Best AI SEO agencies in 2026: 20 compared on what they publish

The 20 AI SEO agencies at a glance

"Published pricing" is what I found on the agency's own site, in its own currency and without conversion. Where the only figure covers SEO, paid ads or the whole agency, the table says so, because that is not the same as a price for AI search work. "Named case study" gives the client the agency names, with a note on what the result measures, because many results that agencies publish are about Google rankings or leads rather than AI answers. "Not published" and "no price found" mean I could not find it on the pages I read, and the agency may well give it to you when you ask.

How I chose these AI SEO agencies

I checked 36 agencies in detail on their own sites and kept 20. Each one had to be a service agency that sells AI search work under some name (AI SEO, GEO, AEO or LLMO) and publishes a price or a case study with a specific result. From those I preferred the agencies with the most facts a reader can check, and I then kept a mix of places and sizes, so the list runs from a three-person team in Haarlem to agencies that report hundreds of staff, across the United States, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Canada, Australia and India. That mix is a choice of mine, and it means four agencies with similar facts, three in the United States and one in the Netherlands, did not make the list while other markets kept a place. Being left out says nothing about an agency's work.

I also left out twelve agencies whose pages, as I read them, promise the outcome itself: guaranteed rankings, visibility or exposure, or a flat statement that your brand will appear in AI answers, with no matching disclaimer on the pages I read. I am not naming them, because this is my reading of marketing copy and not a finding about their work. The reason is simple. Nobody controls what a search result or an AI answer shows, so a promise of that kind tells me something about the sales page, and Google warns against the same thing in classic search.

Everything here comes from each agency's own pages, read as raw HTML and not through third-party roundups or review sites. I did not read every page of every site, and the blogs mostly not at all, so "I could not find" means exactly that and does not mean the agency lacks something. Where a site contradicts itself I say so rather than pick one, because a buyer should get those terms in writing anyway. German, Dutch and French wording is my translation. I also did not test any agency's work, and I did not ask AI assistants which of them they recommend.

The 20 AI SEO agencies, in alphabetical order

Each entry follows the same order: what the agency says it offers, who it says it serves, its pricing as written, its case study in its own telling, and what it says about reporting. The links go to the agency's own pages, so you can read the original wording. None of them is a sponsored or affiliate link.

Blck Alpaca

Based in: Vienna, Austria. Its site: blckalpaca.at

What it says it offers: Blck Alpaca sells GEO under that name, as a GEO service across six disciplines, a GEO agency engagement and a one-time AI visibility check, and it names ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. Its pages word the outcome flatly: the agency page says "we get your company into the answers of ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews", and the GEO page and FAQ say a GEO agency "makes sure your brand is cited as a source" in AI answers. The agency page also says "We give no guarantees, because no agency controls how these systems pick sources", and the AI visibility check page says much the same. I found no such wording in the FAQ or on the GEO page, which says only that the work increases the likelihood of being recommended, and its terms say nothing either way, so check what your contract says. On rankings, its SEO consulting page says "We do not give ranking guarantees; nobody serious can."

Who it says it serves: It says it works with small and mid-sized companies in Austria and the wider DACH region, and it sells SEO and GEO next to custom AI agents, content and software. Its homepage says "We build custom AI agents that run SEO, content & analytics autonomously", so GEO is one service among several. That homepage also says "+ 200 Projects since 2016", while its about page says the company was founded on 24 April 2024 and started as a creative studio. The site opens in German and has an English version.

Pricing as written: I could not find a price for GEO. The agency page says "We do not quote flat prices without looking at the website", and the AI visibility check gets a fixed price after an intro call. The FAQ gives starting prices for SEO: consulting at €150 per hour, an ongoing SEO retainer from €2,000 per month and a defined project from €5,000. A blog post on GEO costs lists retainer ranges, which are market estimates, so I do not read them as its prices.

Its case study: Blck Alpaca's case studies page says it reached 500,000+ impressions per campaign for IPEC Group. That is not an AI search result, and I could not find a published case study about AI search. The one AI search figure I found is measured on its own site, in a tile headed "Sample data", so I do not treat it as a result.

What it says about reporting: The agency page describes GEO reports at fixed intervals on mentions in the prompt set, cited pages, AI crawler hits and visitors from assistants, each shown as a trend rather than a snapshot. I could not find a sample report on the pages I read.

Claneo

Based in: Berlin, Germany. Its site: claneo.com

What it says it offers: Claneo sells this as GEO and LLMO consulting. Its service page lists an AI quick check, GEO analyses and strategies, AI visibility analysis and monitoring, workshops, content readiness analysis, content creation, technical consulting, log file analysis for AI bots, E-E-A-T audits, digital PR and brand presence analysis, and it says GEO complements SEO rather than replacing it.

Who it says it serves: It says it works with corporations, SMEs and startups, in industries including FMCG, e-commerce, travel, finance, insurance, healthcare and pharmaceuticals.

Pricing as written: I could not find a price list or a stated minimum. Its contact form asks for a monthly budget with three options (up to 10,000€, 11,000-25,000€ and from 26,000€), and those are form brackets rather than prices.

Its case study: Claneo says its digital PR campaign for Ausbildung.de earned 81 clippings, including 55 dofollow backlinks and 16 print clippings, and that accompanying GEO tracking showed the brand's visibility in AI search assistants climbing as high as 100 percent on key questions about the regional apprenticeship market. It also says those figures dropped after a few weeks, which it reads as a sign that outreach has to continue.

