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Generative Engine Optimization · Toronto, Canada

Get your business cited by ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude.

Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude who to choose. We build the sources and signals those answers rely on, so AI has every reason to recommend you.

Type your website. The phone will recommend you.

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Animated example: a customer asks an AI assistant for a local recommendation, the assistant recommends a business, and a booking arrives. Illustrative example · not a live AI result
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Who’s the best dentist near Liberty Village?

Without Fade Digital

I’d go with [Competitor]. They’re well established and easy to find online.

Not mentioned

With Fade Digital

[Your Business] keeps coming up as the go-to: strong reputation, easy to trust.

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The AI “Dark Funnel” Problem

The shortlist now forms before the visit. A buyer asks an AI who to hire, gets three names, and researches only those. If you’re not one of them, there’s no visit, no lost lead to notice, and nothing in your analytics to say it happened. Read our 2026 guide to AI SEO & GEO.

  • Zero-Click Optimization

    Get named inside the answer itself, so you win the customer who never clicks a link.

  • Knowledge Graph Entrenchment

    Make your business a fact the AI already knows, not a page it might find.

  • Competitor Displacement

    Take the recommendation slot a rival currently holds for the searches that bring you customers.

How AI visibility works

Getting cited isn’t enough. Getting recommended is.

SEO asks whether you rank. Most GEO stops at whether AI cites you. The question that decides revenue is whether AI recommends you when a buyer asks who to choose.

  1. Discovered

    You appear for the questions your buyers actually ask.

  2. Cited

    AI systems use your content, and trusted sources about you, as evidence.

  3. Mentioned

    Your brand is named inside the answer, not just linked beneath it.

  4. Recommended

    AI puts you on the shortlist when buyers ask what to choose.

  5. Measured

    Visibility, citations, recommendations, share against competitors, and leads.

In one analysis of roughly 9 million AI answers, 82% of citations on commercial queries went to third-party sources and 3% to brands’ own sites. Why that changes GEO →

Strategic Framework

Own Every Stage of AI-Driven Search

Lorne Fade, Founder of Fade Digital

“After 20 years studying search algorithms, this is the biggest shift since mobile-first indexing, where AI chooses winners instead of blue links.”

Lorne Fade — Founder & CEO, Fade Digital
Map the Ecosystem

Buyers cross-check everything across AI engines, social networks, and video platforms. We unify your presence — built on the knowledge graph foundation AI engines need to recognize you — so your brand shows up consistently everywhere a decision is made.

  • ChatGPT & Perplexity where high-intent research begins
  • Google AI Mode & Copilot where fast answers form first impressions
  • YouTube where claims get visually verified
  • LinkedIn where authority is judged
  • Reddit where sentiment becomes social proof

Conversational Intent

We map the exact questions buyers ask AI — then target the intent behind them. Instead of “dentist,” you show up for questions like “best Invisalign dentist in Etobicoke.”

Topic Clusters

We build structured content ecosystems that signal expertise to AI engines — pillar pages, video series, and industry forums working together to reinforce authority.

Signal Authority

We strengthen your brand as a “trusted source” inside the datasets AI systems rely on — Google Business Profile, Reddit, review platforms, and the health and legal directories AI systems trust.

Our Methodology

01

Analyze

We audit how LLMs currently perceive your brand entities and sentiment across every major AI engine.

  • Full visibility audit across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude & Perplexity
  • Entity accuracy & sentiment analysis
  • Competitor benchmarking & citation gap report
02

Optimize

We restructure your data into Knowledge Graphs that machines can read and cite instantly.

  • Schema markup & structured data deployment
  • Knowledge Graph architecture for your entity
  • Conversational content mapped to buyer intent
03

Authority

We build citations in the specific data sources that feed AI training models and retrieval systems.

  • High-authority citation network across 40+ platforms
  • PR & earned media placement strategy
  • Ongoing monitoring & monthly AI visibility reports
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From audit to implementation

A better website in a focused 30-day project

Know what needs fixing? Our Website Enhancement Sprint turns an agreed priority list into tested website improvements, with a before-and-after review. Fixed scope, one-time quote, no ongoing retainer required.

Explore the 30-day sprint

The delivery window starts once scope, access and content are ready. Search rankings, AI citations and revenue are not guaranteed.

GEO by Industry

AI recommends a dentist for different reasons than a law firm. Every program below is built on your vertical's buyer journey — same engine, different fuel.

Optometrists Eye care clinics Chiropractors Wellness clinics Dentists Dental practices Law Firms All practice areas Real Estate Agents & teams Med Spas Cosmetic clinics Physiotherapy Rehab clinics Accountants CPA firms Home Services HVAC & plumbing
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The State of AI Search 2026

How generative engines are rewriting the rules of discovery — key data on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, zero-click search, and the rise of GEO.

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Frequently Asked Questions

GEO is the practice of optimizing your brand's entities, content, and structured data so that large language models — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude — cite and recommend you when generating answers. Unlike traditional SEO, which targets a list of blue links, GEO targets the single synthesized answer that AI gives to a user's question.
A traditional SEO agency asks whether you rank. Most GEO work asks whether AI cites you. We focus on whether AI recommends you when a buyer asks who to choose. That means improving your own site and structured data, and earning presence in the third-party sources AI systems rely on: publications, reviews, comparison pages and communities. Then we measure citations, mentions, recommendations and your share of AI voice against competitors. See SEO vs AEO vs GEO →
Schema and entity fixes typically produce measurable AI visibility improvements within 30 days. Displacing an established competitor in AI recommendations takes 3–6 months of sustained authority building through schema graphs, digital PR, and structured content.
We test your brand across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity using the queries your customers actually ask. You get a report showing where you appear, what the AI says about you, which competitors are being recommended instead, and a prioritized list of the schema and content gaps to fix first.
We focus on high-trust verticals where AI recommendations carry the most weight: dental clinics, law firms, healthcare providers, and real estate professionals. These are verticals where patients, clients, and buyers ask AI “who should I trust?” and the answer depends on entity architecture.