Calgary, AB
Hire a brain.
Skip the wage.
Calgary businesses lose customers every day to competitors who show up in the map listing and get named by AI assistants. Put your website in and watch what Google and those assistants can actually see.
The three kinds of work
“Optimization” is three different jobs. Which one is losing you customers?
Three separate places a customer can find you: the answer an AI assistant gives, the map listing, and Google's normal results. Most agencies work the last one, call it SEO, and leave the other two alone — which is exactly why the first two are still wide open.
AI search optimization
What happens when your next customer asks ChatGPT instead of Google?
It names two or three businesses and stops. No page two, no scrolling, no second chance. Almost every Calgary site is still accidentally blocking these tools from reading it — so right now, being named is mostly a question of being the one who set it up.
- Named when a customer asks an assistant who to hire
- Unblocked from tools you never meant to shut out — often a same-day fix
- In early, while your competitors don't know this is a thing yet
- Monthly screenshots proving whether it's working, on the $750 plan
How it's done — the switches, the page rewrites, the monthly check:
How the AI side works →Google Business Profile optimization
The map box has three slots. Who's sitting in yours?
It's the first thing above every web result, and for most local businesses it brings in more calls than the website does. Google builds it from your profile, not your site — so the fix costs nothing and it's usually one wrong dropdown. Three slots, and a competitor is in one of them right now.
- In the map box, above every web result — where the calls come from
- The one field most likely holding your listing back, corrected
- A listing that reads as open and answering, not abandoned
- Reviews answered — what the next customer reads while deciding
How it's done — the category call, week one, the monthly upkeep:
How the Business Profile side works →Google optimization
Why is a worse competitor sitting above you on Google?
Almost never because they're better at the job. Google ranks what it can read, and most local sites are accidentally hard to read — that part is fixable, and the clicks it wins are ones you never pay for again. It also compounds, so the head start is the thing you lose by waiting.
- Clicks you don't pay for, that don't stop when you stop paying
- Pages you already own, finally earning their traffic
- New pages every month for searches you're missing entirely
- Rankings checked weekly — a drop caught in days, not quarters
How it's done — what gets audited, what ships first, where the numbers come from:
How the Google side works →Most sites are losing all three at once, and you can't tell which one is costing you most by looking at your own site. Neither can your competitors — that's the only reason this is still cheap to win. Twenty minutes on a call and you'll know which one to fix first.
What happens, and when.
48 hours
Every page, checked against what Google actually rewards
We crawl the whole site — titles, descriptions, headings, thin pages, broken links, images with no alt text — plus your Google Business Profile and whether AI assistants can read you at all. You get a ranked list of what's broken and what each one is costing you.
within 1 week
The fixes go live on your actual site
Not a slide deck of recommendations. Real changes to your real pages, with a snapshot taken before each one so anything can be put back. You see the plan before it ships.
4–6 weeks
Google recrawls, and a flat month is normal
Redirects and merged pages need Google to re-read the site before anything moves. We'll tell you that up front instead of pretending month one is a miracle.
month 4–6
The phone starts ringing from Google
New pages start showing up for the longer, more specific searches first, then for the ones that really matter. This is the part agencies promise in week two. It doesn't happen in week two.
Why hire us instead
The same work, without the agency wrapped around it.
You are not choosing between us and an agency's SEO team. You are choosing between us and an agency's SEO team plus the account manager, the sales call, the office and the contract — all of which you pay for.
A typical agency
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“Contact us for pricing.” You book a call to find out the number.
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$500 or $750, printed on the page. You know before you ever speak to us.
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An account manager relays your questions to whoever is actually doing the work.
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Whoever is on the call has your site open. Nothing gets relayed through an account manager.
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Six or twelve months, with a cancellation call to sit through at the end.
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Cancel any month. No notice period, no exit call, no minimum term.
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Google rankings. AI assistants sold to you as a separate product next year.
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The map listing, AI assistants and Google — all three looked at in the first audit.
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“We grew organic traffic 312%.” For someone else, in an account you can't open.
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Your numbers, pulled from your own Google Search Console. A zero gets reported as a zero.
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A deck of recommendations. Putting them live is quoted separately.