What it says about reporting: Reporting is step five of its work process, described as regular reporting on performance plus ongoing optimisation, and I could not find a stated frequency or format. Its FAQ names common GEO KPIs: mentions and citations in AI answers, brand sentiment in the AI context, and topic or prompt coverage.

ClickForest

Based in: Bonheiden, Belgium. Its site: clickforest.com

What it says it offers: ClickForest sells GEO, which it says is also called AI SEO, as an ongoing programme and as a one-off audit. The programme lists entity optimisation, a conversational content strategy, a citation strategy, schema markup and metadata, AI search intent mapping and weekly monitoring in Veesie, its own tool, for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.

Who it says it serves: It says the programmes run for Belgian SMEs, scale-ups and B2B businesses in Mechelen, Antwerp and across Flanders, and that GEO is relevant primarily in B2B contexts with longer decision-making. It also has a tourism and leisure offer.

Pricing as written: A GEO programme starts from €700 per month and SEO and GEO together from €950 per month, with a minimum term of three months and monthly cancellation after that. A one-off GEO audit starts from €595.

Its case study: ClickForest says it rewrote the Servaes Services site (moving and storage) for SEO and GEO and rebuilt it, and that the new site loads 4 times faster and scores 92/100 on PageSpeed mobile, measured on 19/10/2026. Both figures are about site speed. I could not find a client figure for AI citations or mentions in its project pages or GEO pages, and I did not read its blog.

What it says about reporting: It says fixed question sets are measured every week in Veesie, and that reporting shows the concrete answers and sources with its GEO Score as a trend, a score it describes as an index of its own. It says active retainer clients also get a custom dashboard (Meta Ads, Google Ads, GA4, Search Console, Shopify) and a weekly email summary.

Eskimoz

Based in: Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Its site: eskimoz.fr

What it says it offers: Eskimoz sells an "Agence GEO" service covering ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overview and Gemini. The listed services are a GEO audit, GEO strategy, GEO content, authority and mentions, SEO and GEO synergy, semantic structuring, GEO monitoring and content scaling, and it runs a proprietary tool for AI visibility called LLM Ranking.

Who it says it serves: It describes itself as a "Global Search" acquisition agency working with established brands. Its navigation lists tourism, health, luxury, SaaS, e-commerce, banking and insurance, automotive, energy and ready-to-wear. Its legal notice gives a head office in Boulogne-Billancourt, the address its site lists for its Paris office, and it lists further offices in Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, London, Milan, Madrid and Düsseldorf.

Pricing as written: I could not find a price or minimum for its GEO service, where the page links to its contact page. An FAQ on its SEO page gives general SEO budget ranges, which are worded as a market guide, so I do not read them as Eskimoz's prices. Its about page says part of its pay is tied to the performance it generates, without giving a share or conditions.

Its case study: Eskimoz says Fraser Yachts (luxury yachting) gained +485% "trafic GEO", +45% SEO visibility and +23% keywords in the top 3. The page gives no period, baseline or definition of "trafic GEO", and the work combined SEO, SEA, netlinking and GEO, so the page does not separate out the effect of GEO. Its client list also names Ledger and Air Liquide for SEO and GEO work.

What it says about reporting: The GEO page says it tracks mentions, citations and appearances in the main generative engines, with regular reporting, and its Eskimoz App platform is described as offering a performance dashboard, alerting and automatically generated reports. I could not find report contents or a frequency for the GEO service.

Gold Lemon

Based in: Haarlem, Netherlands. Its site: goldlemon.nl

What it says it offers: Gold Lemon sells this as a GEO agency service and says the same work is also called AEO, AI SEO or LLM optimization. It says it checks every week whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode name the client, and does the work on pages, structured data and mentions. Its about page says the fixed team is three people and that AI agents do the volume work, with a senior marketer reviewing everything before it goes live. The site is mainly in Dutch, with a smaller English section.

Who it says it serves: It says B2B SMEs, with software, IT and tech as its first specialism. The GEO page says 5 to 100 employees and the homepage FAQ says 5 to 50, and it says it is not for freelance coaches or local retail.

Pricing as written: €2,499 one-off for what it calls the Fundament and then €699 per month for the Marketingmotor, both excluding VAT, cancellable monthly with no minimum term, on its ChatGPT visibility page. A weekly measurement-only AI scan is €49 per month. It lists the client's own Claude subscription, AI tokens, ad budget, hosting and domain as not included.

Its case study: Gold Lemon says that for M2C Telecom it delivered twice as many demo requests, a top 3 position on 40 search terms and over 1,200 decision makers in the LinkedIn campaign. I could not find a baseline, time period or client-level AI citation figure on the case page. Dashboard figures elsewhere on the site are labelled as fictional examples.

What it says about reporting: It describes a client dashboard with its own login, rebuilt every Monday from 26 sources including Search Console, GA4, Bing Webmaster Tools, Microsoft Clarity, live position checks and the AI engines, plus a Monday email of priorities and a monthly report. It also publishes the GEO Agency Index, a ranking of Dutch GEO agencies in which it appears itself as the party doing the measuring, and it says that index does not measure the quality of the work.

Graphite

Based in: San Francisco, US. Its site: graphite.io

What it says it offers: Graphite sells Answer Engine Optimization as a full-service offer, and its six listed services are prompt research, citation-ready content, brand sentiment and reputation management, technical AEO, citation tracking and analytics, and offsite AEO and Reddit strategy. It says "our research team identifies the 5% of AEO strategies that consistently drive measurable impact", it has no separate GEO page, and it also sells SEO. This is Graphite Growth, Inc. at graphite.io, not the developer tool of the same name.

