What do Licheo's AI agents do for a small business?

Licheo's AI agents build and improve a small business website each month. A performance agent handles speed and structure, a copywriter agent writes the pages, a structured-data agent adds labels for search engines, a conversion agent shapes pages to win enquiries, and a visibility agent works on being named in AI answers. An orchestrator coordinates them, and nothing goes live until the owner approves it.

Do I approve the work before Licheo's agents publish it?

Yes, the owner approves the work before Licheo's agents publish anything: nothing goes live until you approve it, and anything can be undone. This follows Google's advice to owners who hire search help, which suggests asking the provider to share all the changes it makes to the site. Google also reminds owners that they remain responsible for the actions of any companies they hire.

Can AI agents write reviews for my business?

No, AI agents cannot write genuine reviews for your business, and fake ones are prohibited. On August 14, 2024 the US Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule banning fake reviews, naming AI-generated fake reviews as an example. Real reviews come from real customers, so ask satisfied customers yourself, using a Google review link or QR code.

Can AI agents replace my own knowledge of my trade?

AI agents cannot replace an owner's own knowledge of the trade. Google's guidance on helpful content asks whether a page clearly demonstrates first-hand expertise, such as expertise from having used a product or service. Agents can organise and explain what you know, but the real jobs, photographs and lessons that show first-hand expertise have to come from you.

Can AI agents handle my customer relationships and press coverage?

AI agents cannot build customer relationships or win press coverage for you; both depend on people. Google's help page on reviews notes that your replies to reviews are public and help you build good relationships with customers, so write them yourself. Agents can make your pages clear and easy to contact, and journalists still decide whom they cover.

Do I need to learn software to work with Licheo's agents?

No, working with Licheo's agents needs no software skills: you learn no tool and manage no dashboard, and you approve changes before they go live. If you want to check results yourself, Google Search Console is a free service from Google whose Performance report shows how often your site appeared in Google results, how many clicks it received and its average position.

What do AI agents do for your business, and where do they stop?

A plain account of the work Licheo's agents carry out, the decisions that stay with you, and the things that only real customers, real journalists and your own experience can give.

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Licheo's AI agents build and improve a small business website: they make it fast, write its pages, add the labels search engines read, shape pages to win customers, and work on being named in AI answers. You approve everything before it goes live. Agents cannot create real reviews, customer relationships, press coverage or your first-hand expertise, and no one can guarantee a Google ranking.

What is an AI agent, in plain words?

In general use, an AI agent is a computer program that is given one job and carries it out in steps: it reads what it needs, decides what to do next, does it, and checks the result. A chat window waits for your next question. An agent keeps working on its task until the task is done.

Licheo uses a team of such agents, each one a specialist in one part of the work, with one more agent, the orchestrator, coordinating them so that the finished site fits together. The service is done for you. You learn no tool, you manage no dashboard, and the work continues every month after the site is live.

Why does this matter for a small business? Because the work these agents share is the work a big company divides between a web developer, a search specialist, a writer and an analyst, each with a salary. The website, search and AI work that big companies pay whole teams for, done for your small business. That is the promise, and the rest of this page explains honestly where it ends.

What each agent works on

Here is the division of the work, described in the same way as on our page about how Licheo builds websites.

The performance agent makes the site fast, makes it work well on phones, and keeps the technical structure sound: the parts visitors never see and Google reads.
The copywriter agent writes pages and articles around the real questions your customers ask.
The structured-data agent adds labels in the page code that tell Google and AI assistants what you do.
The conversion agent shapes each page so that a visit can become an enquiry or a sale, with enquiry forms built in.
The visibility agent works on making the site easy for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews to cite, and it watches your competitors.
The orchestrator agent coordinates the specialists, so the site holds together as one piece.

What you approve, and why the approval matters

The rule is short: nothing goes live until you approve it. At the start you describe your business in plain words. The agents plan the pages, write them and build them, and then you see the work before it is published. Anything can be undone. Each month, as the agents continue to improve the site, new changes come to you in the same way.

This approval step follows Google's own advice. Google's page for owners who hire help with search suggests asking the provider to share all the changes it makes to the site, with detailed information about the recommendations and the reasoning behind them. The same page reminds owners that they are responsible for the actions of any companies they hire. With an approval step, you see every change before your customers do.

