Greater Manchester · AI visibility

The directory built to be read by machines.

Every day, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI recommend Greater Manchester businesses to the people searching for them — or leave them out entirely. Manchester Business Services is the only local directory engineered so its members are the ones that get named.

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The register, explained

A civic register of Greater Manchester business — written to be found.

Six connected directories — organisations, events, funding, news, venues and workspaces — catalogued in full sentences and complete structured data, so that both people and AI models can read the city’s business life and cite it with confidence.

  1. 01

    Browse the register

    Find 13,115 Greater Manchester organisations by category, sector and borough — every entry a complete, citable record.

  2. 02

    Follow the wire

    The latest Manchester business news and the datebook of what’s on — gathered daily for the business community, below.

  3. 03

    Be the answer

    List or claim your business so the AI tools recommending Manchester suppliers can read yours — and name it.

The morning wire

Today in Manchester business.

Updated daily · 07:00

Castlefield · Manchester

The city that built the modern world, catalogued for the one that reads by machine.

Why this matters now

Your next customer isn’t Googling. They’re asking.

Nearly half of consumers now ask an AI tool for product and service recommendations before they ever open a search engine. When someone types “best employment solicitor in Manchester” or “venue for a 40-person launch in Ancoats,” the answer comes back as a short, confident list of names.

Most directories were never built to put your name on that list. They’re catalogues for humans, scraped thin and structured for nobody. AI models read structure, language and context — and they cite the sources that give it to them clearly.

That’s the whole of what we do.

The platform

Listings written to be cited.

Every entry is built to the standard AI models look for: full natural-language descriptions, schema markup, descriptive image text, consistent organisation names, borough-level geographic detail, and cross-references between related listings.

The result is a record of your business that an AI can read, understand and trust — and repeat to the people asking.

We don’t sell listings. We sell being found.

13,115

Organisations on record

55

Live funding programmes

61

Venues & workspaces

07:00

Refreshed every morning

Three steps

Listed, optimised, found.

01

List

Add your business, or claim the entry we’ve already built for you. Free to start.

02

Optimise

Upgrade to a full AI-optimised profile: structured description, FAQ-style detail, interlinks, and a monthly report on where you’re being cited.

03

Get found

Your business becomes a clean, trusted source the AI tools can read — and name — when your customers ask.

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Membership

From a free listing to the top of the city.

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The weekly briefing

See which Manchester businesses the AI tools are naming.

Each week we run real prompts through the major AI models and show you who came up — alongside the events, grants and news worth knowing across Greater Manchester. Free, and quietly essential.

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Greater Manchester · AI visibility

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