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Best AEO Agencies for B2B SaaS and Startups

The best AEO agency for a B2B SaaS company or startup is the one that can show, for a named client, what AI engines said before and after the work. We scored eight answer engine optimization agencies on that evidence, on which engines they cover, on whether they report pipeline and on whether they publish prices. SearchAxe is on the list and is judged by the same rules, limitations included.

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How we scored these agencies

Criteria first, names second. Each agency is scored 0 to 2 on four criteria, from its own website and public profiles only.

  1. 01

    Named AI answer results

    2 if a named client with a before and after AI citation, AI referral or AI-sourced pipeline metric is published on the agency's own site. 1 if the metric is published but the client is anonymous. 0 if no AI answer result is published.

  2. 02

    Engine coverage

    2 if the agency names five or more AI engines it works on or reports against. 1 for two to four. 0 if it only says "AI search" without naming engines.

  3. 03

    Pipeline reporting

    2 if the agency says it reports signups, demos or pipeline from AI and search. 1 if it reports citations or share of voice only. 0 if reporting is not described.

  4. 04

    Published pricing

    2 if prices are on the site. 1 if a starting price or range is on the site. 0 if pricing is on request.

Nine agencies were considered. Eight are listed. SearchAxe is listed first with an "Our agency" badge, as on every comparison page on this site. Every other agency is ordered by total score, highest first, and ties are ordered by named AI results, then pipeline reporting, then name. Rock The Rankings scores the same 8 of 8 as SearchAxe; we would list SearchAxe first anyway because it is our agency, so weigh that bias. The ninth agency considered, Animalz, scored 4 of 8 because its site publishes no AI answer results and no prices. Every agency was checked on its own site and public profiles on October 27, 2026.

At a glance

Agency Best for Named AI results Engines named Pipeline reporting Published pricing Score
SearchAxe Our agency B2B SaaS and seed to Series B startups that want one partner for search and AI answers at a published price Yes: Viggle AI, HeyOz, Wisemonk 7 AI engines, plus Google and Bing Signups and demos, monthly Published: $999 and $1,499 per month, $199 audit 8 of 8
Rock The Rankings B2B SaaS from Series A to Series D, $2M to $50M ARR, that wants AI search work graded on pipeline Yes: Keragon, Rasa, Churn Buster 5 standard, 2 on request Demos, pipeline and revenue Published, from $5,500 per month 8 of 8
Minuttia Established B2B SaaS with product-market fit and a budget for content at scale Yes: Meilisearch 8 named Signups and conversions From $4,000 7 of 8
Omniscient Digital B2B SaaS and tech companies, from VC-backed scale-ups to enterprise, with the budget for a full program Yes: Convert, OnBoard, Gable AI 6 named Pipeline and conversions From $120,000 per year 7 of 8
Skale SaaS and tech companies that want off-page AI citation work, with on-page fixes available Yes: Meridian, Jitter, deBridge 7 named Signups and pipeline On request 6 of 8
iPullRank Enterprise and mid-market brands that want technical, research-led AI search work Anonymous only 7 named Leads and revenue Ranges, from $30K 6 of 8
Optimist B2B tech and SaaS from Series A that want advisory-led AEO billed month to month Anonymous only 5 named Leads, signups and pipeline From $3,000 per month 6 of 8
First Page Sage Midsized B2B and SaaS companies that want a premium, senior-led SEO and GEO program Anonymous only 5 named Demos, trials or MQLs On request 5 of 8

The eight best AEO agencies

1

SearchAxe

Our agency searchaxe.com
Best for
B2B SaaS and seed to Series B startups that want one partner for search and AI answers at a published price
Named AI results
Named case studies with before and after AI citation figures for Viggle AI, HeyOz and Wisemonk
Engines named
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot, plus Google and Bing
Pipeline reporting
Monthly report on citations, rankings, signups and demos against a fixed baseline
Pricing
Full Service SEO and AI Visibility $1,499 per month, three-month minimum. SEO Consulting $999 per month. AI Visibility Audit $199 one time. See our pricing.

What they do for AEO

  • Rewrites the pages AI answers quote, with answer-first sections under question headings and comparison pages in the client's own words.
  • Adds schema that matches the visible text, and checks each month how every engine describes the client.
  • Runs AEO, GEO and SEO as one program, so the on-page and off-site work share one baseline.

