7 Best AEO Agencies in 2026

A year ago, a team could run an answer engine optimization (AEO) strategy by monitoring a few prompts in ChatGPT and adjusting monthly. But with answer engine usage diversifying, it’s not good enough anymore to put minimal effort into one search engine. ChatGPT’s share of generative AI traffic fell from roughly 76% to 53% in 12 months, while Gemini climbed to around 27% and Claude to nearly 9%. Each engine has its own retrieval logic and citation behavior, and optimizing for one no longer gives you an honest view of your AI visibility.

This type of visibility drives pipeline, not just impressions. A field experiment by Toulouse School of Economics found that Google AI Overviews reduce outbound organic clicks by 39.8%. When AI engines answer a query directly, the brands that aren’t cited lose the visit entirely.

Agencies have noticed. Some are genuinely building AEO capabilities with dedicated tooling and methodology. Others are bolting on a service page to capture demand from brands unsure where to start. We’ve shortlisted 7 agencies that are doing real AEO work. Use our rubric to evaluate each one, or apply it to any agency you’re considering. Getting serious about AI search means finding a partner who's invested in the discipline, not just marketing it.

What is an AEO agency? 

An AEO agency helps companies optimize their visibility in AI-generated answers across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. The best AEO agencies look beyond awareness and TOFU visibility to make sure your website, your content, and the third-party sources that cite you are all structured. 

That means setting up a technical foundation (schema, structured data, crawlability), building a content strategy around how AI engines retrieve and synthesize information, and executing a placement strategy that earns citations across the sources AI platforms actually pull from. It differs from traditional SEO because the goal is to be the answer, not to rank for a keyword.

We’re still in a phase where terms like AEO, GEO, and LLM SEO are used interchangeably. These terms all largely describe the same discipline, so if an agency markets itself as an LLM SEO agency, you can safely assume they’d also be fine being called an AEO agency or even a generative engine optimization agency. 

Don’t let the uniqueness of those terms prevent you from adding a suitable partner to your shortlist. Below, we've categorized 7 agencies by what they’re best at and who they’re ideal for.

How we categorized agencies for this list 

We evaluated each agency on this list against three criteria:

1. A track record in SEO or digital marketing: Every agency here has shipped real work for real clients
2. A demonstrated understanding of AI visibility as a distinct channel: We looked for whether their case studies, tooling, and methodology actually address how AI engines retrieve and cite information
3. A willingness to build GEO-specific strategy: That means dedicated roles, proprietary tools, or published frameworks that show the agency is investing in AI search as its own discipline

No agency on this list paid to be included, and we decided the order based on category fit.

The best AEO agencies at a glance 

Before reading the detailed review below, take a look at each agency's category, use case, notable clients, and standout capability. Shortlist a few then read their full profiles below.

The 7 best AEO agencies in 2026 

This might be a ranked list, but that doesn’t mean the #1 agency is a better fit for you than the #7 agency. Each one has a “best for” qualifier to make it easy for you to assess which agency best fits your unique situation.

1. Radyant: Best pure-play AI Search/GEO specialist 

Radyant is a European-based AI-native organic growth agency that bundles SEO and AEO into every engagement. They optimize for AI search engines the same way most agencies optimize for Google, and they’ve built a proprietary platform called "The Cockpit" to track AI search visibility and citation gaps across engines.

Best for

Brands that want a team built specifically around AI search visibility, not general SEO with GEO added on. 

What they do well

Radyant’s case studies report real AI-specific metrics like citation rate doublings, AI visibility percentages, and AI-attributed leads. Few agencies on this list do the same. For Planeco Building, they doubled AI search citation rate from 55% to over 110% and reached #1 AI search visibility in the competitor set. They also have dedicated AI Search roles, an AI Search Strategy Lead and an AI Automation Engineer, rather than asking generalist SEOs to cover AI search on the side.

Watch-outs

Radyant targets the DACH region, so teams in other regions may not be their ideal client. They also specifically don’t offer a low-end retainer tier, meaning companies need to invest at least €7,000 monthly.

