatGPT search results. A readiness score tells you whether you've removed the obstacles you control. It isn't a forecast.
The Runexus readiness score also isn't a test of what assistants say about you today. Runexus doesn't run that test now. If you want to check by hand, How to Show Up When Customers Ask ChatGPT for a Local Recommendation shows a simple monthly routine. How we score and why is on the methodology page.
Who built it?
Runexus is built by Jason Clark and Doug Small, a senior data engineer at Rackspace. We built it because the businesses we know were losing customers to answers they couldn't see, and nobody could tell them which of their pages or listings was the cause.
Run the free snapshot on your own site. If the findings are useful, start a trial of Starter or Core. If they aren't, it cost you about two minutes.