Your ads keep spending.
Your phone stays quiet.
Higher budget. New keywords. A new agency. The dashboard fills with clicks. The calls don’t come. The fix usually isn’t spending more. It’s rebuilding the math behind the targeting, the landing page, and the follow-up.
Local SEO. AI-search visibility. Google Ads. Meta. TikTok. One partner. Every campaign with the cost per customer and return per dollar shown before you spend.
Four pillars. One operating system.
Most agencies sell one channel and tell you to figure out the rest. We run all four together, with the same math, the same reporting, and the same accountability.
Get found when someone searches for your service in your neighbourhood, and when AI tools like ChatGPT recommend a local business.
- ·Google Business Profile audit and cleanup (post-March-2026 compliant)
- ·Local citation consistency and review strategy
- ·Schema, structured data, on-page local signals
- ·Geo-grid rank tracking. See where you actually rank vs. where you assume you do
When customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Google's AI Overviews for the best service in town, your business should be in the answer.
- ·Content built for AI engines, not just Google's blue links
- ·Structured data and entity optimization
- ·Citation strategy: how to be the source AI tools quote
- ·AI-search visibility tracking across the major engines
Every campaign with the math shown (cost per customer, return per dollar, payback time) before a single dollar moves.
- ·Account audit and quality score recovery
- ·Search, Performance Max, and remarketing strategy
- ·Landing page conversion tracking and CRO
- ·Weekly transparent reporting. No black-box dashboards
Push marketing that creates demand among your ideal customers, not just chases the ones already searching.
- ·Audience modeling, lookalikes, and creative strategy
- ·Facebook + Instagram + TikTok unified reporting
- ·Video-first creative production aligned to platform
- ·Attribution that connects social spend to real revenue
Google ran two algorithm updates in March 2026 (a spam update and a core update) and launched Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational layer in Google Maps (currently US & India only; Canadian rollout pending). AI local-search usage jumped from 6% of consumers in 2025 to 45% in 2026.
Practical fallout for Vancouver SMBs: keyword-stuffed Google Business Profile names are now a suspension risk. The map pack now rewards real activity (photo views, review reads) over brand size. AI Overviews, Lens in Maps, and Gemini voice in Maps are live in Canada now. ChatGPT and Gemini read the same GBP data Google uses, so the prep work pays off today.
read the full march 2026 brief on the FAQAudit. Understand. Plan. Execute.
The same four steps on every engagement. No surprises, no scope creep, no vague promises. Each step earns the next.
We audit what's actually there.
what we do
Search visibility, ad-spend efficiency, conversion paths, AI-search exposure, the leaks a busy operator can't see from inside the business.
what you get
A written audit (12 to 20 pages), a 15-minute Loom walkthrough, and a prioritized list of what's leaking and what's working.
timeline
7 business days
We understand how you actually run.
what we do
How leads come in. Who closes them. What a good week looks like. What's wasted. What you've already tried.
what you get
A short business map (2 to 4 pages) showing where AI and digital actually move the needle for your business.
timeline
Week 2
We plan the smallest version that works.
what we do
Three or four prioritized campaigns or fixes, in the order to do them in. Named milestones, KPIs, what we'll handle vs. what stays with you.
what you get
A plan you can read in 20 minutes. A signed engagement document. A budget you can defend.
timeline
Week 3
We execute, in public.
what we do
Build, launch, measure. Weekly cadence. Shared dashboard. Ad accounts and analytics ownership transferred to you on day one.
what you get
Working campaigns. Numbers you can verify yourself. A system your team can run without us.
timeline
4 to 12 weeks, scope-dependent
When this works, and when it doesn’t.
We don’t take every client who asks. The audit is free; the engagement isn’t. Better to know now whether the fit is real.
- ✓Established Vancouver/BC business with 3+ years in operation.
- ✓Already running ads or SEO with at least $1K/month in spend, but the math doesn’t add up.
- ✓Want to own the ad accounts, analytics, and reports, not rent them.
- ✓Comfortable with weekly transparent reporting and a 60-minute cadence.
- ·Pre-revenue startups looking for a free strategy session.
- ·Buyers expecting a $500/month all-in-one solution.
- ·Operators who want to skip the audit and start spending immediately.
- ·Anyone hoping a Google Ads agency will fix a broken offer or pricing problem.
Most AI Labs is led by a founder with 30+ years in enterprise technology and go-to-market leadership: multi-country operations, scaled enterprise sales organizations, complex partnership work. Uncommon in the Vancouver agency market, which is dominated by ex-agency marketers and early-career engineers.
Every digital growth engagement is run with that operator’s lens (pipeline, conversion math, payback windows), not with a media-buyer’s lens.
Questions buyers ask before signing
The questions we get on every audit call. If yours isn't here, ask it on the contact page. We answer everything before any work starts.
What is local SEO and why does it matter for Vancouver businesses?
Local SEO is the work of getting your business to show up in Google's Local Pack (the map listings with three businesses at the top of the page) and in 'near me' searches. 46% of all Google searches have local intent, and 42% of searchers click on Local Pack results. For a Vancouver service business, ranking in the Local Pack for your category is the single highest-leverage organic traffic source you have.
How long does SEO take to produce results in 2026?
Three to six months for initial traction, six to twelve months for significant results. The March 2026 core update made recovery slower. Google has confirmed that if you lost rankings, you typically have to wait for the next core update for things to shift again. Anyone promising results in 30 days is selling you paid ad spend, not SEO.
What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)?
GEO is optimization focused on making your business visible inside AI-generated answers: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Claude. Research from Princeton, Georgia Tech, and the Allen Institute for AI shows GEO can lift AI-search visibility by up to 40%, with lower-ranked sites benefiting most. The tactics are different from traditional SEO: direct-answer paragraphs, statistics with citations, named-author attribution, FAQ schema, and being mentioned on the 15 domains that drive most AI citations.
Should I do SEO or Google Ads, or both?
Both. NYU Stern research found running organic SEO and paid Google Ads together increases advertiser profits by at least 6.15% versus either alone. Strong SEO also lowers your Google Ads costs: raising Quality Score from 5 to 8 can cut cost-per-click by ~30%; scores of 8–10 can reduce CPC by up to 50%. The two systems compound when run together.
How does the March 2026 Google update affect my local business?
Probably yes. If your Google Business Profile name was stuffed with keywords like 'Best Vancouver Plumber 24/7,' you're now at higher suspension risk. The local map pack also re-weighted toward real profile activity (photo views, review reads, click-throughs) and away from brand prominence. Sparse profiles lost ground; profiles with real photos and recent activity gained.
Start with the audit.
Not the pitch.
7 business days. A real document. Yours to keep, whether you hire us or not.
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