Best GEO Agencies and AI SEO Agencies in 2026

Eleven AI search agencies compared by what they can prove, with the real cost of each one, the eight agencies we cut for publishing nothing, and how to tell a GEO specialist from an SEO agency that renamed a page.

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Last updated August 10, 2026

Quick answer

Omniscient Digital is the strongest pick for mid-market B2B software. Breadchaser.ai is the only agency here that publishes a price for AI search work. That price is $997 a month. The company is one year old. NoGood suits consumer brands that need each engine tracked separately. Expect $3,000 to $10,000 a month, and above $20,000 at the top end. Four of the eleven publish no price at all.

Key takeaways

Best for mid-market B2B software: Omniscient Digital. Moved one client's AI citation share from 15% to 35% in 60 days.
Best per-engine reporting: NoGood. Separate scores for Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini across 10 months.
Only real GEO price: Breadchaser.ai, $997/mo. Founded 2025, one case study.
Only about 17% of sources cited in Google AI Overviews also rank in the organic top 10 (BrightEdge, February 2026).
Ask which tier includes GEO. RevenueZen's $3,000 entry tier includes none of it.
Two agencies other lists call independent were acquired in early 2024.
A tracking dashboard costs $95 a month. Start there if you cannot name the prompts you want to win.

AI answers name three or four companies and stop. No page two, no scrolling, no second place worth having.

Ranking well does not get you in. Only about 17% of the sources cited in Google AI Overviews also rank in the organic top 10 (BrightEdge, February 2026). That share has been flat for months.

So every SEO agency now sells generative engine optimization, and almost none of them can show you a result. Eleven agencies worth a call, sorted by what each one can prove. We checked 24 against their own websites and cut 13.

Best GEO agencies and AI SEO agencies at a glance

Rank	Name	Best for	Starting price
#1	Omniscient Digital Top pick	Mid-market B2B software companies that already publish and want AI citations measured	Custom. $10,000/mo covers full-service engagements across content, SEO and AI search
#2	NoGood	Consumer and hardware brands that need visibility tracked separately on each engine	Custom. $20,000/mo is the agency-wide average retainer across all growth marketing work
#3	Siege Media	Content-led companies that want AI visibility measured by a named tool over a long window	Custom. $8,000/mo is a content marketing minimum. The GEO service page publishes no price
#4	Directive	B2B software companies starting from no AI visibility at all	Custom. No price published on any page
#5	Skale	Software companies that want brand mentions and prompt coverage tracked as separate metrics	Custom. No price published. Clutch lists a $5,000 minimum, which is directory data
#6	RevenueZen	Buyers who want the whole price ladder before a sales call	Custom. The $3,000/mo entry tier includes AI brand monitoring only. The full GEO program starts at the $10,000/mo Scale tier
#7	Optimist	Anyone who wants to buy a diagnosis before committing to a retainer	$7,500 one-time roadmap. Retainers of $3,000 advisory and $4,000 full service cover organic growth including weekly AI visibility tracking
#8	Embarque	Seed and Series A software companies that want a fixed monthly number before the first call	Custom. Tiers of $1,500, $2,800, $5,200 and $10,000/mo buy a number of SEO service picks. GEO, AEO and LLM SEO are not selectable in any tier
#9	Omnius	European fintech and software companies	Custom. Omnius states on its own site that it does not offer standardised pricing packages
#10	Intero Digital	Larger businesses whose customers use Google rather than chat assistants	Custom. No price published on the GEO service page or anywhere else
#11	Breadchaser.ai	Health, fitness and wellness businesses under $1M in revenue	$997/mo on a six-month minimum, then month-to-month. The only price in this ranking published for AI search work specifically

Omniscient Digital

Custom. $10,000/mo covers full-service engagements across content, SEO and AI search

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Best for Mid-market B2B software companies that already publish and want AI citations measured

Omniscient Digital is a content and SEO agency for B2B software companies. Generative engine optimization sits on its own service page rather than as a line inside a content retainer.

