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Calgary · AI visibility
Very few Calgary businesses have done anything about how AI models describe them, which makes this cheap right now and expensive later. The groundwork is entity clarity, crawl permissions, and pages written so a model can quote them. We measure what the models say before we start and again six weeks after.
Calgary · Alberta · serving the Calgary region
Calgary AI search
Competitive advantage in this work comes from being early, and in Calgary essentially the whole market is early. The businesses that set up their entity layer and citable content now become the default answer in their category before anyone else has thought about it, at a cost that will not stay this low once the category is contested.
The categories where this matters most locally are the considered ones: professional services, specialised trades, B2B and field services, and anything where somebody asks a chatbot who they should call before they search. Emergency work still runs on search and the phone, and we will say so rather than sell you something.
The groundwork also pays off regardless. Entity clarity, correct schema, and pages written in plain quotable sentences improve conventional search at the same time. This is not a bet that only wins if one specific prediction comes true.
How it works
Full scope on the ai visibility page.
We run a fixed set of prompts about your business across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, then save the answers. That is the baseline. Most small businesses do not appear at all, or appear with the wrong facts. Either way we know the starting point.
robots.txt rules for each major AI crawler, plus an llms.txt and llms-full.txt written for your business. You decide which models are allowed to read the site. Most owners say yes to all of them.
Schema markup that names the business properly: full Organization or LocalBusiness, sameAs links to the Google Business Profile, social profiles, and directory listings. The point is unambiguous proof that the business on the site is the business the model has seen elsewhere.
Rewrite the about and service pages so a model can lift a clean two-sentence answer out of them. Q and A sections where they fit. Plain, sourced facts. Models cite what they can quote without paraphrasing it into nonsense.
Same prompts, same models, four to six weeks later. The before and after lands in a short PDF you keep. Anything still wrong gets a second pass.
What changes locally
A Calgary AI visibility pass runs a fixed set of prompts across the four major models to establish what they currently say about you, which for most local businesses is nothing. Then the entity layer, the crawl rules, and the citable rewrite of the key pages. Six weeks later the same prompts get re-run and the before and after lands in a short document you keep.
Note
Every engagement starts with a free written audit, including the Calgary ones. If we think the budget is better spent somewhere else, we will say so before you commit to anything. See everything we do in Calgary.
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We also do ai visibility in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montréal.
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