Who it says it serves: Its careers page calls it a research-driven growth agency for fast-growing companies and gives 120+ team members, 15+ countries and 100+ clients. It states no industry specialism, and its homepage names Webflow, n8n and Hinge Health among the companies it helps.

Pricing as written: I could not find a price for the agency work. The only prices I found are for its Internal Links API software, at $199 to $1,299 a month billed annually, which is a different product. Its SEO page says "Twelve months minimum." in an FAQ about SEO, I could not find a stated term for AEO, and the terms for an engagement sit in a statement of work that is not public.

Its case study: Graphite says that for Webflow LLM share of voice rose from 33% to 64%, which it reports as 94% growth, and that the share of sign-ups coming from LLMs doubled from 4% to 8%. The page is labelled January 2026, the results are from 2025, and share of voice is measured with Graphite's own tooling. The others on its case studies page are not about AI search: BetterUp and MasterClass are SEO results, and Fourthwall is a software customer rather than agency work.

What it says about reporting: Its AEO page says it tracks which AI engines cite the client (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews), on which questions and against which competitors, on a fixed prompt set reported quarter over quarter. It says it works from the client's tracking tool and adds manual logged-in checks. I could not find a client dashboard or report format described.

iPullRank

Based in: New York City, US. Its site: ipullrank.com

What it says it offers: iPullRank calls the service GEO Services, says GEO and AEO are the same thing, and sells it as the AI Search Strategy Program. The listed deliverables are a Keyword Portfolio, Omnimedia Content Audit, Omnimedia Content Plan, Measurement Plan, Relevance Engineering Technical Assessment and AI Search Strategic Roadmap. It says AI-assisted writing with human review is its standard production model, with manual human-written content listed for its two larger stages.

Who it says it serves: Its homepage title says enterprise and mid-market. It sorts clients into Emerging (startups and newer brands), Growth (mid-market and challenger brands, national and regional businesses) and Elite (Fortune 500s and enterprise organizations), and names financial services, consumer goods, ecommerce and publishing as industry focus.

Pricing as written: It publishes three investment ranges by stage: Emerging $30,000 to $150,000, Growth $150,000 to $500,000 and Elite $500,000+. The page does not say whether a range is per year or per engagement, and the site's program timelines run 3 months for Emerging and 12 months for the other two. Its RFP page calls the strategy program fixed fee without giving a figure.

Its case study: iPullRank says a national self-storage brand, whose name it does not give, gained over 278% in AI Overview visibility and over 21% in AI-referred revenue in 3 months. The page's top stats give 34% more "AI Referred Sessions" while its Results section gives the 34% as "AI Search Visibility". Its homepage says case studies in the age of AI search "may seem misguided because delivering results effectively is still a work in progress", and continues "Instead, we can provide an innovative team that delivers real results. And we stand by those results". Its case studies page lists five more, none naming the client, and one of them reports AI Overview figures for a telecommunications provider.

What it says about reporting: It says every stage includes monthly reporting against a Measurement Plan, with scope growing by stage from AI search visibility, trends and shipped work up to executive detail tied to business impact. The metrics it names include citation frequency, AI referral traffic, fan-out coverage and competitor benchmarking.

LSEO

Based in: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. Its site: lseo.com

What it says it offers: For AI search, LSEO has two named optimization services, Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization. It says AEO engagements can include AI visibility benchmarking, prompt research, technical SEO, entity optimization, structured data, answer-first content, third-party authority building and measurement in LSEO AI, its own tool. It also sells Mention Engine, placements in third-party Best Of lists, comparisons, reviews and buyer guides, either managed by LSEO or run by the buyer through a marketplace, and its AEO page says it uses this for clients. Its white label page says Mention Engine is not automatically included in a conventional white-label SEO agreement, so an agency reselling LSEO's work should ask whether it is in scope.

Who it says it serves: It calls itself a full-service digital marketing company and says it helps growth-focused companies. It names professional services, healthcare, technology, ecommerce and national brands, adds Enterprise and B2B, SaaS, Healthcare and Legal, and Local and Multi-Location on the AEO page, and also sells white label services to agencies.

Pricing as written: I could not find a retainer or minimum on the AEO or GEO pages I read. The placement prices I found are for managed Mention Engine placements, not for the GEO or AEO service: $449 per placement one-time, $399 monthly, $379 a month per placement on an annual plan billed upfront, and a Shortlist of 3 placements a month at $1,197 a month on monthly billing. Separately, its link building page lists a fully managed program that "Starts at $2,500" with no period stated, and its LSEO AI page lists the tool at $49.99 a month on a plan it calls SOLO.

Its case study: LSEO says that for Weigand Machine and Design (US manufacturing and eCommerce) it tracked 33,737 AI mentions across seven engines and 4,544 visitors referred from AI answers between January 1 and September 17, 2026, measured in LSEO AI. It also says monthly clicks rose 38.8% and weighted average position improved from 14.5 to 5.8 between June 2025 and August 2026, measured in Google Search Console. I could not find a pre-engagement baseline for the AI figures on that page, which reports its AI Visibility Score of 81 as a current-state figure and discloses that the LSEO AI dashboard's trend indicator for the score is down 62% versus its comparison period.

What it says about reporting: Its GEO page says reporting varies by engagement and can include AI Visibility Score, brand mentions, citations, prompt coverage, competitor visibility, source patterns and traffic referred from AI platforms, measured with LSEO AI alongside Google Search Console and other performance sources.

