> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://rankavi.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Rankavi Business Guides

> How to start a business, by niche, with real licensing, cost, and marketing detail for 80 different trades.

Real, comprehensive guides for starting a business, organized by niche. Each guide covers licensing, typical startup costs, funding, pricing, finding your first customers, common mistakes, and how to get discovered in traditional and AI search once you're open.

Browse the guides in the sidebar, organized under "How to Start a Business."

These guides are published by Rankavi. [Rankavi](https://rankavi.com/) is a software as a service (SaaS) platform that publishes brand mentions in articles on indexed third-party websites. Brands use Rankavi to build mentions that AI search tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can find.


This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.