AI Search Optimization: Get Named When People Ask ChatGPT Who to Call

AI search optimization is how your business gets named when people ask ChatGPT or Google's AI who to call. More people skip the list of links and just ask. "Who's a reliable roofer near me who can come this week?" "Which dentist nearby takes new patients on Saturdays?" The answer names two or three businesses. If you're not one of them, you never got the chance to quote.

We make sure the places those answers read from say clearly who you are, what you do, where you work, and why people trust you.

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What owners ask us about AI

  • “A customer told me ChatGPT recommended my competitor.”

    It happens more every month. The answer didn't come from nowhere: it came from that competitor's website, listing and reviews. Yours can say more.

  • “Someone called selling me ‘AI rankings’. Is that real?”

    Nobody can sell you a guaranteed spot in an AI answer. What you can do is make your business the easiest one to recommend. That's the honest version of this work.

  • “Is SEO dead now?”

    No. The answers lean heavily on the same pages, listings and reviews Google already trusts. Good SEO is most of the work.

How AI answers pick which businesses to name

Nobody outside those companies knows the exact recipe, and anyone who says they do is guessing. But you can see what the answers lean on, because they often show their sources:

Your website
Pages that say plainly what you do, where, for whom, and roughly what it costs.
Your Google listing
Your category, services, hours, towns and photos.
Your reviews
How many, how recent, and what they say. A review that mentions "furnace replacement in Oshawa" tells the answer more than "great service!"
Other sites
Local news, associations, directories and the "who should I hire" lists people write.

They also favour businesses whose details agree everywhere. If your website says one phone number, your listing another and a directory a third, you look less certain, and a less certain business is harder to recommend.

What AI search optimization covers

  • A check of where you stand

    We ask ChatGPT, Google's AI and other assistants the questions your customers ask, in your towns, and write down who gets named. Then we do it again every month.

  • Pages that answer the question

    One page per service, with the details people ask about: price ranges, how long it takes, areas served, hours, what happens on the first visit. Written so a person and a machine can both pull the answer out in one read.

  • Facts worth quoting

    Your licences and certifications, years in business, warranties and guarantees you actually offer, on every page we build.

  • Your details, the same everywhere

    Name, address, phone, hours and services, matched across your website, your Google listing and the directories that matter.

  • Reviews that say something

    A review request after every job, worded so customers mention the service and the town. More in review management.

  • Mentions on sites people trust

    Local news, suppliers, associations and community pages that talk about your work.

  • A plain monthly note

    Which questions name you now, which ones don't yet, and what we're doing about it.

Part of getting found

Showing up in AI answers is one piece of how we make you the business people find when they need you. It isn't a separate trick. It rides on two things we already do:

If those two are weak, no amount of AI work will fix it. If they're strong, you're most of the way there.

By trade and business

Where we work

We work with businesses across Canada and the US. In Toronto, the same work sits inside SEO Toronto and Local SEO Toronto. Elsewhere, see all the cities we serve.

What we can show you today

We don't publish a before-and-after number for AI answers yet. The answers change from one day to the next, and we won't put a figure on this page that we can't stand behind. to be confirmed

The Ultimate Security website on a laptop, tablet and phone. The Toronto guard company's standing in Google search is the groundwork that optimization for AI answers builds on

What we can show is the groundwork. Ultimate Security, a Toronto guard company, shows up first on Google for "security guard services Toronto" starting point to come. That's the kind of standing AI answers draw on.

Read the Ultimate Security story

Results depend on your market, your budget and how fast you answer the phone.

What it costs

It isn't sold on its own. It's part of the search work in our plans: $1,500, $3,000 or $5,000 a month, month to month, depending on how many services and towns you want to show up for.

See what each plan includes

Questions about showing up in AI answers

Something else on your mind? Call (647) 254-0850 and ask.

Yes. ChatGPT and Google's AI pull from the websites, listings and reviews that Google already trusts. If anything, a business with good SEO now gets two chances: the regular results and the AI answer.

No. Nobody can, and you should walk away from anyone who says otherwise. We make your business the clearest, most consistent and most reviewed answer in your area, and we show you every month whether it's being named.

Ask it the way a customer would, with your town in the question: "Who's a good electrician in Burlington for a panel upgrade?" Try a few versions, and try Google too. If you're not named, the free check-up shows you why.

Months, like SEO. The pages and listing fixes go in early, but the answers update on their own schedule. Reviews and mentions build over time.

If your SEO is solid, you're most of the way there. The extra work is in the details: pages that answer questions directly, facts AI can quote, and checking what the answers actually say about you.

Book a call about showing up in AI answers

Thirty minutes. We'll ask ChatGPT and Google the questions your customers ask, look at who gets named, and tell you what it would take to be one of them.

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Preston MartellyFounder of JavaLogix