Limitations

  • Small client roster, led by one person
  • Reddit and YouTube are out of scope
  • Third-party editorial or placement fees are paid by the client

Score 8 of 8

2

Rock The Rankings

rocktherankings.com
Best for
B2B SaaS from Series A to Series D, $2M to $50M ARR, that wants AI search work graded on pipeline
Named AI results
Named, with before and after figures. Keragon's visibility in AI answers rose from 3% to 68%; Rasa and Churn Buster are also published.
Engines named
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews as standard, with Copilot and Grok on request
Pipeline reporting
Demos, pipeline and revenue attributed to the work on one monthly report
Pricing
Published. Strategy and Consulting from $5,500 per month, Done-for-You from $8,650 and Authority from $15,000, all on its 90-day rate; month-to-month rates are higher

What they do for AEO

  • Maps the prompts a buying committee asks and keeps only the ones that end in a vendor shortlist.
  • Builds answer pages such as comparisons, alternatives and "best X for Y" pages, and handles structured data, llms.txt and AI crawler access.
  • Earns placements on the review sites, roundups and publications that engines already cite.

Limitations

  • B2B SaaS only; not a fit before product-market fit, or for B2C and ecommerce, by its own account
  • Its pricing page says most engagements land at $10K or more per month
  • Contract terms read differently across its pages: month to month on the pricing page, a 90-day minimum on another

Score 8 of 8

3

Minuttia

minuttia.com
Best for
Established B2B SaaS with product-market fit and a budget for content at scale
Named AI results
Named, with before and after figures. Meilisearch's LLM-driven traffic rose 665% and its free-trial signup rate went from 1.7% to 3%.
Engines named
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, plus NotebookLM and Doubao in a case study
Pipeline reporting
AI-sourced conversions and signups reported for a named client; its own tool tracks citations and visibility
Pricing
Starting price published. Minimum project size $4,000+ on one page and $5,000+ on another

What they do for AEO

  • Pairs Google and AI search strategy with human and AI-assisted content written to earn citations and recommendations.
  • Earns brand mentions through digital PR and Reddit marketing.
  • Tracks citations, visibility score and average position with its own AI visibility tool.

Limitations

  • Not a fit before product-market fit, by its own account
  • Lists no technical SEO or implementation service
  • Its stated minimum differs between pages, $4,000+ and $5,000+

Score 7 of 8

4

Omniscient Digital

beomniscient.com
Best for
B2B SaaS and tech companies, from VC-backed scale-ups to enterprise, with the budget for a full program
Named AI results
Named, with before and after figures. Convert's AI citation share rose from 15% to 35% and OnBoard's AI visibility from 73% to 88%; Gable AI is also published.
Engines named
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode
Pipeline reporting
Pipeline and conversions reported next to AI share of voice and citation share
Pricing
Starting price published. Full-service engagements from $120,000 per year

What they do for AEO

  • Builds a prompt model from customer research and sales conversations, then writes and optimizes content to win category and comparison prompts.
  • Works the third-party sources AI answers draw on, through original research, digital PR and expert contributions.
  • Covers technical foundations such as crawlability, structured content and semantic markup, and runs AEO experiments in every program.

Limitations

  • High entry price; its FAQ puts average engagements at $250,000 to $500,000 per year
  • Not a fit for teams without clear positioning or product-market fit, by its own account
  • No paid media, social or email

Score 7 of 8

5

Skale

skale.so
Best for
SaaS and tech companies that want off-page AI citation work, with on-page fixes available
Named AI results
Named, with before and after figures. Meridian's traffic from AI search engines rose 150% and its demo requests doubled; Jitter and deBridge are also published.
Engines named
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot
Pipeline reporting
Links AI visibility to signups, opportunities and pipeline influenced, reported monthly
Pricing
On request

What they do for AEO

  • Finds the third-party pages AI engines cite for a set of buyer prompts, then runs monthly outreach to get the brand onto those lists, roundups and comparison pages.
  • Its full GEO service adds an AI crawlability audit, schema, content rewrites and AI rank tracking.
  • Measures results through GA4, CRM attribution and a self-reported "how did you hear about us" field.

Limitations

  • No published prices
  • Its stand-alone AI Brand Mentions service is off-page only
  • Says full visibility across the main AI platforms takes 6 to 12 months

Score 6 of 8

6

iPullRank

ipullrank.com
Best for
Enterprise and mid-market brands that want technical, research-led AI search work
Named AI results
Published without client names, for example a national self-storage brand whose AI Overview visibility rose 278%
Engines named
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot
Pipeline reporting
Ties citations and AI referral traffic to leads and revenue
Pricing
Ranges published by tier, $30K to $150K, $150K to $500K and $500K+; the billing period is not stated

What they do for AEO

  • Treats GEO and AEO as one discipline it calls relevance engineering, making content easy for AI to read and quote at the passage level.
  • Its AI search program maps query fan-out, audits content across the site, YouTube, Reddit and earned media, and assesses the technical setup.
  • Higher tiers add passage-level content changes, digital PR and monthly reporting.

