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Scope of the Firm Guide index

Firm Guide indexes 58 Australian professional service firms that show, on their own websites, that they deliver work remotely or digitally. The index spans three groups: 21 consultancies and advisory firms, 21 digital agencies and 16 technology and hosting providers.

Fields of practice

Firms are classified by field. A field receives its own index page at three or more firms; 12 fields meet that threshold, including management consulting (9 firms), plus accounting and advisory (6 firms). A firm may hold several fields. Technology consulting (9) and web design (16) are the other large fields, reflecting the digital agencies and technology firms the index also covers.

Evidence required

Inclusion requires an Australian office, headquarters, origin or operations, evidenced on the firm's own site and cited on its entry. At present 30 entries rest on a stated office and 26 on stated operations. Remote or digital service delivery must also be evident from the firm's own pages. Summaries restate the firm's own description of its services, as published on the cited pages.

Limits of the index

The index records scope of service, not professional standing. It makes no statement about licences, registrations, memberships or credentials unless verified evidence and authority to publish exist, and none are recorded today. It carries no fees or reviews, and no ranking of its own: the directory is ranked by Google rating adjusted for review count, as set out below, and index entries, which have no rating on file, follow it alphabetically.

Corrections

Entries were verified in September 2026; each shows its own verification date. Firms or readers seeking an amendment or withdrawal should email support@firmguide.com.au, identifying the entry and the official page that supports the request.

How the directory is ranked

Ranked by Google rating adjusted for the number of reviews: every business starts at 4.5 stars from 10 reviews and its own reviews move it from there, so 4.9 from 300 reviews ranks above 5.0 from 6. The ratings are Google's figures as held in our data in October 2026, not an assessment by Firm Guide. The directory page lists every business Firm Guide holds, best-rated first, and each category and city page ranks the businesses in that category and city. A business whose branches share one website may be listed at only one of them, or at a few, so a chain's shop or office in your city may have no entry of its own here. Each listing carries that branch's own Google rating and review count, and its card says where that branch is. With nothing searched or filtered, a business with several offices or shops is shown once in the first results of the directory page, and its other listings follow further down; a search or a filter passes no listing over. Source-checked profiles have no Google rating on file: they follow the ranked list on the directory page and are listed alphabetically on category pages. A city page shows its best-rated 100 as cards and the rest in a compact ranked list.

Businesses from public map listings

Besides its source-checked profiles, Firm Guide lists 6,785 businesses taken from their public map listings, across 248 ranked city pages, as held in our data in October 2026. Each is marked "Public map listing". A business is included only with at least five Google reviews, a primary category that matches the page, and a location placed from its own address or map coordinates; a business on our removal list is never included. These businesses have not been checked against their own websites. Each has a profile with its name, suburb, Google rating with the review count and the city page it is listed on, linking to its own website or its Google Maps listing.