Good fit if

• You want an agency that leads with their AEO capabilities
• You’re comfortable with a €7,000–€12,000/month retainer

Not a fit if 

• You’re a D2C e-commerce brand or a low-ACV company
• You need paid media or broad creative services alongside AEO

Pricing 

From €7,000/mo

2. Minuttia: Best AEO-positioned agency for B2B SaaS

Minuttia is an AEO agency that prioritizes B2B SaaS companies. They first began as a traditional SEO agency creating content, but have since pivoted to AEO/GEO in the last couple of years. They’ve also built a proprietary AI visibility tool that tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.

Best for

B2B SaaS brands that want an agency with AEO-native positioning and a proprietary AI visibility tool, rather than an SEO shop adding GEO as a side service.

What they do well

Minuttia has achieved impressive results with their clients, like helping Toggl reach 7M impressions and 200+ conversions in the span of just 15 months. They also have dedicated SEO/AEO specialists according to their LinkedIn. They serve B2B SaaS exclusively, which means their methodology is built specifically around SaaS buyer journeys.

Watch-outs

Minuttia’s published case studies don’t report AI-search-specific metrics. Every result (impressions, clicks, traffic, conversions) is SEO. They explicitly exclude paid media and influencer marketing.

Pricing

From $4,000/mo

3. SaaStorm: Best AEO/LLMO extension for SEO-first B2B SaaS teams

SaaStorm is a B2B SaaS organic growth agency that helps companies grow through SEO, AEO, content marketing, and AI content engineering. They’re a revenue-focused agency that reports on pipeline and ARR rather than clicks and impressions. LLMO for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini is included in their higher-tier retainers as part of the full engine.

Best for 

B2B SaaS companies that already have SEO momentum and want AEO/LLMO layered onto an existing content-led strategy. This is the right pick if you want your AI search work handled by the same team running your SEO, rather than hiring a separate specialist.

What it does well

SaaStorm’s delivery is senior-led, meaning you work with strategists, not an account manager relaying to a junior team. They combine human strategy with AI-assisted production through Claude and AirOps and tie everything back to pipeline and revenue as standard, not traffic. Their case studies back this up. For example, Lingio grew organic traffic by 500% in nine months, leading to an 11x increase in incoming leads, and Reditus built a $1.3M ARR pipeline with 128% inbound pipeline growth.

Watch-outs

SaaStorm serves B2B SaaS only. If you’re ecommerce, marketplace, or services, they’re not the right fit and will say so. They run the full engine, so you can’t hire them for strategy or advisory only, since the model depends on them owning delivery. LLMO is also an add-on to their core SEO service instead of a standalone practice.

Good fit if

• You’re a B2B SaaS company that wants one agency handling both SEO and AI search visibility end to end, and you're already investing in content-led growth
• You want LLMO without managing a separate vendor relationship.

Not a fit if

• You want a pure-play AEO/GEO specialist where AI search is the entire focus, not a tier feature
• You need an advisory-only engagement

Pricing

• Breeze: €4k (no LLMO)
• Gale: €4.5k–€6.5k (includes LLMO)
• Tempest: €6.5k–€11k (includes LLMO)

4. iPullRank: Best for technical AEO / schema & structured-data depth 

iPullRank is a New York City-based digital marketing agency that reorganized itself completely around AI search. The agency grounds its methodology in information-retrieval science, like query fan-out, passage retrieval, embeddings, and cosine similarity. They also build proprietary tools for technical AEO execution.

Best for

Brands whose AEO gap is technical (crawlability, structured data, schema). 

What they do well

iPullRank has reorganized their service model, proprietary tools, and practice areas around AI visibility and done a great job at it. Their case studies include AI-specific metrics that a lot of other agencies can’t produce. For example, a self-storage brand saw a 278% increase in AI Overview visibility and 21% more AI-referred revenue in three months. Their technical methodology is grounded in published information-retrieval science, not marketing buzzwords. 

Watch-outs

Technical-first positioning means there might be less emphasis on standalone brand and creative strategy. The enterprise and mid-market orientation also results in pricing that can be steep for smaller teams, and you won’t get the technical depth unless you commit to a more expensive tier.

