Solution

AI Agents for franchise brands

AI coworkers at every location — winning AI visibility, converting demand, and keeping every unit on-brand. Corporate control, without the bottleneck.

Review Response Agent

The world's biggest franchise brands run on Birdeye.

Birdeye's Client: Aspen Dental
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Birdeye's Client: sunauto
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Birdeye's Client: green-earth

Real outcomes at every location

29%

Review volume


Aspen Dental, 4,000 locations.

49K

Reviews handled


0 humans in the loop. H&R Block, tax season.

46%

AI visibility score


Sutter Health, 4,000 providers/locations.

One weak location hurts the whole brand.

Locations are invisible in AI search

Customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini where to go — and your locations don't show up, or rank below competitors.

Corporate can't scale oversight

By the time HQ spots an underperforming location, customers are already lost. Every unit is different, and you can't fix them one by one.

Franchisees can't (or won't) do the marketing

No time, no expertise, low tool adoption. The work doesn't get done at the local level.

Built for how your franchise actually operates.

Corporate-led (centralized)

HQ runs local marketing across every location from one place — accurate, consistent, at scale.

Franchisee-led (decentralized)

Agents do the work for each owner so they can run their location, not their marketing.

Hybrid

Corporate sets the strategy and guardrails; local teams add authentic local content — no bottlenecks, no compliance risk.

Brand compliance

On-brand at every location — automatically

Brand AI trains every agent on your voice and guidelines. Agents draft, you approve — or set them to act autonomously within guardrails. Tiered approvals, role-based access, and location-level permissions keep corporate in control while locals stay fast. Agents escalate only the exceptions.

Coworkers do the jobs. Agents do the work. You keep the control.

Review Response Agent

Three AI coworkers. Three jobs every franchise has to get done.

Birdeye Myna

Myna

Operations

Runs the front desk for every location

Agents

Care Coordination Agent, Appointments Agent, Reminders Agent, Front Desk Agent, and more.

Birdeye Robin

Robin

Customer Experience

Listens after every visit

Agents

Survey Creation Agent, Survey Response Agent, Custom Reports Agent, Ticketing Agent, and more.

Most software tells you what's happening.
Our agents decide what to do — and do it.

Consolidate

Consolidate signals from every platform that holds your data

Birdeye
Sprout Social
Salesforce
Zapier
Google Analytics
Intercom
Quick Books
Facebook
Google
  • MCP
  • APIs
  • 3,000+ Integrations

Reason

AI reasons with context and memory tuned to your brand and industry

  • Industry AI
  • Brand AI
  • Location memory

Act

Agents act autonomously, or with your approval.

  • Review Response Agent
  • Listings Optimization Agent
  • Social Publishing Agent
  • Segmentation Agent
  • & more
Outcome
  • Revenue
  • Headcount Optimization
  • Time Saving
  • Appointments
  • AI Traffic
  • AI Visibility

The work happens whether or not a franchisee
ever logs in.

  • Jay fixing AI visibility
  • Jay & Robin running a reviews job
  • Jay running a campaign

Capabilities

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“Birdeye allows our teams managing hundreds of locations to respond to reviews instantly while staying fully on-brand.”
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Multi-location brands get results

Birdeye brings the cacophony of 50+ location directory listing and reputation management down to a harmonious blend through a single, intuitive platform.
Ken NorquistAxia Women's Health
Birdeye saves us time, improves our hospitality efforts, and helps us be strategic. It lets us keep all our attention on the guest experience, not on technology.
Amy DickeyDirector of Marketing, Saxton Group
From diner manager to regional vice president, every person using Birdeye can filter and fine-tune the platform to make it work best for them.
Denise D'Amico JohnsonBlack Bear Diner
Enterprise Ready

Built for scale, governed for trust

SSO + RBAC

Centralized access, role-based control

Audit logging

Every agent action, traceable

Tiered approvals

Corporate and local oversight

Location reporting

Brand- and location-level visibility

  • SOC 2 Type II
  • ISO 27001
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • Hosted on AWS

We never use customer data to train AI models — and we require the same of our vendors.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best AI marketing solution for franchise brands?

Birdeye builds AI agents for franchise brands. Instead of another dashboard, you get AI coworkers at every location — Jay for marketing, Myna for operations, Robin for customer experience — that do the jobs your business needs done by employing multiple agents that work together. They win AI visibility, convert demand, and keep every location on-brand. Trusted by franchise and multi-unit brands including H&R Block and Aspen Dental.

How do AI agents help franchises with 100, 500, or 1,000+ locations?

Birdeye is built for brands managing hundreds to thousands of locations. AI agents consolidate every signal across every location — reviews, listings, social, search — reason with your brand voice and industry context, and act at scale, with your approval. Aspen Dental runs it across 4,000 locations; Sutter Health across 4,000 providers and locations. The work scales without adding headcount at every site.

Should franchise marketing be centralized or decentralized?

Both — the best franchise brands run a hybrid model. Fully centralized gives corporate control but misses local relevance; fully decentralized empowers franchisees but risks off-brand execution. Birdeye supports centralized, franchisee-led, and hybrid models on one platform, with role-based access so each level gets the right control. Corporate sets strategy and guardrails; agents handle local execution.

How do franchises keep every location on-brand at scale?

Brand AI trains every agent on your voice and guidelines, so local content, reviews, and campaigns stay consistent across the network. Agents draft and you approve, or they act autonomously within guardrails and escalate only the exceptions. Corporate keeps tiered approvals, role-based access, and location-level oversight — without slowing franchisees down.

What is the best franchise local SEO and AI search software?

Franchise visibility now spans Google and AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini — and Google optimization doesn't automatically carry over. Birdeye's Search AI and Listings agents keep every location accurate across 200+ sites and track per-location visibility on both traditional and AI search. Arrow Senior Living grew lead volume 53% after fixing per-community AI search presence.

How do franchises manage reviews across all locations?

Every location's reviews shape the whole brand. Birdeye's Reviews agents read every review for sentiment and intent and respond in your brand voice — autonomously or held for approval — across every location. H&R Block handled 49,000 reviews in a single tax season with zero humans in the loop, and the Review Response Agent has processed 120K+ reviews across 30+ enterprise brands.

How is Birdeye different from generic AI tools like ChatGPT for franchises?

Most AI tools tell you what's happening; Birdeye's agents decide what to do — and do it. They consolidate every signal across every location (in Birdeye or 3,000+ integrations), reason with your brand and industry context, and act together to complete a job. And Birdeye is headless — your data works everywhere your customers and team use AI (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) via MCP. Generic tools can't act on your locations; Birdeye's agents can.

Do franchisees need training or have to log in?

No. Birdeye's agents do the work whether or not a franchisee ever logs in — which is what makes adoption a non-issue across large networks. Corporate sets the guardrails once; agents execute at every location. Franchisees can step in to approve or personalize, but nothing depends on them logging in daily.

Is Birdeye enterprise-ready and secure for large franchise networks?

Yes. Birdeye is enterprise-grade with role-based access control, single sign-on, audit logs, and encryption in transit and at rest, plus SOC 2, HIPAA-ready, and GDPR support. Location-level reporting and tiered approvals give corporate and local teams the control they need. It's trusted by the largest enterprise brands, globally.

Which franchise brands use Birdeye?

Birdeye is trusted by leading franchise and multi-unit brands including H&R Block, Aspen Dental, Sutter Health, Caesars Entertainment, and Sun Auto, across dentistry, tax and financial services, healthcare, hospitality, and automotive. Brands run it across hundreds to thousands of locations.

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