Answer Engine Optimisation — the work that makes AI assistants name your business when Canadians ask them who to hire. Built specifically for the St. John's market and benchmarked against the local businesses currently beating you.
We test the real prompts St. John's buyers use — service plus city — and track which businesses the assistants name. Newfoundland's capital and commercial hub, with a tight-knit business community and almost no local SEO competition.
St. John's is one of the least contested search markets in Canada — consistent basics win here quickly. With around 115,000 residents and an economy weighted toward offshore energy, fishing and marine, tourism, a St. John's campaign needs different targeting, language and budget weighting than the same campaign would in another province — which is exactly why national templates underperform here.
A growing share of Canadian buyers no longer scroll ten blue links. They ask an assistant: who is the best roofer in Mississauga, which accounting firm should a small business in Calgary use — and they act on the three names that come back. If you are not one of them, you were never in the running.
2026 in Canada: Canadian AI assistant usage is climbing fast while almost no local competitors optimise for it — the cheapest visibility available right now.
From $990 CAD/month. No lock-in after 90 days.
Free St. John's auditEvery item below is delivered and reported monthly — you can see exactly what your fee bought.
We query ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot with the prompts your buyers actually use, and record who gets named — including you and your competitors.
Consistent, machine-readable facts about your business — schema, Wikidata-style entity signals, profile consistency — so the models know exactly what you are and where.
Pages structured so a model can lift a clean, attributable answer: direct definitions, comparison tables, specifications, pricing ranges, FAQs.
Being named in listicles, directories, forums and reviews that these systems read. AI answers are heavily influenced by what other sites say about you.
Correct robots and AI-crawler configuration so the models that should read your site can, and the ones you don't want are blocked.
A share-of-voice report across engines showing where you gained or lost mentions, and the prompts to work on next.
We treat St. John's as a set of distinct micro-markets, not one target. Your visibility in one area rarely matches another, and averaging them hides the problem.
AI Search (AEO) starts at $990 CAD per month with us, scoped to how competitive St. John's is for your category. St. John's is one of the least contested search markets in Canada — consistent basics win here quickly. We quote in writing before anything begins.
Yes — including Downtown, Mount Pearl, Paradise, Torbay and Conception Bay South and the surrounding region. Everything runs remotely with the same team on your account throughout.
It is if your buyers are researching before they call — and increasingly they are. The advantage is that very few Canadian competitors are working on it, so the entry cost today is a fraction of what SEO costs in an established market.
Strong SEO helps, but it is not sufficient. Answer engines synthesise across sources, so what third parties say about you, how consistently your facts appear, and whether your content can be quoted cleanly matter as much as your own rankings.
Send your website and three St. John's competitors. You'll get a written report on where you stand and what to fix first — within two business days, at no cost.