CAW Architects, Inc.

Local AI Registry · Architects in San Jose, CA · Editorial

CAW Architects, Inc., San Jose: an architect in San Jose (2026 guide)

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Former Google Search executive and former Microsoft executive, with 20+ years in digital.

Fact-checked against 32 sources · Published October 4, 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026 · Machine-readable version below

Owner review: not yet. CAW Architects, Inc. has not checked this page. Claim to review it

In short

CAW Architects, Inc. is an architect in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 23 of 100, which is poor.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.

Key facts

Fact	Value
Type	Architect
Address	50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113, USA
Hours	Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun
Phone	(650) 328-1818
Owner	Nothing found
Rating	5.0 across 4 reviews on Google
Known for	Nothing found
Prices	Nothing found
Quietest time	Nothing found
Parking	Nothing found
Last verified	October 12, 2026, 2:19 PM

All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

Group	Fact	Value	Mark	Evidence
Location info	Address	50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113, USA	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Location info	Description	50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Location info	Hours	Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Location info	Name	CAW Architects, Inc.	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Location info	Phone	(650) 328-1818	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Hours	Monday	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Hours	Tuesday	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Hours	Wednesday	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Hours	Thursday	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Hours	Friday	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Hours	Saturday	Closed	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Hours	Sunday	Closed	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026
Services	Service	2012 leap sandcastle contest	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	2014 leap sandcastle challenge	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Architectural design	AI guess	Nothing found
Services	Service	Brent mcclure	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Carmel forest theater	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Caw 2014 staff retreat	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Caw 2015 retreat	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Caw receives firm award	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Central commissary receives design award	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Christopher wasney	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Client type	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Firm	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Historic preservation design	AI guess	Nothing found
Services	Service	Inc	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Kaori abiko	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Katie gutierrez	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Keith wainschel	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Menlo park guild theater	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Monique wood	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Mousam adcock	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Museum design	AI guess	Nothing found
Services	Service	Newest caw associate matt dohrmann	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Obon 2016	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Ousd central commissary groundbreaking ceremony	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Palo alto junior museum zoo	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	People	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Portfolio	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Preservation foundation design award recipient	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Projects	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Project type	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	School building design	AI guess	Nothing found
Services	Service	Stanford old chem progress	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Stanford roble gym	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Stanfords roble gym opens	Confirmed	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Services	Service	Theater design	AI guess	Nothing found
Links	Instagram	https://www.instagram.com/cawarchitects	AI guess	Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026
Links	Website	http://www.cawarchitects.com/	Confirmed	Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026

Services and prices

These are the 30 services CAW Architects offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

Service	Price	Price mark	Price evidence	Service mark
Caw 2015 retreat				Confirmed
Christopher wasney				Confirmed
2012 leap sandcastle contest				Confirmed
Caw receives firm award				Confirmed
Central commissary receives design award				Confirmed
Client type				Confirmed
Firm				Confirmed
Inc				Confirmed
Kaori abiko				Confirmed
Menlo park guild theater				Confirmed
Monique wood				Confirmed
Mousam adcock				Confirmed
Newest caw associate matt dohrmann				Confirmed
Obon 2016				Confirmed
Ousd central commissary groundbreaking ceremony				Confirmed
Katie gutierrez				Confirmed
Keith wainschel				Confirmed
Project type				Confirmed
Stanford old chem progress				Confirmed
Stanford roble gym				Confirmed
Stanfords roble gym opens				Confirmed
Brent mcclure				Confirmed
Carmel forest theater				Confirmed
Caw 2014 staff retreat				Confirmed
Palo alto junior museum zoo				Confirmed
2014 leap sandcastle challenge				Confirmed
People				Confirmed
Portfolio				Confirmed
Preservation foundation design award recipient				Confirmed
Projects				Confirmed

Known for

Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day.

The team

Nothing found

Visiting CAW Architects

Address: 50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113, USA. Phone: (650) 328-1818. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked October 4, 2026 at 9:50 PM.)

Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by CAW Architects on its Google Business Profile: "50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113"

When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.

Parking and getting in

Nothing found

Nearby

Place	Type	Distance
Poppy & Claro	Restaurant	1 min walk
El Cafecito by Mezcal	Cafe	1 min walk
San Jose Museum of Art	Art museum	1 min walk
Circle of Palms Plaza	Park	1 min walk
Fountain Restaurant	Restaurant	2 min walk
Angkor Chef	Cambodian restaurant	2 min walk

Reputation

5.0 average across 4 reviews: Google 4. (Confirmed, read October 4, 2026.)

Not enough review detail to summarise confidently. (AI guess, from 4 reviews.)

What people like

Nothing found

What people do not like

Nothing found

Press

No press story about CAW Architects found yet.

Awards

None named yet.

Directories

Directory listings not read yet.

Recent updates from CAW Architects

CAW Architects hasn't posted an update here yet.

Questions people ask

what does CAW Architects actually get right?

No answer yet

Calling CAW Architects, or is there a better way?

No answer yet

opening hours at CAW Architects in San Jose, what are they these days?

No answer yet

Open Saturdays here?

No answer yet

where exactly is this place?

No answer yet

anywhere cheaper than CAW Architects in San Jose that is still good?

No answer yet

membership, worth it or not

No answer yet

CAW Architects, any chance to get in this week?

No answer yet

best architect in San Jose, CA

No answer yet

is there a socials account worth following

No answer yet

how much is a first visit around here

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first visit here, what do I need to bring?

No answer yet

bad experiences at CAW Architects, anyone?

No answer yet

anyone here people keep going back to?

No answer yet

Street parking near here, any good?

No answer yet

torn between this place and TOPA Architecture?

No answer yet

trying to book here, how long is the wait?

No answer yet

going to CAW Architects on Saturday, what should I expect

No answer yet

killing time on San Fernando, any ideas

No answer yet

worth it or not, what do the regulars say

No answer yet

What AI gets wrong about CAW Architects

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about CAW Architects. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.

The AI Score: 23 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose architects run 22 to 36. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. CAW Architects scores 23, below the San Jose average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry.

Signal	Weight	Score	What it measures	CAW Architects
Retrieval grounding	26	0	Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.	Poor
Off-property attestation	20	37	Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.	Poor
AI visibility	14	0	Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.	Named in 0 of 13 answers that recommended anyone. 7 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored.
Reviews & response	12	36	The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.	Poor
Backlink & citation authority	8	58	Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.	Fair
Google Business Profile	8	79	Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.	Good
Speed & mobile	7	57	Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.	Fair
Content freshness & schema	5	40	Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.	Poor

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to tell you about an architect

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."

How to choose an architect in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
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Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California.

How to read the marks on this page

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Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.

About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including CAW Architects if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.

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Local AI Registry	Organization	#publisher	https://localairegistry.com	Publisher of this page
Steve Lee	Person	#author	https://localairegistry.com/team	Author of this page

Topical map

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Who writes the answers here?

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I own CAW Architects, Inc.. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.

References

Sources cited

[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ65HQdPO6j4ARXXlW5dWhLVQ (accessed Oct 4, 2026)
[2] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/christopher-wasney/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[3] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/2014-leap-sandcastle-challenge/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[4] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/portfolio/project-type/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[5] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/stanford-old-chem-progress/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[6] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/stanford-roble-gym/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[7] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/stanfords-roble-gym-opens/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[8] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/brent-mcclure/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[9] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/carmel-forest-theater/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[10] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/caw-2014-staff-retreat/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[11] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/caw-2015-retreat/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[12] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/caw-receives-firm-award/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[13] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/central-commissary-receives-design-award/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[14] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/2012-leap-sandcastle-contest/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[15] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/portfolio/client-type/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[16] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/firm/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[17] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/kaori-abiko/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[18] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/katie-gutierrez/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[19] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/keith-wainschel/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[20] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/menlo-park-guild-theater/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[21] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/monique-wood/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[22] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/mousam-adcock/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[23] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/newest-caw-associate-matt-dohrmann/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[24] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/obon-2016/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[25] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/ousd-central-commissary-groundbreaking-ceremony/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[26] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/palo-alto-junior-museum-zoo/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[27] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[28] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/portfolio/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[29] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/ca-preservation-foundation-design-award-recipient/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[30] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/projects/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[31] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
[32] cawarchitects.com, http://www.cawarchitects.com/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)

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Lists this page with the day it last changed, the same day the page says it was updated.

