Enter your business and your city. We'll pull your live Google review count, find the nearest competitor that's beating you, and show you the real gap — plus what it actually takes to close it.
Your review gap is the difference between your Google review count and that of the competitor taking the jobs you're quoting on. It matters because Google's local ranking leans on review volume and recency, and because customers use review count as a shortcut for "has this company done this before?"
Most owners already know they're behind. What they don't know is by how much, or which specific company is beating them. That's the number this tool gives you.
Every metro has one giant. In the Washington DC area it's a regional operation sitting north of 16,000 reviews — a company that also does HVAC and electrical, runs a fleet, and has been collecting reviews for a decade.
Telling a three-truck plumbing company they're 16,000 reviews behind isn't useful. It's not a gap, it's a different business. So this tool compares you against the nearest of the third-to-fifth ranked companies in your city — a real local rival, close enough that you're bidding on the same jobs.
Fewer than people assume. You don't need to match the leader. What moves you is a steady flow of recent reviews, because a profile collecting four a month reads as an active business, and one that got forty reviews in 2021 and nothing since does not.
A working rule: get within range of the companies ranking above you in the map pack, and keep the flow going. For most trades that means somewhere between 10 and 20 a month, which is achievable if you simply ask every customer.
You'll be offered software that surveys your customers first and only sends the happy ones to Google. That's called review gating. It violates Google's policies, and businesses have had their entire review history removed for it.
The rule is simple: every customer gets the same link, no matter how the job went. That's how we do it, and it's written on our homepage as a pledge because it's the part of this business most worth being strict about.
If your rating is strong and your count is low, you don't have a quality problem — you have an asking problem, and it's the cheapest one to fix. If your rating is also low, fix the work first; more reviews will only broadcast it faster.
Ask us for the full report and we'll send your numbers along with a straight answer on whether this is worth paying anyone to solve.