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Omniscient Digital reports AI visibility as two numbers instead of one. The first is how often a brand appears across tracked queries. The second is what share of citations that brand wins. A brand can appear more often and still be cited less, and a single blended score hides that.

The Convert case study covers a 60-day engagement. Visibility across tracked queries went from 31% to 55%, which Omniscient Digital labels an 81% increase. It is 77%. Citation share went from 15% to 35%, labelled a 140% increase. It is 133%. Rounding of the underlying decimals is the likely explanation, and the direction of both results holds. Convert's CMO separately reported roughly 200% growth in AI Overview citations measured in Ahrefs.

Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
Founders: Alex Birkett, David Ly Khim, Allie Konchar
Notable clients: Convert, Order.co
Reviews: 4.8 out of 5 on Clutch, 6 reviews

Pros

Splits visibility from citation share. No other agency in this ranking reports both
Publishes the starting number, so the claim is testable
Austin office is a real street address
Names all three founders on its own about page

Cons

No way to buy generative engine optimization on its own. The $10,000 minimum covers content and SEO with it
One AI search case study published, covering one client
Founding year appears nowhere on Omniscient Digital's own site. The 2019 date comes from a founder's personal blog
New York, San Francisco and Chicago addresses are private mailboxes
Six Clutch reviews. Intero Digital has 147

NoGood

Custom. $20,000/mo is the agency-wide average retainer across all growth marketing work

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Best for Consumer and hardware brands that need visibility tracked separately on each engine

NoGood is a growth marketing agency rather than a search shop. Answer engine optimization is one service beside paid media, creative and lifecycle marketing, run by a squad assigned to the account.

Pros

Scores each engine separately instead of blending them into one number
The percentage it claims matches the figures it publishes, which is rarer here than it should be
Ten months is the longest single engagement documented in this ranking
States a real dollar figure for what clients typically spend

Cons

The $20,000 is an average across all growth marketing, not a price for answer engine optimization
The service page itself contains no numbers. Every result sits in a separate case study
Publishes no company data in structured form, so no founding year or address is machine-readable
Two review platforms disagree sharply, and both samples are tiny
Claims recognition from the Shorty Awards and The Drum, which we did not confirm with either body

Siege Media

Custom. $8,000/mo is a content marketing minimum. The GEO service page publishes no price

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Best for Content-led companies that want AI visibility measured by a named tool over a long window

Siege Media is a content marketing agency that built generative engine optimization into a service page of its own. The work is content-first, which suits a company whose AI visibility problem is that it has nothing worth citing.

Pros

Names its measurement tool. Nobody else in this ranking does
Gives calendar months rather than a vague duration
The headline multiple matches the underlying percentages
Publishes founding year and address in machine-readable form
Twelve-month contracts carry a 30-day exit clause

Cons

Publishes no price for the service this ranking is about
The site gives three answers on location. Structured data says an Austin mailbox. The contact page lists four cities. An about-page image is captioned as a San Diego head office that appears in no office list
The Mentimeter figure has no timeframe, so it cannot be compared to anything

Directive

Custom. No price published on any page

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Best for B2B software companies starting from no AI visibility at all

Directive is a B2B performance marketing agency for software companies. Generative engine optimization and answer engine optimization run as two separately branded services with their own pages, not one blurred offering.

Pros

Prompt coverage is a harder metric to game than traffic
Starting from zero makes the nine-month result easy to test
Runs the two services separately instead of selling one and delivering the other
Fifty-six Clutch reviews, the second-largest sample in this ranking

Cons

No price anywhere, including on both AI search service pages
The demo booking figure has no timeframe attached, unlike the prompt figure
Publishes no company data in structured form
The 2013 founding year comes from a first-person founding story, not a stated date
The lowest G2 score of any agency here that has one

Skale

Custom. No price published. Clutch lists a $5,000 minimum, which is directory data

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Best for Software companies that want brand mentions and prompt coverage tracked as separate metrics

Skale is an SEO agency for software companies, built around what it calls organic growth engines. AI search is split into two products, GEO Services and AI Brand Mentions. That is a useful split. Being mentioned and being cited are different outcomes with different work behind them.