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Fixes go live on your real site within 1 week, with a snapshot taken before each one.
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A dashboard login you stop opening somewhere around month two.
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One page a month, in plain English, that takes four minutes to read.
Receipts
You'll always be able to see exactly what you paid for.
The thing most owners hate about agencies isn't the price. It's not knowing whether anything happened. Three documents fix that.
The change plan
Every fix written down before it ships: the page, the before, the after, and which problem it solves. You approve it. Nothing vague, nothing untraceable.
The monthly report
One page. Rankings, Google clicks, what we did, what's next — in plain English, pulled straight from Google Search Console rather than a third-party estimate.
The AI answer check
Its own section, with screenshots, showing whether Perplexity AI named you when someone asked for a business like yours. A zero gets reported as a zero.
Two ways to hire the brain
One price. Every month. Cancel whenever you want.
Local SEO
$500/month
Get found by people already searching for what you do.
- Full audit of every page, delivered in 48 hours
- Fixes go live on your site within the first week
- Google Business Profile fixed — often brings in more calls than the site itself
- 1–2 written pages or posts a month, you approve each one
- Weekly ranking watch — drops get caught and fixed
- One-page monthly report in plain English
- Cancel any month, no contract
AI Search + Local SEO
$750/month
Be the business AI assistants recommend — and keep everything in Local SEO.
- ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini allowed to read your site — most block one by accident
- Every training opt-out explained before anything changes — Gemini's is your call, not ours
- Your main pages rewritten so those assistants can quote you
- Hidden labels added that tell them your name, what you do and where you are
- A plain-text summary file for the assistants that look for one, kept current
- A monthly check of whether Perplexity names you, with screenshots
What we'll put in writing
We can't guarantee a ranking. Nobody can. Here's what we can guarantee.
Anyone promising you position one is either lying or about to do something that gets your site penalised. These are the promises we'll actually hold to.
- Your audit lands in 48 hours.
- Not a six-week onboarding. Two days after you give us access, you have the list.
- Nothing worth fixing? It's free.
- If the audit comes back clean, you owe us nothing and we'll tell you so.
- Fixes, not a PDF.
- Work goes live on your actual site within 1 week — with a snapshot taken before every change.
- You approve every change.
- Nothing gets published in your name that you haven't read first.
- Cancel any month.
- No contract, no minimum term, no cancellation call to sit through.
No pitch deck, no account manager
Book 20 minutes. We'll go through your site together.
We'll share our screen and walk you through what's broken on your site, what it's costing, and what we'd fix first. If there's nothing worth fixing, we'll tell you that instead.
Neither one fits?
Tell us what you actually need.
Two plans can't cover every business, and we'd rather build what people ask for than guess. If you need a different scope, a different price, or something that isn't on this page at all — write it here. It comes straight to a real inbox, and every one gets read.
Questions owners actually ask.
How long before I see results?
The audit lands in 48 hours. Fixes go live within 1 week. Google needs 4–6 weeks to recrawl and re-rank after that, new pages start ranking around month 2–4, and it usually compounds into steady calls from Google around month 4–6. A flat month right after a batch of fixes is normal, not a warning sign.
What is AI search visibility, and do I need it?
More people now ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity AI for a recommendation instead of scrolling Google. Those tools can only name businesses whose sites they're allowed to read and can quote. Most Calgary sites block them by accident. If you want to be in those answers, that's what the AI Search tier does — and it reports honestly on whether it's working yet.
Do you lock me into a contract?
No. Cancel any month, no notice period, no exit call. If the work isn't worth $500 to you, you shouldn't be paying it.
Will you make changes to my site without asking?
You see the plan before anything goes live, and a snapshot is taken before each change so it can be reversed. Small safe fixes like a page title can be pre-approved if you'd rather not review every one.
Can you guarantee I'll rank number one?
No, and you should walk away from anyone who does. Google doesn't sell that and can't be made to. What we guarantee is on this page: the audit in 48 hours, fixes live in week one, honest reporting, and cancel anytime.
Do you only work with businesses in Calgary?
Calgary and the surrounding area. Local search is won on things like your Google Business Profile, local citations and being a real business nearby — we'd rather know one market than serve everyone.