Your next customer just called someone else.
They searched for exactly what you sell, got three names, and yours was not one of them. That is the whole loss, and it happened this morning.
- 0
- enquiries delivered, all from unpaid search
- 0
- of them in the last thirty days
- 0
- dollars of advertising behind any number on this page
If you are not in the top three, you are not in the running.
Someone in your area needs what you sell today. Three things decide whether they call you or the business down the road.
They call from the map, not your website
A customer with an urgent problem opens Maps, types it, and calls one of the first three results. No comparison, no second tab. If you are fourth, you were never considered.
Increasingly they never search at all
They ask ChatGPT or Copilot who to call and act on the name they get back. There is no ad auction to buy your way into that answer. You are either the business it names, or you are invisible.
The moment you stop paying, ads stop
Advertising rents you attention by the click. Search compounds: the page that brought a customer this month brings more next month, and it keeps working after the budget stops.
Search has three front doors now
SEO got you ranked. AEO makes you the answer. GEO gets you named by the AI.
Most agencies still sell you the first one and call it a strategy. A customer looking for you today might never see a list of links. They read an answer, or they ask an assistant. You have to win all three, and they are not the same job.
Where do I rank when someone searches?
The original discipline, and still the foundation: the ten blue links and the three businesses in the map pack. Get this wrong and nothing else works, because the engines that answer questions are reading the same pages.
CoreVal sits in the top four in BC for a question the whole province asks.
Am I the answer, or just a link?
Google now answers the question on the results page itself. Being the source it quotes means structuring pages so a machine can lift a clean, complete answer: the right schema, a direct answer in the opening lines, no hedging.
It is why our pages open with the answer instead of an introduction.
Does ChatGPT name my business?
When someone asks an assistant who to call, it names businesses it can read, verify and trust. There is no auction here. You cannot buy the recommendation. You earn it with citable pages, consistent business data and a review profile the model can weigh.
Five of Aesthetic Tree's enquiries came from ChatGPT and Copilot.
Six things happen whether or not you think about us.
You approve what carries your name, and you answer the phone. That is the whole of your involvement.
Your Google Business Profile, worked weekly
Posts, photos, Q&A and review replies every week. This is the asset that decides whether you appear in the top three of Maps, and for most local businesses it is worth more than the website.
Pages built for what people actually search
We pull the real queries in your area and build the service and location pages that answer them. Not blog filler. The pages that catch someone ready to buy.
Articles published on a fixed cadence
Researched, written, quality-checked and published to your site on schedule. You approve; you never write.
Written to be the answer AI gives
When someone asks ChatGPT or Copilot who to call, the machine names businesses whose pages it can read and trust. We build for that, and it is already sending our clients customers.
Technical SEO and schema, handled
Site speed, canonicals, sitemaps, structured data, indexing. The invisible work that decides whether any of the above counts.
Every enquiry counted and reported
Enquiries land in a tracked table, not an inbox nobody audits. One monthly report you can read in two minutes, and a straight answer when a month is soft.
Four businesses. Every number checkable.
Enquiry counts from our own lead tracking, rankings from Google Search Console, ratings straight from each client's public Google profile, current to 24 August 2026. Click any rating and check it yourself.
Paediatric therapy · Burnaby, BC
4.8 ★ · 23 Google reviewsKidStart Pediatric Therapy
220
families came looking. Zero dollars of ad spend.
220 tracked enquiries since 15 April 2026. 155 came from organic search, 32 from the Google Business Profile, seven direct, three by referral. No paid advertising on any of the channels that produced them.
At British Columbia's published private rate of $140 to $175 an hour, one child in weekly therapy is worth $7,280 to $9,100 a year , and courses here run for years, not weeks. Do the arithmetic on 220.
Rate from the CAOT National Fee Schedule, revised January 2026, BC clinical rate. It is a published market rate, not the clinic's pricing. How many of the 220 became clients is theirs to know. I will not model a close rate and print it beside their name.
Every month has beaten the one before it: 29, 43, 48, 64. That is what compounding looks like, and it is why search keeps paying long after an ad budget stops. Expect three to six months before the curve does anything interesting. Anyone promising you week two is selling ads and calling it SEO.
Enquiries per month, from the live lead table
August is still running, so that bar is a part-month, not a decline.
“I found the KidStart team through ChatGPT and I decided to give them a try (I also read very well reviews from Google) and I want to say I made the right choice by choosing them.”
“Our son is attending TILP sessions for 4 months now and we've seen an excellent progress with his sensory regulation and behavioral development! My family is grateful to the whole team.”
“They have instilled in me a sense of trust and confidence in their ability to provide top-notch intervention for my son. His progress has been remarkable. He consistently surprises me with his accomplishments.”