Pros

Three dated AI case studies, more than any other agency here
Separates brand mentions, prompt coverage and domain citations instead of blending them
Reports to two decimal places, which reads like measurement rather than marketing
Sells AI Brand Mentions as its own product, not a bullet inside SEO

Cons

Not one AI client is named, so no result can be checked with a customer
Publishes no founding year, no address and no price. The privacy policy names no legal entity
The third case study has no timeframe, so it proves nothing
Shares a name with SKALE Network, a blockchain project, which makes background research harder

RevenueZen

Custom. The $3,000/mo entry tier includes AI brand monitoring only. The full GEO program starts at the $10,000/mo Scale tier

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Best for Buyers who want the whole price ladder before a sales call

RevenueZen is a B2B SEO and content agency, and the only one in this ranking that publishes what every tier costs and what each one contains. That transparency is also how you find the catch.

Pros

Six published tiers with the contents of each spelled out. Nobody else here does this
Three separate dated metrics on one named client
Month-to-month terms, with a discount for committing longer rather than a penalty for not
Thirty-eight Clutch reviews and ten named people on the team page

Cons

The headline price buys none of the service this ranking is about
Ownership is disclosed in an SEC filing, not on the website
Its own sitemap lists malformed URLs that return 404, one of them a GEO page
Issues itself a 4.8 rating inside its own structured data, attached to a product object
Publishes its own competing "best agencies" lists

Optimist

$7,500 one-time roadmap. Retainers of $3,000 advisory and $4,000 full service cover organic growth including weekly AI visibility tracking

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Best for Anyone who wants to buy a diagnosis before committing to a retainer

Optimist is a small organic growth consultancy for B2B software, built around one founder rather than a team you will never meet. The entry product is a paid roadmap, not a retainer. It is the cheapest way in this ranking to test whether an agency understands your category.

Pros

Gives exact calendar dates rather than a rounded number of months
A paid roadmap lets you test the thinking for a fixed fee before signing anything
Reports the starting number on both metrics
Tracks across five models, named on the page

Cons

Not one AI search client is named. Every result is described by industry
Publishes no location of any kind
The AI search service page carries no price. The only figures on it are contact form budget brackets
A single review, so the perfect score means very little
The retainers are sold as organic growth with visibility tracking included, so what they deliver for AI search specifically is unclear

Embarque

Custom. Tiers of $1,500, $2,800, $5,200 and $10,000/mo buy a number of SEO service picks. GEO, AEO and LLM SEO are not selectable in any tier

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Best for Seed and Series A software companies that want a fixed monthly number before the first call

Embarque is a productised SEO agency for early-stage software companies. Tiers are sold as a number of picks from a menu: content, backlinks, local SEO, small optimisations, Reddit marketing. AI SEO strategy is bundled into every tier rather than being one of the things you can choose.

Pros

Four monthly prices published openly, which almost nobody here does
Names the dashboard the citation figure came from
The lowest published entry point in this ranking
Thirteen Clutch reviews is a real sample for an agency this size

Cons

The published tiers buy SEO picks, and AI search work is not one of them
Both AI clients are anonymous, so neither figure can be checked
Reports Bing Copilot only. No ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini data at all
Billing is quarterly on a three-month minimum, so the monthly price is not a monthly commitment
Links no social accounts anywhere. The footer offers prompts asking ChatGPT, Claude and Grok about the company instead
Issues itself a 5.0 rating inside its own structured data

Omnius

Custom. Omnius states on its own site that it does not offer standardised pricing packages

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Best for European fintech and software companies

Omnius is a B2B SEO and AI search agency for software and fintech companies, working out of Europe and the Gulf rather than the United States.

