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Search “AEO agency” right now and you get a mess. Half the results are software platforms, not agencies. A chunk of the rest are SEO shops that swapped “AI” into their homepage headline and changed nothing about how they work. A few are doing genuinely new work: measuring how brands show up inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, then engineering the content, entities, and citations that move those answers.
This guide sorts the real from the rebranded. It covers 10 done-for-you AI SEO and AEO agencies built for B2B, the 3 platforms you will keep hearing about (and why they are not agencies), and a framework for picking the one that fits your stage. Karpi Studio is on this list. We are also the smallest and most specialized name on it, and the writeup below says exactly where we fit and where we do not.
What an AEO agency actually does
An AEO agency is a done-for-you team that gets your brand cited by AI answer engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Bing Copilot, and Claude. AEO stands for Answer Engine Optimization. Some agencies call the same work GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) or AI SEO. The labels differ, the job is the same: be the source the model quotes when a buyer asks a question in your category.
This is different from classic SEO, where the goal is a blue link ranking in position one. In AI search the goal is a citation inside a generated answer, and the ranking factors are not identical. Ahrefs analyzed over a billion data points across 14 studies in 2026 and found that 28.3% of the pages ChatGPT cites most have zero Google organic visibility. AI search is a separate discovery layer with its own rules. An AEO agency works that layer: source-worthy content, entity and author authority, citation building, structured data, and measurement of share of voice inside the models themselves.
First thing to understand: platforms are not agencies
The biggest source of confusion in this category is that the loudest names are software, not service.
A platform tells you how you show up in AI answers and gives you tooling to act. You still need people (in-house or an agency) to do the work. An agency does the work for you. Both are valid. They solve different problems, and a B2B founder looking for a partner to run AEO needs to know which one they are buying.
The agencies are the core of this list. The platforms get their own short section near the end.
How we picked these agencies
No fake 1-to-10 leaderboard. The agencies below are grouped by the kind of B2B company each one fits, because “best” depends entirely on your stage, your stack, and what your AEO gap actually is.
We scored each one on six things: ICP fit (do they serve B2B, and B2B SaaS specifically), methodology proof (documented approach versus vibes), published results (real numbers versus claims), AEO credibility (genuinely new AI-search work versus rebranded SEO), longevity and team depth, and honest watch-outs (who they are not a fit for).
Two disclosures. First, Karpi Studio authored this guide and is included in it. We placed ourselves where the rubric placed us, in a narrow technical-AEO niche, not at the top. Second, every result number below is self-reported by the agency or platform that published it. We attribute each one and we did not audit anyone’s books. Where a company anonymizes its clients, we did not invent logos.
Best-evidenced AEO for B2B SaaS
These three are the most directly relevant if you are a B2B SaaS company and you want proof, not promises.
Graphite
Best for: Scaling B2B SaaS with some content-production capacity that wants experiment-backed AEO.
Specialty: Topical authority and AEO, measured with test-and-control rigor.
Graphite (graphite.io, the bootstrapped agency founded by Ethan Smith, not the similarly named code-review tool) publishes the most rigorous AEO case work anywhere. Their Webflow engagement is the one most other agencies quote: LLM-sourced signups doubled from 4% to 8% of all Webflow signups, those signups converted at 24% versus 4% for non-brand SEO, and share of voice in AI answers went from 33% to 64%. The numbers are backed by matched test and control URL groups and reported p-values, which almost nobody in this space bothers to do. The client roster (Webflow, Notion, BetterUp) is the most B2B-SaaS-relevant of any agency here, and founder Ethan Smith is a category-defining voice (Lenny’s Podcast, Reforge, AEO Conf).
Strengths: Best-evidenced results in the category. Proprietary topical-authority platform behind the service. Bootstrapped and profitable, so the methodology was built on client outcomes, not hype capital.
Watch-outs: This is a done-for-you growth engagement with software underneath, not a light self-serve dashboard. The velocity model fits companies ready to ship content and run experiments at pace, so a very early team with no content capacity should scope the engagement carefully.
Omniscient Digital
Best for: Funded B2B SaaS (post-Series A) that measures marketing in pipeline, not traffic.
Specialty: Attribution-driven organic growth, with AI search productized as “GEO.”
