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# Manu Studios, San Jose: an architecture firm in San Jose (2026 guide)

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## In short

Manu Studios is an architecture firm 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 | Architecture firm |
| Address | 66 E Santa Clara St Ste 14, San Jose, CA 95113, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (408) 222-6443 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 5.0 across 1 review on Google |
| Known for | Manu Studios is best known for its creative approach to restaurant design, helping local eateries create inviting and functional spaces. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | October 4, 2026, 9:50 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 | Name | Manu Studios | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Address | 66 E Santa Clara St Ste 14, San Jose, CA 95113, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 222-6443 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | MANU Studios is an architecture, interior design, and planning firm serving San Jose, San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area. We specialize in hospitality architecture, restaurant design, commercial tenant improvements, workplace environments, mixed-use developments, multifamily housing, and custom residential projects. Our team provides architecture, interior design, feasibility studies, site planning, entitlements, and project coordination from concept through construction. We create build-ready spaces that balance functionality, aesthetics, and long-term value, helping developers, business owners, and organizations bring successful commercial and residential projects to life. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 8:30 AM to 12:30 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 |
| Links | Website | http://www.manustudios.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 4, 2026 |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/manustudios_ad | AI guess | Our record |


## Services and prices

Services not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Known for

Manu Studios is best known for its creative approach to restaurant design, helping local eateries create inviting and functional spaces.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Manu Studios

Address: 66 E Santa Clara St Ste 14, San Jose, CA 95113, USA. Phone: (408) 222-6443. Hours: Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Fri 8:30 AM to 12:30 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 Manu Studios on its Google Business Profile: "MANU Studios is an architecture, interior design, and planning firm serving San Jose, San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area. We specialize in hospitality architecture, restaurant design, commercial tenant improvements, workplace environments, mixed-use developments, multifamily housing, and custom residential projects. Our team provides architecture, interior design, feasibility studies, site planning, entitlements, and project coordination from concept through construction. We create build-ready spaces that balance functionality, aesthetics, and long-term value, helping developers, business owners, and organizations bring successful commercial and residential projects to life."


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

Nearby places not read yet, back on Scan Day.


## Reputation

5.0 average across 1 review: Google 1. (Confirmed, read October 4, 2026.)

Not enough review detail to summarise confidently. (AI guess, from 1 review.)


### What people like

Nothing found


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about Manu Studios found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Manu Studios

Manu Studios hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### same day slots, does that ever happen here

No answer yet


### lunch near Santa Clara, what is good

No answer yet


### how far out is this place booking right now?

No answer yet


### Why do people rate Manu Studios?

No answer yet


### are prices in San Jose higher than everywhere else

No answer yet


### best architecture firm in San Jose, CA

No answer yet


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing

No answer yet


### going to Manu Studios on Saturday, what should I expect

No answer yet


### which one, this place or Habitec Architecture?

No answer yet


### Busiest day here, anyone know?

No answer yet


### address for this place, anyone have it?

No answer yet


### opening hours at Manu Studios in San Jose, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### Calling Manu Studios, or is there a better way?

No answer yet


### do they shut Saturdays

No answer yet


### anything new from Manu Studios lately?

No answer yet


### Booking a first visit at Manu Studios, what happens?

No answer yet


### anywhere cheaper than Manu Studios in San Jose that is still good?

No answer yet


### where do I park at Manu Studios?

No answer yet


### what is the catch with Manu Studios?

No answer yet


### is there someone in particular to ask for here?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Manu Studios

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Manu Studios. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 4, 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 architecture firms run 23 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Manu Studios scores 23, below the San Jose average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Manu Studios |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 35 | 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 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 39 | 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 | 52 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 32 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 75 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

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


## How AI decides what to tell you about an architecture firm

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 architecture firm 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.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- 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 Manu Studios if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Manu Studios |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Manu Studios | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.manustudios.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Manu Studios 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 |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the architecture firms in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best architecture firms in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/architecture-firm
- Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno
- /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 Manu Studios. 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:ChIJ-1W4yxTLj4ARfvumAVnN8JI (accessed Oct 4, 2026)