Pros

Publishes its own results, not only its clients'
Reports average AI ranking position, which nobody else here does
Says plainly that it has no standard pricing instead of implying a rate exists
All three office addresses are published in machine-readable form

Cons

No independent review anywhere. The Clutch profile is empty
Issues itself a rating inside its own structured data with no review platform behind it
The founding year appears only inside a blog post, not on the about page
The Stripe figure sits close enough to the client results to be mistaken for one
One client case study
Shares a name with omni:us, a German insurtech, which makes background research harder

#10

Intero Digital

Custom. No price published on the GEO service page or anywhere else

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Best for Larger businesses whose customers use Google rather than chat assistants

Intero Digital is a full-service digital marketing agency assembled from four acquired agencies, and the oldest company in this ranking by more than a decade. Its AI search method is branded Intero GRO, short for Generative Response Optimization.

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The reach is narrow. Intero Digital measures Google AI Overviews and publishes nothing on ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini. For a business whose buyers still start on Google, that may be the right coverage. For anyone worried about chat assistants, it is a gap.

Global Industrial recorded 1,200 appearances in Google AI Overviews over 12 months. That is the only AI search result Intero Digital publishes.

Founded: 2003
Headquarters: Colorado Springs, Colorado. Offices also in San Diego and Lewis Center, Ohio
Notable clients: Global Industrial
Reviews: 4.8 out of 5 on Clutch, 147 reviews. Also 3.9 out of 5 on G2, 5 reviews

Pros

A hundred and forty-seven Clutch reviews, by far the largest sample here
Names the client and states a full twelve-month window
Trading since 2003, when everyone else here was founded after 2012
Real street addresses in three cities

Cons

Measures Google AI Overviews and nothing else
One AI search case study from a company more than twenty years old
The site names no founder of the company itself, and contradicts itself on an acquired agency's founder
No company data in structured form, despite being the largest agency here
Four absorbed agencies means the team on your account may not be the one that built the reputation

#11

Breadchaser.ai

$997/mo on a six-month minimum, then month-to-month. The only price in this ranking published for AI search work specifically

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Best for Health, fitness and wellness businesses under $1M in revenue

Breadchaser.ai sells AI search work to one industry: health, fitness and wellness. It is the only agency in this ranking that puts a price on that work. The tier bullets name GEO and AEO as what the money buys, which no other agency here does.

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Read the tiers carefully. The cheapest one is a self-serve dashboard with no human attached. Done-for-you work starts at the tier above.

Advanced Recovery Cryo is a cryotherapy business in Modesto, California. It reached 87% AI share of voice. It appeared in 13 of 15 engine checks, including all five cryotherapy queries tested. Work ran from 1 December 2025 to 21 June 2026. Google impressions rose from 18,100 to 82,900 in a single month.

The record behind that is thin. Breadchaser.ai has been trading for one year and has published one case study.

Founded: 2025
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
Founders: Nick Montes, Matthew Montes, Kristian Catalano
Notable clients: Advanced Recovery Cryo

Pros

The only agency here whose published price is attached to AI search work
Exact start and end dates, to the day
Names both the client and the city, so the result can be checked
Reports across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude
The most complete structured data in this ranking, covering founding year, address, all three founders and every social profile

Cons

One case study and one year of trading. There is no track record to check
The cheapest tier is software, not service. Lists quoting it are comparing a dashboard to a retainer
No reviews on any platform
One industry only
A related domain runs an AI job application tool, and the founder's own LinkedIn describes a tech sales recruiting company. We could not establish when the business moved into AI search

What AI search optimization actually costs

One agency in this ranking publishes a price for AI search work. Everyone else prices something broader and lets you assume it is included.

