AI Search Visibility
Best AEO and GEO Agencies in 2026, Compared
Ten AEO and GEO agencies compared on services, published pricing, tools and focus, from each agency's own site.
Simran Rawat2 Nov 202615 min read
Nurdd is the best AEO and GEO agency for most brands in 2026, because it runs answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization as managed services and includes a seat in Noma, its own AI-visibility product that tracks 13 AI engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. Of the nine other agencies compared, only The Digital Elevator and Discovered Labs publish a price on their own sites.
Nurdd is the best AEO and GEO agency for most brands in 2026, because it pairs a managed service with its own AI-visibility software, Noma, and includes a Noma seat in both its answer engine optimization agency service and its generative engine optimization services. Below, nine other agencies that sell AEO or GEO are compared on services, pricing, tools and focus, using only what each one publishes on its own site.
Disclosure: Nurdd publishes this list and is included in it. Every fact about another agency comes from that agency's own website, checked on 2 November 2026 and linked where it is used.
Key takeaways
- Nurdd is first on this list because the client gets the agency's work and a seat in the software that measures it. Noma tracks 13 AI engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, and polls them daily.
- Only two of the nine other agencies publish a price on the pages we checked: The Digital Elevator and Discovered Labs. The other seven publish no price.
- AEO and GEO are sold under both names. Discovered Labs treats GEO as another name for AEO, while Nurdd sells them as two separate services with different scopes.
- Ask which engines are measured, and with what tool. Several agency pages name no AI engines and no tracking software at all.
- Check the minimum term. Published terms range from month-to-month with 30 days' notice to a four-month minimum or fixed 90-day sprints.
How did we assess these agencies?
We did not hire or test these agencies. We read each agency's own AEO or GEO service page, plus its pricing page where one exists, on 2 November 2026, and compared what each one says it does. We picked agencies that appear in published list articles of AEO and GEO agencies, used only to find names, and dropped any whose own page we could not load or that did not clearly sell AEO or GEO.
We looked at five things a buyer needs before a first call:
- Scope: does the agency sell AEO, GEO or both, and what work is included (content, technical fixes, off-site sources, measurement)?
- Measurement: does the page say how AI visibility is tracked, and with what software?
- Engine coverage: which AI engines does the page name?
- Pricing: is a price or pricing model published?
- Focus: who does the agency say it works for?
Nurdd is listed first because it scores on all five: two separate services, its own measurement product with a published price, 13 engines tracked, a clear pricing model, and work for brands worldwide. The other nine follow in alphabetical order; their position is not a score.
How do the AEO and GEO agencies compare?
The table sums up what each agency's own pages say. "Best for" repeats the focus each agency states, not our judgement.
| Agency | Services (from its own page) | Pricing model | Tools it says it uses | Best for (as the agency states it) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nurdd | AEO and GEO as two managed services; also influencer marketing and paid social | Scoped per brand; Noma seat included; monthly report | Noma, its own product (13 AI engines, polled daily) | Brands worldwide that want the work done and the data in their own hands |
| Discovered Labs | AEO (GEO treated as the same thing), SEO, Reddit marketing, link building | Published, in euros: retainers from €6,995/mo | In-house AI Visibility Tracker | B2B SaaS |
| First Page Sage | GEO: list placement, database inclusion, website authority, reviews, PR, sentiment monitoring | Not published | None named | No segment named on its GEO page |
| Go Fish Digital | GEO within owned media: semantic audits, AI Overview and ChatGPT optimisation, technical SEO, digital PR | Not published (custom proposal) | Barracuda, AI Overview Analyzer, Similarity Score Extension, Semantic Content Audit | Marketers, SEOs and CMOs in ecommerce, SaaS, B2B, professional services, healthcare and finance |
| iPullRank | GEO, AI search strategy programme, relevance engineering, content | Not published | None named on its GEO page | Start-ups to Fortune 500s, by tier |
| Minuttia | Google and AI search strategy, human and AI content, digital PR, Reddit, agent analytics | Not published | None named | B2B SaaS, established brands |
| NoGood | AEO: visibility audits, monitoring, content, schema, digital PR, agentic commerce | Not published | Goodie AI and unnamed proprietary monitoring | Start-ups, scale-ups and Fortune 100 brands |
| Power Digital | GEO: visibility audit, technical work, content, entity work, digital PR, measurement | Not published; scoped, usually with SEO | None named on its GEO page | CPG, ecommerce, fashion, consumer services, healthcare and B2B |
| Siege Media | GEO, digital PR, content marketing, Reddit, affiliate | Not published (request a proposal) | BlueprintIQ, DataFlywheel; LLM tracker varies by client | Brands with a real product and a six-month-plus horizon |
| The Digital Elevator | Managed AEO/SEO, AI Visibility sprints, AI Visibility Mentions | Published: $5,000 to $9,000 a month; sprints from $3,500 | Prompt tracking across four AI platforms (tool not named); GA4 | Marketing directors; mid-market B2B, healthcare, devices, tech |
Which AI engines does each agency name?
