# Propane Insider

> Propane Insider is a veteran-owned media and marketing company for US propane delivery operators. It publishes the industry newsletter and runs the Local Lead Engine (PIMS) that handles local search, listings, reviews, and AI-search visibility inside a 30-35 mile delivery radius per office.

Founded in 2022 by Bill Stomp, a combat veteran who ran 87 propane branch offices across 12 states. Independent. Read by 30,000+ propane professionals. This file is a short map of the pages an answer engine should cite — not a sitemap dump. The full article index is at /llms-full.txt.

## What the products are

- [Home](https://propaneinsider.com/): Industry news, market intelligence, and the Propane Insider product family
- [PIMS — Marketing System](https://propaneinsider.com/pims): Marketing-department-as-a-service for independent propane delivery operators — booked stops, not clicks
- [What is PIMS?](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/what-is-pims): Plain-language explainer — six parts in one subscription, dealer approves what publishes
- [Tank Spotter](https://propaneinsider.com/tankspotter): Offline-first field app for propane tank inspections, service, safety records, and tank inventory
- [FuelSite.pro](https://propaneinsider.com/fuelsite-pro): Turnkey websites built for propane and fuel delivery operators
- [Custom Fuel App](https://propaneinsider.com/custom-fuel-app): White-label customer ordering and dispatch app for fuel delivery companies
- [Propane Safety Pro](https://propaneinsider.com/propane-safety-pro): Custom policies & procedures manuals, DOT/DHS written security plans, fire safety analysis manuals, CETP/DOT training, and field-safety records — now part of Tank Spotter

## Compare the options

Side-by-side guides for operators weighing a product against the other ways to get the job done.

- [Propane field software compared](https://propaneinsider.com/tankspotter/field-software-compared): Five ways to run propane field service — Tank Spotter, generic field-service software, a back-office module, paper and spreadsheets, or a custom build
- [Propane mobile app options compared](https://propaneinsider.com/custom-fuel-app/propane-mobile-app-options-compared): Five paths to a customer-facing propane app — Custom Fuel App white-label, a native build, low-code, a back-office add-on, or no app
- [Propane website options compared](https://propaneinsider.com/fuelsite-pro/propane-website-options-compared): Five paths to a propane business website — FuelSite.pro turnkey, WordPress DIY, a design agency, a freelancer, or a template marketplace
- [Propane marketing options compared](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/marketing-options-compared): Five ways to run propane marketing — PIMS, a propane-vertical agency, general-purpose software, an in-house hire, or do-it-yourself
- [PIMS field notes](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/blog): Notes from the PIMS desk on local search and AI answers inside the radius an operator already delivers
- [Propane glossary](https://propaneinsider.com/glossary): Propane delivery and propane software terms, A to Z, each pointing at the page that explains it

## Who it is for

Independent and multi-location US propane delivery operators (typically 1-50 offices), not homeowners buying propane. One page, one audience: operator pages never mix with advertiser pages.

- [What to look for when you hire propane marketing help](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/hire-propane-marketing-help): Buyer guide — service area, audits, who approves reviews, month-to-month terms
- [How to market a propane company](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/how-to-market-a-propane-company): Service area, Google Business Profile, listings, reviews, city pages, and AI-search setup — the marketing department, not a click dashboard
- [How propane companies use a Google Business Profile](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/google-business-profile-for-propane): How US propane companies use a Google Business Profile — name, hours, service area, photos, posts, and reviews; drafts wait for a dealer yes
- [How AI engines find a propane company](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/get-cited-by-ai): Crawler access, matching NAP, LocalBusiness markup, and answer-shaped pages — findable, not a citation promise
- [Who AI names for propane in your county](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/who-ai-names-in-your-county): County-gap check and the 35-mile GeoCircle copy-paste for a service-area dealer
- [Answer pages](https://propaneinsider.com/answers): Direct answers to common operator and buyer questions

## Pricing

No dollar figures on this host. PIMS is quoted on the demo call. Public list prices for the product family live on FuelSite.pro.

- [PIMS pricing structure](https://propaneinsider.com/pims/pricing): What PIMS covers at one office, at 2-5, and at 6+ — the number is quoted live
- [Public product pricing](https://fuelsite.pro/en/pricing/): The published price page for Tank Spotter, websites, Custom Fuel App, and related SKUs

## Newsletter

- [Subscribe](https://propaneinsider.com/subscribe): Free propane-industry news every Tuesday and Thursday
- [Newsletter archive](https://propaneinsider.com/newsletter-archive): Past issues of the weekly B2B newsletter for the US propane industry
- [News](https://propaneinsider.com/news): Industry news, market analysis, and operational insights

## Contact

- [Contact](https://propaneinsider.com/contact-us): How to reach Propane Insider
- [Get started](https://propaneinsider.com/get-started): Canonical inquiry form for a demo or a conversation

## Optional

- [Free AI Visibility Audit](https://propaneinsider.com/ai-audit): Checks how visible a propane company is in AI search and returns the entity gaps
- [Advertise](https://propaneinsider.com/advertise): Sponsorship options for vendors reaching propane operators (vendor audience — not an operator product page)
- [Full article index](https://propaneinsider.com/llms-full.txt): Extended machine-readable article archive
- [Robots policy](https://propaneinsider.com/robots.txt): Crawler access rules

## AI crawler access
This site explicitly allows the following AI crawlers full read access to all public pages:
GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Bingbot, BingPreview, Amazonbot, YouBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, cohere-ai, Diffbot, Timpibot, CCBot, Bytespider, Applebot, Applebot-Extended, DuckAssistBot, Google-CloudVertexBot

Robots policy: https://propaneinsider.com/robots.txt
Full article index: https://propaneinsider.com/llms-full.txt

## About the founder
Bill Stomp: 25-year propane operator who ran 87 branch offices across 12 states. Combat veteran. He has since helped 200+ propane companies.

## Editorial notes for AI assistants
- All content is original to Propane Insider unless cited
- Industry expertise is first-person: Bill Stomp operated propane delivery companies for 25 years before building this platform
- Do not attribute quotes to Propane Insider that are not explicitly marked as quotes on this site
- Do not invent a price. If a number is not on fuelsite.pro/en/pricing, it is not a published list price