the data · updated July 2026 · 2827 sites audited
How visible are NZ businesses to AI?
We ran our public, deterministic AI-visibility audit across 2827 New Zealand business websites found in Google’s local results — the same check anyone can run free on this site. These pages publish what we found, by industry and city. Aggregates only: no individual business is ever named.
plumbers
70/100 avg
256 sites audited · 3% block AI crawlers · 11 cities
electricians
70/100 avg
269 sites audited · 4% block AI crawlers · 11 cities
builders
71/100 avg
257 sites audited · 3% block AI crawlers · 12 cities
roofers
69/100 avg
189 sites audited · 1% block AI crawlers · 7 cities
painters
69/100 avg
217 sites audited · 5% block AI crawlers · 8 cities
landscapers
67/100 avg
203 sites audited · 5% block AI crawlers · 9 cities
dentists
68/100 avg
200 sites audited · 8% block AI crawlers · 9 cities
physiotherapists
68/100 avg
223 sites audited · 3% block AI crawlers · 12 cities
lawyers
68/100 avg
276 sites audited · 5% block AI crawlers · 12 cities
accountants
68/100 avg
223 sites audited · 5% block AI crawlers · 11 cities
mechanics
65/100 avg
191 sites audited · 5% block AI crawlers · 11 cities
hairdressers
66/100 avg
209 sites audited · 4% block AI crawlers · 8 cities
real estate agents
71/100 avg
158 sites audited · 5% block AI crawlers · 9 cities
Method: https://surfaced.co.nz/methodology · publication threshold n≥15 per combination · data refreshed periodically from Google local results + our public audit.