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# HWC: Hilary Smith, CPA, Bend: an accountant in Bend (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/or/bend/hwc-hilary-smith-cpa-bend-or. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 5 sources. Updated 2026-10-01. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/or/bend/hwc-hilary-smith-cpa-bend-or

## In short

HWC: Hilary Smith, CPA is an 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 | Accountant |
| Address | 235 SE Urania Ln, Bend, OR 97702, USA |
| Hours | Nothing found |
| Phone | (541) 323-1077 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 5.0 across 6 reviews on Google |
| Known for | HWC: Hilary Smith, CPA is best known for its comprehensive tax services in Bend, OR, with a strong reputation for saving clients money and providing expert advice. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | October 21, 2026, 6:51 AM |


## 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 | 235 SE Urania Ln, Bend, OR 97702, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 235 SE Urania Ln, Bend, OR 97702 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | HWC: Hilary Smith, CPA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (541) 323-1077 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Biography | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Cpa | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 21, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Links | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Tax advice | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Tax preparation | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Tax tips | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 |
| Links | Website | https://hwctax.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 4 services HWC offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Biography |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Links |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Tax tips |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Cpa |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

HWC: Hilary Smith, CPA is best known for its comprehensive tax services in Bend, OR, with a strong reputation for saving clients money and providing expert advice.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting HWC

Address: 235 SE Urania Ln, Bend, OR 97702, USA. Phone: (541) 323-1077. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 30, 2026 at 11:15 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by HWC on its Google Business Profile: "235 SE Urania Ln, Bend, OR 97702"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Don Gabino's \| Mexican Grill | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| PAN Japanese Kitchen | Japanese restaurant | 2 min walk |
| 3rd Street @ Davis Avenue (W) | Bus stop | 3 min walk |
| 3rd at Yew | Bus stop | 3 min walk |
| 3rd @ Yew Lane | Transit station | 3 min walk |
| 3rd Street @ Miller Avenue (E) | Bus stop | 3 min walk |


## Reputation

5.0 average across 6 reviews: Google 6. (Confirmed, read September 30, 2026.)

This accounting service stands out for its thorough tax preparation and personalized financial advice. (AI guess, from 6 reviews.)


### What people like

- Thoroughness in tax preparation
- Efficiency in handling finances
- Knowledgeable financial advice


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about HWC found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from HWC

HWC hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### how do I reach this place to sort something out?

No answer yet


### address for HWC in Bend, anyone have it?

No answer yet


### On a budget in Bend, is HWC the one?

No answer yet


### Worth the hype at HWC?

No answer yet


### going here on Saturday, what should I expect

No answer yet


### anything good on Urania to kill time near HWC?

No answer yet


### membership, worth it or not

No answer yet


### any last minute slots here?

No answer yet


### is the lot at HWC ever full?

No answer yet


### where does this place post updates

No answer yet


### anyone at HWC people keep going back to?

No answer yet


### stopping by on a Sunday, will they be open

No answer yet


### picking between the two, is Capstone Accounting the safer bet?

No answer yet


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

No answer yet


### best accountant in Bend, OR

No answer yet


### what is the catch with this place?

No answer yet


### Busiest day at HWC, anyone know?

No answer yet


### Why do people rate HWC?

No answer yet


### are prices in Bend higher than everywhere else

No answer yet


### Can I get in this week at HWC?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about HWC

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

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 21, 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 accountants run 20 to 32. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. HWC scores 23, below the Bend average of 25. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | HWC |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 14 answers that recommended anyone. 6 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 49 | 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 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 67 | 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 | 73 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

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


## How AI decides what to tell you about an 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 an 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 HWC 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 HWC |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HWC: Hilary Smith, CPA | LocalBusiness | #business | https://hwctax.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Bend, Oregon | City | #city | Nothing found | City HWC 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 accountants in Bend, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best accountants in Bend: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/bend/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 HWC: Hilary Smith, 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:ChIJV8SJASfGuFQRGMUCd7P7dB4 (accessed Sep 30, 2026)
- [2] hwctax.com, https://hwctax.com/biography (accessed Oct 21, 2026)
- [3] hwctax.com, https://hwctax.com/links (accessed Oct 21, 2026)
- [4] hwctax.com, https://hwctax.com/bend-oregon-tax-tips (accessed Oct 21, 2026)
- [5] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 21, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 21, 2026)