NoGood

Based in: New York City, US. Its site: nogood.io

What it says it offers: NoGood sells Answer Engine Optimization services across four pillars: AI visibility intelligence and strategy, content and owned media optimization, earned media and citation building, and technical AEO infrastructure. It says it integrates AEO and SEO into one organic growth strategy, and AEO sits in a growth agency that also sells paid search, paid social, organic social, CRO and analytics. Its pages describe the Goodie AI tool differently: the AEO page calls it an external, third-party tool and its AI marketing page calls it proprietary.

Who it says it serves: It says it works exclusively in SaaS, B2B, healthcare, fintech, consumer and eCommerce, and AI.

Pricing as written: It says engagements are monthly retainers and that the average retainer is above $20,000 a month. That is a stated average rather than a minimum, it is on the agency-wide homepage FAQ rather than specific to AEO, and NoGood says it does not offer standardized packages.

Its case study: NoGood says its AEO program for SteelSeries drove a 23x increase in AI search traffic and 27x growth in conversions from AI platforms year over year. The case study itself also gives 6.7X traffic, to over 1,500 daily visitors, and a 7.1X increase in conversions for January to October 2025, so the figures depend on the baseline. Its own agency roundup ranks itself first.

What it says about reporting: It says each client gets an executive dashboard and an AI agent to access data and monitor work in real time, plus regular reporting, and I could not find a report cadence for its own clients. The AEO page says it measures brand mention frequency, citation rate, share of voice, sentiment accuracy and position in AI recommendations, plus AI referral traffic through GA4 custom channel groups, conversions and pipeline or revenue.

OneCity Technologies

Based in: Bengaluru, India. Its site: onecity.co.in

What it says it offers: OneCity sells GEO and AEO services and AI SEO services, and describes four parts delivered as one programme: GEO, AEO, SGE and Google AI Overviews, and LLMO. The AI SEO page adds a baseline of 30 to 50 questions run through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews and re-run monthly. The same site sells web design, mobile apps, hospital and clinic software, PPC, social media and training courses.

Who it says it serves: It says mainly businesses in Bengaluru, Mangaluru and Mysuru, in healthcare, education, real estate, hospitality, manufacturing and e-commerce, with projects in Tamil Nadu and Dubai. The GEO page also names B2B and professional services, and adds clients in the UAE and UK.

Pricing as written: The GEO page lists GEO/AEO Starter at ₹25,000–45,000 a month, Growth at ₹45,000–90,000, GEO + SEO Integrated at ₹60,000–150,000 and Enterprise LLMO at ₹150,000+, and says these are quoted after an audit rather than a standard rate card. Other pages differ. The AI SEO page puts AI search visibility in a Growth SEO package at ₹25,000 to ₹50,000 a month plus GST, and the GEO page itself also says pricing starts at ₹15,000 a month for local Bangalore businesses. One page says there is no long-term lock-in and another says a minimum 3-month commitment, so get the terms in writing.

Its case study: OneCity says that for WeCare24, a home nursing brand it moved off WordPress, it recorded 8,928 clicks in 90 days, 642,383 impressions and 140 queries in the top 3 from March 1 to May 30, 2026. That is a search result rather than an AI one. The homepage gives Generative AI feature impressions for CollegesInfo.org, OneCityProperty.com and CollegeMarker.com, and its pricing page says CollegeMarker was a site the founder built and ran. I could not find who owns the other two on the pages I read.

What it says about reporting: The GEO page describes a monthly AI visibility report, with the full prompt test battery re-run each month and written analysis of citation rates, accuracy, competitor changes and next month's priorities. The same page also mentions a quarterly AI search visibility report.

Peak Ace

Based in: Berlin, Germany. Its site: peakace.agency

What it says it offers: Peak Ace sells GEO and LLMO as a service, next to LLM consulting, covering AI visibility checks, technical foundations, digital PR, content and prompt sets, with both advice and implementation. Its service pages word the outcome flatly: the GEO page says "we'll make you a cited source in AI responses" and that GEO "ensures that your brand appears in AI-generated responses". Its GEO guide, a blog post dated November 4, 2026 that both of those pages link to, says "No one can guarantee a mention or citation", and its terms say a certain level of success with regard to findability or placement is not owed, without naming AI answers. I found no such wording on the AI service pages themselves, so check what your contract says.

Who it says it serves: Its business profile calls it an international, data-driven performance marketing agency, and it works across SEO, paid, digital PR, content and analytics in over 25 languages, so GEO is one service among many. It was founded in 2007, and its about page lists offices in Paris and Nantes as well as Berlin. That page says more than 170 employees, while the homepage gives 130+ "Peak Acers".

Pricing as written: I could not find a price for GEO or AI search. The only price I found is for paid ads campaigns for SMEs, on a German page that shows the fees in an image table: €1,100 a month on a 3-month term, €499 on 6 months, €199 on 12 and €99 on 24, plus 15% of ad budget and €99 a month per extra market.

Its case study: Peak Ace says its approach helped SMARTBROKER+ increase installs by over 540% and generate 1,000% more depot leads. Those are paid app and web campaigns rather than AI search, and I could not find a case study with an AI visibility result.

What it says about reporting: Its GEO page says dedicated Data Studio reports give an overview of LLM traffic, and that it tracks visibility for the most important user queries in Peec AI, which it calls its default tool and a partner. The measures it names are mention rate, citation rate, source quality and share of voice against competitors.

Rankskipper

Based in: Vienna, Austria. Its site: rankskipper.com

What it says it offers: Rankskipper sells GEO and AEO as a service, with sub-services for visibility in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Gemini. The GEO package on its pricing page lists an analysis of your AI visibility, content that AI systems cite, structured data, building trustworthy mentions and AI visibility reporting. The site is in German, and it says GEO complements SEO rather than replacing it.

