A written record of who does good work, and how we know.
The Local Register is a curated record of Australian local service businesses, published by tyso. Each entry is checked against the business’s own published information and carries the date it was last verified. Listings are free, rankings are not for sale, and every outbound link is nofollow.
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This site is running on fixture data. Every business shown is invented and every ranking is a template placeholder, published only so the design can be judged before the real registry records and drafted hub content land.
Who writes it
One person, at tyso, an Australian growth studio run by Tyson Farrington. tyso builds and markets websites for some of the businesses listed here, and every one of those entries says so on its face. That is the whole of the conflict, disclosed rather than managed.
Client status does not affect whether a business is listed or where it sits. A ranking that only contained clients would be a portfolio wearing a costume, and it would not be published.
Why it exists
Because the answer to “who is good at this near me” is increasingly given by a machine reading a page, and most of the pages it reads are thin. This is an attempt at the opposite: a small number of entries, written by hand, checked against what each business publishes about itself, and stamped with the date it was last looked at.
Nothing here is purchasable. The methodology is published in full.
Rankings
Best of, by area
The register
3 businesses on record
Each has a profile page carrying only what can be checked: name, contact, service area, category, and any credential the business has published and we have confirmed. See the full index.