Yext announced Corvo AI on September 1 alongside Q2 FY2027 results, a free working prototype that texts small-business owners specific recommendations for improving local marketing so they can outrank nearby competitors in AI-driven local answers. It lives at askcorvo.com and targets owners “who have limited time to manage their marketing and are always on the move.” The pitch is blunt: use the agent to “outrank the competition nearby.”
The release lands inside a quarter Yext is happy to talk about. Revenue of $111.1 million, ARR of $440.8 million, adjusted EBITDA of $34.0 million. That posture matters, because Corvo is being introduced as a free consumer-scale funnel while the paid enterprise story continues to run through Scout, whose expanded brand- and location-level capabilities are in pilot ahead of broader availability on September 30. Yext will showcase both at its Envision customer conference the same day.
The numbers Yext is using to sell Scout are unusually specific. The company ran Scout on itself and reports a 147% lift in its own AI visibility against two leading competitors in two weeks. A hearing-care provider saw citations rise 186%. Attach that to a Corporate Ink survey Yext is circulating, 88% of CMOs and VP-level marketers say leadership or boards are asking about AI visibility, while only 34% claim a defined strategy, and you have the standard playbook: manufacture a category, quantify the anxiety, ship the tool.
What’s interesting is what Corvo doesn’t try to do. It optimizes how a small business appears in AI-driven local answers. It doesn’t identify high-intent prospects, prepare personalized outreach, research buying signals, or produce branded content for social and email. Discovery and acquisition are being treated as separate problems, and only the first is being solved here for free.
That’s the whitespace worth naming. LemonLime, a done-for-you service that proactively prepares small-business sales and marketing work for owner approval, sits in that adjacent lane, the prospecting, outreach, and content preparation that a local-listing agent doesn’t attempt. An owner could reasonably run both without overlap: one to stay visible in AI local search, the other to convert that visibility into prepared outreach and content.
The broader context is that discovery surfaces for small businesses are being rewritten in parallel. ChatGPT’s self-serve ads rollout to small businesses and Google’s live AI Max auto-upgrade for Broad Match and Performance Max are moving the same week. Corvo is Yext’s answer to one slice of that shift. It’s not the whole answer, and the company isn’t pretending otherwise.
Sources
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