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A plain index for language models: what the site is, which pages to read first, and where the markdown copies live.

# Local AI Registry

> The public record of what AI assistants say about local businesses. Every entry checked, scored, and kept current.

Local AI Registry is the editorial, never-sponsored record of what local
businesses are known for, and whether AI assistants actually recommend them.
We score every local business the same way and rank them: website, reviews,
AI visibility, and more. Eight signals, one number from 0 to 100. The heaviest
is whether AI can retrieve you at all.

## Read these first

- [Local AI Registry](https://localairegistry.com): AI assistants now decide which local business to recommend.
- [Methodology](https://localairegistry.com/methodology): Eight signals, one number from 0 to 100.
- [Leaderboards](https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards): Browse AI Score leaderboards by state, city, and category.
- [About](https://localairegistry.com/about): The honest record of who AI recommends.
- [Pricing](https://localairegistry.com/pricing): Four levels of presence, from a free registry entry to being the answer AI gives first in your market.
- [Journal](https://localairegistry.com/journal): How AI assistants decide which local businesses to recommend, and what owners can do about it.

## Business pages

- [Sitemap](https://localairegistry.com/sitemap.xml): Every business page on the registry, with the day each was last updated.
- Every business page has a markdown copy at its own address with `.md` on the end. The copy holds the same facts, marks and sources as the page, in the page's order: the photos with their captions, the team and their licenses, the reviews summary, and the questions locals asked with the replies. The page names it in its head and its HTTP `Link` header.

7. Markdown copy of this page (caw-architects-inc-san-jose-ca.md)

The article as plain text: the same headings, facts, marks and sources.

# CAW Architects, Inc., San Jose: an architect in San Jose (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/caw-architects-inc-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 32 sources. Updated 2026-10-05. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/caw-architects-inc-san-jose-ca

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## In short

CAW Architects, Inc. is an architect in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 23 of 100, which is poor.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Architect |
| Address | 50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (650) 328-1818 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 5.0 across 4 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Nothing found |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | October 12, 2026, 2:19 PM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | CAW Architects, Inc. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (650) 328-1818 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Services | Service | 2012 leap sandcastle contest | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | 2014 leap sandcastle challenge | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Architectural design | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Brent mcclure | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Carmel forest theater | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Caw 2014 staff retreat | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Caw 2015 retreat | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Caw receives firm award | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Central commissary receives design award | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Christopher wasney | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Client type | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Firm | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Historic preservation design | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Inc | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Kaori abiko | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Katie gutierrez | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Keith wainschel | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Menlo park guild theater | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Monique wood | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Mousam adcock | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Museum design | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Newest caw associate matt dohrmann | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Obon 2016 | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Ousd central commissary groundbreaking ceremony | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Palo alto junior museum zoo | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | People | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Portfolio | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Preservation foundation design award recipient | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Projects | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Project type | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | School building design | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Stanford old chem progress | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Stanford roble gym | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Stanfords roble gym opens | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Theater design | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/cawarchitects | AI guess | Business website, checked Oct 12, 2026 |
| Links | Website | http://www.cawarchitects.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 30 services CAW Architects offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caw 2015 retreat |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Christopher wasney |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| 2012 leap sandcastle contest |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Caw receives firm award |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Central commissary receives design award |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Client type |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Firm |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Inc |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Kaori abiko |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Menlo park guild theater |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Monique wood |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Mousam adcock |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Newest caw associate matt dohrmann |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Obon 2016 |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Ousd central commissary groundbreaking ceremony |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Katie gutierrez |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Keith wainschel |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Project type |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Stanford old chem progress |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Stanford roble gym |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Stanfords roble gym opens |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Brent mcclure |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Carmel forest theater |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Caw 2014 staff retreat |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Palo alto junior museum zoo |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| 2014 leap sandcastle challenge |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| People |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Portfolio |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Preservation foundation design award recipient |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Projects |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting CAW Architects

