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Discovery Architecture Limited

Architectural designer · St Albans, 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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Discovery Architecture Limited

Architectural designer · St Albans, Christchurch

Where you stand#202of 252 architects
Overall health2.0/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Discovery Architecture Limited is a small architectural design practice based in Saint Albans, Christchurch. It specialises in residential housing and commercial buildings, drawing on over 25 years of design and construction experience. The practice focuses on design, documentation and delivery of projects and aims to make buildings that work for clients.

Discovery Architecture Limited is a small Christchurch-based architectural design practice located in the Saint Albans suburb. The practice describes itself as an architectural designer working across both residential housing and commercial buildings, serving local clients around Christchurch.

The firm specialises in residential and commercial design and states it brings more than 25 years of combined design and construction experience to projects. Its stated workflow highlights DESIGN | DOCUMENT | DELIVER, covering concept design through to construction documentation and delivery support.

The practice says it understands how to make buildings work for clients, which suggests a practical approach to design and buildability. Clients can expect a focus on creating functional buildings that respond to site and brief, with an emphasis on detailed documentation to support construction.

As a small Saint Albans practice, Discovery Architecture Limited positions itself as a local provider of architectural services for homeowners and commercial clients in Christchurch. Its combination of residential and commercial experience, and its design-to-delivery focus, are the features it highlights as central to its local work.

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Your Google listing

Discovery Architecture Limited shows a solid Google Business presence with a health score of 6.9 out of 10, indicating above-average performance. The listing already has a website link, a claimed status, an open-for-business indicator, and a phone number. Strengths include clear contact details and verified ownership. The key improvement areas are photos and a more robust description to reach the local midpoint.

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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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
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    Category fitYour category set covers less of this market than half the field, so there are jobs being searched for near you that your listing is not eligible to appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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From the business

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER We are a small Christchurch based Architectural Design Practice specialising in Residential Housing and Commercial Buildings. Over 25 years of design and construction experience we understand how to make buildings work for you. DESIGN | DOCUMENT | DELIVER

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Your reviews

Discovery Architecture Limited shows a very low Google Business health score, with limited reviews and no response to feedback. The strongest immediate issue is the rating confidence and listing engagement, while the star rating remains unestablished. Priority should be on gathering positive reviews, initiating customer feedback loops, and starting to respond to all reviews to build trust.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
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    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
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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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.5Room to grow
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Where you show up on the map

The discovery architecture business shows a below-average health score of 3.0 out of 10 for Google Maps performance, indicating limited overall visibility. The strongest opportunities lie in boosting aggregate maps rankings and improving local presence in the Saint Albans-Christchurch area, which should help more local clients discover the practice.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
3.0Room to grow
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Where customers find you

Discovery Architecture Limited shows an overall health of 5.6 out of 10, indicating average presence across social platforms and directories. The strongest finding is a very high trust Facebook profile, with LinkedIn also present and up to date. Opportunities include adding an active TikTok and LinkedIn presence, plus consistent listings on TikTok Directory and GrabOne to broaden reach.

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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    CheckMyBuilder CompanyWe can see your CheckMyBuilder Company listing (https://checkmybuilder.co.nz/discovery-architecture-limited) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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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.
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    Instagram Profileyour Instagram Profile page surfaces strongly in search, which is how we found it, though nothing you control points at it.
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    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.
5.6Room to grow
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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 page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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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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    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.9Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your website

Discovery Architecture Limited shows a very low on-page SEO health score on the homepage, indicating a weak baseline for search visibility. The most important findings are a missing meta description and title tag, and no favicon, which reduce click-through and brand recognition.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
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    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 4 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Discovery Architecture Limited shows a very low overall health score for Website Traffic, indicating limited organic and paid activity. Key findings point to near-zero organic traffic value and no organic keywords ranking in the top 100, with no clear paid spend. This suggests opportunities in content, on-page SEO, and basic paid campaigns to start building visibility and engagement.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws no measurable visitors from search, so the only people reaching it are ones you sent yourself.
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    Search terms you rank forYour site does not appear in search results for any terms we can measure, so nobody is finding it by searching for what you do.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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Your hours against demand

Discovery Architecture Limited shows partial alignment between published hours and local demand. The practice is open during several weekday lunchtime peaks - Tuesday 12pm, Wednesday 11-12pm, Thursday 12-1pm - matching customer search patterns. However many high-demand weekend hours are missed: Saturday mid-day and early afternoon plus Sunday midday. No current open hours fall in low-demand windows.

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.
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Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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The next step

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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#202of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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