The shift
In one year, asking Ai for local recommendations went mainstream.
45% of consumers now use Ai for local business recommendations — up from 6% a year ago.
Source: BrightLocal 2026
Free Ai Visibility Check
When customers ask ChatGPT for the best business, does it say your name?
Real, live scan of your site in seconds — plus we ask Ai who it's naming in your category. Free.
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The numbers
Ai is already where your customers are.
Three things changed in the last year — and they all point the same way.
Why it matters
People don't shop around anymore — they call the name Ai gives them.
So it's not about ranking for clicks anymore — it's about being the name the Ai says. Miss it, and you lose the customer before you knew there was one.
When an Ai answer appears, barely anyone clicks out to compare — only ~1% click a link inside it. They just go with one of the names the Ai recommends.
Source: Pew Research Center 2025
The scale
Your customers are already asking Ai.
Two of the biggest doors customers use to find businesses are now Ai-shaped — and they keep getting bigger.
Why this matters
The shift off Google isn't coming — it's already here.
“Last month, our search volume actually went down. That has never happened in 20 years… it's because people are using ChatGPT. They're using Perplexity.”
Eddy Cue
SVP of Services, Apple
Testifying that Safari searches fell for the first time, U.S. v. Google.
Fortune · May 2025“Generative Ai solutions are becoming substitute answer engines, replacing user queries that previously may have been executed in traditional search engines.”
Alan Antin
VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner forecasts traditional search volume drops 25% by 2026.
Gartner · Feb 2024“Ai-generated search results are rewriting the rules, and SEO optimisation is no longer enough.”
Natasha Sommerfeld
Partner, Bain & Company
Bain finds ~60% of searches now end with no click.
Bain & Company · Feb 2025Public statements about the shift to Ai search — not endorsements of CanYouSeeMe.ai.
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- BrightLocal
- Search Engine Land
- Squamish Chamber
- Local Marketing Institute
- GeoSearch Weekly
Logos are placeholders — real placements drop in here as they land.
The Get-Recommended System
Three steps. One outcome.
A free check tells you where you stand. We do the work. The AIs start naming you. That's it — the whole system, end to end.
01
Free Ai Visibility Check
We test how 4 major Ai assistants answer the questions your customers actually ask. You get a transparent report — what's working, what's missing, where competitors are taking your share.
02
Done-for-you build
We fix what the Ai sees: crawler access, structured data, Google Business Profile, citations, reviews, and the Ai-ready content the assistants actually quote from.
03
You get recommended
Within 90 days, your business shows up — by name — when customers ask Ai for the best in your category. We measure it, we report it, and we keep tuning.
Where you stand
Most local businesses start near the bottom.
Your free check returns a 0–100 visibility score. The two real businesses we tested started at 28 and 31.
What we fix
Six things Ai looks for. We handle every one.
No magic, no black box — just the boring work that makes your business visible to the assistants your customers already trust.
Ai-crawler access
Most sites accidentally block the bots that feed ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. We open the right doors — without inviting scrapers you don't want.
Structured data & schema
Ai assistants prefer sources they can parse. We add LocalBusiness, FAQ, Review, and Service schema so your details get pulled in cleanly.
Google Business Profile
Google Ai Overviews pull heavily from GBP. We complete the profile, fix the categories, add the photos and posts, and verify what's missing.
Reviews & reputation
Volume and recency matter — both to Google and to the assistants quoting from review aggregators. We help you earn more, faster, the honest way.
Citations & listings
We make sure your name, address and phone match across the directories Ai checks — Yelp, Apple Maps, BBB, vertical-specific sites, the lot.
Ai-ready content
Plain-language pages that directly answer the questions customers ask Ai. Q&A blocks, comparison content, and service pages built for assistant quoting.
Transparency you can see
A real Ai visibility report. Not a vague summary.
Below is an actual probe of a real local business — every query, every assistant, every named competitor. This is what you'll receive.
