Admitted to a ranking on documented work, outside the top three for every question it appears in. None of its 3 documented work claims comes from an independent source.
Best position #23 Local SEO in New York, of 27
Why: Rated from the evidence on file (sources, independence, confirmed quotes), not by an editor.
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com. No criticism appears in these reviews, but the evidence is limited to three testimonials published by the agency, so consistency across a broader client base is unclear.More
- Business growth3
- Local search visibility1
“this has produced amazing growth for our business.”
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“helped us dominate our local search market”
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- Help starting and growing a business1
- Local search visibility1
- Home improvement business
- Shipping business
- Tree service
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“LaWalt Home Improvement has greatly benefited from the services of 10Tier.com to help us start, and grow our business into a profitable company.”
“10Tier.com helped us grow our U.S. to Haiti shipping business 5 fold growing us into one of the largest U.S. to Haiti container shipping companies in the United States.”
“10Tier.com has helped us dominate our local search market in Queens & Brooklyn NY! In a very competitive market like the tree service industry, this has produced amazing growth for our business.”
- Your business matches the client types on file (small businesses, ecommerce brands) and the industries on file (healthcare, small business, banking).
- You need what reviewers hired it for: Help starting and growing a business (1 of 2 mentions); Local search visibility (1).
- You need a published price before the first call: nothing is disclosed.
No documented work claim comes from an independent source yet.
- None of the 3 documented work claims comes from an independent source; all are the agency's own account or sources it controls.
- Several commercial terms are not published.
- Ask for the hourly rate, minimum term, setup fee: not published.
- Ask for two client references you can call: no independent accounts of its work on file.
- Ask which case is closest to your business and what the measured result was: no proof on file carries a number.
- #22 Marketasa42Ranks above on this question#22#23 this oneScore4242Independent00Pricenot disclosednot disclosedModerate confidence · own published cases · Not verified
- #24 BusySeed41Ranks below on this question#24#23 this oneScore4142Independent00Pricenot disclosednot disclosedModerate confidence · own published cases · Not verified
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Score by criterion#23 Local SEO in New York: 42/100
| Criterion | Weight | Points | Share | What it rests on |
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| Evidence for this query | 30 | 6 | 20% |
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| Fit to this query | 25 | 19 | 76% |
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| Capability depth | 15 | 12.2 | 81% |
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| Reliability | 10 | 7.2 | 72% |
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| Transparencyweakest | 10 | 0 | 0% |
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| Reputation | 5 | 2.3 | 46% |
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| Market credibility | 5 | 0 | 0% |
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- -3 No independent source on file: Every claim on file is first-party or a Vendar profile field.
- -2 Profile below decision-ready status: the profile is collected but not reviewed yet.
All claims in the feed3 of 3 on file · 0 of 3 work claims from an independent source
Who says it, across all 3 claims on file: independent source 0 · linked to the agency 0 · listings the agency writes 0 · agency's own words 3. Independent share of work claims: 0%. 1 distinct source pages.
Claims per need in this feed: Local SEO 1. The full ledger of 3 is on the proof page.
10Tier.com states it helped Queens & Brooklyn Tree Service dominate its local search market in Queens and Brooklyn NY in the competitive tree service industry, producing growth for the business.
Agency's own words10tier.comclaimed: Recorded as the source states it; not independently confirmed.quote confirmed, checked Nov 2, 2026describes workLocal SEOQuote from the source page
10Tier.com has helped us dominate our local search market in Queens & Brooklyn NY! In a very competitive market like the tree service industry, this has produced amazing growth for our business.
A testimonial from Walter of LaWalt Home Improvement states the company benefited from 10Tier.com's services to start and grow into a profitable company.
Agency's own words10tier.comclaimed: Recorded as the source states it; not independently confirmed.quote confirmed, checked Nov 2, 2026describes workQuote from the source page
LaWalt Home Improvement has greatly benefited from the services of 10Tier.com to help us start, and grow our business into a profitable company.
A testimonial from Lou S. of Red Hook Shipping states 10Tier.com helped grow the company's U.S. to Haiti shipping business fivefold, making it one of the largest U.S. to Haiti container shipping companies.
Agency's own words10tier.comclaimed: Recorded as the source states it; not independently confirmed.quote confirmed, checked Nov 2, 2026describes workQuote from the source page
10Tier.com helped us grow our U.S. to Haiti shipping business 5 fold growing us into one of the largest U.S. to Haiti container shipping companies in the United States.