Agency	Published figure	What that figure buys
Breadchaser.ai	$997/mo	AI search work. GEO and AEO named in the tier
Embarque	$1,500/mo	One SEO service pick. AI search is not on the menu
RevenueZen	$3,000/mo	Brand monitoring and a report. GEO starts at $10,000
Optimist	$3,000/mo	Organic growth, with visibility tracking included
Siege Media	$8,000/mo	Content marketing. The GEO page has no price
Omniscient Digital	$10,000/mo	Content, SEO and AI search together
NoGood	$20,000/mo	Average across all growth marketing
Directive, Skale, Omnius, Intero Digital	Nothing published	Unknown

The one clean price card we found belongs to an agency that did not make this ranking. WebFX publishes a tier labelled GEO Services at $3,000 a month on a six-month commitment. Its AI result carries no timeframe, which is why it is not above.

Two questions get you past the brochure. Which tier includes the AI search work, and what happens if I buy the one below it.

How to tell a real GEO agency from a renamed SEO page

Nearly every SEO agency added an AI search service page in the last eighteen months. Three checks separate the ones doing the work.

Ask which engines they measure, and with what. Google AI Overviews is not ChatGPT. Intero Digital publishes AI Overview data only. Embarque publishes Bing Copilot only. NoGood scores Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini separately. Siege Media is the only agency here that names its measurement tool, which was Peec AI.

Ask what the starting number was. "43% visibility" is not a result. "11% to 43% between October 2025 and June 2026" is. Four agencies in this ranking publish a before number. The rest publish only an after.

Ask to speak to the client. Skale, Optimist and Embarque anonymise every AI search client they write about. That is normal in enterprise work and it also means nothing in those case studies can be verified by you.

One more, quietly useful. Ask how many AI search case studies they have published in total. For most agencies here the answer is one.

Should you do this in-house instead?

Often, yes, at least to start.

The first job in AI search is knowing where you stand. That is a software problem, not an agency problem. Breadchaser.ai sells a tracking dashboard on its own for $95 a month. Several tools do the same thing. Ninety days of tracking answers three questions. Which prompts you already appear in. Which competitors own the ones you do not. Whether your category produces AI traffic at all.

That is also the cheapest way to have a useful agency conversation. A buyer who walks in knowing their share of voice cannot be sold a discovery phase.

What an agency adds is the part software cannot do. Getting mentioned on the third-party sources models actually cite. Restructuring pages so an answer lifts cleanly. Doing both every month. If your team already produces content and owns technical SEO, you may only need help with the first of those.

Where in-house breaks down is publishing volume and outside coverage. AI engines cite sources they already trust. Building that from scratch is slow, and it is the reason the results in this ranking took between seven weeks and sixteen months.

Is AI search traffic worth paying for yet?

It is small. It also converts well. Both are true at once.

LLM referral traffic sits under 2% of total referral traffic and converts at roughly 18%. Those numbers come from 13 months of data across one agency's client base, to February 2026 (Further, via Search Engine Land). Semrush puts the average AI search visitor at 4.4 times the value of an organic search visitor. Both figures come from single-company datasets, so treat them as direction rather than benchmark.

Meanwhile the surface keeps growing. 48% of tracked Google queries now trigger an AI Overview, up from 31% a year earlier (BrightEdge, February 2026).

Three situations where waiting is the better call.

You have no organic presence yet. Every result in this ranking was built on an existing content base, not from nothing.

You cannot name the prompts you want to win. Track first, hire second.

You are below roughly $1M in annual recurring revenue and the cheapest real retainer here is $997 a month on a six-month minimum. That is $5,982 committed before anyone can tell you whether it is working.

The agencies we cut, and why

Twenty-four agencies were checked. Thirteen were cut. Five publish AI numbers with no measurement window, and eight publish no AI result at all.