What should you look for when you approve? Read each page as a customer would. Check every fact about your business: the prices you quote, the areas you serve, your opening hours, your licences, the names of your team. A wrong fact in your description can become a wrong fact on the page, and you are the person best placed to catch it.

What agents cannot do: create real reviews

Reviews are the first limit, and it is a firm one. A review is a customer's account of a real experience with your business, and software cannot have that experience. Fake reviews are also prohibited in the United States and are against Google's rules.

On August 14, 2024 the US Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule banning fake reviews and testimonials. It covers reviews that claim to come from someone who does not exist, and the FTC names AI-generated fake reviews as an example, as well as reviews from people who had no real experience with the business. The rule prohibits businesses from creating or selling such reviews, and from buying them.

Google's policy for Maps says the same in its own words: contributions to Google Maps should reflect a genuine experience at a place or business, and fake engagement is removed. Google also prohibits offering customers payment, discounts or free goods in exchange for posting a review.

What can you do instead? Ask. Google's help page for business owners suggests reminding customers to leave a review, by sending them a Google link or showing them a QR code, and replying to the reviews you receive. This task belongs to you and your staff, at the end of a job well done.

What agents cannot do: relationships, press and your own expertise

The second limit is people. A customer who trusts you, a supplier who recommends you, a neighbour who mentions your name: you build these relationships in person and over time. Agents can make the website say clearly what you do and make it easy to contact you. The phone call, the visit and the reply to an unhappy customer remain yours. Google's help page on reviews notes that your replies are public and help you build good relationships with customers, which is a good reason to write them yourself.

Press coverage works the same way. A journalist decides whom to write about. Agents can write a clear About page and accurate facts that make you easy to write about, and the article in a newspaper, a trade magazine or a local radio programme still comes from a person who chose to cover you.

The third limit is expertise. Google's guidance on helpful content asks whether a page clearly demonstrates first-hand expertise and a depth of knowledge, for example expertise that comes from having used a product or service or visited a place. An agent can organise, explain and write. The first-hand part, the job you finished last Tuesday, the mistake you see customers make, the photograph of real work, has to come from you.

Google adds a warning that applies to any automated writing. Its guidance on generative AI content says that using AI tools to generate many pages without adding value for users may violate its spam policy on scaled content abuse, which is Google's name for publishing large numbers of pages made mainly to rank. Your knowledge is what adds the value, so your input is part of the work.

What no one can promise, agents included

The last limit is about results. Google says it in plain words on its page for anyone hiring search help: no one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. Its guidance on third-party SEO tools adds that such tools have no access to Google's internal ranking data and cannot guarantee performance. AI agents are software of exactly this kind, so the same rule applies to them.

Time is the other honest answer. Google's SEO Starter Guide says some changes take effect in a few hours and others could take several months, and it suggests waiting a few weeks before judging whether the work helped. It also says there are no secrets that will automatically rank a site first. And because Google never accepts money to include or rank sites in its organic results, nobody can buy a position there, whether they work with agents or with people.

What agents can promise is the work itself: the pages written, the site made faster, the labels added, and every change shown to you before it goes live. You can then measure the effect yourself in Google Search Console, a free service from Google, whose Performance report shows how many times your site appeared in Google results, how many clicks it received, the share of appearances that became clicks, and its average position.

Who does what in a normal month

The table below sets the two lists side by side. The middle column describes what licheo.com says our agents do today; the right column is the part of the work that stays with the owner.

The division of work between Licheo's agents and the owner, as described on licheo.com in September 2026
Task	Done by the agents	Done by you, the owner
Site speed, phone layout and technical structure	The performance agent builds and maintains them	Approve the changes
Pages and articles	The copywriter agent writes them around customer questions	Supply the facts, check them, approve
Labels that tell search engines what you do	The structured-data agent adds them	Confirm your business details are correct
Turning visits into enquiries	The conversion agent shapes pages and enquiry forms	Answer every enquiry quickly
Being named in AI answers	The visibility agent works on it and watches competitors	Tell us about new services, areas and changes
Reviews	No part: agents do not write, post or buy reviews	Ask real customers, with a Google link or QR code, and reply to reviews
Relationships and press	Clear pages that make you easy to contact and to write about	Meet customers, answer them, speak to journalists
First-hand expertise	Organise and explain what you share	Share real jobs, photographs and lessons learned
Approval	Prepare every change for your review	Approve before anything goes live
Measuring results	Continue the work every month	Check the Performance report in Search Console when you wish

A good month, from the owner's side

In practice, your part of the work takes the form of a few short habits, most of them measured in minutes.

