Around the Point is a community-first local guide built for the residents and business owners of Riverton, Bluffdale, Herriman, Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs, and Lehi. Scout is our AI concierge - and your listing puts you front and center every time a neighbor asks for a recommendation.
Founding rate · Locked forever · Limited spots per community
You've been playing by their rules for years. Paying for ads that don't convert. Hoping the algorithm notices you. Watching national chains dominate the search results because they have bigger budgets and bigger teams.
And now something bigger is shifting. The way people find local businesses is changing - fast.
AI is replacing Google search
More residents are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Siri for local recommendations instead of Googling. If you're not structured for AI, you don't exist in those answers.
Yelp doesn't know this community
National platforms treat Herriman and Saratoga Springs like zip codes. They don't know the neighborhoods, the families, or what makes these communities tick. You do.
You're paying to rent attention
Every dollar you spend on Google Ads or Facebook boosts is renting attention on someone else's platform. The moment you stop paying, you disappear.
New residents don't know you yet
The communities around the point are among the fastest growing in Utah. Thousands of new families arrive every year - and they're asking AI where to go before they ask anyone else.
The window to get in front of this is right now. The businesses that establish themselves in Scout's index first will be the ones AI recommends first - for years. This is the early mover advantage, and it costs $195.
Scout isn't a chatbot bolted onto a directory. Scout is a custom AI trained specifically on the communities around Thanksgiving Point - the businesses, the neighborhoods, the offers, the stories. When a resident asks Scout for a recommendation, it answers like a neighbor who's lived here their whole life.
A resident asks Scout a question
Someone new to Eagle Mountain opens Around the Point and asks: "Scout, find me a family dentist with a new patient special near me." Takes three seconds.
Scout knows your business
Because you're a Scout AI Partner, your practice is in Scout's index. Scout knows your offer, your location, your story. You come up - naturally, like a trusted referral.
They book directly - no friction
Scout serves your claimable offer with a direct link to your booking form. The resident books or claims the deal without leaving the conversation. You get the lead. They get a great experience.
It works beyond Around the Point too
Your listing is structured so that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, and every other AI tool your customers are already using can find you, surface your offer, and send them to you directly. One listing. Universal AI visibility.
What makes this technically different
Every Scout Partner listing is built with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and structured JSON data - the same open standard that lets AI tools communicate with external data sources. This isn't SEO. This isn't a Google listing. This is your business, natively readable and actionable by every AI tool on the market. No other local directory in this area is doing this.
Premium directory listing
Full business profile - photo, bio, hours, contact, categories. Featured above free listings in the Around the Point community guide.
Live claimable offer
Post one active deal, discount, or promotion directly on your listing. Residents claim it with one tap. You control it and update it anytime.
Scout AI indexing
Your business trained into Scout's knowledge base. When a resident asks Scout for a recommendation in your category, you come up - with context, with your offer, like a referral from a trusted neighbor.
Universal AI visibility layer
Your listing structured with MCP and JSON-LD so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, and any AI tool your customers use can find you, surface your offer, and send them directly to your booking form or offer claim.
Community spotlight post
A dedicated feature introducing your business to the Around the Point community at launch. Published to our channels, yours to share and repurpose.
We're in pre-launch, which means you get in at the founding rate - a price that locks for as long as you're a Scout AI Partner. When we raise the price at launch, you stay at $195. The businesses that join after you will be paying more and competing with you for Scout's recommendations.
$195
per year · billed annually
54 cents a day. One AI-sourced lead pays for your entire year.
Setup takes about 10 minutes. Will personally reaches out to get your profile and offer loaded before launch. No tech experience needed.
Around the Point isn't a tech startup or a national media company that decided to move into Utah. It's a community platform built by a local - someone who grew up in this area, has family history here spanning decades, and believes that locally owned businesses deserve the same visibility advantages that big brands take for granted.
Will Sands
Founder, Around the Point · Main Street Merchant Co.
I've spent 15+ years working directly with local business owners - helping them build marketing systems they own instead of renting attention from platforms that don't care about their community. Around the Point is the platform I wish existed when I was growing up here. Scout is the local guide this corridor deserves. I'm not selling you software. I'm building something I believe in, in the place I call home - and I want the businesses that serve this community to be part of it from day one.
Not at all. Will handles the setup personally - your profile, your offer, your Scout indexing. You give us the information about your business and we handle everything else. If you can send a text message, you can be a Scout AI Partner.
Free listings show your basic business info in the directory. Scout AI Partner listings are indexed into Scout's knowledge base, include a live claimable offer, are featured above free listings, and are structured for universal AI visibility - meaning you show up when people ask any AI tool for a recommendation. Free listings do not appear in Scout's recommendations or in external AI tools.
Scout is trained on your business profile, your category, your location, and your offer. When a resident asks Scout a question in your category - "find me a plumber near Herriman with good reviews" or "what's a good place for date night in Lehi" - Scout surfaces relevant Scout AI Partners naturally, with their offer attached and a direct link to book or claim. It works like a knowledgeable neighbor making a recommendation, not a search engine returning a list of links.
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol - an open standard created by Anthropic (the company behind Claude AI) that lets AI tools connect to and retrieve data from external sources. When your listing is structured with MCP and JSON-LD, it means AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and others can read your business data, surface your offer, and send customers directly to you - not just when they're on Around the Point, but whenever they're using any AI tool that supports it. It's the difference between existing online and being natively readable by the AI layer that's replacing search.
Yes. Founding partners pay $195/year for as long as they remain Scout AI Partners. When we raise the price - and we will - your rate doesn't change. This is our commitment to the businesses that believed in this community platform from the beginning.
Fair question. Here's the honest answer: even if Around the Point's directory never grows beyond a few hundred listings, your Scout AI Partner listing still gives you a premium directory presence, a live claimable offer, and structured AI visibility that makes you findable through ChatGPT and other AI tools. That value exists independent of our traffic. The $195 is not a bet on us - it's an investment in your own visibility infrastructure. And for what it's worth: the communities around the point are among the fastest growing in Utah. We're not starting in a market that's standing still.
Fill out the form at the bottom of this page. Will personally reaches out within 24 hours to collect your business details, set up your profile and offer, and get you indexed into Scout before launch. The whole setup takes about 10 minutes of your time.
Founding spots are limited per community. Click below and Will will reach out personally within 24 hours to get your listing set up before launch.