Your customers are asking AI where to stop. Make sure it has your real answer.
Banzai keeps one live record per store, from the systems you already run, and makes sure every assistant reads it: fuel prices, products, hours and more.
Ask an assistant
Cheapest regular near me?
Riverside Fuel & Wash, 0.6 miles ahead. Regular is $3.19, confirmed by the store 4 minutes ago.
- Regular
- $3.19
- Diesel
- $3.69
- Hours
- Open 24 hours
- Hot food
- Breakfast tacos, coffee
- Car wash
- Touchless, from $12
Live record from the store’s own systems
What changed
AI answers the question before anyone visits your website.
Fuel and convenience is bought on the move, in seconds. That makes it one of the first places where an assistant’s answer decides the trip.
One answer, not ten links
People ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or their car “where should I stop?” and get a single recommendation. If you are not in that answer, you are not in the running.
AI repeats what it can verify
Assistants lean on whatever data they can find. Today that is often stale third-party fuel prices, old hours and missing amenities.
Live, consistent data wins
Stores whose website, listings and live feed all agree give assistants something they can trust and recommend.
How it works
Connect once. One live record. Everywhere AI looks.
We work alongside your POS, back office and loyalty program. Nothing is ripped out.
Connect once
We connect to the systems you already run: POS, back office, price book, or simple manual entry. Nothing is replaced.
One live record
Each store gets one live, time-stamped record in the Banzai Gateway: store details, fuel prices and in-store catalogue.
Accurate everywhere
Your name, address, phone and hours match on every listing, and your website, Google Merchant Center and AI agents read the same live record.
Watched around the clock
We monitor what assistants say about each store and which AI agents read your data, and flag wrong answers so we can fix them.
See what AI says about every store, and who is reading.
We ask the assistants your customers use the same questions every month, track which AI agents read your live record, and flag wrong answers so we can fix them.
- Answer rate
- 64%
- AI agent visits
- 1,146
- Wrong answers flagged
- 3
up 18 pts since the audit
up 2.4× since the audit
all fixed
How often each assistant names the store
- ChatGPT68%
- Gemini61%
- Copilot74%
- Perplexity52%
AI agents reading the live record
- OAI-SearchBot412
- Googlebot389
- PerplexityBot201
- ClaudeBot144
The program
Four stages. Start where you are.
Each stage builds on the last. We are clear about what is live today and what is still in demo.
- Crawl
Be measured
An AI visibility audit of every location, then ongoing monitoring: what ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI say about you, and which AI agents read your data.
Live today
- Walk
Be found accurately
Answer engine optimisation (AEO). Your name, address, phone and hours match everywhere, and your website carries live, structured data AI can read.
Live today, partly hands-on
- Run
Live products & fuel prices
We connect once to the systems you already run and keep one live, time-stamped record per store: fuel prices, in-store products and promos. Then we feed it to Google and AI agents.
Live today (lookup)
- Sprint
Transactions
AI agents complete the order: order-ahead pickup, loyalty and payment, through each platform’s checkout standard, with money going through your own processor.
Demo
Where you’ll show up
The places AI looks, and where we stand on each.
Honest status, updated as each platform opens up.
- Banzai Gateway recordLive
- AI visibility and agent monitoringLive
- Website pointer tagLive
- AI crawler accessLive
- Google Business ProfileWe set it up
- Apple Business ConnectWe set it up
- Bing PlacesWe set it up
- Google Merchant Center (free local listings)Launching
- AI agent connector (MCP)Live
- Claude connector directoryPlanned
- Microsoft Copilot shoppingEvaluating
- Perplexity shoppingEvaluating
- Meta Muse connectorNext
- ChatGPT (Agentic Commerce Protocol)Planned
- Google agent checkout (UCP)Planned
- Payments (Stripe Connect, store as seller)Decision pending
- Loyalty connectionPer client
The market
Buying through AI is starting now.
Two published data points on how quickly shopping is moving to AI assistants.
- $20.57BProjected AI commerce volume in 2026, about four times 2025 (forecast).Source: EMARKETER forecast, December 2025
- 20%Share of Cyber Week 2025 orders influenced by AI agents.Source: Salesforce shopping data, December 2025
What’s at stake
Size it with your own numbers.
An illustrative model you can adjust. It is not a forecast and not a promise of results.
A simple way to size what is at stake if AI answers send some of your trips to a competitor. Replace the example assumptions with your own numbers. This is gross margin, not revenue or profit, and not a promise of results.
Fuel = visits × fuel share × trips sent elsewhere × gallons × margin per gallon × 365.
Inside = visits × trips sent elsewhere × inside purchase rate × basket × inside margin × 365.
Who we serve
Built for fuel and convenience retail.
QSR and grocery are natural next steps, using the same approach.
Fuel & convenience
Single stores and independents where every trip counts.
Multi-site chains
Consistent, live data across every location, measured per site.
Car wash
Wash packages, hours and memberships that AI can read.
Fuel distributors & jobbers
A program you can bring to the dealer sites you supply.
See what AI says about your stores today.
Start with an AI visibility audit. No system access or IT work needed. We reply to every enquiry personally.