Arborist and tree care · Metro Vancouver
5.0 ★ · 134 Google reviewsAesthetic Tree & Hedge Services
5.0★
across 134 Google reviews, and five customers never used Google at all.
100 enquiries from unpaid channels: 43 straight off the Google Business Profile, 29 organic, 18 direct, five by referral. Five more were referred by ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot. Paid advertising leads are tracked separately and are excluded from every figure here.
Five customers didn't Google them. They asked ChatGPT who to call, and got this name.
That is the whole game changing in front of us. The businesses the machine names are the ones whose pages it can read, whose reviews it can weigh, and whose answers it can trust. Everyone else becomes invisible in one product cycle, and there is no ad auction to buy your way back in.
A perfect five across 134 reviews is not luck either. It is the asset that decides the map pack, and it is worked every week, posts, photos, questions, replies.
“Yaniv turned our hedge into a manicured masterpiece, including a particularly rebellious laurel. He arrived on time and completed work as estimated and on budget.”
“Yaniv and his partner did a fantastic job helping us with a tree in our backyard that suddenly collapsed, even though we called on such short notice. Prices are very fair for the work they put in.”
“I rarely get online to give feedback about a business, but Yaniv is a solid, outstanding professional and I recommend his services. He has earned my trust.”
Custom home builder · Fraser Valley, BC
4.9 ★ · 58 Google reviewsCoreVal Homes
Top 4
in the province for “how much does it cost to build a house in BC”.
Position 3.7 for that query over the last 90 days, plus 3.8 for “cost to build a house in bc” and 4.2 on close variants. Google Search Console, 25 May to 22 August 2026. Not a branded search. Nobody typing it had heard of the builder.
268,802 impressions and 1,602 clicks in ninety days, up from 1,237 the quarter before.
This is the hardest kind of ranking to win and the most valuable to own: the question the entire province asks before it has chosen anyone. The people reading that answer are at the very start of a build, the moment a builder gets picked.
A custom home is a six or seven-figure project. You do not need many of these.
“The boys at CoreVal did an amazing job with our renovation, a 1946 home with some major issues. We wanted to minimize the time between move out and move in, and the team got our house ready for us in less than 8 weeks.”
“The company provided cost options and came in under their original budget, making the project come in at my target amount. Much appreciated their prompt and excellent service.”
“CoreVal did a complete transformation of my basement suite top to bottom. They did an amazing job with the design of the kitchen and making best use of the space. I've been living here 10 months and I have no complaints.”
Dental practice · New York City
4.9 ★ · 235 Google reviewsCentre Dental / John Shi DDS
0 → 752
clicks from Google in a single quarter, starting from nothing.
752 clicks and 107,089 impressions between 25 May and 22 August 2026, against exactly zero in the ninety days before. Position 1.0 for “john shi dds” and 1.3 for 中央牙科. Google Search Console.
From invisible to 107,089 impressions in one quarter, in Manhattan, one of the most contested dental markets on earth.
They rank at the top in English and in Chinese. That second audience is one most practices on the same street never appear for at all, because nobody built them the pages to do it.
If it can be done from a standing start in New York, it can be done in your city.
“He explained the procedure clearly, answered all of my questions, and made sure I felt comfortable before starting. The extraction was quick, and I experienced very little discomfort afterward.”
“As a person who typically fears dental offices, I had a very good experience. The procedure was painless despite my terribly impacted teeth, and the doctors know what they are doing.”
“Super fast wisdom teeth removal. Dr. Shi is really professional and gave great advice on daily teeth care. Thanks!”
Four businesses, four industries, two countries. The mechanics do not change.
Get your free visibility auditWhat is one enquiry a day worth to you?
One a day is 365 a year. Win a modest third and that is roughly 120 new customers, every one of whom keeps buying for as long as you keep them happy. That is where the money in search lives: not in the first job, in the lifetime after it.
I will not put a revenue figure beside your name that I cannot see. You know what a customer is worth to you. Put your own numbers in.
For scale: 1.6 a day is what our best-performing client received over the last thirty days - 49 enquiries, counted one by one. Most clients see fewer, and nobody sees it in month one; search takes three to six months to build. Drag it to whatever you actually believe.
Your projection
$438,000
in gross lifetime value, from the 175 customers a year those enquiries would win you, before what it costs you to deliver the work
- Revenue-to-fee ratio (gross, not profit)
- 24.3x
- Our fee as a share of that gross
- 4.1%
- Enquiries a year
- 584
Illustrative only. This is arithmetic on numbers you entered. Not a forecast, and not a guarantee of results.
