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AI Visibility Audit
Prepared for Pasteur Street Brewing Company. This report is confidential. Enter the access code provided by Saigon Digital to continue.
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Prepared by saigon.digital · June 2026
Prepared for Pasteur Street Brewing Company. This report is confidential. Enter the access code provided by Saigon Digital to continue.
Pasteur Street is the strongest craft-beer brand and the strongest search domain in Saigon, and AI engines already cite you for craft-beer questions. The gap is tourism and experience intent: when a visitor asks AI which brewery to go to, the answer is built from travel blogs, and competitors are framed as places to visit while you are framed as a product. This audit shows exactly where that happens and how to close it.
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View Case StudiesYou were right to push back: Pasteur Street does appear in AI search. This audit is not about being invisible. It is about a precise, fixable gap between the queries you already win (brand and category) and the queries you are losing (visit and experience), and about who controls the sources AI reads to build those answers.
Your AI presence today is borrowed, not owned. AI cites Pasteur Street because travel blogs mention you, not because pasteurstreet.com is itself a source AI trusts. When those blogs re-rank or update, your visibility moves with them, and you get no say. The fix is to make your own site one of the sources AI reads, and to make competitors' "experience" framing yours.
We did not score a vague "visibility number". We ran the actual high-intent queries a drinker or tourist uses, across the AI answer engines and Google AI Overviews, and recorded three things for every answer: whether Pasteur is named, how it is framed, and which sources the AI cited to build the answer.
Does the AI mention Pasteur Street at all in its answer to this query, and how prominently?
Is Pasteur described as a beer brand and product, or as a destination and experience to visit? Framing is what decides the click.
Which pages did the AI read to assemble the answer? This is the lever. If your own site is not in the sources, you do not control the story.
We split the queries into two buckets, because they behave completely differently. Brand and category queries ("best craft beer in HCMC") are about the product, and you win them. Tourism and experience queries ("best brewery to visit in Saigon", "craft beer tour Saigon") are about the night out, and you are behind. Reading the two buckets together hides the problem. Splitting them shows it precisely, and shows that it is closeable.
Results are reported qualitatively per engine and split by intent. The headline is consistent across engines: cited and winning on brand and category, present but under-framed on tourism and experience.
Names Pasteur Street and describes you as the pioneer of HCMC craft beer.
Surfaces Pasteur prominently for "best craft beer" category questions.
Lists Pasteur among the top craft beers in Vietnam, alongside East West and Heart of Darkness.
Recognises Pasteur as a leading and pioneering HCMC craft beer brand.
Mentions Pasteur as a brand, but frames East West and Heart of Darkness as the places to visit.
Visit answers lean on travel listings and rank competitor venues ahead on experience.
For "tour" queries, cites Saigon Craft Beer Tours, Vespa Adventures and Viator first.
Describes you by your beer, competitors by their venue, atmosphere and events.
On the queries about the beer itself, you are already where you want to be: named, pioneer, top of category. That is hard to earn and you have it.
On the queries about the night out, you are mentioned but out-framed, and the sources building those answers are entirely outside your control.
This is the most important finding in the audit. For the tourism and experience answers, every single source the AI cited was third party. Your own site was not one of them.
Your own website, the one place you fully control, is not currently a source AI trusts enough to cite for visit and experience questions.
Borrowed visibility is fragile visibility. When Wanderlog re-orders its list or a travel blogger updates a post, your AI presence changes and you find out afterwards. Owned visibility, where pasteurstreet.com is itself a cited source, is durable and is the thing this engagement is built to create.
Real buyer queries, split by intent. The pattern is clean: you win the beer queries, you are out-framed on the visit queries.
The split is by intent, not by engine. Add the word "visit", "tour" or "things to do" and you move from cited-and-winning to named-but-out-framed. This matches Trang's own observation that Pasteur sits behind a couple of competitors on tourist-focused queries.
You already own the hard part (category authority). Closing the visit gap is mostly about giving AI first-party experience content to cite and reframing you as a destination, not winning a popularity contest from scratch.
On owned search authority you lead the field by a wide margin. The competitors ahead of you on visit queries are not ahead on domain strength. They are ahead on experience framing and the third-party content that feeds AI.
| Brewery | DR | Organic keywords | Organic visits / mo | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pasteur Street You | 55 | 97 (41 in top 3) | ~802 | Strongest domain & widest keyword breadth in the set |
| East West Brewing | 31 | 31 | ~1,341 | More raw traffic, mostly branded; far less keyword breadth |
| BiaCraft | 27 | 31 | ~458 | Smaller footprint across the board |
| Heart of Darkness | 0 | 0 | Minimal owned | Strong brand, weak owned site; presence rides on third-party & social |
| Brewery | Brand / Category | Tourism / Experience | How AI frames them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pasteur Street You | Cited | Under-framed | The pioneer / the beer brand |
| East West Brewing | Cited | Cited | Spacious beer hall, brewery tours, events, happy hour |
| Heart of Darkness | Cited | Cited | Stylish taproom, outdoor beer garden, live music, comedy |
| Tour operators Saigon Craft Beer Tours, Vespa Adventures, Viator |
N/A | Lead the answer | The bookable craft-beer experience itself |
You are not losing on authority. You out-rank every competitor on owned search. You are losing on framing and on which sources feed the AI. Competitors with weaker domains beat you on visit queries because they have given AI more "place to go" content to read. That is a content and positioning gap, not a ranking deficit, which is good news because it is faster to fix.