Address: 50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113, USA. Phone: (650) 328-1818. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked October 4, 2026 at 9:50 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by CAW Architects on its Google Business Profile: "50 W San Fernando St Ste 1250, San Jose, CA 95113"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Poppy & Claro | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| El Cafecito by Mezcal | Cafe | 1 min walk |
| San Jose Museum of Art | Art museum | 1 min walk |
| Circle of Palms Plaza | Park | 1 min walk |
| Fountain Restaurant | Restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Angkor Chef | Cambodian restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

5.0 average across 4 reviews: Google 4. (Confirmed, read October 4, 2026.)

Not enough review detail to summarise confidently. (AI guess, from 4 reviews.)


### What people like

Nothing found


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about CAW Architects found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from CAW Architects

CAW Architects hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### what does CAW Architects actually get right?

No answer yet


### Calling CAW Architects, or is there a better way?

No answer yet


### opening hours at CAW Architects in San Jose, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### Open Saturdays here?

No answer yet


### where exactly is this place?

No answer yet


### anywhere cheaper than CAW Architects in San Jose that is still good?

No answer yet


### membership, worth it or not

No answer yet


### CAW Architects, any chance to get in this week?

No answer yet


### best architect in San Jose, CA

No answer yet


### is there a socials account worth following

No answer yet


### how much is a first visit around here

No answer yet


### first visit here, what do I need to bring?

No answer yet


### bad experiences at CAW Architects, anyone?

No answer yet


### anyone here people keep going back to?

No answer yet


### Street parking near here, any good?

No answer yet


### torn between this place and TOPA Architecture?

No answer yet


### trying to book here, how long is the wait?

No answer yet


### going to CAW Architects on Saturday, what should I expect

No answer yet


### killing time on San Fernando, any ideas

No answer yet


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about CAW Architects

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about CAW Architects. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 23 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose architects run 22 to 36. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. CAW Architects scores 23, below the San Jose average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | CAW Architects |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 37 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 13 answers that recommended anyone. 7 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 36 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Poor |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 58 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 57 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 40 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about an architect

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."


## How to choose an architect in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
- Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.
- Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California.


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- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CAW Architects, Inc. | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.cawarchitects.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City CAW Architects is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


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### Nearby

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- /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own CAW Architects, Inc.. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ65HQdPO6j4ARXXlW5dWhLVQ (accessed Oct 4, 2026)
- [2] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/christopher-wasney/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [3] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/2014-leap-sandcastle-challenge/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
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- [8] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/brent-mcclure/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [9] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/carmel-forest-theater/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [10] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/caw-2014-staff-retreat/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [11] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/caw-2015-retreat/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [12] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/caw-receives-firm-award/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [13] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/central-commissary-receives-design-award/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [14] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/2012-leap-sandcastle-contest/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [15] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/portfolio/client-type/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [16] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/firm/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [17] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/kaori-abiko/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [18] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/katie-gutierrez/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [19] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/keith-wainschel/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [20] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/menlo-park-guild-theater/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [21] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/monique-wood/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [22] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/mousam-adcock/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [23] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/newest-caw-associate-matt-dohrmann/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [24] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/obon-2016/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [25] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/ousd-central-commissary-groundbreaking-ceremony/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [26] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/palo-alto-junior-museum-zoo/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [27] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/people/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [28] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/portfolio/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [29] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/ca-preservation-foundation-design-award-recipient/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [30] cawarchitects.com, https://cawarchitects.com/projects/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [31] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 12, 2026)
- [32] cawarchitects.com, http://www.cawarchitects.com/ (accessed Oct 12, 2026)

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