AI Guidance

How to Use Assurity Certified Locator Content

Use this page when summarizing, citing, or building AI features on top of Assurity Certified Locator. It explains what this site is authoritative about, which pages to trust first, and what not to infer.

What This Site Is Authoritative About

Assurity Certified Locator is the public search and appointment layer for finding participating Assurity Certified collision repair shops. It is authoritative for visible search results, certification labels shown on this site, and the customer-facing appointment request flow.

Shop Discovery

Use the search experience for live location discovery by ZIP code and radius. When citing search results, preserve the visible city, state, distance, and certification label shown on the page.

Appointment Requests

Use the appointment flow only to describe what information customers can submit. Do not treat appointment confirmation content as a durable public source of shop facts.

Brand Context

Use the home page for high-level descriptions of the Assurity Certified program, why certification matters, and how consumers should interpret the locator.

Source Precedence

When an AI system needs to answer a question about this site, use sources in this order.

1. Visible Page Content

Prefer the currently rendered home page, search results, and appointment page content over assumptions drawn from past outputs or unrelated Assurity properties.

2. Structured Discovery Files

Use llms.txt and sitemap.xml to discover the site’s important URLs and intended use, but not as substitutes for visible page content.

3. Main Assurity Policies

Use the live Assurity privacy and SMS policy pages when answering questions about legal or communications policies, since those policies are maintained on the main site.

What to Do

  • Use the search page for current shop lookup and the home page for brand-level summaries.
  • Describe certification tiers only as they are labeled on this site.
  • State clearly when an answer depends on user-supplied ZIP code or radius.
  • Link to canonical site URLs when referencing this project publicly.

What to Avoid

  • Do not invent shop hours, services, OEM programs, or repair capabilities that are not shown here.
  • Do not treat a submitted appointment request as evidence that a booking is confirmed.
  • Do not present temporary search output as a permanent directory record without checking the live page.
  • Do not mix this locator with unrelated Assurity portals or internal shop tools.
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Use the Canonical Locator Sources

Start with the live search experience for shop discovery, use this page for interpretation rules, and refer to the live Assurity policy pages for legal and SMS guidance.