MARITIME GEO · A Gulf Coast Digital Service
Accepting Atlantic Canada SMBs · Charlottetown, PE
Generative Engine Optimization · Est. 2026

Your business is on Google. Buyers ask AI now.

When someone in Halifax types "best commercial painter near me" into ChatGPT, one company gets named. When a homeowner in Moncton asks Claude for a recommendation, one company gets named. Right now, on the Maritimes, that company is almost never yours — because nobody is doing this yet. We fix that.

64%
of buyers research with AI
before they ever open Google
3
Companies typically named
when AI gives a recommendation
0
Maritime agencies offering
this as a service (we checked)
10x
Faster to rank in LLMs than Google
— the window is open right now

The shift already happened. Nobody told you.

01 / The Problem
In 2018, your customers Googled you. In 2026, they ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — and those AIs already have an answer ready. It is a list of three or four companies, recited with confidence. If you are not on that list, you do not exist. There is no second page to scroll to.

What buyers used to do

Search Google. Open five tabs. Compare reviews. Call two. Pick one.

2010 – 2023

What buyers do now

Ask ChatGPT for the best in their town. Read the three names it gives. Call the first one.

2024 — Present

Five ways to get on the list.

02 / The Offers

Start with the audit, scale as you see results — or skip the line and lock in twelve months. Every tier is fixed-scope. No hidden fees. No long-form contracts.

Tier 1 · Diagnostic

The GEO Audit

$497CAD · once

Find out exactly where you stand before you spend a dollar fixing anything.

  • 10 buyer queries × 4 major AI engines
  • Screenshot proof of every result
  • Competitor breakdown — who AI names, why
  • Prioritized fix list, written
  • 30-min live walkthrough on Zoom
  • Delivered in 5 business days
Pay $497 →
Tier 2 · 90-Day Outcome

The Sprint

$6,997CAD · once

Audit plus a full quarter of fixes, deployed and tracked, prepaid. Hard outcome, no recurring lock-in.

  • Everything in the Audit
  • Full schema deployed sitewide
  • llms.txt + answer blocks built
  • 3 months of authority building
  • Weekly LLM tracking, monthly reports
  • Saves $503 vs. month-to-month
Start the sprint →
Tier 3 · Ongoing

The Retainer

$2,500CAD / mo

Indefinite. We fix it, build it, track it, report it. You forget it exists and watch your category get named.

  • Everything in the Sprint, ongoing
  • Continuous schema & content updates
  • Monthly authority campaigns
  • Direct Slack / email access to Kyle
  • Monthly movement report
  • 90-day minimum, cancel anytime after
Start retainer →
Best Value
Tier 5 · Annual Prepay

GEO Annual

$25,000CAD · 12 mo

Twelve months of the retainer paid up front. Two months free, locked-in pricing, front-of-queue deployment.

  • 12 months of retainer scope, prepaid
  • Saves $5,000 vs. monthly billing
  • Locked 2026 pricing through 2027
  • Front-of-queue deployment
  • Quarterly strategy call with Kyle
  • One invoice, one decision, one year
Pay $25,000 →

What actually happens when you sign up.

03 / The Work
I
Day 0 — Within 24 hours of payment

Intake & access

A short form: site URL, service areas, top three services, your dream customer query. We get read access to your CMS or schema injection point. No long sales call. No discovery deck. We start working.

II
Days 1–5 — The audit

Baseline & evidence

We run your buyer queries through all four major LLMs and screenshot every answer. We map who is being named in your category, what schema they are running, what citation sources the AIs are quoting, and where the gaps are. This becomes your starting line.

III
Days 6–14 — The fixes (Retainer & above)

Deploy the technical layer

LocalBusiness JSON-LD, FAQ schema, llms.txt, answer-style content blocks on every service page. We write it, we deploy it, we test it. Most sites need thirty to eighty changes. You do not approve each one. You approve the plan.

IV
Days 15–60 — Authority building

Get cited by the sources AI trusts

AIs cite Reddit threads, Wikipedia entries, local news, and a few specific directories — not random backlinks. We build topical presence in the exact places that move the needle for your category and region. Slow at first, then sudden.

V
Day 30, 60, 90 — Reports

You see the movement

The same ten queries, re-run on the same day each month, screenshots logged. By month two you typically see new mentions. By month three, the goal is consistent inclusion in the top-three named businesses for your category in your region.

Honest about who this is for.

04 / Fit Check

This is for you if…

  • You run a service business in PE, NS, NB, or NL doing $250K+/year
  • Your customers find you mostly through search and referral
  • You have never heard "llms.txt" but you would Google it tonight
  • You can wait 60–90 days for compounding results, not next-week magic
  • You would rather pay one person who knows what they are doing than three who do not

Skip this if…

  • You need leads by Friday — this is a 60–90 day game, not a hack
  • You expect to micromanage every commit and schema change
  • You sell ecommerce or dropship products — different playbook
  • You are outside Atlantic Canada — we will refer you, but we focus here
  • You do not actually want more customers (you would be surprised)

Built by an operator. Not an agency.

05 / Who's Behind It
The Operator

Kyle Drake

Owner — Gulf Coast Painting PEI · Gulf Coast Digital

I built Gulf Coast Painting from zero into the most-reviewed painting company on Prince Edward Island. I rank #1 in Google for five painting keywords across PEI. I am Gulf Coast Painting's own GEO case study — every fix I will deploy on your site, I have tested on mine first.

I am not running ten brands at once. Maritime GEO is the offer. Atlantic Canada is the territory. That is it.

Drake family in Atlantic Canada trades since the 1980s. My father, Allison Drake, founded Island Painting and Drywall. This is the second generation, in a different medium.

Most "AI SEO" services are run by people who read one Substack last month and bought a Notion template. We are not that.

I run a real local business in the same market I am selling into. I know the difference between a homeowner Googling "house painters Charlottetown" and a property manager asking ChatGPT which crew to use on a 40-unit building. The schema deploys are the easy part. Knowing which queries actually drive money in Atlantic Canada — that is the part you cannot outsource to someone in California.

Sign up and you get me. Not a junior. Not a project manager forwarding emails. The same person who has been climbing rankings here for five years, doing it for you now.

Questions, answered straight.

06 / FAQ

How is this different from regular SEO?

SEO optimizes for Google's results — a ranked list. GEO optimizes for what AI assistants say when someone asks them a question — a generated answer that usually names one to three companies. Different ranking signals. Different sources. Same goal: be the one they pick.

Does my regular SEO go away?

No. Most GEO fixes — schema, FAQ blocks, authority sources — also help your Google rankings. Think of it as additive. You do not trade one for the other.

How long until I see results?

Some queries shift within two to three weeks once schema and llms.txt go live. Topical authority changes take 60–90 days to compound. We track weekly so you see the movement as it happens.

What if I cancel?

The retainer is 90-day minimum, then month-to-month, cancellable any time with 30 days notice. The schema, llms.txt, and content blocks we deployed are yours. We do not gate-keep your own website.

Do I need to switch hosts or CMS?

No. We work with WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, custom builds — whatever you are on. If it has a head tag, we can inject the schema.

What if you do not move the needle?

You will see it in the monthly report — same queries, same screenshots, same engines. If after 90 days there is no visible movement on your priority queries, we work the next 30 days at no cost. We have one of these in the contract because we expect to never use it.

─── One last thing ───

The companies AI names today are the ones that get the call tomorrow.

The window where this is cheap to win is open right now. In eighteen months, every agency in Canada will offer it and the price will triple. Today, in Atlantic Canada, it is basically you and a handful of other people who read this page.