When AI Picks Your Plumber: The Agent-Readiness Window Is Closing

TLDR: Sundar Pichai called search "agent management" on a recent podcast with John Collison and Elad Gil. Customers no longer type a query and compare links. They ask an agent and get a shortlist. The agent reads structured data, not your hero image. Most local businesses have not noticed yet, which is exactly why the bar to land on those shortlists is, for now, embarrassingly low.

Your customers are letting AI pick their plumber, lawyer and dentist now