Limitations

  • AI results are published without client names
  • The lowest published range starts at $30K, and its published case studies are all large enterprises
  • Strategy work, including audits and 90-day plans, is a separate paid program

Score 6 of 8

7

Optimist

yesoptimist.com
Best for
B2B tech and SaaS from Series A that want advisory-led AEO billed month to month
Named AI results
Published without client names, for example a 4,900% increase in LLM referral revenue for a large B2B tech company. Semrush, ZoomInfo and Superhuman are named as clients, not tied to AI results.
Engines named
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews
Pipeline reporting
LLM-sourced leads, signups, pipeline and revenue influence
Pricing
Starting prices published. One-time strategy and roadmap from $2,500; retainers from $3,000 per month, month to month

What they do for AEO

  • Audits a site on 21 factors across seven layers and benchmarks AI visibility across five AI models.
  • Restructures pages answer-first, with FAQ and fan-out query mapping, schema and internal links, plus entity and technical work.
  • Adds digital PR and original data for authority, and tracks AI visibility weekly with a monthly executive report.

Limitations

  • Its AEO case studies do not name the client
  • Positions itself mainly as advisory ("we don't take the keyboard"), and its advisory retainers start only after a paid roadmap
  • Focuses on Series A and later; seed is not named

Score 6 of 8

8

First Page Sage

firstpagesage.com
Best for
Midsized B2B and SaaS companies that want a premium, senior-led SEO and GEO program
Named AI results
Published without client names, for example an AI writing assistant whose share of tracked prompts citing it rose from 23% to 77%. Its one named case study, Cadence, is SEO only.
Engines named
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews
Pipeline reporting
Demo requests, trials or MQLs headline its B2B SaaS reporting
Pricing
On request. Its GEO and AEO pricing report covers the market, not its own fees

What they do for AEO

  • Audits how prospects use answer engines and maps what ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini believe about a company, then works to correct it.
  • Gets clients placed on the list articles, databases and directories engines draw on, backed by brand PR and review management.
  • Implements structured data and schema, and has published its own study of how ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini choose recommendations across 13,604 commercial queries.

Limitations

  • AI case studies do not name the client
  • No published prices, and it describes itself as premium on purpose
  • A generalist across many industries, B2B and consumer

Score 5 of 8

Scores by criterion

SearchAxe Rock The Rankings Minuttia Omniscient Digital Skale iPullRank Optimist First Page Sage
Named AI answer results 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1
Engine coverage 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Pipeline reporting 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Published pricing 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 0

How to choose an AEO agency

Questions worth asking on the first call with any agency.

  1. 01

    Ask for a before and after

    The only proof that matters is what an engine said about a named client before the work and after it.

  2. 02

    Ask which engines, and how often

    Answers differ by engine, and a monthly rerun of the same prompts is the minimum.

  3. 03

    Ask whether they do the off-site half

    Most "describe us wrong" problems come from a third-party source, which is GEO work. An AEO-only shop can't fix it.

  4. 04

    Ask for the price

    If it isn't published, get it in the first call and in writing.

How we get started

From first call to work in progress in three steps.

  1. 01

    Book a free consultation

    A call about your product, your market and where you stand in AI answers and search today.

  2. 02

    Get a plan and a quote

    We send a plan for what we would do first, with a quote for the plan you choose.

  3. 03

    Work starts right away

    Once the plan and quote are approved, the work starts immediately.

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What clients say

We had thousands of pages going nowhere. Amit cleaned that up and rebuilt our landing pages. Our top three rankings are up 362% and our citations across AI engines have grown more than a hundred times.

Nan Ha Nan Ha Product Growth Lead, Viggle AI Read the Viggle AI case study

We came to Amit with a good product and almost no search presence. He gave our team a plan we could actually follow. Referring domains are up 183% and our first page rankings have more than tripled.

George Kurdin George Kurdin Co-Founder, Monk Read the Monk case study

Our content was getting published but not landing anywhere. Amit reworked how we format it for AI engines and our citations across all seven engines are up over 400%. The Reddit community he built now brings us leads weekly.

Aditya Nagpal Aditya Nagpal Founder, Wisemonk Read the Wisemonk case study

We launched with a homepage and nothing else. Amit built the search foundation, the landing pages, the blog, the schema. Our domain rating is up 70% and we went from zero AI citations to being quoted by six of the seven AI engines.

