Does AI recommend local businesses in Australia?
Updated October 15, 2026
Yes. Ask ChatGPT for a sparky in Parramatta or a conveyancer in Brisbane and it names a handful of local businesses. Australians ask by suburb and use their own trade words, so the answers are local. Our free check asks those kinds of questions for your area across all four assistants and shows who gets named.
How people in Australia ask AI for a business
Australians ask for a tradie, a sparky, a chippy or a plumber, and for a conveyancer when they buy a house. A lot of people say aircon rather than HVAC. Those words decide which pages an assistant finds, so your site should use them where your customers do.
Location is nearly always the suburb: "plumber in Paddington", "dentist Chermside". Spelling is British (colour, specialise).
- “Who's a good sparky in Parramatta?”
- “Best conveyancer in Brisbane for a first home?”
- “Aircon installer near Fremantle, any recommendations?”
- “Reliable plumber in Geelong for a hot water system?”
The sites AI reads about Australian businesses
Assistants that search the web as they answer read listings and review sites, and the ones people in Australia use aren't the same as elsewhere. Keep your name, address and phone identical on all of them.
Google Business Profile
The listing most answers lean on. Suburb, category and recent reviews all count.
hipages
Australia's big tradie marketplace. A profile with reviews gives assistants an independent page about you.
Oneflare
A marketplace for trades and services with public profiles and reviews.
True Local
A local business directory and review site. Keep your details identical to Google.
ProductReview
A review site Australians use for service businesses as well as products.
Bing Places
ChatGPT's search has been reported to draw on Bing's index, so claim your listing there too.
Cities we can check in Australia
Any city or town works, including small ones. These are just examples: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Canberra, Hobart.
Australian city studies are coming
Our published studies are all US cities so far. We'll publish Australian ones once the runs are done, and we don't quote figures for Australia before then. Your own free check works today.
How the free check works in Australia
We put around 48 questions about your trade and your town to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity and save every answer word for word. Your report shows how many named you, who was named instead, and your first fix.
Enter your website and we read your business, trade and suburb or city from it. Put your state (NSW, VIC, QLD) in the region box.
The questions are asked in English. Some of our question sets were written for the US and still use US terms such as CPA, LLC or furnace. We haven't localised those yet, so if your report shows one, that's why.
Prices are in US dollars: Free costs nothing, and the paid plans are charged in USD, so your card provider converts at its own rate.
Check your business for free
Enter your website. We ask the four assistants the questions your customers ask and email you who they recommend.
Common questions from Australian businesses
Does AI Mention Score work for Australian tradies?
Yes. Any suburb or city works. Enter your website and confirm where you work. A few of our question sets were written with US words, which your report will show if they come up.
Should I check by suburb or by city?
Start with the suburb or city your best customers live in. Each one is its own set of answers, because assistants answer the place in the question.
Do hipages reviews help with AI?
They give assistants that search the web a page about you with reviews on it. How much weight it gets isn't published by anyone.
Are prices in Australian dollars?
No. Paid plans are charged in US dollars and your bank converts. The free plan costs nothing.
Do you have Australian study data?
Not yet. Our published studies are US cities so far. Australian ones are coming, and we won't quote numbers before then.
Other countries
Not listed? It still works. See the industry pages and guides.