Omniscient (founded by David Ly Khim, Alex Birkett, and Allie Konchar) is the pipeline agency. Their case studies are reported in dollars: Smartling at $3.7M qualified pipeline, SpotDraft at $2.94M. On the AI-search side they report Convert at +81% LLM visibility and +140% AI citations, and they ran original research analyzing Google AI Mode network traffic in early 2026. Their GEO service is a real, productized offering built on source-worthy content, entity optimization, and citation engineering.
Strengths: Attribution-first DNA with B2B SaaS pipeline case studies. Genuine AI-search investment with named results. Category-leading owned media (The Long Game podcast, prolific founder writing), so they practice the authority-building they sell.
Watch-outs: The engine is content and authority under a GEO label. If your gap is technical (entity infrastructure, schema, site architecture) rather than content depth, confirm how much of the engagement covers it. Best fit is an ongoing program, not a one-off audit.
Daydream
Best for: High-growth B2B SaaS (Seed to Series B) comfortable being an early customer of a fast-rising team.
Specialty: AI-native SEO and AI search, delivered by software agents plus human Growth Leads.
Daydream (founded 2023, San Francisco, $21M raised including a $15M Series A led by WndrCo) is the youngest agency here and the one built AI-native from day one. Their model pairs proprietary SEO agents with dedicated human Growth Leads. Founder Thenuka Karunaratne has real founder-market fit: he bootstrapped Flixed to 400K+ visits a month on programmatic SEO before starting Daydream. The client roster is cleanly B2B SaaS (Twingate, Clay, Beautiful.ai), and the flagship case is strong: Twingate reports 40,000+ monthly visits driving 80%+ of non-branded traffic.
Strengths: Genuinely novel delivery model (agents plus Growth Leads), which is what top-tier VCs funded. Strong founder-market fit. Clean B2B SaaS roster.
Watch-outs: Young company, so the proof is concentrated in one flagship case plus logos rather than a deep multi-year library. The emphasis is SEO-first with AEO as one of seven growth levers, so if pure AI-citation share is your single priority, confirm their AEO-specific measurement.
Enterprise authority and research-led
Bigger, more established, and a better fit if you are mid-market or enterprise and want a recognized name with deep pedigree.
iPullRank
Best for: Mid-market and enterprise teams that want one senior partner to own SEO and AI search end to end.
Specialty: Relevance Engineering, grounded in information-retrieval theory.
Mike King’s agency (founded 2014, NYC, bootstrapped) is the thinking person’s AEO shop. King is one of the strongest individual brands in search, and his free book The AI Search Manual is one of the most substantive open texts on the topic. iPullRank frames AEO as an engineering discipline (query fan-out, passage retrieval, embeddings) rather than content with schema sprinkled on top. The track record is enterprise scale, with a reported $4B+ in organic search results and clients like Target, CVS, American Express, SAP, and the Wall Street Journal.
Strengths: Deepest methodology and thought leadership of any agency here. Genuine enterprise pedigree. Full-stack done-for-you execution under one roof.
Watch-outs: Built for enterprise and mid-market scale, so an early-stage SaaS startup may find the engagement model scoped above its stage. The visible client logos skew B2C, media, and retail, so a B2B SaaS buyer should ask for directly relevant SaaS references.
Seer Interactive
Best for: Mid-market to enterprise B2B that wants done-for-you GEO backed by original data.
Specialty: Data-led search, with genuinely influential AI-search research.
Seer (founded 2002 by Wil Reynolds, Philadelphia, independent and employee profit-sharing) is the data-first agency, and the one that has published some of the most-cited primary research in AI search. Their study of AI Overviews and organic CTR (3,119 queries) and their AI-search-landscape study (42 organizations, 25.1M organic impressions) get quoted across the industry. They report concrete AEO proof, including changing a brand’s answer in ChatGPT within roughly 36 hours and +344% AI Overview visibility, and they staff a named Chief AI Officer (Alisa Scharf).
Strengths: Real done-for-you execution backed by a dedicated AI practice. Original, industry-cited research. Independent and values-led (Reynolds famously turned down a reported $50M acquisition).
Watch-outs: The data-led model and 200+ person scale fit resourced programs better than a small fixed-scope sprint. Public case studies are usually industry-labeled rather than named, so ask for specific B2B SaaS references directly.
Content and digital-PR-led
These two win AI citations primarily through source-worthy content and earned media at scale. Best fit if your AEO gap is content quality and authority, not technical infrastructure.
Siege Media
Best for: B2B and consumer brands that need to win citations through high-end content and digital PR at scale.
