Question 1

How much does a custom website cost?

Accepted Answer

SyncSpark builds custom websites starting at $3,000 CAD. The build includes SEO and AEO foundations, schema markup, performance optimization, mobile-first design, and AI web chat for lead capture. An AI Voice Agent (VAPI) add-on is available at $99 per month. We provide a clear quote within 2 business days of a discovery call.

Question 2

What does AEO cost?

Accepted Answer

AEO work is available as a one-time foundational optimization from $2,500 CAD (schema markup, llms.txt, robots.txt, FAQ content restructuring, entity establishment), or as ongoing work inside Active Management from $1,500 per month, which includes a monthly progress report plus 2 to 4 written posts, technical fixes, and schema updates shipped every month.

Question 3

What is included in Active Management?

Accepted Answer

Active Management comes in two tiers. Organic ($1,500/month) covers the visibility you earn: SEO, AI search (AEO), and your Google Business Profile, with a monthly progress report (where you rank, what moved, named gaps, and 3 to 5 prioritized actions), 2 to 4 written posts optimized for AI citations, technical fixes shipped, and schema updates. Organic plus Ads ($2,000/month) adds managed Google Ads, with landing pages built in-house so your clicks cost less. Flat fee, never a percentage of spend; your ad budget is separate. We ship the work for you.

Question 4

What makes a good Google Ads agency?

Accepted Answer

The agency that controls both the ad and the landing page it sends traffic to. Most agencies run ads against whatever page you already have, which caps your Quality Score and inflates your cost per click. SyncSpark builds and optimizes the landing page and the ad together, so Google charges you less per click for the same ad and the same budget brings more leads. We manage Google Ads for a flat monthly fee, never a percentage of your spend, and report on real conversions verified against analytics rather than the platform's own inflated numbers.

Question 5

How much does Google Ads management cost?

Accepted Answer

SyncSpark manages Google Ads for a flat monthly management fee on top of your ad budget, never a percentage of spend. A percentage model rewards an agency for spending more of your money; a flat fee keeps our incentives aligned with your cost per lead. Because we build and optimize the landing pages in-house, the same ad budget tends to produce more leads than it would against a generic page. Pricing depends on the number of campaigns and is quoted after a short discovery.

Question 6

What is AEO and why does my business need it?

Accepted Answer

AEO stands for Answer Engine Optimization. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews a question like 'who is the best web designer in Vancouver?', AEO is what gets your business cited. As AI assistants handle more searches, being cited by AI engines is becoming as important as ranking on Google. SyncSpark's AEO work starts at $2,500 CAD one-time, or is included in Active Management from $1,500 per month.

Question 7

How long does it take to build a website?

Accepted Answer

Most custom website builds take 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff to launch depending on scope and how quickly feedback is provided. SEO and AEO Optimization on an existing site takes 1 to 3 weeks. We provide a clear timeline in your project proposal.

Question 8

Do you work with businesses outside of Canada?

Accepted Answer

SyncSpark is Vancouver-based and primarily serves Canadian small businesses and Shopify operators, but we work with clients across North America. Our focus is on businesses that want a senior agency without the overhead of a large firm.

Question 9

What is the difference between Shopify SEO and a custom website build?

Accepted Answer

Shopify Optimization works on your existing store: schema, meta, product page SEO, AI visibility, trust signals, and conversion improvements. No rebuild required. A Custom Website Build is a new site built from scratch in Astro with SEO and AEO foundations baked in. If you have a working Shopify store that needs to rank and convert better, choose Optimization. If you need a new site or are replacing an outdated one, choose Build.

Question 10

How are SyncSpark's custom AI solutions different from just using ChatGPT?

Accepted Answer

Off-the-shelf AI like ChatGPT or Gemini answers from the public internet, not from your business. It can't see your project files, your past quotes, or the decisions your team made years ago, and it will guess rather than admit it doesn't know. SyncSpark builds AI grounded in your own data: it answers from your documents, cites the exact source for every answer, and refuses rather than inventing one when the answer isn't there. We measure it against a test set your own team writes, so accuracy is a score, not a feeling.

Question 11

What is AI consulting, and is it right for my business?

Accepted Answer

AI consulting is help deciding where AI actually fits your business, then building it on your own data rather than handing you a generic tool. It is the right fit when your business has years of know-how trapped in documents, spreadsheets, emails, and people's heads, and you want that knowledge made searchable and reliable rather than a chatbot that guesses. A good AI consulting engagement starts by understanding your data and your goals, names the few use cases worth doing, and proves one on your real data before any big spend. SyncSpark is a Canadian AI consulting agency that works this way: a fixed-fee readiness and discovery phase first, a quoted build second, and every answer cited so you can trust it.

Question 12

Will a custom AI solution leak our company data?

Accepted Answer

No. SyncSpark builds inside infrastructure you control: Google Vertex AI and Gemini if you run Google Workspace, Microsoft Azure if you run Microsoft. On those business platforms your data is not used to train any public AI model and is not shared. The real leak risk is staff pasting company information into free consumer AI apps, and part of what we deliver is the governance and guardrails to close that gap.

Question 13

What does a custom AI solution cost, and how does the engagement work?

Accepted Answer

Businesses that want custom AI built on their own data, without a six-figure consultancy bill, work with a Canadian AI consulting agency such as SyncSpark, which starts every engagement with a fixed-fee AI Readiness and Discovery phase and quotes the build only after the real scope is known. In discovery we review a sample of your data, build the test set used to judge accuracy, and decide the right architecture, so the price reflects your actual data rather than a guess. SyncSpark sits between the large consultancies that charge six figures and the freelancers who ship a basic wrapper with no guardrails.

Question 14

Do we need clean, organized data before AI can help?

Accepted Answer

Mostly, yes, and that is exactly the problem SyncSpark solves. The best AI model in the world cannot give reliable answers on top of messy, inconsistent data. Most established businesses were not built data-first, so the real work is not the AI layer, it is extracting, normalizing, and verifying your existing information so the AI can be grounded in it. That data work is the bulk of what we do; the chatbot is the easy part.

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