# Devon A. Gaines, CPA, Bend: a certified public accountant in Bend (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/or/bend/devon-a-gaines-cpa-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/devon-a-gaines-cpa-bend-or ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmup5ozap05wcyecunlz3ruxi%2F0.png) ## In short Devon A. Gaines, CPA is a certified public accountant in Bend, OR. 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 | Certified public accountant | | Address | 404 SW Columbia St #230, Bend, OR 97702, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 8 AM to 4 PM · Fri 8 AM to 3 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (541) 323-6750 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.0 across 4 reviews on Google | | Known for | Devon A. Gaines, CPA is best known for his expertise in tax accounting and personalized financial services, making tax preparation a seamless experience for clients in Bend. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 30, 2026, 11:31 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 | 404 SW Columbia St #230, Bend, OR 97702, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Location info | Description | We offer tax preparation and planning services for individuals and businesses, as well as overall financial planning, general business advisory services, and bookkeeping. We emphasize the importance of timeliness, professionalism and quality to meet each of our client’s specific needs. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Fri 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Devon A. Gaines, CPA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (541) 323-6750 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 3:00 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/devongainescpapc | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | http://dgainescpa.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Devon A. Gaines, CPA is best known for his expertise in tax accounting and personalized financial services, making tax preparation a seamless experience for clients in Bend. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Devon A Address: 404 SW Columbia St #230, Bend, OR 97702, USA. Phone: (541) 323-6750. Hours: Mon to Thu 8 AM to 4 PM · Fri 8 AM to 3 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Devon A on its Google Business Profile: "We offer tax preparation and planning services for individuals and businesses, as well as overall financial planning, general business advisory services, and bookkeeping. We emphasize the importance of timeliness, professionalism and quality to meet each of our client’s specific needs." ### 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 4.0 average across 4 reviews: Google 4. (Confirmed, read September 30, 2026.) This CPA is noted for efficient tax preparation but has received complaints about customer service and pricing. (AI guess, from 4 reviews.) ### What people like - Expertise in corporate and personal tax returns - Quick turnaround for tax filing - Thorough responses to client questions ### What people do not like - Rude customer service - High fees ### Press No press story about Devon A found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Devon A Devon A hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Any membership pricing here? No answer yet ### bad experiences at Devon A, anyone? No answer yet ### anything good on Columbia to kill time near Devon A? No answer yet ### Devon A, any chance to get in this week? No answer yet ### Calling Devon A, or is there a better way? No answer yet ### Open Saturdays here? No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for Devon A in Bend? No answer yet ### what does Devon A actually get right? No answer yet ### Whereabouts is this place? No answer yet ### anywhere cheaper than Devon A in Bend that is still good? No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to an accountant in Bend? No answer yet ### first time here, what is it actually like? No answer yet ### how far out is Devon A booking right now? No answer yet ### the good stuff about this place, what is it? No answer yet ### which one for Tax accounting and preparation services, Devon A or Fowler & Co? No answer yet ### does it matter who you see here No answer yet ### best certified public accountant in Bend, OR No answer yet ### is the lot at Devon A ever full? No answer yet ### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves No answer yet ### last update from here was when? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Devon A We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Devon A. 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: 23 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bend certified public accountants run 19 to 41. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Devon A scores 23, below the Bend average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Devon A | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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 | 23 | 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 | 24 | 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 | 53 | 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 | 54 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a certified public accountant 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 certified public accountant 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 Devon A 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 Devon A | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Devon A. Gaines, CPA | LocalBusiness | #business | http://dgainescpa.com/ | Subject of this page | | Bend, Oregon | City | #city | Nothing found | City Devon A 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 certified public accountants in Bend, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best certified public accountants in Bend: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/bend/certified-public-accountant - 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 Devon A. Gaines, CPA. 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:ChIJffHoGp3IuFQR1dNYBXSU7JA (accessed Sep 30, 2026)