Talk to me about your numbersThe system behind it
We did not hire a team to do this. We built a machine, then hired a person to be accountable for it.
This is the part most agencies cannot match, because they are selling you hours. The volume of work behind 336 enquiries (the research, the writing, the profile posts, the technical checks, the reporting) runs on software we wrote and own. That is why a Burnaby clinic gets a month of output without writing a word, and why the numbers on this page are counted rather than estimated.
It watches demand, weekly
Real search data for your area is pulled on a schedule and turned into a ranked queue of what to build next. Nobody sits in a room guessing what your customers might type.
It writes, checks, and publishes itself
Drafts go through automated quality gates before a human ever sees them: fact checks, originality, structure, keyword placement, image quality. Anything that fails is rewritten, not published.
It refuses to publish a claim it cannot source
The same gate that keeps invented statistics off your website is the reason every number on this page carries its source. If it cannot be verified, it does not ship.
It treats silence as failure
Each moving part reports a heartbeat. If something stops running it raises an alarm rather than quietly producing nothing, which is how most agencies lose a month without noticing.
It counts every enquiry, automatically
Enquiries are captured, attributed to the channel that produced them, and reported. That is why we can tell you 43 of your enquiries came off your Google profile rather than guessing.
A human owns every outcome
Approvals, judgement calls and repairs are a person's job, and that person is accountable when a pipeline breaks. The machine does the volume; the human carries the responsibility.
Three steps, and the first one is free.
Free visibility audit
Tell me what you sell and where. I pull what people in your area are actually searching for, where you rank against your competitors, and whether AI assistants name you at all. You get the findings whether or not you hire me.
We fix the foundations
Google profile, the pages that matter, the technical work. This is the first sixty days, and it is where the compounding starts.
It runs, and you count enquiries
Publishing and profile work continue on schedule. You approve what carries your name. Expect three to six months before the curve turns. Anyone promising week two is selling ads and calling it SEO.
The questions you are actually asking.
- How much does it cost?
- It depends on how competitive your market is and how much ground there is to make up, which is exactly what the free audit tells us both. What I will say is that the calculator above is the right test: if the arithmetic on your own numbers does not clear the fee comfortably, I will tell you not to do it.
- How long before I see anything?
- Three to six months before the curve does anything interesting. The Burnaby clinic went 29, 43, 48, 64 enquiries across its first four months. Anyone promising you results in week two is selling ads and calling it SEO.
- Will this work in my industry?
- It has worked for paediatric therapy, tree care, custom home building and dentistry, in two countries and two languages. The mechanics are the same everywhere: what changes is which questions your customers type, and the audit finds those before you commit.
- What if it does not work?
- The audit is free and it happens before you spend anything. If the search demand in your area is too thin to be worth the money, I will say so in that audit. I would rather lose the sale than take a retainer I cannot justify.
- How is this different from the agency emailing me every week?
- They will report rankings and impressions. This page reports enquiries, and names the ones it excludes and why. If an agency cannot tell you how many actual customers reached you last month, they are measuring their own work instead of your result.
- How much of my time does it take?
- Approvals. Anything carrying your name comes to you before it goes live, and you say yes or no. The research, writing, publishing, profile work and reporting are ours.
Costs you one email, and you get the findings either way.
What it is like to work with us
5.0 ★ · 15 Google reviewsA perfect five, from the people who hired us.
Everything above is what we did for our clients. This is what our clients say about us.
“Frank's free initial consultation was thorough and insightful. Our website's visibility and traffic have significantly improved. Highly recommend their expert services!”
“It's clear that Frank prioritizes community and connection in his work; he has been very generous in sharing his knowledge and time to ensure we get the best results for my business. It's also clear that he knows his stuff!”
“Working with Frank and his team is a great experience. They went above and beyond and exceeded all my expectations with my website and SEO!”
“Their website re-creation and tailored SEO strategy significantly boosted my online presence. The team's attention to detail, transparent communication, and commitment to their work totally exceeded my expectation.”
“We are amazed with how easy he is to work with and has great communication! We can't thank Zealous Digital Solutions enough for their work and ambition.”
“The solutions provided were spot on, and the education shared proved to be quite valuable for me to understand how to make everything come together. Thanks for all your hard work!”
Tell me what you sell, and where.
I will show you what people in your area are already searching for, where you sit against your competitors, and whether AI assistants name you at all. If there is not enough demand to be worth your money, I will say so, and that answer costs you one email.
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If a business you rate is invisible in search, tell me about them. I reach out personally, not a sequence and not a mailing list, and I will let you know if it goes anywhere.
I only ever contact a business at a publicly listed business address, I will say who referred them if you are happy for me to, and every message carries my details and a way to tell me to stop.