March 16, 2026

Crush Local Marketing To-Do Lists with AskGenius: Your AI-Powered Assistant

Kevin MacKenzie

If you know how to talk (or type), then AskGenius is your shortcut to powering through your marketing to-do list. Across local search, social media, and reputation, it can complete almost any task you would typically handle manually, often in seconds.Just chat with AskGenius to go from asked to action, skipping all the tedious searching, pointing, and clicking steps in between.

AskGenius Is Your AI-Powered Local Marketing Assistant

You don’t need to be a SOCi power user to get on-demand actions, insights, and answers. Throughout SOCi, you can trade complicated workflows for simple conversations with AskGenius. Tell it what you need, and it delivers.

AskGenius provides essential functionality for all multi-location marketers. Admins can simplify account management by asking it to create users and assign them to groups. Local users can get answers to SOCi how-tos, learn industry best practices, and pull KPIs without digging through reports.

Across Search, Social, and Reputation, You Just Have to Ask
AskGenius unifies your SOCi experience by letting you manage local search, social media, and reputation through one intuitive chat interface. You can finish your work as quickly as you can talk or type, using natural phrases like:

Search – Optimize Local Listings with AskGenius

“Update the listing hours for all Austin locations to 9am – 6pm.”
“Change the name in GBP from ‘Best Subs, LLC’ to ‘Best Subs’”
“Set our East Boston location to ‘Temporarily Closed’ until July.”

“Schedule a Facebook post for Friday promoting our weekend sale.”
“Create an Instagram post with this image. Caption it: ‘New arrival!’”
“Rewrite this post to sound more exciting and upbeat.”

Reputation – Manage Online Reviews with AskGenius

“Show all my 5-star reviews from the last quarter.”
“Tag all reviews that mention ‘quick service’ as ‘efficiency.’”
“Assign negative reviews from the last month to Pablo Fuentes.”

AskGenius Has Your Back and Gets Smarter with Every Chat

When you chat with AskGenius it learns from your feedback, so it performs even better next time. It also saves past chats, making it easy to pick up where you left off.

If you accidentally try to do something you don’t have permission for, AskGenius blocks the action and lets you know. And before executing any action, it tells you exactly what it plans to do and waits for your approval.

Rather Automate Your Local Marketing Work?

As your AI-powered assistant, AskGenius only acts when you ask. If you’d prefer to have AI agents proactively do your work for you, check out SOCi Genius Agents. They work around the clock, automatically optimizing listings, publishing content, and responding to reviews.