Ahad Shams Ahad Shams Founder, HeyOz Read the HeyOz case study

We had multiple pages fighting each other for the same terms. Amit mapped it all out, consolidated what needed consolidating, and rebuilt our service pages. Organic traffic is up 147% and our top three rankings have more than doubled.

Manjunath Thandu Manjunath Thandu CEO, Zivoke Read the Zivoke case study

Agency, in-house or tools

Agency

One team covering strategy, content, technical and authority work. Fastest to start, and you pay for output rather than headcount.

In-house hire

Full control and deep product context, but slow to hire, and one person rarely covers every engine and every discipline.

AI visibility tool

Useful for tracking where you appear. A tool shows the gap, but someone still has to close it.

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SearchAxe plans and pricing

Our own prices, published like the agencies above that publish theirs. All in US dollars per month.

SEO Consulting

$999 per month

Month to month

For B2B, SaaS and startup teams with an in-house marketer or content team who need senior direction.

  • SEO and AI visibility audit in month one
  • Strategy, roadmap, page plans and briefs
  • Technical recommendations
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Recommended

Full Service SEO and AI Visibility

$1,499 per month

Minimum three months

For B2B, SaaS and startup teams that want one partner to own the whole organic channel.

  • Everything in SEO Consulting
  • Technical fixes, on-page work and citation-ready pages
  • Link building, brand mentions and entity optimization
Schedule a Free Consultation

Link Building and Brand Mentions

$499 per month

Minimum three months

For B2B, SaaS and startup teams that already run SEO in house and only need links and mentions.

  • Up to 10 links or mentions per month
  • Prospecting, campaign setup and sending tools
  • Outreach, negotiation and reporting
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Limited-time offer

AI Visibility Audit

$199 one time

We audit your whole website, score your AI visibility and hand you a prioritized list of fixes based on what we find.

  • A full website audit covering technical SEO, indexation, site structure and content
  • Your AI visibility score across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot
  • Where competitors get named and cited and you do not
  • Recommendations based on the findings, in priority order
Get the $199 audit

Limited-time price. One payment, no subscription.

See all plans and what each includes

Questions about AEO agencies

What is an AEO agency?

An answer engine optimization agency shapes a company's pages so AI engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot lift a correct answer from them and cite the company as the source. The work is on-page: answer-first sections, quotable positioning lines, comparison pages and schema that matches the visible text. It differs from a GEO agency, which works mostly off-site to get a brand named in the shortlist at all.

How do you choose the best AEO agency?

Look for a named client with a before and after read of what AI engines said, a list of the engines they check and how often, reporting that reaches signups or pipeline rather than citation counts alone, and a published price. Agencies that only add schema, or that cannot name the pages they rewrote, are selling SEO with a new label.

What is the best AEO agency for B2B SaaS?

It depends on stage and budget. Seed to Series B teams that want search and AI answers handled by one partner at a published price are the fit for SearchAxe. Series A to D SaaS teams that want the work graded on pipeline fit Rock The Rankings. Larger budgets that want a content-led program suit Omniscient Digital or Minuttia. Enterprise teams with a technical site are the fit for iPullRank. The table above shows the criteria so you can re-rank on what matters to you.

What is the difference between an AEO agency and a GEO agency?

GEO gets you named in the answer. AEO decides what the answer says once the engine reads your page. GEO is mostly off-site work: mentions on the roundups, review sites and publications engines cite. AEO is on-page work: rewriting the pages engines quote. Most companies need both, and the baseline decides which comes first. See our Best GEO Agencies shortlist for the off-site side.

How much do AEO agencies charge?

Among the agencies on this list, only the published prices are quoted here. SearchAxe charges $1,499 per month for Full Service with a three-month minimum, $999 per month for SEO Consulting and $199 for an AI Visibility Audit. Rock The Rankings starts at $5,500 per month on its 90-day rate, Optimist at $3,000 per month, Minuttia at a $4,000 minimum project and Omniscient Digital at $120,000 per year. iPullRank publishes ranges from $30K. Skale and First Page Sage are on request.

Do agencies pay to be on this list?

No. Nobody pays to be included or to move up. The order follows the criteria stated on this page, applied to public information, and SearchAxe sits first with a visible badge, as on every comparison page on this site.

Service

AEO Agency

What we change on your pages so engines quote you correctly.

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GEO Agency

The off-site half, getting named in the shortlist to begin with.

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Best GEO Agencies

Eight GEO agencies scored on the same criteria.

Read more

Further reading

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