Ai Visibility Report — Anonymized sample
A custom cedar-sauna builder near Squamish, BC
Custom cedar saunas · Live “before” snapshot · May 2026
Visibility score
28/100
| Customer query tested | Assistant | Named? | Competitors named instead | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “who builds custom cedar saunas near Vancouver/Squamish?” | Perplexity | No | AetherHaus, Vancouver Sauna, The Good Sauna | 0 |
| “best sauna builder near Squamish BC” | Perplexity | No | AetherHaus, ScandiaSauna | 0 |
| “backyard cedar sauna installers BC” | ChatGPT | No | Vancouver Sauna, The Good Sauna | 0 |
| “custom sauna design Squamish” | Claude | No | AetherHaus, Vancouver Sauna | 0 |
| “sauna builders Sea-to-Sky corridor” | Google Ai | No | The Good Sauna, AetherHaus, ScandiaSauna | 0 |
| “luxury home sauna Vancouver” | Perplexity | No | ScandiaSauna, AetherHaus | 0 |
0/6 queries named this business
4 unique competitors got the recommendation instead. Customers asking Ai for this service are not seeing this builder — at all.
Technical audit
- Failing
Ai-crawler access (robots.txt)
Blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot
- Failing
LocalBusiness schema
Missing
- Failing
FAQ / Service schema
Missing
- Needs work
Google Business Profile
Incomplete — 3 categories missing
- Needs work
Cited reviews (30 days)
2 (low)
- Failing
Citations across the web
12 listings — inconsistent NAP
Your free report covers your top 6 customer queries across all 4 major Ai assistants, a full technical audit, and a prioritized fix list.
Getting found by Ai shouldn't feel overwhelming.
You run a business. You don't have time to learn what a robots.txt is or why ChatGPT keeps citing your competitor. That's our job.
Plain English
Real explanations, real reports. No jargon, no Ai buzzwords.
No lock-in
Month-to-month. Cancel any time. We earn the renewal every month.
Done-for-you
You don't lift a finger. We handle the technical work; you get the results.
Honest reporting
Monthly visibility report — what worked, what didn't, what's next.
Our honest promise
You pay only for delivered work. If we can't complete a scoped item, it's not on your invoice. Period.
Free tools
Useful even if you never hire us.
Reciprocity, not bait. Take what you need, no email required for the score.
The squeeze · the proof
Ai names a handful. Real businesses, missing the list.
On the left: what an Ai answer typically looks like. On the right: two real local businesses we tracked the same way — neither one named. Identities held in confidence until the 'after' lands.
The squeeze
Ai doesn't show a page of options. It names a few.
Ai assistant · sample response
Best sauna builder near Vancouver?
- 1AetherHaus Saunas
- 2Vancouver Sauna Co.
- 3The Good Sauna
That's the whole list — three names, not thirty. Is yours one of them?
Illustrative. Ai assistants typically name only a handful of businesses — if you're not among them, you're invisible.
Before · May 2026Score 28/100
A custom cedar-sauna builder near Squamish, BC
Actively tracking · Squamish / Vancouver, BC
“who builds custom cedar saunas near Vancouver/Squamish?”
Perplexity answered with
AetherHaus, Vancouver Sauna, The Good Sauna
Subject business · not named or cited
Perplexity named 8 competitors when asked who builds custom cedar saunas near Vancouver. This independent builder was never mentioned — a legitimate, active local operator simply absent from the Ai's recommendation set.
What's at stake
Every named competitor wins the consideration call. The subject loses qualified leads at the very first moment a customer asks an Ai for a recommendation.
Before · May 2026Score 31/100
A ski-in/ski-out suite operator at a BC mountain resort
Actively tracking · Rossland, BC
“where to stay ski-in/ski-out at RED Mountain Resort?”
Perplexity answered with
The Josie Hotel, RED Mountain Resort (lodging page)
Subject business · not named or cited
Perplexity recommended the area's branded hotel and the resort's own lodging page when asked where to stay ski-in/ski-out at the resort. This independent operator's direct-booking site was never named or cited.
What's at stake
Direct-booking margin at stake — every Ai recommendation routing guests to a branded competitor or the resort's lodging page is a booking that bypasses the operator's own site (and the better margin that comes with it).
Your results could be the first named case study here — become one of our Priority Partners.
Priority Partner · 7 spots leftPriority pricing.