An agency can only improve what it measures. This table lists the AI engines each service page names. A page that names none is not proof the agency ignores them, but it is a question to ask.
| Agency | AI engines named on its own page |
|---|---|
| Nurdd (Noma) | 13 AI engines tracked, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude |
| Discovered Labs | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot |
| First Page Sage | ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Claude |
| Go Fish Digital | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Bing Copilot |
| iPullRank | None listed on the GEO page |
| Minuttia | None named |
| NoGood | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot |
| Power Digital | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot |
| Siege Media | None named ("LLMs" in general) |
| The Digital Elevator | Four AI platforms tracked; names ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and AI Overviews |
The agencies, one by one
1. Nurdd
Nurdd runs AEO and GEO as two separate managed services and measures both in Noma, its own AI search visibility product. The AEO service works page by page: a category prompt set, a 12-point AEO audit, answer-first copy, FAQs, structured data, llms.txt and crawler rules, shipped by Nurdd's team or briefed to yours. The GEO service works across a whole topic: a source-gap map of the third-party pages AI engines cite, a brand facts sheet so engines repeat one version of your facts, and a content plan for every question in the topic.
A Noma seat is included in both services, so the client sees the same daily data the team works from. Noma tracks 13 AI engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, and records whether the brand is named, how it is described and which page each citation comes from. Clients get a report every month. Pricing is scoped per brand by the number of engines, prompts and markets tracked and how much of the fixing Nurdd does, and Nurdd works worldwide.
One measured client result is published on the service page: a print and packaging company's Google Search clicks rose 119% and impressions 508%, and its average position moved from page 2 to page 1, comparing its first 30 days of Search Console data (10 August to 8 September 2026) with the latest 30 (1 to 30 October 2026). Those are Google Search figures, not AI answers.
Want to see where AI engines place your brand today? Book a demo and we will run your category's prompts live and show who gets named instead of you.
2. Discovered Labs
Discovered Labs describes itself as an "AEO Agency for B2B SaaS". Its AEO service covers four areas: measurement (share of voice, citation rate and AI perception), content, off-page work (digital PR, Reddit, review sites, link building) and technical agent-readiness fixes such as llms.txt, structured data and AI crawler access. Its home page treats GEO as another name for AEO and says it uses software built in-house, including an AI Visibility Tracker.
Pricing is published in euros on its pricing page: a one-off diagnostic at €4,370, then retainers shown at €6,995 a month (Establish) and €10,995 a month (Compete) on a six-month commitment, and from €15,995 a month for custom work. Retainers are month-to-month by default with 30 days' notice.
3. First Page Sage
First Page Sage's GEO services page lists six parts of its work: getting clients into highly ranked list articles, which it calls "the largest factor", database inclusion, website authority on Google and Bing, online review management, publicising achievements, and social sentiment monitoring. It names ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. No pricing and no software are named on the page.
4. Go Fish Digital
Go Fish Digital sells GEO as part of its owned media work. Its GEO page lists semantic content audits, AI Overview and ChatGPT optimisation at page and passage level, traditional SEO fixes such as schema, IndexNow and sitemaps, and digital PR for brand citations. It names its own toolkit: Barracuda, an AI Overview Analyzer, a Similarity Score Extension and a Semantic Content Audit. Pricing is by custom proposal.
5. iPullRank
iPullRank calls itself an enterprise and mid-market AI search agency. Its GEO page sets out three tiers: Emerging for start-ups and new brands, Growth for mid-market and challenger brands, and Elite for Fortune 500s and category leaders. Its separate AI Search Strategy Program runs from a three-month sprint to twelve-month programmes. Neither page publishes a price or names a tracking tool.
