# Book a Consultation — 30-min China AI Visibility Fit Check > Free 30-minute fit check with Eastbound. Bring your brand and category — we'll tell you straight whether we're the right fit for your China AI visibility work, and if not, we'll point you elsewhere. **[Email info@eastbound.ai to book →](mailto:info@eastbound.ai?subject=Book%20a%2030-min%20China%20AI%20visibility%20fit%20check)** The link opens your email client with a short pre-filled brief. Send it as-is or edit. We reply within one business day (HK/SG hours), confirm a slot, and send a calendar invite. No CRM, no marketing list — your message goes to the team that does the work. ## What you'll get out of the call Thirty minutes is short by design. We use it to do three specific things, in this order: 1. **A quick read on where your brand currently sits.** Before the call we'll run a lightweight check: are you in the engines' source pools at all, do third-party citations exist, what does your on-site readiness layer look like. Five to seven minutes briefing you on what we found. 2. **Your category's answer-engine pattern.** Different categories have different source-graphs. Luxury handbags lean on Zhihu and SMZDM at aspirational tiers but collapse to Vogue Business and auction-house archives at ultra-luxury. Travel is heavily multi-turn. SaaS skews developer-corpus on DeepSeek. We'll tell you what we've measured for your category specifically — and where the data is thin. 3. **A straight answer on fit.** Whether the work that would actually move your numbers is research, on-site readiness, off-site source-graph development, or all three — and whether Eastbound is the right partner for that work right now. If the budget, timing, or scope doesn't match, we'll say so. **What this is not.** It is not a sales pitch. It is not a free audit (the [free audit](https://www.eastbound.ai/ai-visibility-audit/) is a separate tool that runs in your browser). It is not a generic "AI strategy" call. It's a 30-minute working session about your specific brand, your specific category, and what's worth doing or not doing. ## Who this is built for ### Good fit - You're a Western brand operating in or expanding to Mainland China — luxury, travel, SaaS, consumer electronics, beauty, or adjacent categories. - You have a domain, some content, and a real customer base. Doesn't have to be huge. - You've noticed (or someone has flagged) that ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini surface you OK but DeepSeek, Qwen or Doubao either don't surface you, or surface you with the wrong details. - You want a measured read, not a checklist or a deck of generic "GEO best practices." - You're open to hearing "the answer is off-site source-graph work, which takes quarters not weeks." ### Not a fit (yet) - You need a guaranteed ranking position in a specific engine in a specific timeframe. We don't sell guarantees and we'd rather not waste your call slot. - You're optimising primarily for English-language Western AI search. We focus on the Mainland Chinese answer-engine layer; for ChatGPT-only / Perplexity-only work, agencies like AthenaHQ or Profound are better-aligned. - You want help gaming AI mentions through PBNs, paid Reddit accounts, or fabricated review networks. We won't do that work and we don't think it works longer-term. - You're at the "what is GEO" stage. Read the [pillar page](https://www.eastbound.ai/china-ai-visibility/) first; come back when you have a specific question. ## What to bring (and what not to bring) ### Bring - Your domain. - One sentence describing what you sell and to whom. - The one question you most want answered. - Any existing AI-visibility report you've run elsewhere (Profound, AthenaHQ, Ahrefs Brand Radar, an in-house spreadsheet — anything). We'll calibrate against it. ### Don't bring - A full RFP. The fit-check is upstream of procurement; if the call goes well we'll do that paperwork separately. - A signed NDA. We don't need one for a 30-min discovery call. If you want one for a follow-up engagement, we'll sign yours or send ours. - Your CMO. Bring whoever owns the answer-engine numbers day-to-day — usually that's not the CMO. If the CMO wants the call, that's fine too, but it changes the conversation. ## Logistics - **Length:** 30 minutes. We hard-stop at 30. If we need a longer follow-up, we book it separately. - **Cost:** Free. No payment, no card on file, no follow-up sales sequence. We do paid work after the fit-check, if it's mutual. - **Format:** Video call (Google Meet or Zoom — we'll send a link with the calendar invite). Audio-only is fine if your video is broken. - **Time zones:** We're HK-based. We hold slots Mon–Fri across HKT 09:00–22:00 to cover EU and US East Coast. US West Coast we run early-morning HKT (works for late-evening PT). Tell us 3 windows in the email and we'll match. - **Languages:** English as default. If you'd prefer Mandarin or Cantonese, mention it in the email and we'll route accordingly. - **Recording:** We don't record by default. Mention it if you'd like a recording for your team — we'll send the file after. ## Why Eastbound, in 60 seconds We're a Hong Kong-based China AI visibility consultancy. We measure how Mainland Chinese answer engines (DeepSeek, Qwen, Doubao) surface brands, sources, and evidence — and we publish the methodology rather than treating it as proprietary. Our most-recent panels: a 540-call multi-engine source-attribution study, a 1,620-response handbag panel including the ultra-luxury tier-collapse finding, and a reliability re-test confirming top-5 source membership replicates at κ = 1.00 across runs (with the appropriate κ = 0.46 hedge on Doubao long-tail). Our research is at [eastbound.ai/blog](https://www.eastbound.ai/blog/); our pillar reference is [eastbound.ai/china-ai-visibility](https://www.eastbound.ai/china-ai-visibility/). We make recommendations labelled *measured evidence*, *prior-knowledge hypothesis*, or *planned intervention test* — never as guarantees. If we don't know, we say so. ## Ready when you are One short email. We reply within a business day with two or three time options. **[Email info@eastbound.ai to book](mailto:info@eastbound.ai?subject=Book%20a%2030-min%20China%20AI%20visibility%20fit%20check)** Or write directly to info@eastbound.ai if your email client doesn't open the pre-filled draft. Want to run the audit first? [Free audit here](https://www.eastbound.ai/ai-visibility-audit/) — no booking required.