Good fit if

• You’re an enterprise or mid-market company whose AI search visibility gap is technical 
• You have budget for a $150K+ engagement (to get the most out of AI visibility) and want engineering-grade AEO

Not a fit if

• You’re a smaller company or startup with a limited budget
• Your primary need is brand strategy, content production, or PR rather than technical execution

Pricing

• Emerging: $30K–$150K
• Growth: $150K–$500K
• Elite: $500K+

5. Avenue Z: Best for PR-driven AEO & consumer/fintech brands

Avenue Z is a US-based, AI-first agency that wins AI search through PR and earned media. They treat third-party citations as the engine that feeds AI visibility rather than relying on owned content alone.

Best for

Consumer, fintech, and DTC brands whose biggest AI-visibility gap is earned media and third-party citations rather than owned content.

What it does well

Avenue Z’s PR-driven AEO model is different from the content-led approach most agencies take. They're a Certified Agency Partner of Profound (founding cohort) and co-led a SXSW 2026 workshop together. Their case studies include AI-specific results like an emerging fintech client called Prometeo that saw 867% AI referral traffic growth, a 66.7% AI conversion rate, and #1 AI visibility against competitors in six months. 

Watch-outs

Avenue Z’s broad service mix (Shopify, TikTok, paid media) means AEO is one practice among many, and not the entire focus. This is a PR-plus-GEO model, not a technical-execution specialist, so you’ll need to pair with a technical partner like iPullRank if schema and structured data are your gap. 

Good fit if

• You're a consumer, fintech, or DTC brand where the bottleneck is third-party authority and earned media, not owned content
• You want PR infrastructure feeding AI visibility rather than content marketing alone

Not a fit if

• You want a pure-play AEO specialist without PR components
• You’re a B2B SaaS company, as Avenue Z’s model is built around consumer and fintech dynamics

Pricing

Not published.

6. Orainti: Best for elite strategic GEO consultancy

Orainti is a boutique SEO and AI search optimization consultancy based in Madrid. It's a strategy and playbook practice instead of a delivery team. That means the engagement produces a documented playbook your in-house team executes rather than a team of people doing the work for you.

Best for

Companies with in-house SEO and content capacity that want elite strategic direction rather than a team to execute for them. 

What it does well

The founder, Aleyda Solís, is one of the most-cited voices in international SEO and AI-search education. She’s previously been named European Search Personality of the Year, and she publishes widely-referenced AEO/GEO frameworks. While Orainti publishes no case studies, clients consistently praise their expertise and knowledge.

Watch-outs

This agency provides strategy only and there’s no execution team. If you want a team to produce content, fix schema, or run outreach, this isn’t it. AI search is bundled into the SEO consulting, so no standalone AEO product line.

Good fit if

• You have an in-house SEO and content team that can execute, and you need a strategic playbook from a recognized expert
• International or multilingual GEO is a priority

Not a fit if

• You need full execution from content production to technical fixes to ongoing management
• You want a larger agency relationship with a team of specialists

Pricing

Not published.

7. Product Hackers: Best full-service growth agency with GEO integration

Product Hackers is a Madrid-based full-funnel growth agency, built on a proprietary scientific experimentation methodology called SOLID Growth. They work across acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, and referral.

Best for

Brands that want AEO/GEO handled inside a broader full-funnel growth engagement rather than as a standalone specialist relationship. 

What it does well

Product Hackers’ SOLID Growth methodology applies scientific experimentation across the full funnel. Their case studies show impressive results for companies like Sesame (+60.92% revenue) and CornerJob (+241% activation). Their established experimentation framework can be applied to AI visibility testing, not just traditional CRO.

Watch-outs

GEO/AEO is one layer of a much broader growth service, and all of their case study results show growth and CRO outcomes rather than AEO-specific metrics. They tend to serve mostly Spanish clients.

Good fit if

• You want a single agency handling full-funnel growth with AI visibility woven in as one component
• You value experimentation-driven methodology across the entire customer journey

Not a fit if

• You want a dedicated AEO/GEO specialist where AI search is the entire focus 
• You only need AI visibility work without broader growth services

Pricing

Not published.

How to evaluate an AEO agency before you hire (a quick rubric) 

Since no two agencies are the same, you have the opportunity to really find one that fits your company and needs perfectly. We’ve created a rubric to help you score the agencies on this list (or any agency you shortlist) and standardize your evaluations.

