Manage Your Google Business Profile AI Answers and Track AI-Surface Visibility (Claude Cowork Self-Install Kit)

Watch how Google's AI answers represent your business and track your share of AI-driven local discovery.

Google answered a customer question about us and got it wrong, and I can't tell if AI Overviews are even showing my business. It feels like decisions about how we show up are being made without us.

That's the leak. It isn't effort; Google now generates answers about you from your profile and reviews, and splits your visibility across AI surfaces you aren't watching.

What this kit does

In 2026 Google replaced the manual Business Profile Q&A with AI-generated answers: its "Ask Maps" (Gemini) feature now writes instant answers to customer questions by pulling from your profile, website, and reviews, so you no longer post and control that response directly (the legacy Q&A API was discontinued in November 2025). Google has also rolled out AI-drafted review replies, which typically surface for your approval or edit before they post. This kit stands up an ongoing monitor: keep the sources Ask Maps draws on (profile info, services, posts, photos, reviews, and website FAQs) accurate and on-brand so the answers Google generates about you are right, review and refine AI-drafted review replies before they publish, and track how your business shows up across Google's classic local panel and its AI-driven surfaces (AI Overviews and Maps AI answers).

What you can expect

Keep the profile and review sources Google's AI reads from accurate so its answers about you are right, review AI-drafted review replies before they post, and track your visibility across Google's classic and AI-driven local surfaces over time.

Figures shown are illustrative examples, not guarantees. Actual results depend on your business, tools, and usage.

Who it's for

Built for local service businesses, real estate agents, and any operator whose customers find them through Google's local and AI surfaces.

What's included

Skip building from scratch. No coding. You get the exact workflow, prompts, and setup guide, and your own AI agent installs it step by step, usually in under an hour:

• Start Here: your tailored starter prompt and a map of the whole kit
• Project Instructions: the brain your own AI agent runs on for this build
• Your Business Context: a guided fill-in so the agent tailors the build to you
• Workflow Briefing: the plan, the inputs, and what done looks like
• Task List your agent follows to stand it up
• MCP Connection Guide for the tools involved
• Tool Setup Checklist for accounts, keys, and permissions
• Prompt Library, including the ready-to-run prompt for this workflow
• Troubleshooting and Maintenance guide for the common snags
• Next Steps and Roadmap: what to install next
• How to Run This Workflow once it is live

How to install this kit

Connect your Google Business Profile at claude.com/connectors and authorize access. Open the kit in Claude Cowork and run the included prompt. Step-by-step instructions ship inside every kit, so you're never guessing.

See How Self-Install Kits Work for the full walkthrough.

Tools

Required: Claude with Cowork, plus a Google Business Profile you manage. Recommended: access to the profile's Performance metrics for the impression report. If you've been pricing local SEO or GBP management software, this is the install-it-once alternative, an automation kit, blueprint, and workflow template you set up yourself with your own AI agent.

Requires Claude with Cowork enabled (a paid Claude plan). This is a self-install kit you run yourself with your own AI agent, not a done-for-you service.

Premium install kit. One workflow, set up and running with your own AI agent.