Brain Buddy AI

Brain Buddy AI Australian AI technology company. We help businesses get found on Google,
ChatGPT, and AI Overviews -- and capture leads 24/7. Founded Sydney 2022.

Team since 2003. Free 60-second audit at brainbuddy.ai/audit

Quick one that surprised me this week.Reddit is now the most quoted source by every major AI engine. Forty percent of ev...
28/05/2026

Quick one that surprised me this week.

Reddit is now the most quoted source by every major AI engine. Forty percent of everything ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cite comes from a Reddit thread. Almost no Aussie small business has a presence on Reddit. Which is a strange and slightly funny opportunity.

The trick is to be useful, not salesy. Answer real questions in your city subreddit (r/melbourne, r/sydney, r/perth, r/brisbane, r/adelaide). Help a few people in your industry subreddit if there is one. That is enough to start showing up in AI answers your customers ask.

Comment reddit and we will send you the three subreddits we think are best for your specific industry this week.

Quick heads up if you run a business in Australia.Last Wednesday Google flipped the default Search experience over to so...
26/05/2026

Quick heads up if you run a business in Australia.

Last Wednesday Google flipped the default Search experience over to something called AI Mode. Instead of getting ten blue links when someone searches for what you do, they now get an AI answer first. Most of the businesses your customers used to find by clicking those links are no longer being mentioned.

The shift is already at scale. One billion people are using AI Mode each month. Almost half of all Google searches now show an AI answer above the regular results.

If your business has not been checked for whether it shows up in AI search yet, this is probably the week to do it.

Comment mode and we will run a free AI Visibility check on your business this week and send you the report. No catch. Just the answer.

Quick story about why we started Brain Buddy.In the last eighteen months the way people search for businesses has shifte...
21/05/2026

Quick story about why we started Brain Buddy.

In the last eighteen months the way people search for businesses has shifted. Sixty percent of Google searches now show an AI answer before the blue links. Hundreds of millions of people are asking ChatGPT, Siri, and Alexa for recommendations every week. And the businesses those AI engines recommend are usually not the same ones that rank highest on Google.

Most Aussie small business owners I speak to have no idea this is happening. Not because they are not smart. Because they are running their business. Nobody told them the gatekeepers of search had quietly moved.

If you run a local business and you have not checked what AI says when someone asks for you, that is the gap. The first step is just knowing where you stand.

Comment "report" and we will run a free AI Visibility check this week. No pitch. Just the answer

Just did a little experiment that should worry every local tradie and small business owner in Australia.We asked five di...
20/05/2026

Just did a little experiment that should worry every local tradie and small business owner in Australia.

We asked five different AI assistants where to find a good electrician in Geelong. Three of them got the suburb wrong. One pointed at a company that closed in 2022. Only one came close to a real answer.

Your customers are doing this every day, and most of you have no idea what the AIs are actually saying about your industry in your town.

Drop your suburb and trade in the comments and we will run the same test for yours next week.

Quick heads up if you run any kind of business in Australia.Last week Google quietly changed how it shows AI answers in ...
19/05/2026

Quick heads up if you run any kind of business in Australia.

Last week Google quietly changed how it shows AI answers in Search. When someone asks a question, Google will now highlight links from any publication the searcher already subscribes to. The local paper. The trade magazine. The newsletter they read on a Sunday morning.

Which means if you have never been mentioned in the publications your customers actually read, you have become invisible at the moment they are trying to choose someone.

Easy to fix, mostly. Just a matter of knowing which publications cover your industry, and reaching out to the writer who covers your category with something genuinely useful to them.

If you want a personalised set of Aussie publications to start with for your industry, drop a comment saying "list" and we will sort yours by the end of the week.

Quick one for any business owner who has been paying someone to "get them into AI search" lately.Three days ago Google q...
18/05/2026

Quick one for any business owner who has been paying someone to "get them into AI search" lately.

Three days ago Google quietly updated its rules. The new policy says you can now be penalised for trying to manipulate AI Overviews the same way you used to get penalised for stuffing keywords in 2012.

A lot of agencies have been selling shortcuts in the AI search space all year. Those shortcuts just became liabilities.

The good news is that proper AEO work, the slow careful kind, was never going to get caught by this. It only catches the manipulation.

If you want us to run a free check on your own site to see if anything trips the new rules, just drop a comment saying "report" and we will sort it this week. No catch. Just the answer.

We started Brain Buddy AI because we kept watching brilliant Aussie business owners get out worked online by businesses ...
16/05/2026

We started Brain Buddy AI because we kept watching brilliant Aussie business owners get out worked online by businesses with worse products and bigger budgets.

The internet stopped being a level playing field years ago. AI search was about to make that even worse, unless someone made the new rules accessible to small businesses too.

That is the whole job. Take the stuff that the big agencies charge five figures for and make it work for the local plumber, the family dentist, the suburban accountant and the cafe down the road.

Thanks for being part of it. More to come.

Five quick wins to make your business easier for ChatGPT and Perplexity to mention you. None of them require a developer...
15/05/2026

Five quick wins to make your business easier for ChatGPT and Perplexity to mention you. None of them require a developer.

1. Add an FAQ section that answers the actual questions customers ask. Use full sentences, not just keywords.
2. Put your suburbs and service areas in plain text, not just on a map.
3. Include your prices or price ranges. AI tools love specifics.
4. Add a clear About section with your founders name, location and credentials.
5. Make sure your Google Business Profile is filled in completely. AI cross references it.

Save this and tackle one over the weekend.

Imagine an employee who.Never takes a sick day.Never asks for a pay rise.Knows your entire price list, service area and ...
14/05/2026

Imagine an employee who.

Never takes a sick day.
Never asks for a pay rise.
Knows your entire price list, service area and FAQs by heart.
Happily answers the same question at 11pm on a Saturday.
Books the job straight into your calendar before you even wake up.

That is what a properly trained AI chatbot does for your business. We build them so the moment a customer lands on your site, they get a real answer, a real quote range and a real next step. Not a contact form they will forget about by the time they make a coffee.

Up to 45 percent of leads come in outside business hours. The question is whether anyone is there to catch them.

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Level 1/477 Pitt Street/Tech Central
Sydney, NSW
2000

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 5pm
Tuesday 7am - 5pm
Wednesday 7am - 5pm
Thursday 7am - 5pm
Friday 7am - 5pm

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