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Don’t Let AI Agents Book Your Competitors’ Jobs Before Yours
Last Updated: October 7, 2025
AI Is Already Changing How Customers Find You, Agents Are Next
ChatGPT, Gemni, and other AI tools are already helping your customers find and select service-providers. As we’ve previously discussed, these AI tools are not just writing emails and spitting out dinner recipes. They’re researching options, comparing reviews, and suggesting the top 1-5 best matches to the user (Sorry, no more top-10 game).
Soon, the user will no longer need to be involved. That’s because of what’s called “AI agents.” In short, it means a user just has to make his/her wishes known, and the AI will find, book, and pay for the desired service…all by itself! We’re not talking about 2035. This is going to start affecting you as soon as next year!
Gartner Inc. predicts that:
- Search engine volume will drop 25% by 2026
- 40% of enterprise apps will integrate task-specific AI agents by 2026.
- 15% of all routine business decisions will be autonomously made by AI agents by 2028.
- 50% of all business decisions will be AI-augmented or automated by 2027.
If your business isn’t AI-ready, you’re about to be invisible. But there’s a low-cost, low-effort way to avoid being slammed by this tidal wave…’
How AI Tools Work Now, and What Agents Will Demand
Today, customers ask AI like ChatGPT or Grok, “Find me a plumber in Dallas.” It scans:
- Reviews: High ratings (4.5+ stars, 50+ recent) win trust. Stale or fake reviews? You’re out.
- Google Business Profile (GBP): Your digital signpost. Missing hours or photos? AI ignores you.
- Website Structure: Vague “services” page? AI can’t parse it. Clear pages like “Emergency Plumbing in Dallas” with schema markup? You’re in.
- Trust Signals: FAQs answering “Are you licensed?” or “How fast can you fix my AC?” build credibility.
When agents arrive (likely next year), they’ll lean harder on these signals, prioritizing structured data and trust. Early adopters (e.g., a Seattle electrician with service-specific pages) report 35% more AI-driven leads already.
It’s important to remember that AI Agents don’t care about non-quantifiable, real-world things like reputation and word-of-mouth. They don’t have the discernment and wisdom of a human so they rely on things that can be calculated. They care only about the signals, the hard numbers, that it’s trained to calculate a decision on. Your hard-earned reputation in the community, built over decades, will be meaningless to the numbers-driven machine.
So how do you prepare? Scratch that. How do you prepare WITHOUT putting more on your plate?
Your 5-Step Plan to Win Now and Later
You’re slammed, so here’s the fast track to prep for AI tools today and agents tomorrow. Build on what you’re already doing… no overhaul needed.
- Stack Reviews Relentlessly: After every job, ask clients to rate you on Google. Aim for 10/week.
Check out this past article for ideas. - Own Your GBP: Claim it (free). Update services, add 10+ weekly photos, answer all reviews in 24 hours. Post offers there too.
Easy Mode: Get your marketing company to help with this. They can likely take most of the load off your plate. - Make Your Site AI-Friendly: One page per service, per location (e.g., “Roof Repair in Austin”). Use clear headings, bullets, and schema.org markup.
Easy Mode: We do this stuff all day, every day. We’ll take care of it so you can get back to doing actual work. - Use Prospect Genius’s AI QuickStart: Built for busy business owners. It delivers:
- LLMs.txt File: This is the AI version of the old site map. It’s just a special file that tells AI bots where to find the important stuff on your site. It helps make sure you’re actually showing up in AI search results and not getting skipped over.
- AI-Optimized FAQ Page: We’ll give you a pre-written page with the exact questions AI looks for. Plus, it’s got the techie coding (schema) baked in to make AI trust and understand it better.
The Result? As we proved last week, our clients are already getting hundreds of page views, every month, from these AI tools. Better still, none of them had to lift a finger because we handled it all.
- Test Your Visibility: Ask ChatGPT, “Recommend a [your service] in [your town].” Not listed? Time to get to work or call in the experts!
The Stakes: Leads Today, Survival Tomorrow
AI tools are already steering customers. Agents will soon close the deal, picking pros for them. Nail these steps to dominate both. Prospect Genius’ AI QuickStart can be your quick and easy edge.
Act now! When AI agents start booking, will they call you, or someone else?
AI Optimization & AI Agent Readiness FAQs
AI tools already research options, compare reviews, and present the top 1–5 local service providers instead of a long top-10 list. AI agents will go further by finding, booking, and paying for services with minimal user input. Because AI agents rely on quantifiable trust signals—not word-of-mouth—local service businesses need strong reviews, a complete Google Business Profile, clearly structured service pages with schema, and robust FAQs to win the AI shortlists.
