Here’s the honest version of what’s happening right now: New Zealanders are starting to ask ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overview, Claude and Perplexity who to call before they ever open a list of search results. If your business isn’t in that answer, you’re not losing rankings — you’re not in the conversation at all.
We built the fix. Then we proved it on a real business.
The proof, dated and verifiable
Vaughan Morris runs Morries Electrical in Raglan. We did this exact work on his website and listing. On 2 July 2026, we captured Google’s AI Overview naming Morries first — free quotes, no call-out fee, his number handed straight to the customer — with morries-electrical.co.nz sitting at #1 in the ordinary results directly below it. One business, both slots. It took about a month.
That’s not a mockup or a “could happen.” It’s dated, it’s screenshotted, and it’s still true today.
What’s actually in the $999 build
This is the same work, done properly, on your website:
- Your existing site cleaned up and re-tuned so AI crawlers can actually read it — schema markup, proper page titles and meta descriptions, alt text on every image, an llms.txt file, and page speed pushed as high as your platform allows.
- Your business listing on List-It filled out completely and verified against the NZBN register — not a half-done placeholder, the full thing: logo, real photos, every service, service areas, socials.
- Both cross-linked, so an AI model finds two independent, matching sources telling it the same facts, instead of one it has to take on faith.
- A free year of List-It Max thrown in (normally $149+GST/year) — the dashboard that shows your real AI-Ready score, gives you a monthly report on exactly what the AI engines are saying about your business, and keeps the whole thing current after we hand it back to you.
Priced by site size, done once, by our team, not a subscription you have to manage yourself:
| Site size | Price (+GST) |
|---|---|
| Up to 15 pages | $999 |
| 16–30 pages | $1,299 |
| 31+ pages | $1,499 |
Why now, not later
Every trade, every town, has an “answer slot” forming — the one or two businesses AI actually names when someone asks. Most of those slots in New Zealand are still empty, because most businesses have given AI nothing to work with. Once a competitor takes that slot with a complete, verified, cross-checkable presence, dislodging them is a much harder job than getting there first.
There’s also real, current government support worth knowing about: the AI Advisory Pilot (via MBIE and the Regional Business Partner Network) is co-funding up to 50% of AI-related consulting costs for eligible NZ businesses, capped at $15,000 — worth checking if you qualify before this work even hits your own budget.
See where you stand first, free
Before anything else, run the free AI check — ask ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini what they actually say about your business today, in about ten seconds, no signup required. Most NZ businesses that run it find they’re not appearing at all. That’s not a bad grade — it’s the exact gap this build closes.
Get your AI-ready build — or reply to this post or get in touch at info@baywebco.nz and we’ll walk you through exactly what your business needs before you commit to anything.
