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+# Bizl How It Works
+URL: https://bizl.com/how-it-works
+Extracted: 2026-08-09
+
+## Core Messaging / Positioning
+- "You run the audit. We handle everything else."
+- "Most tools show you the problem. We fix it." — core differentiator vs dashboard-only competitors (direct shot at BrightLocal/Whitespark-style tools).
+- "Bizl is different. We are a done-for-you service. Our team does the citation building, the schema installation, the GBP optimization. You get the results without doing the work."
+
+## Key Claims & Stats
+- Free audit: enter business name, city, category → system runs "240 prompts across all five AI engines," checks citations vs "120 directories," compares to top local competitors → returns AI Visibility Score, where invisible, what competitors own, estimated monthly revenue impact. No credit card.
+- Foursquare claim: "within 48 hours of signing up, it is claimed, verified, and optimized." "provides roughly 70% of the local business data ChatGPT uses."
+- Simultaneously begins submitting to "all 300+ directories with perfectly consistent NAP data." (FLAG: 300+ here vs 120+ on FAQ — same inconsistency.)
+- Schema: "We write, validate, and install it. You do not need to understand how it works." Validated JSON-LD.
+- GBP: "Most businesses have 30 to 50% of their GBP fields empty or generic." Bizl completes every field with AI-optimized content, full services list, payment methods, Q&As, photo captions, business description.
+- Weekly: "Every week we run fresh scans across all five AI engines, alert you to any competitor visibility changes, and update your optimization."
+- Monthly: "Once a month you receive a plain-English report showing every action we took, every score change… Five minutes to read the whole thing."
+- FLAG: "estimated monthly revenue impact" in audit — methodology undisclosed; likely modeled, not measured.
+
+## Offer / Pricing Details (if applicable)
+- Not priced here; funnel is free audit → managed plans (Get Found $1,995 / Stay Found $995/mo per FAQ).
+
+## Process / How It Works
+Five steps, Bizl handles four:
+1. **You:** Run free audit (4 min, no card).
+2. **Bizl:** Claim + optimize Foursquare (48 hrs) + begin 300+ directory submissions with consistent NAP.
+3. **Bizl:** Write/validate/install JSON-LD schema.
+4. **Bizl:** Complete GBP (every field, services, Q&As, captions).
+5. **Bizl:** Weekly scans + monthly plain-English PDF report.
+
+"Once the foundation is built, Bizl runs a consistent monthly cycle that compounds your AI visibility over time."
+
+## Notable Strengths or Patterns
+- Explicit "What you do / What we do" split — clarifies the DFY boundary and lowers perceived effort.
+- "Most tools show you the problem. We fix it." is a sharp competitive wedge against self-serve SEO tools.
+- Concrete timelines (48 hrs Foursquare, weekly scans, monthly 5-min report) build confidence.
+- "No dashboards to learn. No jargon." — anti-complexity positioning.
+
+## Notes for Digital Operations Partner
+- **Silent Customer Loss:** The audit explicitly shows "where you are invisible" and "what your competitors own" — directly the discovery-failure narrative DOP targets.
+- **Evidence quality:** 240 prompts, 120/300+ directories, 70% Foursquare, "30–50% of GBP fields empty" — all asserted without source. "Estimated monthly revenue impact" is modeled, not measured (flag as indicative).
+- **Human supervision vs black-box:** Bizl's pitch is the opposite of human-supervised partnership — "You get the results without doing the work." DOP's human-approved, agent-assisted model is the contrasting stance; Bizl's strength is removing client effort entirely, DOP's is client control + human judgment.
+- **PoC-style entry:** Free audit = PoC hook (shows the problem + revenue impact estimate) → paid setup. Mirrors DOP's Cold Audit → PoC.
+- **Conversion patterns:** Low-effort entry ("you run the audit, we do the rest"), anti-jargon, 5-minute report, no dashboards. Strong ease-positioning DOP can learn from.
+- **Differentiation:** DOP can win on evidence transparency (show HOW the revenue impact is computed, cite the 240-prompt method) where Bizl hand-waves.
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