AI visibility of Queenstown kitchen designers: the data.

We audited 19 kitchen designers’ websites in Queenstown. The average AI-visibility score is 63/100: 0% block at least one AI search crawler and 26% have no structured data — meaning ChatGPT and Google’s AI often can’t read the businesses they’re asked to recommend.

avg score

63/100

block AI crawlers

0%

no structured data

26%

JS-only content

5%

As of July 2026, the average AI-visibility score of 19 audited kitchen designers’ websites in Queenstown, New Zealand is 63 out of 100. 0% of the audited sites block at least one AI search crawler (such as OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot) in their robots.txt, 26% publish no structured data identifying their business, 5% serve their main content only through JavaScript that AI crawlers cannot execute, and 89% show no visible “last updated” date. The businesses were drawn from Google’s local results for kitchen designer services in Queenstown, where the average Google rating is 4.9 stars with a median of 4 reviews. Source: Surfaced audit dataset, n=19, July 2026. Method: surfaced.co.nz/methodology.

What are Queenstown kitchen designers getting wrong?

89% show no visible 'last updated' date

The fix: Display and maintain a visible update date — AI engines strongly favour recently-updated pages.

26% have no structured data at all

The fix: Add LocalBusiness JSON-LD so AI engines can identify the business, its services and its area.

5% serve their content only via JavaScript

The fix: Server-render the key pages — AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, so a JS-only site reads as a blank page.

0% block at least one AI search crawler

The fix: Allow OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot and Googlebot in robots.txt — training-only bots can stay blocked without losing citations.

Why does this matter for a kitchen designer in Queenstown?

When someone in Queenstown asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for “a good kitchen designer near me”, the engines recommend from the businesses they can actually read and verify. With an average score of 63/100, most of the local market is effectively invisible to those answers — which means the few businesses that fix their basics take a disproportionate share of AI recommendations. That gap is the opportunity.

Compare: the national average for kitchen designers is 68/100 across 385 sites.

Are you one of the visible ones?

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Last updated July 2026 · based on 19 audited websites from 30 local listings · methodology · aggregates only — no individual business is named without consent