6. Minuttia
Minuttia's GEO agency page is headed "GEO agency for B2B SaaS". Its home page groups its work as Google and AI search strategy, human and AI content creation, digital PR and Reddit marketing, and agent analytics and reporting. No pricing is published, and the GEO page names no AI engines or tracking software.
7. NoGood
NoGood's AEO service page lists LLM visibility audits, AI search performance monitoring, AEO content, schema and structured data, and agentic commerce optimisation, across four pillars that include earned media and digital PR. It says it works with start-ups, scale-ups and Fortune 100 brands, names Goodie AI as a platform it uses depending on contracting agreements, and refers to proprietary monitoring it does not name. No pricing is published.
8. Power Digital
Power Digital's GEO services page covers an AI visibility audit, technical work (structured data, crawlability for AI agents, content extractability), content built for retrieval, entity and brand consistency, digital PR and ongoing measurement. It names seven AI engines and lists CPG, ecommerce, fashion, consumer services, healthcare and B2B as its industries. It says pricing is scoped to the work, usually alongside SEO rather than as a separate line.
9. Siege Media
Siege Media's GEO page describes one programme across original research and digital PR, bottom-funnel content, Reddit and community, affiliate partnerships, content refreshes and interactive assets, with LLM share of voice tracked monthly. It names its own BlueprintIQ and DataFlywheel tools, says the LLM monitoring tool varies by client, and says it is not a fit for brands that want results within weeks. No pricing is published.
10. The Digital Elevator
The Digital Elevator sells productised programmes with published prices. Its Managed AEO/SEO service has three tiers at $5,000, $7,000 and $9,000 a month, tracking 25, 50 or 75 prompts across four AI platforms, with a four-month minimum and then month-to-month. Its AI Visibility programme runs as fixed 90-day sprints from $3,500, and the page says a full three-pillar programme typically runs $21,000 to $25,000 or more.
AEO vs GEO agency: what's the difference?
An AEO agency works on whether an AI engine can lift a direct answer from your pages. A GEO agency works on whether AI engines trust and cite your brand across a whole topic, including what other sites say about you. Our guide to what generative engine optimization is covers the history of the term and how it differs from SEO.
| AEO agency | GEO agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Unit of work | A page and the question it answers | A topic and every source engines use for it |
| Typical work | Answer-first copy, FAQs, structured data, llms.txt, crawler access | Source-gap mapping, third-party mentions, consistent brand facts, topic coverage |
| Main question | Can the engine quote us? | Does the engine choose us? |
| How Nurdd sells it | AEO agency service | GEO services |
In practice the labels blur. Discovered Labs uses GEO and AEO as one service, while First Page Sage's GEO page leans heavily on list articles, reviews and PR. When you compare proposals, compare the work listed, not the acronym. The AI search glossary defines the terms you will meet in them.
What does an AEO or GEO agency cost?
Most agencies on this list do not publish a price. These are the published figures we found on 2 November 2026:
- The Digital Elevator: $5,000, $7,000 or $9,000 a month for managed AEO/SEO; AI Visibility sprints from $3,500.
- Discovered Labs: a €4,370 diagnostic, then retainers shown from €6,995 a month on a six-month commitment (published in euros).
For a market view, First Page Sage's own GEO cost breakdown (last updated 14 November 2025) groups GEO services into three tiers of $2,000 to $3,000, $4,000 to $7,000 and $8,000 to $12,000 a month. It says these reflect pricing it has seen among companies offering GEO, not its own rates.
What moves the price: how many prompts, engines and markets are tracked, how much content the agency writes, and how much off-site source work your topic needs. Nurdd scopes its AEO and GEO services on exactly those inputs and includes the Noma seat, so you are not paying for a separate tracking tool on top. If you only want the software, Noma starts at $79 a month on monthly billing, with a 3-day trial.
Questions to ask before hiring an AEO or GEO agency
Use this checklist on every call. The answers are easy to compare across proposals.
- Which AI engines will you measure, and which tool will you use? Ask for the list by name. "AI search" is not an answer.
- Will we see the data ourselves, or only in a monthly deck? With Nurdd, a Noma seat is included, so you can check daily.
- Which prompts will you track, and who chooses them? Our guide on which prompts to track shows how to build a set that reflects real buyer questions.
- What is the baseline? Ask for your current mention share against named competitors before work starts. See how AI search share of voice is measured.
- Who ships the fixes? Confirm whether the agency edits your site or hands over briefs, and who writes the content.
