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AI visibility · AEO · GEO · Vancouver & Surrey

Be found and described correctly when customers ask AI.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI now answer the question “who should I choose?” before a customer ever opens your website. We improve how clearly your business can be found and understood across search and AI tools, then measure where it appears and what they say.

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The short answer

In short: what is AI visibility?

AI visibility means making sure ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI can find your business, understand it and describe it correctly. We do it with accurate business data, a complete Google profile, helpful answer-first pages and genuine reviews, then measure what the AI tools say. No one can guarantee a recommendation.

The shift

Customers already ask AI who to choose

These are 2026 survey results, not predictions.

45%

of US consumers used ChatGPT or another AI tool for a local business recommendation in the past year, up from 6% the year before.

BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (1,002 US adults, published Feb 2026)
42.7%

of consumers worldwide used an AI tool for local search in the past month, and 28% tried a new local business because AI recommended it.

Yext, 2026 Consumer Search Behaviors Report (3,848 adults, self-reported)
42%

trust AI recommendations as much as traditional reviews, and 40% trust AI platforms to recommend local businesses.

BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026

These are US and global samples. Canadian figures are not published separately yet, so treat them as direction, not a forecast.

How it works

What AI uses to pick a local business

The sources behind the recommendations.

28.6%

of all local AI citations point to the Google Business Profile, and it is cited for 94% of the businesses checked.

BrightLocal AI directory sources study, Aug 2026
9.5%

point to Yelp, and ChatGPT leaned on Yelp heavily. For restaurants, TripAdvisor and OpenTable also show up.

same study (US, UK, Australia; Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT)
4.2%

of the time ChatGPT and Gemini named the same top business for the same local question. Each assistant reads the web differently.

Steady Demand local AI citation ledger (agency study)

The takeaway is practical. Assistants do not invent recommendations. They read your Google profile, your website, your reviews and what other sites say about you. If those are incomplete, inconsistent or hard to read, you are invisible, no matter how good the business is.

What we do

Our AI visibility system

Six parts, one team. Nothing here is a trick; it is the work that makes a business easy to find, trust and recommend.

  1. Entity foundation

    One name, address, phone, hours and service list, identical across your website, Google profile and listings, with structured data (schema) that spells it out for machines.

  2. Answer-ready content

    Pages and FAQs that answer the questions your customers really ask, with the direct answer first, in plain language that assistants can quote.

  3. Citations and listings

    A complete Google Business Profile plus the directories your industry is cited from: Yelp, Facebook, TripAdvisor and OpenTable for restaurants; the right local and industry directories for clinics and child care.

  4. Reviews and trust

    A steady flow of recent, genuine reviews with real replies. Consumers and AI both weigh volume and recency.

  5. Technical access

    Let AI crawlers in: robots.txt, llms.txt, fast mobile pages, clean structure. Many businesses block assistants by accident.

  6. Measure and re-test

    We test your customers’ questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI, Copilot and Claude, log what each says, and repeat every quarter.

Definitions

AEO, GEO and SEO in plain English

The acronyms overlap. Here is how we use them.

TermWhat it meansWhat we do about it
SEORanking in Google’s search results.Technical health, content and links that earn page-one positions.
Local SEOShowing up in the map pack and “near me” searches.Google Business Profile, listings, reviews and local pages.
AEO (answer engine optimization)Being the direct answer in AI Overviews, featured answers and voice search.Answer-first content, FAQ markup, clear business data.
GEO (generative engine optimization)Being cited and recommended inside ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity answers.Citations and listings, reviews, entity consistency, quarterly testing across assistants.
Honest method

How we measure it

We do not sell a rank. We make you easy to find, trust and recommend, and measure it.

AI answers change with who asks, where they are and what they asked before, so a position in one answer proves nothing. We measure what we can verify and fix: whether your business is findable, understood, accurate, trusted and answerable, plus a sampled read of what the assistants say, reported as a trend.

See how we measure it

Illustration

Who should I hire to market my business in Vancouver?

Here are options that fit, based on what each business publishes online:

  1. 1
    Your businessClear services, real reviews, complete profile, answers customers’ questions.
  2. 2
    A competitorIncomplete profile, few recent reviews.

Illustration of how an AI answer is built. Not a real answer.

Industries

Who we do this for

Restaurants first, and any business customers look for nearby.

Restaurants and hospitalityOur deepest proof. Local SEO, AI visibility, food photography and video. Day cares and child careBe the centre parents find first when they ask. Clinics, med spas and laser studiosTurn searches into consultations, with compliant claims. Other local businessesRetail, salons and local services.
FAQ

Questions, answered.

An answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO) agency makes a business easy for AI assistants and search features to find, understand and recommend: accurate business data, a complete Google profile, answer-first pages and FAQs, structured data, genuine reviews, consistent listings and ongoing measurement. It cannot promise a position in any AI answer.

They overlap. SEO earns rankings in search results, AEO focuses on being the direct answer in AI Overviews, featured answers and voice search, and GEO on being cited inside assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. The foundations are shared.

Yes. We are based in Vancouver and Surrey and work with local businesses across Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Kelowna and Alberta, with the same in-house team.

AI visibility is how often, and how accurately, AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI mention, describe and recommend your business when customers ask for what you sell.

AEO (answer engine optimization) is about being the direct answer: in Google AI Overviews, featured answers and voice results. GEO (generative engine optimization) is about being cited and recommended inside generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Both rest on the same foundation: clear business data, answer-ready content, strong profiles and real reviews.

No, and be careful with anyone who says they can. Answers change by question, location, time and even who is asking. What we can do is remove what is blocking you, strengthen the signals assistants use, and measure the result on the questions your customers actually ask.

Technical blockers and profile fixes can show results within weeks. Building reviews, listings and content authority usually takes a few months. We re-test your questions every quarter so you can see movement instead of taking our word for it.

No. Google is still the front door, and the same ingredients (a complete Google Business Profile, quality content, genuine reviews) feed AI answers. AI visibility builds on local SEO and SEO, it does not replace them.

ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Claude. They cite different sources, so we test all of them.

Restaurants and hospitality are our specialty and where our deepest proof is. We also work with day cares, a laser and esthetics studio and other local businesses across Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Alberta.

Run the free AI and local visibility check. It scans your website for the signals assistants use, and you can ask us for a personal test of what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI say about your business.

Read next

Two plain-English AI visibility guides

AI Overviews & Zero-Click Search: What Local Businesses DoWhat Google AI Overviews and zero-click searches mean for local businesses, what the research says, and four practical steps…What Is llms.txt and Does Your Business Need One?A plain-English explanation of llms.txt: what it is, what it is not, whether AI tools use it, and how a local business can…

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