Read and approve the changes that reach you, and correct any fact that is wrong.
Send what only you know: a new service, a finished job, a question a customer asked this week.
Ask every satisfied customer for a review, and reply to the reviews that arrive.
Keep your Google Business Profile current. Google lists up-to-date Business Profile information among the basics that still matter for its AI features.
Look at the Performance report in Search Console once a month, so you see the same numbers anyone else would.
If you want an outside view of where you started, run the free Get Found Check, which grades your homepage, your DNS records (the settings that connect your domain name to your website and email) and your security certificate in under 60 seconds.

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Questions people ask

What do Licheo's AI agents do for a small business?: Licheo's AI agents build and improve a small business website each month. A performance agent handles speed and structure, a copywriter agent writes the pages, a structured-data agent adds labels for search engines, a conversion agent shapes pages to win enquiries, and a visibility agent works on being named in AI answers. An orchestrator coordinates them, and nothing goes live until the owner approves it.
Do I approve the work before Licheo's agents publish it?: Yes, the owner approves the work before Licheo's agents publish anything: nothing goes live until you approve it, and anything can be undone. This follows Google's advice to owners who hire search help, which suggests asking the provider to share all the changes it makes to the site. Google also reminds owners that they remain responsible for the actions of any companies they hire.
Can AI agents write reviews for my business?: No, AI agents cannot write genuine reviews for your business, and fake ones are prohibited. On August 14, 2024 the US Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule banning fake reviews, naming AI-generated fake reviews as an example. Real reviews come from real customers, so ask satisfied customers yourself, using a Google review link or QR code.
Does Google allow reviews that do not come from real customers?: Google does not allow reviews that do not come from a real experience. Its Maps content policy says contributions to Google Maps should reflect a genuine experience at a place or business, and fake engagement is removed. Google also prohibits offering payment, discounts or free goods in exchange for posting a review, so reviews must be requested honestly from real customers.
Can Licheo's agents promise more traffic or higher rankings?: No, Licheo's agents cannot promise more traffic or higher rankings, and neither can any tool. Google's guidance on third-party SEO tools says such tools have no access to Google's internal ranking data and cannot guarantee performance. What the agents deliver is the work itself, shown to you for approval, and you measure the effect in Google Search Console.
Will Google penalise website pages written by AI agents?: Google judges website pages written by AI agents by their value to readers. Its guidance on generative AI content says that using AI tools to generate many pages without adding value for users may violate its spam policy on scaled content abuse. That is why the owner's facts, examples and approval are part of the work, and why accuracy matters on every page.
Can AI agents replace my own knowledge of my trade?: AI agents cannot replace an owner's own knowledge of the trade. Google's guidance on helpful content asks whether a page clearly demonstrates first-hand expertise, such as expertise from having used a product or service. Agents can organise and explain what you know, but the real jobs, photographs and lessons that show first-hand expertise have to come from you.
Can AI agents handle my customer relationships and press coverage?: AI agents cannot build customer relationships or win press coverage for you; both depend on people. Google's help page on reviews notes that your replies to reviews are public and help you build good relationships with customers, so write them yourself. Agents can make your pages clear and easy to contact, and journalists still decide whom they cover.
How long before changes made by AI agents show up in Google?: Changes made by AI agents follow the same timing as any website change in Google. Google's SEO Starter Guide says some changes take effect in a few hours and others could take several months, and it suggests waiting a few weeks before judging whether the work helped. Check the Performance report in Search Console to see the effect.
Do I need to learn software to work with Licheo's agents?: No, working with Licheo's agents needs no software skills: you learn no tool and manage no dashboard, and you approve changes before they go live. If you want to check results yourself, Google Search Console is a free service from Google whose Performance report shows how often your site appeared in Google results, how many clicks it received and its average position.

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