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Agents, LLMs and the fight for local visibility.

What we learn running hundreds of Google Business Profiles through an API with real limits, and what LLMs actually say about local businesses. Practical, tested, no hype. New post roughly every two weeks.

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Product updates

Product update: the Logbook, and a confidence threshold you control

Every action an agent takes is now one line in a log-file style listing: who did what, where, with which confidence, and what happened to it.…

BPThe BPA team·31 Aug 2026·5 min
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quoted by an LLM
AI visibility · GEO

Why an unanswered 2★ review ends up in an AI answer

45% of consumers now ask ChatGPT or another AI tool for local recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier. Those tools read your reviews. When a…

EDEditorial·27 Aug 2026·5 min
24 Dec
special hours, all locations
Google Business Profile

Holiday hours: the bulk edit most teams forget until 23 December

On a public holiday with no special hours set, Google tells customers your hours "might differ". 26% of consumers say wrong opening hours send them to…

BPThe BPA team·20 Aug 2026·5 min
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level of autonomy
Agents

Three gears: how much should an agent be allowed to do?

Fully manual is safe and slow. Fully automatic is fast and, on the wrong day, a public embarrassment. Most teams live in the middle — and…

BPThe BPA team·13 Aug 2026·5 min
1 pm → 5 pm
onboarding training
Agents

Onboarding an agent on your brand voice in one afternoon

Not a prompt. A training set: your approved replies, your no-go list, your terms, and a calibration run where you decline things and say why. Half…

EDEditorial·30 Jul 2026·5 min
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non-branded impressions
AI visibility · GEO

Branded vs non-branded: the one impression number worth watching

Google's Performance API returns the search terms that led people to each profile, once a month. Split them into people who typed your name and people…

EDEditorial·23 Jul 2026·5 min