
The AU Brief: Your Chatbot Extension Sees Every Page
An MLS chief asked a chatbot how to take his data. It offered a browser extension. Plus AI spend caps, cheaper cache reads, and Google's answer box.

An MLS chief asked a chatbot how to take his data. It offered a browser extension. Plus AI spend caps, cheaper cache reads, and Google's answer box.

Installs are down and service revenue is the business. Most shops lose 35-45% of maintenance agreements a year. Build the 60-day renewal sequence.

Gemini recommends the same local business 7.9% of the time. One AI check is noise. Build a 20-prompt sample log this week and read your real rate.

37,500 AI searches named just 42 agents per city, and 86.9% of ChatGPT's Zillow citations hit the directory page. Rank in the list, not the profile.

Automated win-back emails convert lapsed local customers at 1-3%. Phone calls hit 25-40%. Use AI to build the call list, then dial it yourself.

ServiceTitan cut Podium with 30 days notice, just 21.2% of top agents get cited by AI, and Google now publishes your social posts. The week, filtered.

Your Google Business Profile now splits impressions by surface. Read your AI share in 15 minutes, then fix the three fields feeding the answer.

Local Falcon ran 37,500 AI searches. Just 21.2% of top-volume agents got cited at all. Here is the five-day profile and page fix for solo agents.

AI support vendors switched from seats to per-resolution billing at $0.99 to $2.00 a ticket. Price your real cost at your own volume before you sign.

Google's AI now describes your local listing, rankings shook Aug 12-13, and a Smart Bidding change lands Monday. The week's moves for operators.