Found on the map. Past clients back. Quoted in the van.

Asked to recommend a local business in two Blue Mountains towns, an AI assistant named none at all.2 Your licence number belongs in every advertisement, and your licence is a public register too.3,4

A job the customer did not invite gives them ten business days to walk, whatever the emergency.5 We draft and we time; we do not test and we do not certify, because the certificate is the qualified person’s.6,7

A basic connection needs land the council has zoned urban.9 The growth here is a battery on a roof that already has panels.10

Your job software may already chase invoices and follow up a quiet quote: ServiceM8 and Tradify say so on their own pages, read 22 September 2026.

1. Verified. Google’s AI features documentation, 10 December 2025: “There are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, nor other special optimizations necessary.” Google, Tips to improve your local ranking on Google, support.google.com, read 29 August 2026, for “There’s no way to request or pay for a better local ranking on Google.” The four things that get a page quoted are a controlled study of 252,000 trials, arXiv:2605.25517; our Get Found page carries it in full.
2. Measured by us. Two questions put to an AI assistant on 25 August 2026 for a Blue Mountains business: asked for the best agents in the Lower Blue Mountains it named two franchise brands and no local firm; asked who to use to sell a house in Glenbrook or Blaxland it named no local business at all. One trade, one day, two questions: a shape, not a benchmark.
3. Verified. Home Building Regulation 2014 (NSW) cl 33, the advertising clause, verified from the in-force consolidation on legislation.nsw.gov.au on 5 September 2026. A licence holder who publishes, distributes, displays or exhibits “any advertisement of any kind” relating to that work must include their name and licence number, at up to AU$2,200 for a company and up to AU$1,100 otherwise, with no medium named and no digital exemption. cl 37C(c) of the Gas and Electricity (Consumer Safety) Regulation 2018 now requires the “authority number” on every certificate of compliance too.
4. Verified. NSW Government Public Register, “Facts about the register”, at onegov.nsw.gov.au, read 5 September 2026. An electrical contractor licence is a contractor licence under the Home Building Act, so s 120(1) puts it on the same public register as every other trade: the category of work, any public warnings or disciplinary action, and whether the licence is suspended or cancelled. It carries no consumer complaints and no open investigations.
5. Verified. Australian Consumer Law, Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), Compilation No. 165, compilation date 1 July 2026, read 5 September 2026. s 69 makes an agreement unsolicited where it is negotiated away from the supplier’s premises or by telephone and the consumer did not invite it; s 82(1) lets the consumer terminate up to the end of the tenth business day, and s 86(1) stops the supplier supplying or taking payment inside that window. No emergency switches this off; it runs alongside, not instead of, the Home Building Act’s own cooling-off period.
6. Verified. Gas and Electricity (Consumer Safety) Regulation 2018 (NSW), re-fetched on 5 September 2026, and the Amendment (Compliance Certificates) Regulation 2026, published 26 June 2026. cl 37A: a tester must give a certificate of compliance to the Secretary no later than 7 days after completing the test, by lodging it on the NSW eCert portal, or give the information to an eligible entity inside the same 7 days for it to lodge. Maximum penalty up to AU$2,200 for an individual and up to AU$4,400 otherwise. Handwritten and PDF forms have not been accepted since 1 July 2026.
7. Verified, and quoted verbatim. Building Commission NSW, “When to submit a Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work”, Note 2/2026, read 5 September 2026: “A CCEW must be submitted for any type of electrical work that involves installing, repairing, adding or altering electrical equipment to an electrical installation. This includes like-for-like replacement of electrical equipment such as water heaters, ovens, stove tops and electrical accessories.”
8. Verified. Electricity Supply Act 1995 No 94 (NSW), read 5 September 2026. s 31A(1): a person must not provide a contestable network service unless accredited, at a maximum of 500 penalty units, measured at up to AU$55,000. The NSW Climate and Energy Action accredited service provider scheme page adds that individual workers must then be authorised by the local network operator, Ausgrid, Endeavour Energy or Essential Energy, and the Secretary keeps a public list of accredited providers.
9. Verified, on accessed dates. Endeavour Energy’s own connection pages, read 5 September 2026. A basic connection needs the land registered and zoned as urban by the local council, maximum demand no greater than 100 amps single phase or 63 amps three phase; where those limits are met, an instant permission to connect often follows online. Not every council in this catchment sits inside Endeavour Energy’s area, and its own pages name regions rather than council boundaries.
10. Verified and measured. Clean Energy Regulator, Small-scale installation postcode data, two workbooks downloaded 5 September 2026 and re-measured 8 September 2026 across the thirteen councils of this catchment: 60,753 battery installations against 30,151 new solar installations over the thirteen months to July 2026, 2.01 to one against 1.43 to one nationally. The Regulator’s own caveat: a 12-month creation period means the most recent figures keep rising.