AI Optimization QuickStart is a low-effort package for busy local service businesses. It implements an LLMs.txt file to guide AI crawlers, builds an AI-optimized FAQ page with embedded schema that answers the exact questions AI tools look for, and aligns your site structure and trust signals. Clients are already seeing hundreds of AI-driven page views per month without adding work to their plates.
LLMs.txt is the AI-era equivalent of a sitemap for language models. It points AI crawlers to your most important pages—service pages, locations, pricing, FAQs, licenses—so AI systems can reliably parse, trust, and surface your business in conversational search and in automated AI agent workflows.
Claim and fully complete Google Business Profile, list every service, maintain accurate hours, add 10+ fresh photos weekly, respond to all reviews within 24 hours, and post offers consistently. These steps strengthen the structured, machine-readable signals AI tools and AI agents use to select providers.
Aim to stack reviews relentlessly—target roughly 10 new Google reviews per week where possible. High average ratings (4.5+), recency, and authenticity are critical. Stale, sparse, or suspect reviews weaken trust signals and can remove your business from AI-generated shortlists.
Create one page per service per location (e.g., “Emergency Plumbing in Dallas” or “Roof Repair in Austin”), use clear headings and bullet points, add schema.org markup for Service, LocalBusiness, and FAQ, and publish concise answers to licensing, response time, pricing, and guarantees. This structure lets AI tools parse offerings and match you confidently to nearby searches.
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Your Customers Are Already Using AI to Find Businesses Like Yours, Here’s the Proof
Last Updated: October 6, 2025
AI is already changing how people search online. Tools like ChatGPT, Grok, and Google’s new AI Overview are quickly becoming the first stop for consumers looking for local services. This isn’t five years down the road. It’s happening right now.
If you’re like a lot of home-service business owners, you might be thinking things like:
- “Nobody’s really using AI to find a plumber, right?”
- “I tried it. Not impressed.”
- “It feels like a fad. I don’t see how it affects my business.”
And hey, we get it. AI can seem like just another tech buzzword. But here’s the thing, your customers are already using it, and in growing numbers, to find businesses just like yours. The fact that more of them are using AI means, by definition, that fewer are using Google. If you are still chasing a Google-only strategy, your pool of possible customers is shrinking.
High-Level Proof
We pulled traffic data from across all our clients’ sites and spotted a clear trend: AI bots are hitting websites in a big way. These aren’t random visits either. They’re from AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok that are out there actively gathering information to answer people’s questions.
Check out this chart. It shows a sample of the top traffic sources from millions of page views across our network.
Five different AI platforms are showing up in the top sources of traffic. One of them, Claude AI, is actually sending more traffic than Google!
Why? Because these AI tools are in constant “research mode.” They’re crawling your site, learning what your business does, and figuring out whether to recommend you to users. And the demand from users is growing fast.
Now look at this pie chart. Nearly 1 in 3 page views is already coming from AI-driven traffic.
This isn’t theoretical anymore. AI tools are already sending serious traffic to local business websites, and that number is only going up.
Up-Close Proof
To show what’s happening, we ran a simple test. We picked three of our own clients, from three different industries. Then we asked three major AI tools to recommend a business in their respective cities. Here’s what we found.
1. Affordable Heating & AC: Navien Boiler Installer in Pembroke, MA
- Google (AI Overview): “Who is an experienced Navien boiler installer in Pembroke MA?”
Result: Affordable Heating & AC dominated the AI Overview. They filled the entire top of the page. No map pack, no ads, no competition in sight. - ChatGPT: “Who can install a Navien boiler near Pembroke MA?”
Result: ChatGPT returned 3 results. Affordable was #1. - Grok: “Who should I call to install a Navien boiler in Pembroke MA?”
Result: Affordable was #1 again.
Traffic impact: Affordable is getting 250 to 300 visits per month just from AI sources, and it’s climbing.
2. Daniels Landscaping: French Drains in Jacksonville, FL
- Google (AI Overview): “Best French drain installer Jacksonville FL”
Result: Daniels Landscaping was the entire AI Overview. No scrolling. Just Daniels, front and center. - ChatGPT: “Who is the best French drain installer in Jacksonville FL?”
Result: Daniels was #1 on a short list. - Grok: “Who should I call to install a French drain in Jacksonville FL?”
Result: Daniels was #2.
Traffic impact: Daniels is also seeing hundreds of visits per month from AI platforms, and that number keeps going up.