A score of 20+ across five criteria means the agency is genuinely AI-native with the proof to back it. Anything below 12 means AI search is likely a marketing layer on top of a traditional SEO practice. This doesn’t have to be a dealbreaker, just something to be aware of before you sign.

Why AEO agencies alone aren't the full picture (and how Omnia fits in)

Partnering with a trustworthy, AEO agency allows you to start making progress on your AI visibility. They’ll lead the way when it comes to strategy and content, but you still need a way to confirm whether the work they’re doing is generating the outcomes you want in real-time. Instead of waiting for a monthly report, you need current insights into what prompts you’re winning that you weren't before, which competitors are still earning citations over you, and any other areas for opportunity.

Omnia is an AI visibility platform that complements the work your AEO agency does. Omnia monitors your brand across 7 major AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overviews), tracks citations at the URL and domain level, segments visibility by country, and calculates share of voice against your competitors. It refreshes data daily so you're working from current numbers instead of an outdated quarterly report.

Omnio, Omnia’s built-in GEO agent, is the differentiator that works alongside your agency partnership. When the tracking surfaces a citation gap, like a competitor’s content winning a prompt you should own, Omnio connects the dots to your existing tools. It links to GA4 so you can ask it directly how much referral traffic ChatGPT or Perplexity is sending your site and get a chart in the chat window, no spreadsheet export required.

Think of it this way. Your agency handles the strategy and execution. Omnia tells you whether it’s working and what to do next with transparent, scaled pricing. Together, they cover the full loop from diagnosing to acting to measuring to repeating. And you don’t have to waste time stitching together screenshots, spreadsheets, or vendor reports to figure out if you’re making real progress.

Start for free and sign up for a 14-day trial on the Growth plan, or book a demo to see how Omnia works with your data.

More vetted agencies, and how agencies can partner with Omnia 

There’s plenty of AEO agencies beyond the 7 mentioned on our list. Maybe you’re looking for an agency based in your country, or one with case studies more relevant to your niche. Check out Omnia’s Trusted AI Agencies list for a larger, updated roster of agencies spanning different categories and regions. 

And if you’re an agency or consultant with proven AI expertise, Omnia runs an affiliate program that offers up to 20% recurring commission for 12 months per referred customer. Plus, a demo account, case studies, and battle cards help you position AI visibility tracking as part of your own service offering. It’s a natural fit for any agency that wants to add measurement and citation intelligence to what they already deliver, without building the infrastructure from scratch.

FAQs

What does an AEO agency actually do differently from an SEO agency?

An SEO agency optimizes for traditional search engines where the goal is ranking on a results page. An AEO agency optimizes for AI answer engines so your brand appears within generated AI answers and earns AI citations. That means structuring content for how AI models retrieve and synthesize information, building topical authority and entity optimization rather than just targeting keywords.

How much does it cost to hire an answer engine optimization agency?

AEO agency cost varies based on scope and seniority. Smaller B2B SaaS specialists start around €4,000/month, while established agencies with proprietary tooling charge $30,000+. The right AEO agency for your marketing team depends on whether you need full-service execution or a specialized layer on top of existing seo strategy.

Can my current SEO agency just add AEO as a service?

Some can, but many are adding on a service page without building real capability. Ask whether they have dedicated citation tracking, proprietary tooling for measuring current AI visibility, and a methodology that goes beyond on-page AI optimization. If they can’t show you how they measure AI citation share across AI search platforms, they’re not ready.

How do I know if an “AEO agency” is AI-native or a rebranded SEO shop?

Look for evidence of AI-specific work like case studies reporting AI search traffic or AI citations, dedicated roles, published frameworks, and tools that track AI answers across engines. If their methodology is still site speed, on-page optimization, and organic search metrics, they haven’t built for AI systems yet. The best answer engine optimization agencies have measurable AI visibility work.

Do I need an AEO agency and a visibility-tracking tool, or just one?

You need both. Agencies handle content creation, digital PR, and content strategy to earn citations. A visibility-tracking tool gives you AI citation tracking across AI search platforms so you can measure whether the work is moving AI citation share.