Do I need to set anything up?

No. The map finds your Google listing from your website and uses your own Google categories as the searches. It runs once a month by itself and shows up in Performance in your app.

Why does my spot change across the map?

Google Maps ranks businesses by how close they are to the person searching. You usually come up high near your address and lower further out. The map shows exactly where that drop happens, so we know which suburbs to work on.

No. The map and the AI search check are included in your plan.

Feature · Performance

See where you show up on Google Maps, every month

8 November 2026 · 2 min read · Tim McCartney

Performance in the Scalus app for a sample plumbing business: two Google Maps grids of 49 spots, green where it comes up in the top 3, and two questions Google's AI named it for

When a customer searches for a plumber or an electrician on Google Maps, where you come up depends on where they are standing. A business can be number one at its own front door and nowhere two suburbs away, and the owner never knows.

The problem

Search your own trade on your phone and you see where you rank from where you are sitting. That tells you almost nothing about the customer across town. Clients ask me what the monthly work on their Google profile and website is actually doing, and until now the honest answer was a list of tasks, not a picture of where they show up.

The result

Performance in the Scalus app now has a map of where your business comes up on Google Maps.

49 spots around you. Once a month, Google Maps is searched from a grid of 49 spots, 1.5 km apart, centred on your business, for up to three of your own Google categories.
Each dot is your place from that spot. Green is the top 3, amber is 4 to 10, red is 11 to 20, and an empty ring means you did not come up there.
Named by AI search. We ask Google's AI the question a customer nearby would ask, like the best plumbers in your suburb, and show where it names your business.
It runs by itself. Nothing to set up. Your listing is found from your website and your categories are the searches. Each month's map lands in Performance.
Included in your plan. No extra charge for the map or the AI check.

You can now see exactly where you show up, and where you do not yet.

The screen in the picture is the real one, shown with a sample business. It is live in the app for every client whose business is on Google Maps, and it fills in a little more each month.