Courtyard
Founded 2025 · 12 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Courtyard builds and maintains a knowledge base about a business so AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can find, understand, and represent it to potential customers. It lets businesses such as studios, restaurants, and home services companies upload documents, link tools, and track how AI assistants use and talk about their information.
Also known as Courtyard AI · Courtyard AI Inc.
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Courtyard, operated by Courtyard AI Inc., provides small businesses with a platform for making their business information available to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. The service builds what the company calls a living knowledge base: owners upload or link documents, menus, FAQs, schedules and other material; forward or CC email to a dedicated knowledge inbox; connect booking, inventory or scheduling tools through zero-click integrations; or have Courtyard draft entries automatically by researching public web sources for the owner to review and approve.
Alongside knowledge ingestion, the product includes analytics that track which AI assistants visit the knowledge base, which knowledge categories they read, what sources AI cites when answering questions about the business, and how AI assistants describe the business. Dashboard elements referenced on the site include AI visits over time, AI visibility and citation share, the number of models citing the business, and the specific customer prompts that did or did not surface the business. The company states that Courtyard also aims to let AI answer customer questions and automate actions such as quotes or reservations.
Courtyard positions the offering as distinct from conventional site-level AI optimization, arguing that crawlability, schema markup and clean HTML do not ensure AI represents business details accurately, and that websites go stale; the platform is described as continuously monitoring for information that is new, outdated or never captured on the website.
Business model
Courtyard sells a subscription software service to small businesses; the site offers a free tier with a published pricing page, and the terms of service include sections covering purchases, payment and subscriptions.
Subscription-based access to the platform, with a free starting tier and paid plans presented on the company's pricing page.
Latest developments
The company's site indicates the product is live, and its terms of service carry a last-updated date of June 25, 2026. Recent blog posts cover how restaurants get found and recommended by AI and how AI assistants describe small businesses.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Courtyard addresses what it describes as a long tail of small businesses that lack the resources of large companies to build AI partnerships or engineering teams, and that are not covered by plug-and-play support from e-commerce platforms such as Shopify or Etsy.
The company frames its approach as working backwards from where AI assistants look and from the questions customers ask them, rather than optimizing a website for crawling. It argues that schema markup and clean HTML let AI read a site but do not guarantee accuracy or capture nuance not published on a webpage, and that its platform continuously monitors and closes gaps in what AI knows, adding measurement of AI visits, citations and responses.
Technology
The platform ingests business information from uploaded files (PDFs, documents, spreadsheets), links, voice and text notes, forwarded email to a per-customer inbox address, and integrations with booking, inventory and scheduling tools. It runs automated web research to draft knowledge entries for owner approval, publishes that knowledge in the locations and formats AI systems consume, and logs AI assistant visits and citations to report on visibility and how models answer questions about the business.
Go-to-market
The company markets directly to small business owners through its website with a free entry point and self-serve sign-up, a public pricing page, a content blog aimed at specific verticals such as restaurants and home services, and a separate diagnostic tool at check.getcourtyard.ai that lets an owner select their business type and see what knowledge their business currently provides to AI.
Small and local businesses across service verticals, including restaurants, cafés and bars; gyms, fitness studios and classes; home services such as plumbing, HVAC and electrical; salons and barbershops; wellness and med spas; dental clinics; professional services such as photographers, lawyers and bookkeepers; recreation and leisure; automotive; pet services; education and tutoring; and real estate. The platform currently supports businesses whose websites run on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or Shopify.
Geography
Courtyard AI Inc. is registered in Canada and lists an address in Toronto, Ontario.
History
The operating entity is Courtyard AI Inc., registered in Canada with an address at 175 Bloor St E, South Tower, Suite 1800, Toronto, Ontario. The company publishes a blog, with posts dated November 2025 and June 2026 covering topics such as how restaurants get found and recommended by AI and ChatGPT apps for home services. Its terms of service were last updated June 25, 2026, and the site announces that the product is live.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Courtyard went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 8
by search overlap
Companies competing with Courtyard for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsCourtyard's website states the product is live, offering a free tier and paid pricing; supported website platforms include WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow and Shopify.
Courtyard operates check.getcourtyard.ai, a tool that shows what knowledge a business currently provides to AI, with business-type selection across categories such as restaurants, gyms, home services, salons, dental, automotive and real estate.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Courtyardgetcourtyard.ai · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Courtyard do?
- Courtyard builds a maintained knowledge base of a small business so AI assistants can find, understand and recommend it.
- Who are Courtyard's investors?
- Courtyard's investors include Mantella Venture Partners.