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Bull O'Sullivan Architecture

Architect · Lyttelton, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 252 Christchurch architects.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Bull O'Sullivan Architecture

Architect · Lyttelton, Christchurch

Where you stand#61of 252 architects
Overall health7.6/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture is an architectural practice based in Lyttelton, New Zealand. The firm states it operates across New Zealand and emphasises how buildings influence quality of life. Clients can expect a small, locally rooted practice offering architectural design work with attention to how spaces affect daily living and wellbeing.

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture is an architectural practice based in Lyttelton. The firm describes itself as a New Zealand architect operation and notes connections to other centres, emphasising a belief that buildings directly influence the quality of life.

Services focus on architectural design and related practice work typical of architects, with attention to how built spaces perform for occupants. The firm's public material highlights a national outlook while maintaining a local presence in Lyttelton.

Customer feedback is limited in the available record but indicates strong satisfaction, with reviewers assigning top ratings and describing their experience positively. That theme suggests clients value the outcomes and the service they received.

Locally, Bull O'Sullivan Architecture is presented as a Lyttelton-based architectural practice with a New Zealand perspective and a stated emphasis on the relationship between buildings and everyday life. That combination of local presence and a practice-wide design focus is a practical point of difference for clients seeking architectural design work in the area.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture shows a low overall Google Business Listing health, with clear gaps in claimed status, description, and logo. Strengths include a website link, listed phone number and full address, plus the listing indicating Open-for-Business. Progress on photos is underway, but the business should prioritise claiming the listing, adding a descriptive summary, and uploading a logo to improve credibility and visibility.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.
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    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

Top three opportunities

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    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
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    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
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    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.4Room to grow
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture currently sits at a health score of 6.0 out of 10, which is above average for Google reviews. The business has a strong star rating in the top 10% and is building review volume, but has not yet engaged with any reviews publicly. This combination suggests solid customer satisfaction with room to deepen trust through public responses.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
  • 3
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #92 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture shows a healthy Google Maps presence with a health score of 7.2 out of 10. The strongest performance is borough-specific visibility, where the practice sits in the top 10% and dominates in Lyttelton. Key opportunities lie in improving aggregate local exposure across suburbs to further raise overall visibility.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
7.1Good
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1Top three for "architecture firm" in 1 suburb, seen in 3
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Bull O'Sullivan Architecture✓5.0 ★ (2) · Architect
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Shaped Architecture0.0 ★ (0) · Architect
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Gunn Design Landscape Design and Construction5.0 ★ (12) · Architect
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Sons & Co.5.0 ★ (3) · Architect
Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #73 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture shows an average health score of 5.1 out of 10 for citations and social presence, meaning moderate overall trust and visibility in third-party profiles. A clear strength is its outstanding Facebook profile with a very high trust score. Focus should stay on maintaining that presence while addressing gaps on other platforms to improve credibility and discoverability.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    NZIA PracticeWe can see your NZIA Practice listing (https://nzia.co.nz/bull-osullivan-architecture-ltd) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
18 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
5.3Room to grow
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InstagrambosarchitectureBull O'Sullivan Architecture | Instagram1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.1Room to grow
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The BOS practice have established architectural office's in both Auckland's CBD and the port town of Lyttelton, Christchurch.
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★ 4 reviews · recommended 3
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your website

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture shows a high but not perfect on-page SEO health score, with several solid foundations in place. Key strengths include a concise meta description, a valid favicon, healthy text-to-page ratio, no render-blocking resources, and secure HTTPS content. The main opportunities lie in refining title tag length, improving URL SEO-friendliness, and reducing page load time to under 3 seconds.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than almost any business in this market - a spread built over years that a competitor cannot buy their way into.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from about as wide a range of sites as anything in this market, and the mix of link types looks entirely natural.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
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    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
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    Pages linking to youMore pages link to you than most of this market, which gives your site real weight in search.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture shows an above-average health of 6.8/10 for Website Traffic, with solid organic presence and room to grow paid activity. Key findings indicate paid traffic is currently under-utilised and paid keyword coverage is absent, while organic traffic value sits in the strong 50-75% range locally. Sustained content and link-building could push results further.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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bosarchitecture.co.nzBull O'Sullivan Architecture

We are New Zealand architects based in Auckland and Christchurch with a strong belief that our buildings directly influence the quality of our lives.

www.nzia.co.nzLyttelton Studio Retreat - 2015 Canterbury Architecture ...
About 123 visits a month from search, across 35 searches
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Your hours against demand

Bull O'Sullivan Architecture's current hours partially align with local demand. Open weekdays at late-morning and midday on Tuesday-Thursday match several peak search times, which supports client accessibility. However substantial weekend demand is missed: Saturdays around midday and Sunday noon show high search volumes while the practice is closed. No open hours fall in low-demand periods, so inefficiency from unnecessary hours is not evident.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Hours 1
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#61of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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