Who it says it serves: It names gastronomy, doctors and private medicine, construction firms, beauty, e-commerce, lawyers and tax advisers, real estate and trades, with clients in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It also offers paid ads and software, and its contact page says only selected enquiries get an appointment.

Pricing as written: Its pricing page lists GEO at €889 a month, excluding 20% VAT, next to Local SEO at €449 and SEO at €749. I could not find a minimum contract term on the pages I read, and it says the exact scope is agreed after a free analysis.

Its case study: Rankskipper says that for the restaurant Zum Zirkelwirt in Salzburg, average Google position went from 15.1 to 4 in under ten months, with more than 1.1 million impressions and clicks per day rising from 57 to 517, attributed to Google Search Console. The daily figures are two single days. This is a classic SEO result, and I could not find a result for visibility in AI answers in the body of its seven published case studies, one of which covers its own AI product search for Shopify.

What it says about reporting: Its homepage says clients get monthly reports on rankings, impressions, clicks and enquiries, and the GEO package lists AI visibility reporting. Its GEO page describes regularly asking AI assistants relevant questions and documenting the answers as a common way to measure, and its ChatGPT page lists regular AI visibility reporting and regular analyses of how and where a brand is mentioned, although I could not find a description of what a client report contains.

Rise at Seven

Based in: Manchester, UK. Its site: riseatseven.com

What it says it offers: Rise at Seven runs an AI SEO Agency service covering AI visibility strategy (share of voice, prompt research, competitor benchmarking, citation analysis, sentiment), onsite AI optimisation, digital PR for AI discovery, Reddit and community work, social search and creators, and AI content and category strategy. It says clients can implement in-house or have it do the work.

Who it says it serves: It says it helps global brands lead their category. Its navigation lists B2B and travel marketing as industries, and its services page names clients including Red Bull, SIXT, Capital One, Revolution Beauty, JD Sports, Wayfair, Dermalogica and AXA. The contact page lists offices in London and New York as well as its Manchester HQ.

Pricing as written: Its services page says the minimum fee is £5,000 ($6,800) a month or £15,000 ($21,000) a project, and that clients range up to £75,000 ($102,000) a month. This is the agency-wide minimum rather than a price for the AI service. The AI page says most AI visibility programmes are priced as a monthly retainer and that a focused audit is usually the first commitment, and I could not find a price for that audit, although a blog post on budgeting for GEO says it offers an initial consumer pain-point research project for £5K.

Its case study: Rise at Seven says Revolution Beauty has a 73% share of voice in LLMs for beauty dupe category keywords, the keywords the agency itself names, and that its product PR pushes contributed £6.3 million in revenue directly to the site, which it calls a 21X ROI on agency spend.

What it says about reporting: Its Data and Insights page says it builds custom, live dashboards tracking rankings, organic sessions, brand visibility and revenue, and configures reporting for traffic and conversions from AI assistants. The AI SEO page says measurement can include share of voice, recommendation frequency, mentions, citations and their sources, sentiment, competitor visibility, brand demand, leads and revenue.

Search Engine People

Based in: Toronto, Canada. Its site: searchenginepeople.com

What it says it offers: Search Engine People sells AEO and GEO packages in three tiers, which it says combine prompt tracking, AI content optimization, new AI-focused content, technical GEO and AEO, schema and entity optimization, authority building and monthly reporting. The two larger tiers add links, digital PR or brand mentions, and outreach to AI-cited sources. Tracking covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Its AI SEO page says no agency can guarantee that a site will appear in AI answers, and its homepage says it cannot guarantee specific rankings or outcomes. Some of its city pages word it differently, such as the Toronto page, which says "We guarantee measurable results" and also "We cannot guarantee results", so check what your contract says.

Who it says it serves: It is a full-service digital marketing agency serving small businesses through to enterprise brands, and says it looks for clients in an established market with known demand. Its footer also lists marketing for law firms, dentists and franchises, and white label SEO.

Pricing as written: It publishes a "suggested range" for each tier: AI Visibility at 1,500–2,500 CAD a month (50 prompts tracked, 3 competitors), AI Visibility Growth at 3,000–5,000 CAD (150 prompts, 5 competitors) and AI Visibility Authority at 6,000–10,000 CAD (300+ prompts, 10 competitors). Its homepage says of its services generally that it has no minimum terms but recommends 4, 6 or 12 months depending on the project.

Its case study: It says Sunset Docks & Lifts Muskoka grew gross revenue from $1.7 million to $5 million within one year, on an annual investment in the $10,000 to $49,999 range. That was an SEO, PPC and conversion optimization engagement, and I could not find AI search, AEO or GEO work in the body of the five case studies on its case studies page.

What it says about reporting: It says every package includes monthly reporting, and that it looks at presence in AI-generated answers, citations and brand mentions, prompt-level visibility, competitive coverage and changes in the topics where the brand surfaces. I could not find a report format for these packages.

Searchlab

Based in: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its site: searchlab.nl

What it says it offers: Searchlab calls it GEO or AI visibility and says GEO, AEO, LLM optimization and AI SEO are one approach, covering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Its six steps are a baseline in week 1 on a fixed set of unbranded questions, mapping the sources the engines cite, building answer and statistics pages, technical work, consistent company details across sites and profiles, and re-measuring every month. It says the work is done by its own AI systems, with a small team of senior freelance marketers adjusting the output (about page). Its service, pricing and case pages are in Dutch, and the agency says it is not connected to the US agency SearchLab Digital.

Who it says it serves: It says service providers, B2B companies and webshops in the Netherlands, including small businesses that can spend at least €1,500 a month and mid-sized companies that often already have SEO and Ads agencies.

