Someone in this valley has a burst pipe, a cracked tooth, a house to sell, or a kid with nowhere to go tomorrow morning. They do not open Google and read ten links. They ask their phone one question and get one answer.
The answer names three businesses. Yours is not one of them.
Not because you are worse. Because somewhere your suite number is missing, somewhere your phone number is old, and somewhere you have a middle initial you stopped using. A person shrugs at that. A machine reads it as three uncertain fragments instead of one confident business, and when it is not confident, it does not guess. It recommends somebody it is sure about.
And this is not a passing glitch. ChatGPT now grounds its local answers in Yelp, Foursquare, and Bing. Your records on those platforms are not marketing anymore. They are your AI profile.