AISEOinCanada:AIO,AEO&GEOforChatGPT,Gemini,Claude&Perplexity
Be the first answer LLMs give. Optimization for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity - engineered for Canadian brands and enterprises.
- ChatGPT · Gemini · Claude · Perplexity
- Google AI Overviews
- Bilingual EN/FR
- Made in Canada 🇨🇦
Trusted by
120+
Canadian brands, from Fortune-class enterprises to fast-growing SMEs.
Search is being rebuilt around large language models. Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews for recommendations - and in most Canadian categories, only 3–5 brands get named. Banff Digital's AI SEO program (AIO - AI Optimization, AEO - Answer Engine Optimization, GEO - Generative Engine Optimization) is engineered to make your brand one of those named answers, cited, linked, and trusted by the models that now stand between you and your next customer.
Why Banff Digital
Senior craft. Canadian fluency. Measurable outcomes.
Built for the LLM era
Structured content, entity SEO and citation engineering aimed at the models buyers now ask first.
Cross-engine coverage
Optimized for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews - not just one.
Canadian entity graph
We build your brand as a recognized entity across Wikipedia, Wikidata, industry sources and Google Knowledge Graph.
AEO answer design
Question-first content, schema and passage optimization that LLMs quote verbatim.
Measurable AI visibility
Prompt-based tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini with monthly share-of-answer reporting.
Senior strategist
A 10+ year SEO lead runs your program - not a junior with a checklist.
Problems we solve
The costs of getting this wrong.
Our solution
We run a 4-phase AI SEO program: (1) AI Visibility Audit across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews for the prompts your buyers actually use. (2) Entity & Knowledge Graph engineering - Wikipedia, Wikidata, schema, sameAs, and authoritative citations. (3) AEO/GEO content rebuild - question-first pages, passage optimization, FAQ/HowTo/Article schema and llms.txt. (4) Ongoing share-of-answer monitoring and iteration until your brand is one of the 3–5 names LLMs recommend in your category, in both English and French Canada.
- 01
Invisible in ChatGPT answers
Buyers ask ChatGPT for the best provider in your category and your brand never gets mentioned.
- 02
Missing from AI Overviews
Google's AI Overview cites 3–4 competitors above the fold; your site isn't one of them.
- 03
No Perplexity citations
Perplexity, Claude and Gemini pull answers from a shortlist of sources - and yours isn't on it.
- 04
Weak entity footprint
No Wikipedia, thin Wikidata, no Knowledge Panel - LLMs can't confidently identify who you are.
- 05
Content LLMs can't quote
Long-winded pages with no clean answers, no structured data, and no passage-ready blocks.
- 06
Traffic loss to zero-click AI
AI Overviews and chat answers are absorbing clicks your traditional SEO used to earn.
Get a free ai seo · aio / aeo / geo audit for your business.
A senior Banff Digital partner will personally review your current ai seo · aio / aeo / geo, benchmark you against Canadian category leaders, and send a written opportunity report - in 3 business days.
- 12-point technical & strategic audit
- Competitor benchmark (top 3 in your market)
- Prioritised 90-day action plan
- ROI & investment estimate
Trusted by Canadian brands from Banff to Bay Street · PIPEDA & CASL aligned
What's included
A complete ai seo · aio / aeo / geo program - engineered end to end.
AI Visibility Audit
Prompt matrix across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to baseline share-of-answer for your category.
AIO Strategy
AI Optimization roadmap covering entity, content, schema and citation targets across every relevant engine.
AEO Content Design
Question-first pages, TL;DR blocks, definition boxes and passage-optimized content LLMs quote verbatim.
GEO Engineering
Generative Engine Optimization: llms.txt, structured data, semantic HTML and content chunks tuned for retrieval.
Entity SEO
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Google Knowledge Panel, sameAs graph and Crunchbase entries that anchor your brand.
Schema & Structured Data
Organization, Person, Product, Service, FAQPage, HowTo, Article, Breadcrumb and industry schema at scale.
Digital PR for Citations
Placements in the Canadian publications, associations and datasets LLMs are trained on and retrieve from.
AI Answer Tracking
Monthly prompt-based rank tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews - not just Google SERPs.
llms.txt & AI Access
llms.txt authoring, robots policy for AI crawlers (GPTBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot) and content licensing decisions.
Bilingual AEO (EN/FR)
French-language answer engineering for Québec-market prompts across every major LLM.
Reputation & Reviews
Third-party review, G2, Clutch, Trustpilot and industry-directory hygiene that LLMs weigh heavily.
Reporting & Executive Reviews
Share-of-answer dashboards, prompt movement, and quarterly board-ready executive reviews.
Our Process
Seven steps from brief to compounding growth.
- 1
Step 01
Prompt Discovery
We map the 100–300 buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude that decide your category.
- 2
Step 02
Baseline
Share-of-answer baseline across every engine and every prompt - in English and French where relevant.
- 3
Step 03
Entity Build
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph, schema and sameAs graph engineered in the first 60 days.
