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Business insurance board · August 2026

Ontario

Canada
Searches tracked
24
AI Overview rate
87.5%
Sources per answer
7.5
Locator Canada

Business insurance in Ontario: who ranks, and who gets cited

Intact leads both the organic results and the AI citations in Ontario, which is unusual: it is the less common of the two outcomes. An AI Overview appeared on 87.5% of the 24 searches tracked here, citing an average of 7.5 sources.

Discipline 01 · Best insurance SEO Intact Organic visibility 100 / 100
Discipline 02 · Best insurance GEO Intact Cited in 31.2% of carrier citations
Discipline 03 · Best local SEO Begin Insurance Inc. Hamilton 8.5% of map slots across 4 metros

Organic visibility

Indexed to the Ontario leader
Organic visibility by carrier in Ontario, commercial insurance, August 2026
#CarrierVisibility index
01 Intact 100
02 TD Insurance 80.4
03 Co-operators 31.2
04 The Hartford 14.9
05 Travelers 14.1
06 Desjardins 8.9
07 RBC Insurance 7.3
08 SGI Canada 4.9
09 Progressive Commercial 3.9
10 Nationwide 3.7

AI citation share

Share of carrier citations
Share of AI Overview citations by carrier in Ontario, commercial insurance, August 2026
#CarrierShare of carrier citations
01 Intact 31.2%
02 TD Insurance 31.2%
03 Chubb 12.5%
04 Co-operators 12.5%
05 Desjardins 12.5%

Who Google cites

All sources, not only carriers
Types of source cited in AI Overviews in Ontario, commercial insurance, August 2026
#Source typeShare of citations
01 aggregator 26.1%
02 unknown 25.5%
03 agency 17.2%
04 carrier 10.2%
05 forum 7.6%
06 regulator 7%
07 association 3.8%
08 publisher 1.9%
09 payroll 0.6%

Named in the answer

Mentions, not citations
Carriers named in AI Overview text in Ontario, commercial insurance, August 2026
#CarrierShare of mentions
01 Intact 27.8%
02 TD Insurance 22.2%
03 Chubb 11.1%
04 Desjardins 11.1%
05 Aviva Canada 5.6%
06 Co-operators 5.6%
07 Federated Insurance 5.6%
08 NEXT Insurance 5.6%
09 The Hartford 5.6%

Being described in the answer and being cited as a source are different things.

What these searches return

By intent, 24 searches
AI Overview presence by search intent in Ontario, August 2026
Search intentReturned an AI Overview
unclassified 87.5%
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Local pack by metro

4 metros measured in Ontario
Local pack leader in each Ontario metro, August 2026
#MetroLeading business Share of slotsBusinessesRating
01 Hamilton Begin Insurance Inc. Hamilton 33.3% 7 4.4
02 Mississauga Insure With Dolly 25% 9 5
03 Toronto Mitch Insurance Brokers 19.4% 14 4.7
04 Ottawa Aviva Canada 27.3% 7 1.7

Near-me searches are measured per metro, not per province. Each metro has its own board.

Every source the AI cites

40 domains · not only insurers

The citation table above lists insurers only. This one lists everything the answer actually pointed at, which is a different picture: in Ontario, insurers are 10.2% of cited sources and comparison sites are 26.1%.

Every domain cited in AI answers for Ontario, August 2026
#SourceType Share of citations
01 Zensurance
zensurance.com
Comparison sites
8.3%
02 YouTube
youtube.com
Forums
6.4%
03 Ratehub
ratehub.ca
Comparison sites
5.7%
04 Rates.ca
rates.ca
Comparison sites
5.1%
05 Westland Insurance
westlandinsurance.ca
Agencies
5.1%
06 Western Financial Group
westernfinancialgroup.ca
Agencies
4.5%
07 ACERA
acera.ca
Associations
3.8%
08 BrokerLink
brokerlink.ca
Agencies
3.2%
09 Intact
intact.ca
Insurers
3.2%
10 TD Insurance
tdinsurance.com
Insurers
3.2%
11 Investopedia
investopedia.com
Comparison sites
2.5%
12 wsib.ca
wsib.ca
unknown
2.5%
13 Insurance Bureau of Canada
ibc.ca
Regulators
1.9%
14 LowestRates
lowestrates.ca
Comparison sites
1.9%
15 WorkSafeBC
worksafebc.com
Regulators
1.9%
16 alignedinsurance.com
alignedinsurance.com
unknown
1.3%
17 aviva.ca
aviva.ca
unknown
1.3%
18 Chubb
chubb.com
Insurers
1.3%
19 Co-operators
cooperators.ca
Insurers
1.3%
20 deel.com
deel.com
unknown
1.3%
21 Desjardins
desjardins.com
Insurers
1.3%
22 HUB International
hubinternational.com
Agencies
1.3%
23 knightarcher.com
knightarcher.com
unknown
1.3%
24 Mitch Insurance
mitchinsurance.com
Agencies
1.3%
25 octopusrenovationgroup.ca
octopusrenovationgroup.ca
unknown
1.3%
26 Reddit
reddit.com
Forums
1.3%
27 Surex
surex.com
Comparison sites
1.3%
28 Alberta WCB
wcb.ab.ca
Regulators
1.3%
29 Nova Scotia WCB
wcb.ns.ca
Regulators
1.3%
30 ADP
adp.com
Payroll platforms
0.6%
31 aig.ca
aig.ca
unknown
0.6%
32 ajg.com
ajg.com
unknown
0.6%
33 alleninsurance.ca
alleninsurance.ca
unknown
0.6%
34 Aon
aon.com
Agencies
0.6%
35 bdc.ca
bdc.ca
unknown
0.6%
36 begininsurance.ca
begininsurance.ca
unknown
0.6%
37 blaney.com
blaney.com
unknown
0.6%
38 butlerbyers.com
butlerbyers.com
unknown
0.6%
39 canadalife.com
canadalife.com
unknown
0.6%
40 ccohs.ca
ccohs.ca
unknown
0.6%

Types are assigned from a published list. A source we cannot classify with confidence is left unclassified rather than guessed at.

Where this board sits

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What is on this page position-weighted organic visibility indexed to the Ontario leader, share of sources cited in AI Overviews, share of answers naming a carrier, and Local Pack presence. The first three use the same 24 searches captured August 2026. Local Pack comes from a separate set of near-me searches measured per metro, joined here.

Never combined the disciplines are reported separately and are not summed. A blended score would hide the only finding that matters, which is where they disagree.

Coverage Google AI Overviews only. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude are separate surfaces and are not measured.