3. Empirical Renovations: Decks and Fences in Burlington, VT
- Google (AI Overview): “Which deck contractor should I call in South Burlington VT?”
Result: Gemini focused entirely on Empirical. They took over the whole top of the page. - ChatGPT: “I need a deck contractor in the Burlington VT area. Who should I call?”
Result: Empirical was #3, in a list of just three. - Grok: “I need a fence contractor in the Burlington VT area. Who should I call?”
Result: Empirical was #2 out of five.
Traffic impact: Empirical, still a newer account for us, is getting dozens of visits per month just from AI sources, and it’s climbing rapidly.
Great, But How Many People Are Really Doing This?
Turns out, it’s quite a few, and the number is growing month over month. These clients are seeing steady traffic from AI tools like ChatGPT, Grok, and Google’s AI Overview.
AI results are often trusted even more than traditional search. If you’re showing up there, your leads are already primed to trust you, and ready to hire.
So How Do You Get Your Slice Of The Pie?
It’s as easy as calling Prospect Genius. Hate the phone, no problem! Just sign up online. These are the tools we deployed to make all this happen for these clients:
- CoreSite – We built their site to be highly SEO friendly with content written for search engines and for AIs.
- AI Quick Start – We added an LLMs.txt and FAQ content that is marked up and structured in the way the AIs want.
- Directory Dominator – We put them into tons of relevant, high-quality directories. This gives them visibility, credibility, and backlinks, which fuels their SEO and AI-Optimization.
As with all of our services, you can mix and match to suit your needs. If you’ve already got some parts of this strategy implemented, great! We can start from where you are and then take you to the next level. We can even go beyond this aforementioned strategy and start really optimizing for AI with our GEO and AEO Optimization services.
Let’s Talk About Google for a Second
Google still drives a big chunk of traffic, around 80% for many local businesses. But that’s starting to shift. Google’s rolling out “AI Overviews” because they see what’s coming.
If your whole marketing strategy is built around traditional rankings, you’re missing the next wave.
The Top 10 Game Is Dead
We broke this down in detail in our last post, but here’s the short version: AI platforms don’t give people a list of 10 blue links. Most of the time, they show just three results. Sometimes even fewer. If your business isn’t one of them, you don’t even exist.
That’s why now is the time to move. Show up early, and you’ll be harder to displace later.
You Don’t Need to *Use* AI, You Just Need to Show Up In It
You don’t need to understand the tech behind AI. You just need a digital presence that AI tools can read, trust, and recommend.
That’s exactly what we helped these businesses do, and now, they’re reaping the rewards.
Final Thought: This Isn’t a 5-Year Transition
The move from Yellow Pages to Google took a decade.
This transition? It’s happening right now, in months, not years. Businesses that act early get a real advantage. Businesses that wait will be playing catch-up.
Want to see how your business can show up in AI search? Let’s talk.
AI Search & Traffic FAQs for Local Service Businesses
Yes, consumers are increasingly using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Google’s AI Overview to find local service providers. These platforms research and recommend local businesses based on data they gather from websites, directories, and reviews. Local businesses featured in AI results are already seeing hundreds of visits monthly from these tools.
AI platforms are already sending significant traffic to local business websites. In some cases, AI traffic accounts for nearly 30% of all visits. For example, Affordable Heating & AC receives 250–300 monthly visits from AI sources alone, while other clients report similar or growing numbers.
AI tools are starting to replace traditional search by offering fewer, more targeted business suggestions. Platforms like ChatGPT and Claude don’t return long lists—they give just 1 to 3 top picks. Some AI tools like Claude are already sending more traffic than Google in certain cases, meaning if you’re not listed by AI, you’re missing out on new customers.
Google’s AI Overview is a new search format where AI summarizes the top answers to a query. It often replaces traditional search results and only includes a few recommended businesses. To appear in AI Overview, your website must have clear content, trusted reviews, schema markup, and structured service information. Services like Prospect Genius’s AI Optimization can help businesses show up there.
Prospect Genius offers AI Optimization Quick Start, CoreSite website design, and Directory Dominator. These services include implementing LLMs.txt files, creating AI-optimized FAQ pages, building SEO and AI-friendly websites, and listing businesses in trusted directories to boost credibility, trust, and visibility in AI tools.
The fastest way is to work with a provider like Prospect Genius. Their AI Quick Start service includes all essential tools—LLMs.txt, schema-enhanced FAQs, and optimized content—to help AI tools index and recommend your business. You don’t need to learn AI, just ensure your digital presence is AI-friendly and trustworthy.
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