- Which third-party sources will you target? Ask for the pages engines cite for your topic today and the plan to get you onto them.
- What is the minimum term and notice period? Published terms on this list vary, from month-to-month retainers to fixed sprints and minimum terms.
- How will results be reported? Ask for a sample report before you sign.
Before the first call, you can check your own site with the GEO readiness scorecard and our guide on how to check if your website answers AI questions.
Agency or in-house with software: which fits?
An agency makes sense when you need the work done: content written, fixes shipped and third-party sources earned. Doing it in-house makes sense when you have writers and a developer and mainly need data on where you stand. Either way, someone has to measure the answers every day.
Nurdd covers both routes. The managed services include a Noma seat, and Noma is sold on its own for teams that want to run AEO and GEO themselves. Our full comparison of an answer engine optimization agency vs in-house walks through the trade-offs, and if you are choosing software, see the best AI search visibility tools for 2026 and Noma vs Profound.
If your brand is missing from AI answers today, start with why your brand isn't showing up in ChatGPT answers, then how to get ChatGPT to recommend your brand and how to write a brand description AI engines cite.
How we researched this
We read each agency's own service and pricing pages and Nurdd's own pages. We did not hire, test or interview any agency, and we did not use other publishers' list articles as a source for any fact. All pages below were checked on 2 November 2026.
- Nurdd: Answer engine optimization agency, checked 2 November 2026
- Nurdd: Generative engine optimization services, checked 2 November 2026
- Noma: pricing, checked 2 November 2026
- Discovered Labs: home page, checked 2 November 2026
- Discovered Labs: AEO agency, checked 2 November 2026
- Discovered Labs: pricing, checked 2 November 2026
- First Page Sage: GEO services, checked 2 November 2026
- First Page Sage: GEO cost breakdown, checked 2 November 2026
- Go Fish Digital: GEO, checked 2 November 2026
- iPullRank: home page, checked 2 November 2026
- iPullRank: GEO, checked 2 November 2026
- iPullRank: AI Search Strategy Program, checked 2 November 2026
- Minuttia: home page, checked 2 November 2026
- Minuttia: GEO agency, checked 2 November 2026
- NoGood: AEO service, checked 2 November 2026
- Power Digital: GEO services, checked 2 November 2026
- Siege Media: GEO, checked 2 November 2026
- The Digital Elevator: Managed AEO/SEO, checked 2 November 2026
- The Digital Elevator: AI Visibility, checked 2 November 2026
Agency pages change. If a detail here no longer matches an agency's site, the agency's site is right, and we will update this page.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best AEO and GEO agency in 2026?
Nurdd is our pick, because it runs AEO and GEO as managed services and includes a seat in Noma, its own AI-visibility product, which tracks 13 AI engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. You see the same daily data the team works from, plus a monthly report.
How much does an AEO agency cost?
Most agencies do not publish prices. Of those that do, The Digital Elevator lists managed AEO/SEO at $5,000 to $9,000 a month and Discovered Labs shows retainers from €6,995 a month. Nurdd scopes each brand by engines, prompts, markets and how much work it does, with a Noma seat included.
What is a GEO agency?
A GEO (generative engine optimization) agency shapes a brand's content and the third-party sources around it so AI engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude use that content and name the brand in their answers. It works across a whole topic, not one page at a time.
Is an AEO agency the same as a GEO agency?
Not always. AEO focuses on making a page easy for an AI engine to quote; GEO focuses on whether engines trust and cite the brand across a topic. Some agencies, such as Discovered Labs, treat the two as one service. Nurdd sells them separately.
How long does AEO or GEO take to show results?
No agency on this list publishes a guaranteed timeline, and The Digital Elevator says it does not guarantee specific AI answer placements. Siege Media says it is not a fit for brands expecting results within weeks. Measuring the same prompts daily from a baseline, as Nurdd does in Noma, shows each change as engines pick it up.
Should I hire an agency or use AI visibility software myself?
Hire an agency if you need content written, fixes shipped and third-party sources earned. Use software if your team can do the work and needs the data. Nurdd's services include Noma, and Noma is also sold on its own from $79 a month.
Where to start
Pick two or three agencies, ask each the eight questions above, and compare the answers on engines measured, data access and term. If you want to see where AI engines place your brand before you talk to anyone, book a demo with Nurdd: we will run your category's prompts live in Noma, show who gets named instead of you, and tell you what we would fix first. You can also read more about our managed services.