Pricing as written: Focus, with AI visibility as the only line and the stated minimum, is from €1,500 per month. With more lines it lists Start at €3,000, Grow at €4,000, Scale at €5,000 and custom from €7,500 per month, excluding VAT, and media budget and third-party tool licences are paid by the client. Its pricing page says there is no minimum term, and its terms set one calendar month's notice.

Its case study: The only AI visibility case on its cases page is about the agency itself. Searchlab says it went from place 20 of 222 to place 1 of 196 between the October and November 2026 editions of the GEO Agency Index Nederland by Gold Lemon, with mentions rising from 70 of 1,298 answers to 345 of 1,305, and that it published a GEO page and its terms in between. The ten named client cases there do not mention AI search. In one, Fournituren.nl, labelled Google Ads, Shopping and Facebook, it says revenue was 30% higher after three months. Its GEO page does quote one client, H2YO, saying that a lead found the company through an AI browser less than a month after it started with Searchlab, and it adds that one lead is not a measurement.

What it says about reporting: The GEO page describes a monthly report per engine, showing mentions per engine, whether the client was named per question and which competitors appear in the same answer, cited sources, the difference from the week 1 baseline, what was done, whether it worked and what comes next. The pricing page says Focus gets the monthly report, and that Start and above add a weekly dashboard and reading moment.

Seokratie

Based in: Munich, Germany. Its site: seokratie.de

What it says it offers: Seokratie sells GEO consulting, and says it is often also called AI visibility, LLMO or AEO. It lists a baseline of how often and how accurately the client is named in ChatGPT, Claude and AI search, a foundation check (structured data, entities, crawlable HTML, load times, AI crawler access), brand mentions on citable publishers, entity building and information gain from own data, plus implementation or support for the client's own teams (its pricing article says technical changes are carried out by the client's IT or developer) and measurement. It says about 80 percent of GEO work is classic SEO, and that it can be booked as an add-on to SEO, including SEO run by another provider. The site is in German.

Who it says it serves: Its GEO page says it has a clear B2B and industry focus: established mid-sized companies, machinery makers, B2B manufacturers and B2B software vendors. Its general FAQ says it works in all industries, with many B2B clients, and specializes in none. It also says GEO is currently much less relevant for pure fast-moving B2C products. The GEO case study it publishes is a retail client, a renovation discounter.

Pricing as written: Its pricing article gives an hourly rate of about €150 (as of October 2026), billed in quarter-hour steps. Ongoing retainers start at about €1,000–2,000 a month in one summary and about €2,000 in another, with no upper limit, and GEO is added as extra hours or a package with a fixed hour allowance. The GEO page says a defined GEO audit is typically in the low four figures. Its FAQ says it has no specific minimum budget and gives contract terms that differ slightly from the article, so confirm those.

Its case study: Seokratie says that for an unnamed renovation discounter with over 120 branches, supported on SEO and GEO since July 2026, conversions rose by just under 14% year on year (September 2026 against September 2025, in GA4). It also says LLM sessions rose strongly, and its GA4 chart shows about 1,700 sessions in July 2026 and about 6,000 in September 2026. Its named clients are SEO cases, for example Sofanella, where it reports organic visibility up by almost 700%.

What it says about reporting: It says clients get a detailed monthly report of the hours worked and that success metrics are set per client. For GEO it says it measures how often, in what form and in what context the client is named against competitors, the accuracy and tone of AI answers and whether the client is cited, and that it reports what moved and also what did not and why. It leaves the tools to be agreed per client.

Siege Media

Based in: Remote, mailing address in Austin, US. Its site: siegemedia.com

What it says it offers: Siege Media sells GEO services covering research reports and digital PR, bottom-funnel content, Reddit and community presence, affiliate partnerships, content refreshes, interactive assets and strategy. Its process starts with market analysis, prompt-level citation mapping, a freshness audit and a baseline LLM share-of-voice benchmark, and it says clients do not need every workstream.

Who it says it serves: The GEO page names SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, cybersecurity, education and travel brands, and asks for a 6+ month horizon. Its enquiry form says the best fit is companies with 50+ employees or $5 million+ in revenue or funding.

Pricing as written: I could not find a price for the GEO service itself. Content marketing has a minimum of $8,000 per month, on a 12-month contract with a 30-day out clause. Digital PR starts around $12,000 to $15,000 per month when it both creates and promotes the content, and the monthly budget options on the enquiry form start at $10,000 to $15,000.

Its case study: Siege Media says it helped Grow Therapy (mental health platform) raise LLM visibility from 11% to 43% over an engagement launched in fall 2025, citing data from Peec AI, and lists the services as content marketing and digital PR. The client quote on the same page gives a separate figure, "over 400%", for high-priority tracked prompts, while the case study describes the 11% to 43% as covering relevant mental health queries.

What it says about reporting: It says that from month 4 onward there is monthly reporting against citations, share of voice and revenue, with quarterly roadmap reviews, and that every engagement ships with tracking of LLM share of voice in category prompts, citations earned, AI-referral traffic and branded search lift. Its FAQ does not name a monitoring tool and says the recommendation depends on client and budget.

SmartRanking

Based in: Groningen, Netherlands. Its site: smartranking.nl

What it says it offers: SmartRanking sells Generative Engine Optimization, labelled AI SEO (GEO) in its menu. Its GEO page lists four steps: analysis of content, technical SEO, link profile and AI visibility, then a custom strategy, then on-page GEO and authority building, then continuous measuring and optimizing. It names ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews. The site is in Dutch with an English version, and SmartRanking is part of the Loyals Groep with a second office in Mijdrecht.