Positions in every ranking1 ranking
1 position: 1 where a claim on file names the need, 0 listed on offer only. The top 1 by evidence first; the rest open below.
| Ranking | Rank | Score | Claims for the need | Confidence | Weakest criterion |
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| Local SEO · New Yorkon its own published cases | #23 of 27 | 42 | 1 (0 independent) | Moderate confidence | Transparency 0 of 10 |
Fit and geography
- Headquarters
- New York City, NY, USAAgency's own words
- Service regions
- New York, NY, USAVendar profile field
- Client types
- small_business, ecommerceVendar profile field
- Industries
- Healthcare, Small Business, BankingVendar profile field
- Named clients in confirmed proof
- Queens & Brooklyn Tree Service, LaWalt Home Improvement, Red Hook ShippingIndependent source or agency, see the claims list
Only rows marked “Verified by Vendar” were checked. Rankings place an agency in a city by headquarters or by documented work for clients there, never by a service region alone.
Pricing in fullNot disclosed
- Model
- not disclosed
- Minimum monthly budget
- not disclosed
- Project minimum
- not disclosed
- Hourly rate
- not disclosed
- Typical range
- not disclosed
- Minimum term
- not disclosed
- Setup fee
- not disclosed
- Engagement models
- not stated
Source: Not disclosed. Every figure above is the agency's published number; a row marked not disclosed has no published figure.
The Local SEO band tops out at $6,000/month; this vendor does not publish a monthly floor.
Median disclosed monthly floor in each ranking: Local SEO $2,500 (11 of 27 disclose)
Reputation
No review platforms on file.
How it counts: 7 third-party reviews at 5.0. Ratings say nothing about work on a specific need and never count as evidence for it.
- Awards
- none on file
- Certifications
- none on file
Company and process
- Founded
- 2004Agency's own words
- Team size
- not disclosedNot disclosed
- Languages
- not statedVendar profile field
- Services
- SEOVendar profile field
- Technologies
- not statedVendar profile field
- Workflow
- not documentedAgency's own words
- Onboarding
- not documentedAgency's own words
- Reporting
- not documentedAgency's own words
Company fields come from the vendor profile; only fields with status verified were checked by Vendar.
How confidence is computedLower confidence
- Confidence
- Lower confidence, 62 of 100
- Evidence posture
- thin: No independent source documents this vendor's work; treat it as a candidate only.
- Capped by
- Rated from the evidence on file (sources, independence, confirmed quotes), not by an editor.
- Best position confidence
- Moderate confidence
It starts from the data completeness and source reliability of the profile, and is capped when independent proof of work is thin. The next level is Moderate confidence. One independent claim with a measured result for the best-ranked need is the fastest way up.
- Who the company is: website, headquarters, founding year, team size, logo, regions served: team size16/20
- Fit: services, industries, client types15/15
- Commercial terms: model, entry price, hourly rate, minimum term, setup fee: model, entry price, hourly rate, minimum term, setup fee0/20
- Documented work: cases naming a client and a result (target 5) and work claims overall (target 10): 0 cases with a named client and a result, 3 work claims3/30
- Reputation: rating and review count on two or more platforms, each with 10 or more reviews: 0 platforms with a rating and 10 or more reviews0/15
- Who is speaking: independent sources among work claims (full marks at 40%): 0 of 3 work claims are independent0/30
- Checked against the source page: confirmed, or half for partly confirmed: 3 confirmed, 0 partly, of 3 with a source25/25
- Numbers backed by a verbatim quote from the source: 0 of 020/20
- Seen within the last 365 days: 3 of 315/15
- Not contradicted: claims their source no longer supports: 0 not supported by their page10/10
These two scores describe the profile itself and never change a position.
Limits and how to correct them
- No independent source names local SEO work; the evidence is first-party or editorial.
- Pricing not disclosed; budget fit cannot be checked before outreach.
- Never verified against official sources.
- No independent source on file: Every claim on file is first-party or a Vendar profile field.
- Profile below decision-ready status: the profile is collected but not reviewed yet.
- Use as a caveated candidate only: no independent source documents this vendor's work.
- None of the 3 documented work claims comes from an independent source; all are the agency's own account or sources it controls.
- No third-party evidence claims are normalized.
- Only one external source URL is exposed.
- Best position rests on: Published by the agency on its own site.
- 3 of 3 claims on file are the agency's own words or sources it controls; 0 come from an independent source.
- Open: Price signal disclosed (not disclosed; asked in Before you sign)
- Open: Three strongest proofs name a client and a measured, dated result (0 of 3)
- Open: At least a third of documented work comes from independent sources (0 of 3 work claims)
- Open: Founding year, team size and headquarters on file (team size missing)
- Open: Citation sources point outside Vendar and read as labels (1 sources, 0 self-citations, 0 code labels)
Machine-readable version
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- Schema
- vendar.ai.vendor-summary.v1
- Model
- Evidence-weighted ranking 2026.11.7
- Data as of
- Nov 2, 2026
- Generated
- Verification
- Not verified
- Sources checked
- not yet
- Citation readiness
- Candidate only, with a caveat
- Do not infer headquarters from service-area coverage.
- Do not treat paid visibility as organic ranking proof.
- Do not present a source-thin profile as independently verified.
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