Published a number, but no timeframe

Agency	What they publish	The problem
Victorious	5,856 AI Overview citations	No window, no named client
WebFX	586% traffic increase from generative AI for Thompson Tractor	No window
Single Grain	400 AI citations, and 136 total AI visibility for two named clients	No window on either
Graphite	94% share of voice growth from LLMs for Webflow	No window
NP Digital	994% increase in AI referral traffic	No window, no named client

Published no AI result at all

Agency	The problem
iPullRank	Publishes investment ranges of $30K to $150K, $150K to $500K and $500K+ with no time unit anywhere on the page, so a buyer cannot tell whether that is monthly or yearly. No AI client result
First Page Sage	Claims its GEO service launched 9 May 2023 as the first ever. Supports it with one unattributed "+81% increase in SaaS client mentions in AI results", no client, no method, no window. Its own pages claim 15, 17 and 18 years of trading
Animalz	All twelve case studies report traditional organic metrics. The AEO page cites third-party market statistics instead of client results
Seer Interactive	Publishes only its own inbound figure, that 15% of inbound conversions came from someone who found Seer in an LLM. No client result
Minuttia	Runs three AI search service pages and publishes no AI result on any of them. Its case studies report organic visits and its service pages report client retention. It also returned 403 to our crawler, twice
Generate More	Its 22x headline is organic growth from AI-assisted content production, not AI search citation. A one-person advisory by its own description, whose two pricing pages contradict each other
Go Fish Digital	One blog post claiming ChatGPT Search displayed a "Notable Clients" section after a week. No number attached
OrganicHackers	No dedicated page. AI search is one bullet inside an ecommerce package, on an eleven-page site with no about page, no team page and no case studies

Why most GEO agency lists are unreliable

Every "best GEO agency" list we read was published by a GEO agency. Ten of the eleven rank themselves first. Here is what they get wrong.

Go Fish Digital is not independent. Agital acquired it on 6 February 2024, and Go Fish then absorbed EK Creative and Exclusive Concepts under its own brand. Four lists recommend it and none mentions the sale.

RevenueZen is a subsidiary. Onfolio Holdings bought substantially all of its assets for $1,105,000 on 4 January 2024, recorded in an SEC 10-K filing. Two lists present it as independent.

Animalz has changed chief executive twice. Founder Walter Chen is now Chairman and Ty Magnin is listed as CEO. Two lists still describe a founder-led agency.

Animalz is not in Auckland. One list places it in New Zealand. Animalz started in New York in 2015 and is now remote. Its leadership sits across the United States, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Generate More gets its own price wrong. Its list quotes €2,500 to €10,000 a month for itself. Its two pricing pages stop at €4,999 and $5,700. They also disagree with each other on currency.

Two founding years are simply wrong. Lists give Go Fish Digital as 2009. The acquisition release says 2005. Lists give Graphite as 2017 and 2019. Its own press release says 2020.

Directory prices do not match company prices. Lister.ai publishes $1,699 and $1,500 a month for Embarque on the same page. Embarque's own site says $1,500.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does a GEO agency cost in 2026?

Published prices in this ranking run from $997 a month to more than $20,000. Only one of those figures, Breadchaser.ai's $997, is attached to AI search work specifically. Four agencies publish no price at all. Any number you see on a directory is an estimate.

Can I do this with a tool instead of an agency?

For the first 90 days, usually yes. Tracking dashboards start around $95 a month and will tell you which prompts you appear in and which you do not. An agency earns its fee on the part software cannot do. That is getting mentioned on the third-party sources models cite, month after month.

How long before AI search work shows results?

Between seven weeks and sixteen months, based on the dated case studies in this ranking. Optimist moved brand visibility from 1.1% to 18% in seven weeks. Omniscient Digital moved LLM visibility from 31% to 55% in 60 days. Siege Media took roughly eight months.

Is GEO just SEO with a new name?

No, and there is a number behind that. Only about 17% of the sources cited in Google AI Overviews also rank in the organic top 10 (BrightEdge, February 2026). Both need crawlable pages and topical depth. AI search adds prompt-level tracking, citation share by engine, and brand mentions on the sources models draw from.

Which engines should an agency track?

At minimum ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. An agency reporting one surface is reporting a fraction. Intero Digital publishes Google AI Overviews only. Embarque publishes Bing Copilot only.

Why are there only eleven agencies here?

Because thirteen of the twenty-four we checked could not show a result you could test. Five publish AI numbers with no measurement window and eight publish no AI result at all. A list of eleven verified agencies is worth more than a padded twenty.