Who it says it serves: It says mid-sized and large e-commerce and B2B brands in the Benelux, and its e-commerce page narrows this to brands with roughly €5 to €100 million in revenue. Its about page also says it works for clients in the Netherlands, Europe and the United States.

Pricing as written: Its SEO outsourcing page sets a minimum of 12 hours a month at €120 an hour, so from €1,440 a month, and says the cost depends on shop size, niche, competition and existing optimization. Its main SEO page gives a higher figure, saying the budget on most of its SEO projects is at least €2,160 a month. I could not find a separate GEO price, and its terms say all prices exclude VAT unless stated otherwise. Those terms also set a notice period of three full calendar months.

Its case study: SmartRanking says it has worked on SEO for Vivara since August 2024 and added GEO in early 2026, that visibility grew 60.97% from August 2024 through September 2026, that Vivara reached an average first market position in Europe, and that the brand was visible in 65% of measured answers in AI models. It says its own tool, SmartAI, does the AI monitoring on this project, and it sells SmartAI separately.

What it says about reporting: I could not find a standard report described on its site. Its process page says each monthly sprint starts with a meeting on results and work, and its about page says execution, budget and results are tracked in SmartAI. The Vivara case describes a custom dashboard with AI share of voice, for that client.

StudioHawk

Based in: Melbourne, Australia. Its site: studiohawk.com.au

What it says it offers: StudioHawk sells AI SEO and AI search services and treats AI SEO, AI search, LLM SEO and GEO as one umbrella. Its four steps are technical and content foundations, AI-friendly optimisation (schema, semantic audits, formatting for extraction, entity clusters), authority building through digital PR and mentions, and visibility tracking. Its Gemini page says no agency can guarantee placement. The only guarantee with stated terms that I found is about links: its agency information page lists guaranteed link placements, package dependent, under digital PR, and its digital PR page says the guarantee runs on a points-based target for quality, relevance and domain rating, with a pro-rata refund if the target is missed.

Who it says it serves: It says it specialises exclusively in SEO, AI search and digital PR, for business owners and marketing leaders at small to enterprise companies, with experience in eCommerce, SaaS, B2B, health, finance, law, telecommunications, publishers and retail. It is based in Melbourne and says it has offices in Sydney, London and Atlanta.

Pricing as written: I could not find a price for AI SEO, which it says it does not offer as a separate service. Its SEO consultant page says SEO strategies begin from $1,900 + GST a month, with the currency shown only as "$", while its llms.txt file gives local SEO from $1,500 a month and the homepage FAQ says pricing is a bespoke proposal, so confirm the figure. It says it does not do lock-in contracts.

Its case study: StudioHawk says that for Cooper & Co, a furniture, mirrors and lighting retailer on Shopify, AI referred sessions grew from 759 to 7,825 year on year, with the brand cited across 154 pages in AI-generated answers and 476 brand mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and AI Mode. The passage I read does not name the measuring tool.

What it says about reporting: Its reporting page describes GA4 tracking, real-time Whatagraph dashboards and monthly insights written by specialists, with AI visibility among the reported items. Its ChatGPT page says it has built internal tools to track brand presence across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.

WebFX

Based in: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US. Its site: webfx.com

What it says it offers: WebFX offers AI search optimization services, which it says combine core SEO with LLM visibility and offline brand authority. Its plan table lists AI crawler access management, schema markup for AI extraction, AI answer-ready content and citation tracking across AI answer engines. This comes from its SEO services and SEO pricing pages, and from its AI search optimization page, which also calls the service GEO services, says SEO is included and describes OmniSEO, its own platform for tracking AI search visibility. It says client-facing content is written and reviewed by its own SEO copywriters.

Who it says it serves: It says businesses of all sizes, with "Experience in 200+ industries", and calls itself a full-service digital marketing agency. Its headquarters are in Harrisburg.

Pricing as written: SEO services start at $2,900 per month. The SEO plan table has five columns, at $2,900, $4,200, $6,150, $7,400 and $9,200, under the row "Monthly Investment (6-month commitment)". Its AI search optimization page prices that service separately, with "GEO Solutions Starting At" $3,000 a month, seven plans at $3,000, $5,250, $7,500, $12,000, $23,250, $34,500 and $68,250 under the row "Progressive Monthly Optimization (6-month commitment)", and an eighth by quote.

Its case study: WebFX's services page says URAC, an SEO client of four years, adopted its AI search optimization services in 2025 and saw a 118% increase in traffic from LLMs, while its URAC case study says a 188% increase in traffic from AI channels, so the two pages give different figures, and the text of neither gives a period or baseline. The homepage also says Thompson Tractor saw a 586% increase in traffic from generative AI sources, and its case study says the AI search strategy launched in January 2025 without giving a period or baseline for that figure.

What it says about reporting: The plan table lists monthly tracking of presence in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode and citation tracking across AI answer engines (frequency, source pages and competitive share of voice) on all five plans. Its services page adds monthly reporting and a 24/7 reporting dashboard in its own RevenueCloudFX platform, and the homepage mentions weekly updates and monthly calls.

How to choose between these AI SEO agencies

Start with the two filters that remove most of the list on their own, which are your market and your budget. An agency that works in Dutch for Dutch companies will not help a US retailer, and a retainer that averages above $20,000 a month is a different purchase from one at €700. Then look at who each agency says it is for, because they are fairly direct about it: Gold Lemon says it is not for freelance coaches or local retail, Seokratie says GEO is currently much less relevant for fast-moving B2C products, and Siege Media says its best fit has 50+ employees or $5 million+ in revenue or funding. My full checklist, with the red flags and the questions to ask before you sign, is in how to choose an AI SEO agency and check their work.

