Choosing an AEO agency.
AEO is the work of becoming the answer AI assistants give. Here is how to evaluate any agency that sells it, including us, and the measured numbers we would want to see if we were you.
Read this with the obvious in mind: we are an agency in this category, so this page is both a guide and a pitch. Every number on it carries its date and method, which is the standard we think you should hold anyone in this market to, including us.
What an AEO agency actually does.
Answer engine optimization is the discipline of getting a brand named and cited when someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google's AI the questions that lead to a purchase. Classic SEO earns a ranking a person might click. AEO earns a place inside the answer itself, because increasingly nobody clicks anything.
The work splits into four parts: making a site technically legible to AI crawlers, publishing pages that answer buyer questions in liftable language, establishing the brand on the third-party sources engines cite, and measuring the share of real answers that name you. An agency that only does one of these is selling a quarter of the job.
What to actually evaluate.
Five checks that separate measured work from confident invoicing. Apply them to every candidate, including us.
What the engines say when you ask for the best AEO agency.
In August 2026 we put hiring questions like 'best generative engine optimization agency', 'AEO agency for B2B companies' and 'who can I hire to improve my AI search visibility' through Perplexity's live API. On most of them, no agency was named at all. The category is young enough that the engines have nobody to recommend yet.
That is the honest state of this market: the seat this page's own query asks about is largely unclaimed. It also means claims of dominance from anyone in this space, including us, deserve scrutiny. What we can show is the client work below, verified query by query against the live engines.
559 verified citations across four clients.
Every query below was confirmed by a live API call against the engines, and each case study lists the queries so the check can be re-run.
One programme, priced in the open.
Research, technical legibility, answer-shaped pages, the third-party citation layer, and the same fixed questions re-run so the number you judge us on never moves. From $999 a month, published on the pricing page.
Common questions.
What is an AEO agency?
An agency that gets brands named and cited in AI assistant answers. The work covers technical legibility for AI crawlers, answer-shaped content, presence on the third-party sources engines cite, and ongoing measurement of how often the engines name you.
How is AEO different from SEO?
SEO earns a position on a results page a person might click. AEO earns a place inside the answer an assistant gives, where there is often nothing to click. The signals overlap, but AEO is judged on being named and cited, not on ranking.
How much does an AEO agency cost?
Ours starts at $999 a month, with pricing published on the site. Market rates for comparable managed services run to several thousand dollars a month, and many agencies in the category do not publish pricing at all.
How long does AEO take to work?
Technical fixes show up in weeks; earned citations compound over months. Our verified client results were measured after sustained programmes, not single sprints, and any agency promising placement in days is describing something other than earned visibility.
How do I verify an AEO agency's claims?
Ask for the query list, the engines tested, the dates, and the method. Every client number we publish was captured by live API calls against the engines, and the same check can be re-run by anyone.