The door sticks, the fence is down, the list keeps growing, so they ask AI who to call.
A handyman customer has a list, not an emergency: a door that will not shut, a fence paling down, three jobs waiting since Easter. Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews, Claude or Perplexity who to get in for that lot, and two or three names come back. Whoever gets named gets the whole list, so Wombid's free audit shows you where you stand. Then we get to work on the signals that decide it.
Your handyman business is judged on six questions.
Every Wombid audit puts the same six questions a real customer would ask to all five AI engines, live, with your trade and your area swapped in. For a handyman in Marrickville they read:
- Who is the best handyman in Marrickville?
- Can you recommend a reliable handyman near Marrickville?
- I need a handyman for general home repairs in Marrickville. Who should I call?
- Which handyman in Marrickville has the best reviews?
- Emergency handyman in Marrickville, who can help fast?
- Affordable handyman for fence repair around Marrickville?
Worth being straight about the fifth one: every trade gets the same six-question shape, and “emergency handyman” is the weakest of the six for yours, because your work gets booked for when you can get there, not for right now. The weight sits on the third and the sixth, which between them are the closest thing your trade has to a job description, and on one, two and four, which all ask the same thing: can this person be trusted in my house? If your profile and website only ever say “no job too small”, three and six have nothing of yours to quote.
One you never see. The other is already yours.
“Whoever they found online got the whole list. Nobody ever rang me.”
AI names the businesses with the strongest signals, and for a handyman that is the proof a stranger can offer at the front door: recent Google reviews that name the suburb and the actual job, and a profile that lists fence repairs, door adjustments, gutter cleaning and flat-pack assembly by name rather than leaving it to guesswork. Wombid measures what all five engines say about your business, shows you who is being named instead, then works those signals month after month. No one can guarantee an AI recommendation. What you get is every signal working in your favour, and proof of what changed, from $129 a month after the free audit.
“I went out, priced the fence and a list of six jobs, and never heard another word.”
A handyman's quote is an hour of your day given away for free, and a list that goes quiet is usually still a list. Every house you have already worked on has grown a new list since you left it, too. The one-off $149 Win-Back Campaign goes through your own ServiceM8, finds up to 100 past customers and quotes that never went ahead, and sends each one a personal text in your name from a number they can reply to. You approve every message before anything sends, replies land on your phone, and opt-outs are handled automatically. One payment, no subscription. We only ever work your own records: no bought lists, no strangers, and we never sell leads.
Reviews are where the two sides meet.
The review engine inside Growth texts your customer one honest Google review request right after you mark the job done, while they are still walking the house ticking off everything that has annoyed them for a year. That is a Win work action, and the dated public review it earns is one of the strongest signals the AI engines and Google Maps read when they decide which handyman to name.
Start free. Every price is the full price.
Free Audit
All five AI engines plus your Google Maps positions, checked live for your area. Score, competitors, fix list, emailed.
Run it now →Starter
Your visibility re-checked monthly, plus a Fix Pack of ready-to-paste content aimed at the exact handyman questions you are missing, general repairs and fence work included.
See Starter →Growth
Everything in Starter weekly, plus the review engine texting your customers after every job and your listings set up where they count.
See Growth →Win-Back Campaign
Your quiet quotes and past customers, texted personally in your name from your own ServiceM8 records. You approve every message.
See the campaign →Prices in AUD, GST included. Monthly plans are month to month, cancel anytime. The Win-Back Campaign is one payment and does not start a subscription. Either side can come first.
What handymen ask us.
Is AI search worth it when my jobs are small?
How do I find out if AI recommends my handyman business?
Do I need a plan to run the Win-Back Campaign?
Can Wombid guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?
Find out what AI tells customers about handymen in your area.
Four details, and the report lands in your inbox: your score, the competitors being named instead, and the fixes in order.
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