Trang, you asked three specific questions. Here they are, addressed directly.
Highest-leverage moves to turn AI visibility into taproom visits, tours, tastings and bookings. These are GEO and conversion moves, not blue-link ranking moves.
Dedicated, bookable "Visit Us", "Tours", "Tastings" and "For Visitors" pages on pasteurstreet.com, written to be cited by AI and to convert tourists into reservations. This gives engines your own destination content to read, so you are framed as a place to go, not just a beer.
Add Brewery, LocalBusiness, Event, FAQ and Review schema plus an llms.txt, so AI engines can parse your taprooms, events and tastings cleanly and cite pasteurstreet.com directly instead of relying on travel blogs.
Get Pasteur correctly listed and richly framed on Wanderlog, TripAdvisor, Viator and travel media, build a Google Knowledge Panel and entity profile, and drive reviews velocity, so the borrowed visibility becomes both stronger and partly steered by you.
You start from the strongest position in the market: DR 55, pioneer status and category authority AI already recognises. You are not building visibility from zero. You are extending visibility you already have into the one intent (the visit) where it currently does not reach, and converting that intent on a site built to take the booking.
pasteurstreet.com is a mature, well-structured site. It has the right bones: About Us, Craft Beer Club, Taprooms, Beers, Menu, Events, Merchandise, Blog, Careers and Contact, an EN/VI toggle, and reservation and delivery in the footer. This is an optimization and conversion job, not a rebuild. Three specific gaps are holding back both AI citation and tourist conversion.
The site sells the beer and the brand well, but there is no dedicated, depth "Visit us / Tours / Tastings / For Visitors" content optimised for both AI citation and tourist conversion. This is the single biggest reason AI frames you as a product, not a destination.
The site is likely missing the rich schema AI relies on (Brewery, LocalBusiness, Event, FAQ, Review) and has no llms.txt. Without these, engines cannot confidently read your taprooms and events, so they fall back to third-party sources instead of citing you.
A tourist who arrives ready to plan an evening has no clear, structured path from "I want to visit a Saigon brewery" to a booked tour, tasting or reservation. The reservation link exists, but the journey that gets a visitor there is thin, so high-intent traffic leaks.
Web design and UI/UX are core strengths at Saigon Digital. Building the experience pages, wiring up the schema and tightening the booking journey is part of the same work, not a separate project. One team handles the AI visibility, the SEO, and the website itself.
One team that can both fix the visibility and build the experience that converts it. Not just an audit, and not four separate vendors to manage.
First-party experience content, schema, llms.txt, entity and Knowledge Panel work, reviews velocity, and influencing the third-party sources AI cites, so you are framed as a destination and pasteurstreet.com becomes a source AI trusts.
SEO for tourism and booking-intent keywords ("brewery to visit", "craft beer tour", "things to do") so you capture the searcher on Google as well as the AI answer, extending the DR 55 foundation into visit intent.
Design and build the experience, tour, tasting and "for visitors" pages and the booking journey, so visit intent converts into taproom visits, tours, tastings, reservations and shop sales, not just awareness.
Continued SEO and AI visibility growth, content, monitoring of how AI frames you, and website maintenance and support, so the gap stays closed as engines and competitors evolve.
This audit shows the gap and proves it is fixable. Closing it usually means the AI visibility, the SEO and the website working together. We handle all three, then keep it growing.
Pasteur Street already owns the category. The job now is to own the visit, and to make pasteurstreet.com a source AI cites rather than one it ignores. We typically start with a fixed-price foundation sprint (GEO and experience content, schema and llms.txt, SEO for visit intent, and the website work above), then a simple rolling monthly retainer to keep growing and maintain the site. A 30-minute call with Nick is all it takes to scope it.
Nick Rowe · CEO & Co-Founder, Saigon Digital · nick@saigon.digital
A fixed-price sprint: first-party experience and visitor pages, schema and llms.txt, SEO for tourism and booking intent, and the website and UX work to convert it. One scope, one price, four disciplines.
A simple monthly retainer once the foundation is set: continued SEO and AI visibility growth, content, source and reviews work, and website maintenance and support. Rolling monthly, no long lock-in.
Every month, competitors add more "destination" content for AI to read and tour operators capture more of the high-intent visitor. AI is training on the content published now, so closing the gap earlier compounds in your favour.