What we have actually audited in Golden
Each block below comes from a research batch we ran in Golden — ten businesses scanned on seven dimensions, with the answers real customers would get.
Breweries
Batch 1 — 10 taprooms
Golden is a compact market operating in the shadow of a global brand, which makes it a clean test: when one name dominates a category, do answer engines name anyone else? They did — but the same independents recurred across phrasings while others never appeared at all. We logged which businesses were named, not how many an answer contained.
The questions we test
We do not guess at what customers type. We run the literal phrasings and read what the answer engines return — who gets named, in what order, and which sources they cite.
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Where the research came from
Seven batches, 70 owner-led Front Range businesses, five verticals — breweries, restaurants, fitness studios, salons and spas, and law offices. We only claim what those batches measured. Read what the research found, or see a worked engagement with before-and-after you can check yourself.
