# Cascade Financial Strategies, LLC., Bend: a financial planner in Bend (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/or/bend/cascade-financial-strategies-llc-bend-or. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-10-01. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/or/bend/cascade-financial-strategies-llc-bend-or

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## In short

Cascade Financial Strategies, LLC. is a financial planner in Bend, OR. Its AI Score is 44 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 | Financial planner |
| Address | 243 SW Scalehouse Loop #1a, Bend, OR 97702, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (541) 678-5475 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 5.0 across 41 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Nothing found |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 30, 2026, 11:39 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 | 243 SW Scalehouse Loop #1a, Bend, OR 97702, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Cascade Financial Strategies, LLC is a Fee-Only Fiduciary financial advisor in Bend, Oregon offering financial planning and investment management tailored to match client goals and needs, including Socially Responsible (ESG) portfolios, and led by a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®). We have proudly served clients in Bend and throughout Central Oregon since 2013, including Redmond, Sisters, Sunriver, La Pine, Prineville, and Madras. Our comprehensive planning process goes beyond investments, aligning strategies to each client’s lifetime financial goals. Contact us today to schedule your complimentary consultation. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Cascade Financial Strategies, LLC. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (541) 678-5475 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/cascadefinancialstrategies | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.cascadefs.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |


## Services and prices

Services not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Known for

None of the 5 reviews we've read names a service yet.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Cascade Financial

Address: 243 SW Scalehouse Loop #1a, Bend, OR 97702, USA. Phone: (541) 678-5475. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 30, 2026 at 11:39 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Cascade Financial on its Google Business Profile: "Cascade Financial Strategies, LLC is a Fee-Only Fiduciary financial advisor in Bend, Oregon offering financial planning and investment management tailored to match client goals and needs, including Socially Responsible (ESG) portfolios, and led by a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®).

We have proudly served clients in Bend and throughout Central Oregon since 2013, including Redmond, Sisters, Sunriver, La Pine, Prineville, and Madras. Our comprehensive planning process goes beyond investments, aligning strategies to each client’s lifetime financial goals. Contact us today to schedule your complimentary consultation."


### 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 41 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read September 30, 2026.)

Cascade Financial Strategies stands out for its commitment to personalized service and socially responsible investment options. (AI guess, from 41 reviews.)


### What people like

- Comprehensive financial planning
- Retirement planning expertise
- Focus on socially responsible investing
- Timely and professional communication
- Thorough retirement evaluations


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about Cascade Financial found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Cascade Financial

Cascade Financial hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### the good stuff about this place, what is it?

No answer yet


### Can I get in this week at Cascade Financial?

No answer yet


### Busiest day at Cascade Financial, anyone know?

No answer yet


### lunch near Scalehouse Loop, what is good

No answer yet


### cheaper than Cascade Financial in Bend without it being sketchy?

No answer yet


### best financial planner in Bend, OR

No answer yet


### planning a Saturday visit, is that a wasted trip

No answer yet


### Whereabouts is this place?

No answer yet


### what time does Cascade Financial in Bend actually open?

No answer yet


### Worth the hype at Cascade Financial?

No answer yet


### how do I reach Cascade Financial to sort something out?

No answer yet


### anyone here people keep going back to?

No answer yet


### first time here, what is it actually like?

No answer yet


### Street parking near here, any good?

No answer yet


### going rate for planners locally, any idea

No answer yet


### is there a rewards thing here

No answer yet


### walk ins, or is it booked solid

No answer yet


### Do they post anywhere?

No answer yet


### narrowing it down to two, which one

No answer yet


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Cascade Financial

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Cascade Financial. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 30, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 44 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Financial planners on the registry run 18 to 53. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Cascade Financial scores 44. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Cascade Financial |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | 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 | 38 | 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 | Not read yet | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 2 answers we hold, so there is nothing to score. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 62 | 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. | Fair |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 55 | 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 | 73 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 80 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

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


## How AI decides what to tell you about a financial planner

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 a financial planner in Oregon, 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 Oregon.


## 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 Cascade Financial 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 Cascade Financial |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cascade Financial Strategies, LLC. | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.cascadefs.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Bend, Oregon | City | #city | Nothing found | City Cascade Financial 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 financial planners in Bend, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best financial planners in Bend: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/bend/financial-planner
- Best businesses in Bend: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/bend


### Nearby

- /portland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/portland
- /redmond: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/redmond
- /eugene: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/eugene
- /salem: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/salem


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Oregon: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or


## 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 Cascade Financial Strategies, LLC.. 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:ChIJ5YeC-S3GuFQRO0K4Mar9RZI (accessed Sep 30, 2026)