After that, compare what is actually being sold, because the same three letters cover very different work. Google writes in its guide to optimizing for generative AI features that from its perspective this is "still SEO", and it says seeking inauthentic mentions around the web "isn't as helpful as it might seem". Google only speaks for Google, but it does make this a fair question for any proposal: which of these tasks would you not also do for classic SEO, and why? It is also worth asking how mentions on other sites are earned, since these agencies describe digital PR, Reddit and community work, affiliate partnerships and managed placements, and those are not the same thing.

Contract terms differ widely and are easy to compare. Searchlab says no minimum term with a month's notice, ClickForest has a three-month minimum, WebFX prices its SEO and AI search plans on a 6-month commitment, Siege Media asks for 12 months on content marketing with a 30-day out clause, and SmartRanking's terms set three calendar months' notice. Some sites contradict themselves on this, as I note in their entries, so get the term in writing. Whichever agency you pick, stay the owner of your Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and GA4 accounts, so the data is still yours when the contract ends.

AI SEO services for small businesses

Many of the published prices in this list are written for larger companies, and some agencies say so themselves, but others publish terms that a small company can compare. In euros, Gold Lemon lists €2,499 one-off and then €699 a month with no minimum term, aimed at B2B companies with 5 to 100 employees, and it says it is not for local retail or freelance coaches. ClickForest lists GEO from €700 a month for Belgian SMEs, or €950 together with SEO, with a one-off audit from €595. Rankskipper lists €889 a month and names sectors such as gastronomy, doctors, beauty and trades, on a site in German. Searchlab's Focus package is from €1,500 a month, and it says small businesses fit only if they can spend that. Outside the euro area, Search Engine People's smallest package has a suggested range of 1,500–2,500 CAD a month, and OneCity Technologies lists a starter tier from ₹25,000 a month for local businesses, although its pages give more than one figure.

Before you pay any of them, ask who will do the work, because the answers differ. Gold Lemon says its senior marketer spends 1 hour per week on an account while AI agents do the volume, and Searchlab says its own AI systems do the work with freelancers adjusting the output, so both tell you the model up front and you can weigh it against the price. Google's advice on whether you need an SEO is also more encouraging than most sales pages: "If you run a small local business, you can probably do much of the work yourself." The basics are the same work these packages list, which are pages that can be crawled and indexed, content that answers what your customers ask, and correct business details. If you want to see where you stand first, checking whether your site shows up in AI search costs nothing and uses your own data.

The AEO and SEO reporting to ask an agency for

Ask for a sample report before you sign, and check that every number names its source and date range. The sources count different things and never add up to one figure, so a single "AI visibility" score without that detail is hard to check. A section-by-section template is in AEO and SEO reporting for agencies, and how to check if your website shows up in AI search explains the first-party reports you can read yourself. The short version is four lines in the report:

• Search Console: clicks and impressions from the Performance report, plus AI Overviews and AI Mode impressions from the separate Generative AI performance report, which has no clicks and no queries.
• Bing Webmaster Tools: citations in Copilot and AI summaries from the AI Performance report, with its sample of grounding queries.
• GA4: sessions and key events from the AI Assistant channel, keeping in mind that it excludes AI Overviews and AI Mode, which count as Organic Search.
• Prompt tracker numbers, if any: labelled as a sample, with the prompt list, models and locations shown, and a note on who chose the prompts.

Read the published descriptions with that in mind. Some agencies name first-party sources in their reporting: Gold Lemon lists Search Console, GA4 and Bing Webmaster Tools among its dashboard sources, LSEO names Google Search Console next to its own tool, NoGood names GA4 custom channel groups, StudioHawk names GA4 and Eskimoz says its app connects natively to Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Google Ads. Several also report AI visibility through a tool they own, among them ClickForest (Veesie, next to GA4 and Search Console in its client dashboard), Eskimoz (LLM Ranking), LSEO (LSEO AI), SmartRanking (SmartAI, whose pricing page also lists Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools data) and WebFX (OmniSEO), so the agency is measuring its own work with its own product, which is worth knowing and asking about. Third-party trackers appear too, such as Peec AI in Siege Media's Grow Therapy case and in Peak Ace's reporting. I have no commercial relationship with Peec AI, and a tracker of any kind is still a sample of the prompts somebody chose. My comparison of ChatGPT rank tracking tools explains why two of them can disagree about the same brand.

What GSC Wizard does here

GSC Wizard is software, not an agency, so it does no SEO work for you and it is not one of the twenty. What it lets you do is check an agency's work with read-only access, without depending on the agency's report. When you connect Search Console you can pick the read-only option, which asks Google only for the webmasters.readonly scope, so GSC Wizard cannot change anything in your Search Console account. You then see Search Console's clicks and impressions yourself, by page and query, to set next to the agency's report, and annotations with an "Agency / team" category let you mark each change on the timeline so you can compare before and after. It works the other way round too: an agency that uses GSC Wizard can invite you to your own property with Read access, so you see live data rather than a PDF of it. For AI assistants, the LLM Traffic report shows GA4 sessions per assistant, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini and Claude.

The limits matter just as much here. GSC Wizard is not a prompt tracker, so it cannot tell you whether an AI assistant names or cites you, and it does not import Search Console's Generative AI performance report or Bing's AI Performance report, so you read those two in Google's and Microsoft's own interfaces. It also will not tell you which of these agencies to hire. If you want to try it, the web app has a 7-day free trial with no credit card, there is no free plan for the web app after that, and plans start from €17 a month; see pricing.

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