AI search optimisation in Cork. Be the name the assistant gives.

What AI search optimisation in Cork actually means

I'm Fionn Murphy. I run FMOps on my own from Waterford, and I work with businesses across Ireland. AI search optimisation in Cork is the work of making sure ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can identify your business and name it when a customer asks them for a recommendation.

People no longer only type "dentist Douglas" into Google. They ask an assistant "who is the best dentist in Douglas?" and take the two or three names it gives back. If your business is not one of those names, you never hear about the enquiry. That is the gap this work closes.

Cork, town by town

Cork is the biggest and the most competitive of the counties I cover. Cork city alone has the density of trades, clinics and professional firms you would normally see in Dublin, and the suburbs each behave like their own market. A question about Douglas rarely returns the same answers as one about Ballincollig, Carrigaline, Blackrock or Bishopstown.

Outside the city the pattern changes again. Midleton and Mallow serve big commuter and farming catchments. Kinsale, Cobh, Clonakilty and the rest of West Cork run on tourism, food and hospitality, so the questions are seasonal and often asked by visitors who have no local knowledge at all. Bandon and the market towns sit somewhere in between.

The businesses this suits in Cork are the ones where a single new customer is worth hundreds or thousands: dental practices, physios and clinics, solicitors, accountants, larger trades, restaurants and food producers, guesthouses and tour operators, and the tech-adjacent SMEs around the city. Because Cork is competitive, expect the groundwork to take longer here than in a smaller county. I will say so on the call rather than after you have paid.

Illustrative example

This is an illustrative example, not a client. No real business, result or figure is described below. It is here to show what the work looks like from the inside.

1. 1

   The question

   Take a seafood restaurant in Kinsale. A customer opens ChatGPT and types “best seafood restaurant in Kinsale”. Later the same week another asks “where to eat in Kinsale with a view of the harbour”. A visitor planning a weekend in West Cork asks the assistant before they ever open Google Maps.

2. 2

   What the assistant reads

   To answer, it leans on what it can find and trust: the Google Business Profile and its reviews, the pages on the business website, listings and directories, and any local coverage or mentions elsewhere. If the profile is thin, the reviews are few, and the site has one page that never names Kinsale or the service, the assistant has almost nothing to work with, so it names someone else.

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   What changes

   The profile is claimed, corrected and kept consistent with the site. Honest reviews are asked for properly. A page is written for the actual service in the actual town, in the words customers use. The business details are marked up so a machine can read them without guessing. Then the same questions are asked again, on record.

What I check

The audit is the first stage. It is run by hand, not by a tool, and you see the raw output.

• The questions your customers actually ask

  A fixed set of buying-intent questions for your trade and your towns in Cork, run repeatedly across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.

• Who gets named instead

  Which competitors come back, how often, and what the assistant cites as its reason.

• Your Google Business Profile

  Whether it is claimed, complete, correctly categorised, and consistent with your site. Reviews: how many, how recent, and whether anyone replies.

• Your website

  Whether the pages name the service and the town in plain language, whether the business details are machine-readable, and whether anything blocks AI crawlers.

• Your name across the web

  Listings, local mentions and citations. Whether your name, address and phone number match everywhere they appear.

What I do each month to get you recommended by ChatGPT in Cork

1. 1

   Months 1 and 2: groundwork

   I make sure the models can identify your business, what it does and where it is. Profile, site details, structured data, listings.

2. 2

   Two optimised pages a month

   Pages that answer the questions your customers put to an assistant, written for your services and your towns.

3. 3

   One placement a month

   A citation on a source the models already trust.

4. 4

   The scoreboard

   On the same day each month: your share of AI citations, your top rival's, and the movement since last month, with a short video walking through it.

Prices

Start with the free check. Nothing is quoted until we both know what the assistants are saying about you.

The precondition, said plainly: a claimed Google Business Profile and honest local reviews are the main things the assistants read. If you have neither, that is where the money goes first, and I will tell you so before you commit to anything. No incentive is ever tied to leaving a positive review. Not sure where to start? See set up your Google Business Profile.

Data and GDPR: I work with your business information, not your customers' personal data. Where I use AI tools, I use business accounts with training on your inputs turned off, and I sign a data processing agreement if you want one. You can ask me to delete what I hold at any time.

Related

Nationwide service page: AI visibility audit Ireland. Start here: free AI visibility check. Also useful: Claude for Small Business setup and business automation for the admin behind the enquiries.

Other counties: Waterford · Kilkenny · Wexford · Cork · Carlow · Tipperary

Questions

• Do you visit businesses in Cork?

  Yes, when it helps. Cork city is about an hour and a half from me in Waterford, so I can be in Douglas or Ballincollig for a morning meeting and back the same day. Most of the work is done remotely and by video call, the same way I work with the rest of Ireland, but I am happy to come to you for the first meeting.

• How much does AI search optimisation cost in Cork?

  The first check is free. After that, retainers run from €750 a month to €2,000 a month, capped at a set scope agreed in writing before we start. The price depends on how many towns and services you need to be found for, not on how the month goes.

• How is this different from SEO?

  It overlaps. Traditional SEO aims at Google's blue links. This aims at the answer an assistant gives when asked to recommend a business. Much of the work is shared, but what gets measured is different: citations in AI answers rather than rankings.

• Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?

  No. The models change their answers and anyone who guarantees otherwise is guessing. What I can promise is that you will see the trend every month, with screenshots and dates, and that I will tell you why it moved.

• What if I have no Google Business Profile or reviews?

  Then we start there. A claimed, accurate Google Business Profile and honest reviews are the main inputs the assistants read. Without them the rest of the work has little to stand on. I will say so on the call before you spend anything.