Priority pricing.
Locked in for life.
We take a limited number of done-for-you Priority Partners — the full Get Recommended package at a locked rate below standard that never rises. Once the spots are gone, the rate is gone.
Priority Partner offer
Total stack value
$4,600
Priority price
$997
+ $199/mo locked for life
Standard: $1499 + $249/mo
- Ai Visibility Check + 90-day Get-Seen Guarantee
- Full technical fix (schema, GBP, citations, content)
- Monthly honest report — what worked, what didn't
- Market exclusivity in your category + city
- Locked-in priority pricing — forever
The 90-day Get-Seen Guarantee
Named by a major Ai within 90 days,
or we work free until you are.
You only pay for delivered work.
We agree on your core customer search in writing. If at least one major Ai assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Google Ai Overviews) hasn't named or cited you for that search within 90 days, we keep working on the scope — free — until it does.
Why us, not an agency
Specialists, not generalists.
A traditional SEO agency learned Ai visibility last month. We've been doing only this — and we'll show you the receipts.
CanYouSeeMe.ai
Typical agency
- Specialized in Ai visibility (GEO/AEO)Generalists — SEO + ads + 'a bit of Ai'
- Done in 30–90 days, then ongoing tune-ups12-month contracts, $4–8K/mo retainers
- Monthly honest report, plain EnglishVanity dashboards, no real story
- Real humans you can callAccount managers who escalate to silence
- Market exclusivity in your categoryThey sign your competitor next week
- Pay only for delivered workPay either way — sorry, retainer
AiLive Ai response · captured today
Who's the best cedar sauna builder near Vancouver?
Based on local reviews and reputation, three custom cedar sauna builders stand out in the Vancouver area:
- AetherHaus — Squamish
- Vancouver Sauna — Vancouver
- The Good Sauna — North Shore
Sources: vancouversauna.ca, thegoodsauna.com, aetherhaus.ca
Your business · not named
You exist. You're reviewed. You're in the directory. The Ai just doesn't know you. That's what we fix.
Jose da Cunha
Founder · Squamish, BC
From the founder
I built this because my friends were losing leads to Ai.
I started talking to local business owners in BC — a roofer, a dentist, a custom-sauna builder — and asked their customers a simple question: how did you find them? More and more often the answer was “I asked ChatGPT” or “Google summarized it for me.” And more and more often, the business I knew well wasn’t the one being named.
CanYouSeeMe.ai is the work I wanted to exist when I saw that — done-for-you, honest about what can and can’t be promised, month-to-month, and built around real client data instead of hopeful tactics. No agency retainers. No long contracts. Just the boring technical work that makes the AIs recommend you, and a monthly report you can actually read.
— Jose
Email me directly
Replies usually within one business day.
FAQ
The questions we actually get.
If you've got one we haven't answered, the chatbot in the corner takes you to a real human.
No — and anyone who guarantees that is lying. We can guarantee the work: in 90 days, at least one major Ai assistant will name or cite you for your core search, or we keep working free until it does. Ai rankings shift constantly; what we control is the foundation underneath them.
No. CanYouSeeMe.ai is independent. We don't pay for placement, we don't have insider access, and we don't claim to. We just understand how the assistants pick what to recommend — and we tune your business to match.
Then you got a stronger website, clean schema, a fixed Google Business Profile, accurate citations and better reviews — which is the same foundation that makes you findable on regular Google. Worst case, you're well-positioned for ten-year-old search. Best case, you're early on the new one.
Technical fixes (schema, GBP, crawler access) usually show up in Ai responses inside 30 days. Content and citation work compounds over 60–90 days. The Get-Seen Guarantee gives you a 90-day window with the deliverable baked in.
Right now we focus on businesses in Canada and the US — that's where our citation network, GBP expertise and assistant testing is strongest. Reach out if you're elsewhere; we'll be honest about whether we're the right fit.
Most SEO agencies are still optimizing for the old Google. We optimize for the four major Ai assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google Ai Overviews) — which require different schema, different content patterns, and different citation strategies. Either approach helps the other, but if you only do classic SEO, you're invisible to the half of customers now asking Ai.
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