I'm Joshua Frost. I run Below Zero Media out of Bloomington, Illinois. I help local businesses get recommended by ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity — the new front door to your phone ringing. Find out where you stand in 60 seconds.
Based in Bloomington · Serving Central Illinois
Traditional SEO isn't enough anymore. AI search is the new front door to your business — and most local companies aren't even in the building.
When someone asks ChatGPT "best HVAC company in Bloomington," does your name come up? For most local businesses, the answer is no.
No website, outdated Google listing, unanswered reviews — your competitors are getting the calls that should be yours.
Big agencies want $2,000-5,000/month and lock you into contracts. You need results, not a second mortgage.
Five layers. Each one teaches a different AI engine to recommend your business. This is the actual anatomy of what you’re paying for — no black box.
I run your business through ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Perplexity, and Siri with the exact queries your customers are typing. You see where you show up, where you don’t, and which competitors are in the answer instead of you.
Schema markup, GBP optimization, conversational FAQ content, review/reputation ops, IndexNow + directory citations. Each one is a deliverable you can inspect. Nothing hidden behind “proprietary secret sauce.”
Monthly: what I did, what changed in the AI-search results, what the phone did. Three sections, no chart junk, no jargon. If it didn’t move, I’ll tell you why and what I’m changing.
More AI recommendations → more clicks → more calls. You don’t spend a dollar on ads to get there. If you’re not seeing movement in 90 days, you can walk — no contract, no retention call.
I’m a small shop working with small businesses. You get me on the phone, you get real reports, you get real results — or you stop paying. That simple.
I watched friends pay $3,000–$5,000 a month to marketing agencies that couldn’t explain what they did. Reports full of chart junk, zero phone calls. Meanwhile AI search — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity — was quietly replacing the old front door to their business, and nobody was showing up on the other side of it.
So I built the thing I wished existed. One person. Transparent pricing. Results you can read without a decoder ring. If AI isn’t already recommending your business when someone in Bloomington asks for “the best” of what you do, that’s a problem I fix for a living.
— Joshua Frost, founder • Bloomington, IL
Active clients in the Bloomington-Normal metro. These sites, Google profiles, and AI-search footprints are the real output of the service.
Full buildout: Cloudflare-hosted site, 30 conversational FAQ entries tuned for AI chat queries, IndexNow + Bing + Yandex submissions, FB automation, seasonal blog cadence.
backeroutdoor.com →20+ year HVAC business with a BBB rating problem and lost Google Business Profile access. Scope: reputation rebuild, GBP recovery, new site, AI-search footprint, negative-review response playbook.
reliablehvacnow.com →25-year family-owned business that didn’t need full marketing — just a real site to send customers to. One-time $500 website build. Live same day as payment.
bakerlandscapeil.com →Pre-launch. Shipped a 3-page AI audit, competitor matrix, 90-day plan, 28-day content calendar, GBP claim checklist with 15 directory citations, and secured theperformancelab.fit under DTD LLC.
Launching Q2 2026Real work, real business owners — from $500 one-time website builds to full-service $500/month engagements.
Every app below was designed, built, and deployed by Below Zero Media. Same team, same stack, same pace we’ll give you when you hire us to build yours.
Peer-to-peer rental marketplace for powersports owners — ATVs, jet skis, side-by-sides, dirt bikes. Native iOS live in the App Store, Android shipping next. Full Stripe payouts, DMCA agent, 10-state tax engine, owner concierge.
throttleshare.com →The Apple Watch training platform with three voice-led coaches in your ear. Strava and Garmin show you what happened — Ridgerun talks you through it. Sensor-moat features (HRV gating, Storm-Sense, Gait-Guard, Phone-Stays-Home) shipped on a $199 lifetime model. No subscription.
ridgerun.app →Regulatory-change monitoring for law firms, compliance teams, and legal-tech platforms. A plain-English diff of the URLs your firm watches — competitor terms, vendor SLAs, regulator pages — delivered every Monday morning. Web product (no native app); licensable by legal-technology platforms.
driftpatrol.app →Secure notarized-document vault with share links, access logs, and client-ready delivery flows. Built for mobile notaries and small legal shops. Store-ready build, cash-cow ceiling without VC dependency.
Public URL relaunching 2026AI photo enhancement for realtors, Airbnb hosts, and small retailers — upload a shot, get back a hero-quality image without hiring a photographer. Web app + iOS build; canonical domain switching, public URL relaunching soon.
Re-launching 2026Unity-built consumer mobile app with Cloudflare Workers + D1 backend, Durable-Object household sharing, Stripe subscriptions, SendGrid comms. Trademark cleared, domains reserved, iOS archive in pre-submission audit.
Launching 2026Six shipped products. Native iOS, Android, and web. Stripe, Cloudflare, real payouts, real users. The same shop building these can build yours — see the app-build service.
Pick the plan that fits your business. Same service, same results — just different ways to get going.
We only take 3 businesses per industry per market area. Once the spots fill, your competitors go on a waitlist.
This means when you sign up, we're working for you — not against you. Your competition can't hire us.
Both plans include the same full-service AI search marketing. Results in 60-90 days. Limited to 3 spots per industry per area. Waitlist available.
We don't just get you ranked — we get you recommended.
The difference between showing up on page 2 and being the first name an AI says out loud.
Get a free AI search audit — we'll show you exactly how your business appears when customers ask AI for recommendations.
Send us a client and earn $100 when they sign up. It's that simple.
Tell us about the business and how to reach them.
We reach out, run a free audit, and handle the sales conversation.
They sign up → you get $100 via Venmo. Done.