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Your business is not showing up on Google: the four faults, and which one you have
Four faults on Google's own pages can hide a business. How to tell from your phone which one is yours, and how to fix it yourself.
Rory McNeil
Get Found
Google answers the question itself now, and the AI assistants name one or two businesses. We make yours the name in the answer.
Who’s a good plumber in Penrith who can come out today?
From listings and recent reviews nearby, the closest match is Your business.
Getting found
Customers look you up before they ring anyone, and more of them now ask an AI assistant instead of scrolling.1
Open, and nobody can find it What AI changed
It cuts both ways.
What it brings against you
Half of Australians say they would take the AI summary and never click through.1
Asked who to use to sell a house in two Blue Mountains towns, an AI assistant named no local business at all.3
Machines and people both read them first. Thin or unanswered, and you are ruled out before the phone rings.
The same machine is the fix
What it opens up for you
Pages the AI assistants can read and quote, and a monthly check of what they say.
A Google profile set up properly, and your details right everywhere.
A real page for each area you work, showing the jobs you did there.
Every customer asked the lawful way, and every review answered in your voice.
The monthly upkeep, drafted by the machine for you to approve, not left to a spare evening.
One page a month: where you show on Google, what the AI says, what changed.
Half of Australians say they would rely on the AI summary without clicking through to anybody.1 Google says plainly that there is no way to request or pay for a better local ranking.2
Asked who to use to sell a house in two Blue Mountains towns, an AI assistant named no local business at all.3
Where we would start
Drawn examples, not client results. Or start with the two that matter most.
The two things every business needs first: Show up on the map and More reviews.
Measured at 90 days on where you show and what the AI assistants say.
“Turned up when they said they would, sorted it first go, and cleaned up after.”
Thanks for taking the time. Glad it was a quick one, and give us a ring any time.
The “from” moves with your business and the state of your website. You see the figure in writing first, and it does not move after that.
The evidence
Google publishes some of this itself. The rest is one controlled study and one policy page.
“There are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, nor other special optimizations necessary.”
“You don’t need to create new machine readable files, AI text files, or markup to appear in these features.”
Or start with eight free checks you can do this afternoon
Google shows local businesses from a free profile, and if nobody has claimed yours it has nothing to show. Search your name plus your suburb: no panel, or a “Claim this business” link, and this is you.
Verification makes you eligible, not visible, and Google says plainly that there is no way to request or pay for a better local ranking.2 Search what you sell plus your suburb in a private window, away from your own premises.
Your name finds you whatever you do; “plumber Springwood” is decided by whether your listing itemises what you do and where. Search both, and if only your name finds you, this is the common one.
Almost always a data problem, and Google publishes the causes: a post office box, a duplicate listing, a profile nobody logs into.2 Search your name alone and look for two of yourself, “permanently closed”, or nothing at all.
There is exactly one piece of causal evidence in this field. It ran 252,000 trials with the brand names stripped out, so it measured the content rather than the reputation attached to it.5
Four things drove whether a page got quoted: whether it was genuinely about the thing being asked, whether it stated explicit prices, whether it carried recent dates, and where it sat in the list the model was reading. Edits that changed only the formatting did nothing at all.
That is why this website publishes its prices, dates every figure and names the source underneath. It is the whole of what the Get named by ChatGPT card does, and we sell no Wikipedia article, no Wikidata entry and no posting on Reddit as your own customer.
The routine we build asks everybody, every time, with no filter. It is the only lawful version, and the one that produces reviews that read as real, because they are.
Every status was checked against the platform’s own live site on 20 August 2026.8 Apple Business Connect was retired on 15 April 2026 and folded into Apple Business, so anybody still telling you to claim a Business Connect listing has not looked since March.
How it works
Five steps, the same every time. Switched on inside 30 days.
A free first hour about your business, not about AI. You leave with your insight portal: a private page about your business, your trade and your area.
One page in plain English: what we do, what it costs, what we measure.
Set up inside the accounts you already own. Nothing to migrate into.
Your people shown how to drive it, on your real work, until it sticks.
At 90 days we measure against day one and show you the before and after.
Why us
A local practice that builds in your accounts, hands everything over, and tells you straight.

We build it in your accounts, hand over every login, and show you how to change it. No licence fees or ongoing consultancy costs for anything we build: the only running costs are the tools themselves, like your AI plan, paid to them, not us.
No packages. We pick the few things that will make the biggest difference, tell you what’s not worth it, and what you can stop paying for.
Start from AU$499, with the price in writing before we start. Three months’ support included, then optional at AU$99 a month.
We’re local. We sit down with you in your business, and you can always reach a real person.
Most things are set up in days or a few weeks.
Not sure who to ask about AI? Ask us: we’ll tell you straight, and we can set it up.
Included with every paid engagement
A free workshop on Claude Code or Codex, for you and whoever you bring. Everything we build afterwards sits on it.
Whether it will replace you, what it gets wrong, what it costs to run. No question is too basic.
Customer data, staff, the law, sounding like a robot. We go through each one with your business in front of us.
The hour a week you want back, the enquiry you keep missing. Written down, then measured.
By the end you can ask the machine to change your website, redraft an email or rerun a report.

Questions
If yours is not here, ask it in your free hour.
Almost never. Most of what decides whether a local business gets found sits in your Google profile and a handful of pages you already have, and a rebuild is its own service on the menu with its own price.
Listing changes show within days, and reviews build over weeks because they depend on how many customers you serve. Ranking for the searches worth winning takes longer than either, which is why we measure at 90 days rather than promise at 30.
We do the things the evidence supports and say plainly where they stop, because not one of the AI assistant makers publishes a way in. What is on this page is the one controlled study and the documentation Google publishes, and neither supports a guarantee.
Google takes down reviews that break its content rules and does not take one down for being unfair, so mostly it stays up. What it does do is show your reply underneath it forever, which is why the reply is the part worth your time.
Asking is fine. Asking only the happy ones, paying for one, or asking a customer to name the staff member who served them all breach Google policy, so the routine we build asks everybody, every time, with no filter.
No. Every service on the menu is bought on its own, and the bundle is seven of them set up together because they are cheaper and faster done at once.
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An hour about your business, not about AI. We look at your listing while you are on the phone, ask the AI assistants who they would send to a job like yours, and tell you plainly if you should fix something else first.
Or write to hello@getaiworking.com.au, answered by the person who would do the work. What happens after
Not sure where to start?
Sometimes the hardest part is knowing what to ask. In a free hour, we ask the questions, get clear on what you want for your business, and show you the first steps.