- 4
Step 04
AEO Content
Question-first rewrites, TL;DR blocks, definition passages and citation-friendly pages on your priority topics.
- 5
Step 05
GEO Signals
llms.txt, structured data, semantic HTML and retrieval-friendly chunking across the site.
- 6
Step 06
Authority
Digital PR and dataset placements in the Canadian sources LLMs cite - associations, journals, journalists.
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Step 07
Measure & Iterate
Monthly share-of-answer tracking with iteration until you own the answer in your category.
Technologies
Best-in-class tools. Right stack per client.
Industries we serve
From regulated to retail - Canadian buyers across every sector.
Benefits
Outcomes our clients feel in the P&L.
Named in AI answers
Become one of the 3–5 brands LLMs recommend in your Canadian category.
AI Overviews citations
Earn citations in Google's AI Overviews above the traditional blue links.
Zero-click resilience
Convert AI-answer visibility into brand recall, direct traffic and demo requests.
Compounding entity equity
A strong entity graph pays back across every future model release.
Executive credibility
Founder and executive prompts return your team as the expert reference.
Bilingual answer share
Own the answer in French Canada as well as English Canada.
Case Studies
Proof, not promises.
Ridgeline Wealth
Nordic Health Group
Aurora AI Robotics
Testimonials
Canadian leaders on working with us.
"Banff Digital rebuilt our digital presence from the ground up. Every metric we care about - traffic, leads, close rate - moved in the right direction within a single quarter."
Priya Sandhu
VP Marketing · Rocky Mountain Wealth · Calgary
"A senior team from day one. No juniors, no hand-offs, no surprises. The final launch was the smoothest of my career."
Marc Tremblay
CEO · Laurentide Capital · Montréal
"They understand the Canadian market - bilingual audiences, PIPEDA, AODA - and they engineer for it. Rare combination."
Alicia Chen
Head of Digital · Pacific Standard Group · Vancouver
Pricing
Transparent engagements. No surprises.
Baseline
From $3,900 CAD / mo
For challenger brands establishing AI visibility in their category.
- 50 tracked prompts
- Entity + schema build
- 2 AEO pages / mo
- Monthly share-of-answer report
Growth
From $7,900 CAD / mo
For established brands competing to be the named answer.
- 150 tracked prompts
- Wikipedia + Wikidata work
- 6 AEO pages / mo
- Digital PR retainer
- Bilingual coverage
Category Leader
From $14,500 CAD / mo
For enterprises intent on owning the answer in their category.
- 300+ tracked prompts
- Full GEO engineering
- Executive Person schema
- Weekly working sessions
- Quarterly board reporting
Custom
Let's talk
For one-time GEO rebuilds, migrations and enterprise programs.
- Scoped to your ambition
Comparison
Banff Digital vs typical agencies.
| Attribute | Banff Digital | Typical Agency |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | AIO + AEO + GEO across every major LLM | Traditional SEO only |
| Tracking | Prompt-based share-of-answer | Keyword rank only |
| Entity work | Wikipedia, Wikidata, Knowledge Panel | Not offered |
| Content | AEO passages LLMs quote verbatim | Long-form articles only |
| Structured data | GEO schema + llms.txt | Basic Article schema |
| Canadian focus | EN + FR, Canadian sources | US-import playbook |
| Reporting | Share-of-answer dashboards | Keyword PDF |
The long view
A deeper look at ai seo · aio / aeo / geo in Canada.
Search is becoming a shortlist, not a ranking
Traditional Google gave every buyer a page of 10 blue links to choose from. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google's AI Overviews give them 3–5 names, one paragraph, and a decision. In every Canadian category we track, the brands named in that shortlist capture a disproportionate share of demos, calls and revenue - and the brands that are not named effectively cease to exist for the buyer using AI.
Why entity SEO now matters more than links
LLMs identify brands as entities, not URLs. Whether a model recommends you depends on whether it has confidently learned who you are - from Wikipedia, Wikidata, schema, industry associations, journalists, review sites and datasets - and whether those sources agree on the facts. Entity SEO is the discipline of engineering that agreement across the sources LLMs are trained on and retrieve from.
GEO is the technical layer AI SEO runs on
Generative Engine Optimization covers the technical signals models use during retrieval: clean semantic HTML, passage-level chunking, comprehensive schema (Organization, Product, Person, FAQPage, HowTo), an llms.txt that describes your site, and a robots policy that consciously allows or blocks each AI crawler. Done well, GEO is what makes your content easy for a generative engine to select, quote and cite - which is what actually earns you AI visibility.
AI SEO in Canada is a bilingual, Canadian-sources game
Canadian buyers ask LLMs in English and in French, and reference Canadian publications, associations and datasets. A US-import AI SEO playbook that ignores Radio-Canada, La Presse, Les Affaires, the Globe and Mail, the CBA, CPA Canada, provincial regulators and Canadian industry bodies will systematically underperform. Every AI SEO program we run for Canadian clients is designed around Canadian sources - and, where the buyer market demands it, in both official languages.
FAQ
Answers to what clients ask most.
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AI SEO · AIO / AEO / GEO services across Canada.
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