Restaurants, cafes, bars, bakeries, and night-out stops
Best when the profile can clarify menu, reservation, district, cuisine, price posture, and the meal moment it serves.
For Providence Businesses
Verified Providence profiles with USA pilot pricing.
Providence Guide builds checked, machine-readable business profiles for restaurants, hotels, experiences, and visitor-facing local businesses. The product is structured presence inside a local guide: official actions, visitor fit, search/AI context, freshness, and disclosure.
Every public profile needs attributable sources, official action links, visible freshness, and a correction path before it belongs in the traveler-facing guide. Payment starts only after fit, facts, and category scope are clear.
First year from $499
Renewal from $299
Care from $99/mo
Ranking not sold
Commercial Boundary
Verified means checked, not best.
Paid profiles use visible commercial disclosure. Payment supports profile creation, maintenance, and eligible visibility work; it does not buy editorial recommendation.
- Verified profile
- Checked public facts, official actions, visible freshness, and structured data.
- Editorial pick
- Separate recommendation status awarded by the publisher, never sold through a profile.
- Commercial presence
- Visible paid relationship when profile creation, maintenance, or eligible visibility work is commercial.
Business Lanes
Which Providence businesses fit the offer
The profile works when it supports a real visitor decision, not when it is just another business listing.
Hotels, inns, suites, and visitor lodging
Best when direct booking, neighborhood fit, parking, campus/event demand, and stay-use cases need a cleaner public record.
Museums, venues, tours, activities, and ticketed places
Best when visitors need official tickets, hours source discipline, route context, and a clear reason to include the stop.
Visitor-facing services and brands
Best when the business supports a real trip decision and has public facts strong enough to publish without pretending it is editorial.
Product
What the profile actually gives the business
The product is structured presence inside an independent Providence guide: checked public facts, official actions, traveler context, and public machine-readable data.
A public profile that is easier to trust
Name, address, category, official links, primary action, source notes, and correction path are checked before publication.
Entity fields built for reuse
The profile gives search engines, AI assistants, and direct visitors a cleaner business entity than loose guide copy can provide.
The right next step for the business type
Restaurants lead with reservation, menu, or phone. Hotels lead with booking. Experiences lead with ticket, schedule, or planning links.
Placement near the decision it helps
Profiles can connect into district, dining, stay, guide, or category pages only where that context is true and useful.
Visible review windows instead of stale facts
Renewal and care plans create a practical cadence for source checks, seasonal notes, link changes, and owner corrections.
Commercial work stays clearly labeled
Paid profile work can support verification and maintenance, but it cannot buy hidden ranking, praise, or editorial wording.
Placement
Where a verified profile can appear
Publication is gated by fit, facts, and visible disclosure. A paid profile can support context and freshness, but it cannot buy a recommendation.
Dedicated verified profile
A public page with facts, visitor-fit copy, actions, source discipline, structured data, and a visible correction path.
Right category, not a mixed listing pile
Dining, stays, experiences, and night-out/local-service profiles stay separated so the visitor understands the decision.
Relevant internal links only
A business can appear near a district, guide, or category when the context is honest. This is not sold as ranking.
Structured profile and API-ready proof
The page can expose LocalBusiness schema, profile JSON, official action kinds, and freshness details that machines can read.
USA Pricing Logic
Competitive because it is not pretending to be ad spend
The Providence offer sits between free profiles, paid ads, citation tools, and agency retainers: a manual publisher-side profile build with real source review and local-guide context.
This does not replace Google Business Profile
Google Business Profile is free and should remain the business source of truth for Google Search and Maps. Providence Guide adds publisher-side context and profile structure.
This is not ad spend
Yelp, Google Local Services Ads, and similar products sell paid exposure or lead flow. This offer sells profile build, verification, freshness, and context.
This is more manual than listing software
Local listing tools manage citations at low monthly prices. Providence Guide adds editorial-safe visitor positioning, source review, and local guide placement.
Annual Profile Pricing
Choose the profile depth after fit check
First-year pricing covers setup, source review, publication, and public profile work. Renewal keeps the profile maintained and re-checked.
Local Verified
first-year profile build $499
$299 annual renewal
Small, single-location Providence businesses that need a clean checked page and obvious official actions.
- Verified Business Profile page after fit check
- Official website, map, call, menu, booking, or reservation actions
- Category and Providence district fit written for real visitor decisions
- LocalBusiness structured data, freshness date, and correction path
- Annual source re-check and owner correction route
Standard Verified
first-year profile build $899
$499 annual renewal
Hotels, restaurants, experiences, and visitor-facing businesses that need stronger search and AI-readable context.
- Everything in Local Verified
- Richer visitor-use positioning and stronger action ordering
- Public source inventory and machine-readable profile/API JSON
- Selective internal placement where the business genuinely fits
- Search and AI discovery framing for official, address, booking, and category intent
Enhanced Verified
first-year profile build $1,500
$900 annual renewal
Larger, premium, or multi-surface hospitality businesses that need deeper entity, story, and network work.
- Everything in Standard Verified
- Owner-attributed section when real owner answers and consent exist
- Photo/gallery handling with source and rights discipline
- FAQ or richer structured data where facts can be maintained
- Stronger guide/category placement review without buying editorial recommendation
- Prices are in USD and exclude any applicable tax.
- The first-year price is a profile build and publication fee, not ad spend.
- Annual renewal keeps the profile live, re-checked, and correctable.
- Monthly Care is optional and covers freshness, updates, reporting, and priority correction handling.
- Additional units under the same owner or brand receive 40% off the selected tier.
- Custom group, hotel-plus-restaurant, venue, and multi-location packages are quoted after scope review.
Optional Monthly Care
Freshness and reporting without selling placement
Monthly Care improves updates, freshness, and reporting. It does not buy ranking, editorial recommendation, or preferred placement.
Care Basic
1 minor update per month
Monthly freshness check on core links, priority correction handling, and a short performance note.
Care Plus
Up to 3 minor updates per month
Seasonal notes, menu or booking link updates, quarterly language/context refresh, and priority support.
Care Pro
Up to 6 updates per month
Monthly content refresh, campaign blocks, fuller reporting, and extra internal placements only when they fit editorially.
What must be true before a profile goes live
- The business is real, active, and visitor-facing.
- The category, address, and official contact path are clear.
- At least two attributable sources can support the public profile.
- At least one source is official or directly controlled by the business.
- The profile can help a traveler decide without fake ranking language.
- Red flags can lead to manual rejection. Payment does not guarantee acceptance.
If visitors compare it separately, it is a separate profile
- A hotel is usually one profile.
- A separately branded restaurant inside the same hotel is a separate profile.
- A spa, bar, or venue with its own visitor decision path can be a separate profile.
- Additional units under the same ownership or brand receive 40% off the selected tier.
- Groups and multi-location operators are scoped as custom network packages.
Non-Negotiables
What the product does not sell
These rules protect the traveler-facing guide and make the commercial product easier to trust.
01
A Verified Business Profile does not buy a ranking, Top 10 slot, or editorial recommendation.
02
Paid participation must stay visible when a profile is commercial.
03
Editorial picks are awarded separately and can be removed if confidence drops.
04
Freshness dates move only after a real source or owner-confirmed review.
05
Ratings, reviews, live availability, and opening hours stay out unless the platform can maintain them honestly.
Manual Review
Start with a fit check, not payment.
Fit checks are reviewed manually. We only quote a profile after the business, public sources, category fit, and disclosure requirements make sense.