Building AI X Local.
Figuring out AI, marketing,
and business — in public.
Documenting the build on YouTube. What's working, what's not, and what AI actually changes for local businesses.
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AI X Local
Local businesses are losing ground as search shifts from the ten blue links to AI Overviews, Google Maps packs, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. Most of them have no idea it's happening. AI X Local fixes that — better visibility, built for where search is actually going.
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Builder Community
A group for people who want to start and grow a local marketing agency — the systems, the client acquisition, the real numbers. More details coming.
Get notified when it launches →Who Is Chris Mailhoit?
I'm Chris Mailhoit, founder of AI X Local, based in Mount Pleasant, SC. I'm building a local marketing agency focused on AI search visibility — helping businesses show up where their customers are actually looking now. I document the whole process on YouTube: the strategy, the client work, the things that don't go as planned, and what AI actually changes for the people running these businesses.
Outside of the agency: fishing, boating, golf, and Madelyn — the dog who makes Shem Creek look even better than it already does.
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What's actually happening across AI X Local, the channel, and everything else. No polish. Straight from the work.