First Session

First Session is a Victoria, BC business whose own site puts it this way: "First Session is a Canadian platform that helps people find the right therapist through authentic video interviews, personalized search tools, and educational content, prioritizing." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is one of the more visible businesses we measure, scoring 7.5 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: structured data describing the business, a clear heading structure, a clearly stated business identity, visible credibility markers, crawler access and the files AI engines look for and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established and it barely surfaces on Reddit. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on and nobody is discussing it where AI engines look. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together.