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KVA Design

Architect · Cashmere, Christchurch

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

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KVA Design

Architect · Cashmere, Christchurch

Where you stand#46of 252 architects
Overall health8.2/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

KVA Design is a Christchurch-based architectural and interior design studio in Cashmere that works on commercial interiors and architectural projects across New Zealand and overseas. The team, centred on Warren Burton and Malcolm Orr, takes a systematic, well-documented approach and aims to deliver high-quality, practical design solutions for projects of varying scales.

KVA Design is a Christchurch-based architecture and interior design studio located in Cashmere. The practice works on commercial interiors and architectural projects throughout New Zealand and overseas, handling assignments ranging from large-scale developments to smaller fit-outs.

The studio specialises in commercial interior design and architecture with an emphasis on fit-outs that enhance an organisation's culture and activity. Services described include interior planning to maximise space and function, and architectural work driven from the inside out with attention to context and environment. The team highlights wide-ranging skills, solid expertise and a creative drive applied to every project.

Clients regularly encounter a strong focus on practical construction considerations, controlled project delivery and detailed documentation. The practice states a pride in high-quality design and a systematic approach; customers consistently give very high ratings, reflecting strong satisfaction with outcomes and the workplace environments delivered.

KVA Design is led around Warren Burton, Malcolm Orr and the team and is open to assignments of any size and scope. Locally, the studio is distinguished by its combined emphasis on creative design and construction practicality, a methodical process with strong documentation, and experience across both commercial interiors and broader architectural work.

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Your Google listing

KVA Design's Google Business Listing shows a very strong health score of 9.7 out of 10. The profile already includes a title, claimed status, open-for-business indicator, a website link and a phone number, which together support clear, reachable information for customers. The main improvement area is adding fresh, high-quality photos to push relevance higher relative to local peers.

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 opportunity

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    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 4 of them.
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From the business

KVA Design Ltd is a widely experienced design studio that specialises in commercial interiors and architecture, large scale to smaller projects, throughout New Zealand and overseas. Wide-ranging skills, solid expertise and a strong creative drive are what we bring to every project. Christchurch-based, the company focuses around Warren Burton, Malcolm Orr and the team. We are happy to work on assignments of any size and scope. It’s all about attitude and aptitude. Our goal is always to create something special, that’s also eminently practical in construction terms. We put a lot of emphasis on a controlled, systematic approach with strong documentation and pride ourselves on high-quality design. Contact us today with your requirements!

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Your reviews

KVA Design shows an above-average health score on Google Business Reviews, indicating solid overall performance. The standout finding is a top-10% star rating, reflecting strong customer satisfaction. There is room to improve engagement, particularly by beginning to respond to reviews, which can boost trust alongside maintaining the excellent rating.

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 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.
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    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
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Where you show up on the map

KVA Design shows a very high health score on Google Maps, indicating strong visibility for core queries in Cashmere and surrounding areas. The top opportunities reflect continued strength in aggregate performance and solid local borough presence, with room to push into the top ranks. Primary keywords already rank well in Cashmere and nearby suburbs, supporting steady client discovery.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
8.2Strong
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Emma Wallace Architectural & Interior Design5.0 ★ (6) · Architect
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Shaw & Shaw Architects5.0 ★ (5) · Architect
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KVA Design15.0 ★ (3) · Architect
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Peter Dunbar Architectural Designer / Gallery1510.0 ★ (0) · Architect
Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Where customers find you

KVA Design shows a below-average health score of 3.8 out of 10 for social presence health. The strongest existing assets are a very high trust Facebook profile and an up-to-date LinkedIn Company listing, which support credibility and reach. Significant opportunities lie in filling missing profiles on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, TikTok Directory and GrabOne to broaden discovery and trust among customers.

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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    Yellow ProfileWe can see your Yellow Profile listing (https://yellow.co.nz/y/kva-design-ltd-579504415) found via: Google search results.
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    ArchiPro ProfessionalWe can see your ArchiPro Professional listing (https://archipro.co.nz/kva-design) 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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    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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 6 of them.
5.8Room to grow
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Instagramkva_designKVA Design | Instagram2
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NeighbourlyNo listing found3
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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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    A street addressA street address sits in your page details, so someone deciding between you and a business two suburbs over can see which of you is closer.

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 most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
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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.
4.0Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your website

KVA Design shows a solid on-page SEO health score of 8.0 out of 10, indicating strong technical foundations with timely improvements possible. Notable findings include a valid favicon, HTTPS content, an SEO-friendly URL, a small page size under 256KB, and no frames. Key opportunities focus on tightening the title tag, meta description, adding an H1 tag, and speeding up load time.

Strengths

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    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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    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.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
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    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from fewer separate sites than most profiles the size of yours.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

KVA Design's website shows an average health score for Website Traffic, indicating some room for improvement in paid and organic visibility. Key takeaways: paid traffic requires a defined spend and landing pages, while organic traffic is improving and could be strengthened through keyword refinement and better site navigation.

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 search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
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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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.8Room to grow
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2About 8 visits a month from search, across 13 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your hours against demand

KVA Design's published hours partially align with Christchurch demand. Midweek lunchtime hours (Tuesday 12pm; Wednesday 11-12pm; Thursday 12-1pm) match local search patterns and likely capture client enquiries. However the studio is closed across the Saturday midday peak (11am-2pm) and Sunday noon when searches are highest, creating missed opportunities. No obvious wasteful open hours were found; total weekly open hours are minimal.

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
Monday9am-4pm
Tuesday9am-4pm
Wednesday9am-4pm
Thursday9am-4pm
Friday9am-4pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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01Google listing1 opportunity

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#46of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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