LOKAL
An AI practice that buildsSydney · Manila

AI that earns its place in your business.

We help you get found, build useful systems and give your people the skills to use them. An AI practice with a working lab at its heart.

Strategy, with the ability to build.

AI search & visibilityConsulting & developmentTraining & adoption
One idea. Connected end to end.
Move across the pixels.

Selected work

Work we run with partners and groups.

A hospitality group, a brand we run with a partner, and white-label search for an agency. Selected results from work we already do.

Hospitality group

A hotel group property at golden hour

16+ properties

More demand. Less ad spend.

Paid-media work for a hospitality group — one programme across the portfolio, with lower costs and stronger click performance.

Reduction in total ad spend
41%
Increase in click volume
46%
Reduction in CPC
61%
CTR lift across Google Ads
195%

Hospitality Innovators, Inc. · 2024–2026

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Partner brand

Branded parcels ready for dispatch

Marketplace + D2C

Channels that hold together.

Marketplace and D2C channels built and run with a partner, with organic search sitting under the same programme.

Annual revenue
15M+
Channels built — D2C + marketplaces
3
Page-1 keyword rankings
100+
Organic impressions + clicks growth
Sustained

Confidential · run with a partner

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White label

An agency and client team in a working session

Agency partner

Recovery that became sustained growth.

White-label search delivery behind a partner — an algorithm-penalty recovery that became a long-running organic programme.

ROI on organic spend
1,751%
Search volume of terms ranking on page one
31,280
Increase in organic conversions
98%
Continuous campaign run
64 mo+

Confidential · organic-search delivery

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Five practices.
One working team.

For agencies, groups and the brands they run. Find the right place to start.

01

Agency and Group Partnerships

For agencies and management companies

We partner with agencies and management companies. You keep the client relationship; we run search, AEO, content, paid and the retained work with you.

  • Search, AEO and content under your brand
  • Paid media and web delivery
  • Account protection, QA and client-ready reporting
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02

AEO & GEO consulting

For big brands and agencies

AEO and GEO consulting for big brands and agencies — how to make those brands work in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with a programme the partner can take to the client.

  • AI Visibility Audit
  • Entity Optimization
  • Monthly Monitoring
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03

AI consulting

For leadership teams deploying AI

Choose the right use cases, connect the right systems, and give every AI workflow an owner.

  • AI deployment & adoption
  • Claude architecture advisory
  • Custom MCP development
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04

AI training

For corporate teams across Australia, the Philippines, and APAC

Build capability through real work. Practical training, team champions and a plan for what happens after the workshop.

  • AI Foundations for Teams
  • ChatGPT & Claude for Daily Work
  • Microsoft Copilot for Business
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05

AI development

For teams that need it built

Turn a scoped idea into working software: custom assistants, MCP connections and automations inside your existing stack.

  • Custom MCP build
  • Company OS build
  • Claude workflows
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From Lokal Labs

ely

The hotel you can talk to.

A useful answer can be the start of a stay. Ely connects a hotel’s knowledge with guest conversations and the next step towards a direct booking.

Meet Ely Built by LOKAL. Made for hospitality.
A conversation with ElyMeet Ely ↗

A guest, looking for tonight

Ely

Hi — welcome. How can I help?

Guest

Do you still have a room for tonight?

Ely

Yes. Deluxe King is available at the direct rate. Shall I book it?

A question becomes a direct-booking conversation.

01 / 03

Illustrative conversations from ely.ph. The dates belong to the example.

Lokal Labs

We make things.
Then put them to work.

Products, internal systems and connections built by our team. This is where our ideas become something people can use—and where the practice keeps learning.

Hotel product

Ely

Hotel knowledge, guest conversations and direct-booking workflows. A product built around the questions people ask before a stay.

Meet the product

Our internal AI system

LOKI

The system behind our own work. LOKI brings data from analytics, search and advertising into one place for the team.

Read the story

Presentation platform

TaDa!

Turn an HTML file or a link into a shareable presentation. A place to publish, discover and present the decks we build.

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Good work has a rhythm.

A useful question. A working system. A team that knows how to use it.

  1. Find the useful question.

    Start with a workflow, a decision or a customer need. Agree on what a better result looks like.

  2. Make the system work.

    Connect approved knowledge and tools. Build the workflow, test its limits and keep a person in the loop.

  3. Put it in people’s hands.

    Train the team, name an owner and review actual use. Keep improving the work after launch.

People behind the practice.

The same team that advises you builds the tools. Based in Sydney, with a Philippines office in Manila.

Joshua Pielago, Founder of lokal

Joshua Pielago

Founder · AI SEO Lead

Ramon King, Co-founder and managing director of lokal

Ramon King

Co-founder, Managing Director

CJ Masungsong, marketing director of lokal

CJ Masungsong

Marketing Director

  • Claude Partner Network member
  • Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect — Foundations (CCA-F)
  • OpenAI Champions Network member
  • OpenAI Partner Network member

LOKAL · Sydney + Manila

Bring the work that needs an owner.

White-label search delivery for agencies. AI readiness and adoption for companies. Senior execution from Sydney, with a Philippines office in Manila.

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