Specialty: Data journalism and digital PR engineered for citations.
Siege Media (founded 2012 by Ross Hudgens, San Diego, independent) has made the most overt category bet of anyone here. The homepage now reads “Full-service GEO. We make brands the answer in search,” Hudgens has a GEO book coming from Wiley in late 2026, and the team is the largest of the independents. The published LLM-visibility numbers are unusually concrete: Instacart at 46,500 LLM citations, Zendesk at 98% LLM visibility, Zapier at 96%. The engine behind it is data journalism plus digital PR, which is exactly the muscle that earns the references AI engines quote.
Strengths: Proven LLM-visibility results on the record. A citation-earning content and PR engine at scale. Real category authority (six-time Inc. 5000, the Wiley book).
Watch-outs: This is content and digital-PR-led GEO, not technical-AEO-led. If your gap is entity or schema infrastructure, confirm scope. The ICP and roster are broad and consumer-inclusive, so a buyer who wants a SaaS-only specialist should weigh that.
Animalz
Best for: B2B SaaS companies whose AI-visibility problem is content quality and prompt coverage.
Specialty: Editorial-first content marketing, with AEO productized as an extension of it.
Animalz (founded 2015, fully remote, led by CEO Ty Magnin) has one of the strongest pure-SaaS rosters in the category: Google, Atlassian, Intercom, Amplitude, Airtable, Ramp. They are also the only agency here that uses “AEO” by name, with a productized AEO Audit and Action Plan covering ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews, plus citation outreach and Reddit engagement. Their honest framing is that AEO is an extension of content quality and “works without technical changes,” better with them.
Strengths: Strongest B2B SaaS editorial pedigree and roster on this list. Genuinely productized, content-native AEO. Current, credible AEO thought leadership (their “20 Techniques That Get You Cited in Answer Engines” is a good public example).
Watch-outs: Most content-led of the group, so if your gap is schema, entities, or architecture, that sits outside their core. Fewer hard published AEO result numbers than the data-led agencies, so a metrics-driven buyer should ask for the latest AI-search figures.
Full-service with a strong AEO point of view
Large, multi-service shops where AI search is one capability inside a much broader offering. Best fit if you want one partner for everything and AEO folded in.
NP Digital
Best for: Enterprise or well-funded mid-market brands that want one global partner for SEO, paid, PR, and creative, with AI search included.
Specialty: Full-funnel performance marketing, with AEO led through thought leadership and digital PR.
Neil Patel and Mike Kamo’s agency (founded 2017, 1,000+ people across roughly 28 countries, independent) brings distribution almost nobody can match. Neil Patel’s personal reach (around 2.2M YouTube subscribers, a marketing podcast approaching 100M downloads, and owned tools like Ubersuggest and Answer The Public) is the firm’s single biggest asset and exactly the kind of authority AI engines reward. Their AEO point of view, that digital PR and entity authority are the biggest AI-visibility levers, is directionally correct. Real B2B SaaS clients include Adobe, SoFi, ConnectWise, and Intelex. (The widely repeated “Amazon, Google, GM” list is Neil’s personal consulting history, not current agency retainers.)
Strengths: Unmatched distribution and authority through Neil Patel. Global full-funnel scale. A long list of published results across SEO and paid.
Watch-outs: Full-service generalist, so AEO is one capability among many and published AEO-specific case numbers are not yet on the site. Built for enterprise and mid-market scale, so a boutique B2B SaaS team wanting hands-on, founder-level attention on a narrow AI-search problem may fit better with a specialist.
Single Grain
Best for: Growth-stage B2B SaaS that wants a hands-on, AI-forward partner across SEO, paid, content, and CRO.
Specialty: AI-native marketing, with AEO and GEO front and center.
Eric Siu’s agency (acquired by Siu in 2014, Los Angeles, around 74 people) has gone furthest in making AEO its stated identity. “AEO and GEO” lead the service stack, there is a distinct AI Implementation practice, and Siu publicly documents the actual AI-agent workflows his team runs (his breakdown of “12 specialized sub-agents” is a real differentiator versus generic “we use AI” messaging). Named clients include Amazon Alexa, Nextiva, and Lever, and the framing is pipeline over vanity metrics.
Strengths: AEO as core identity, backed by real AI-operations depth. Elite founder distribution (Siu co-hosts the Marketing School podcast with Neil Patel) at a hands-on team size. Pipeline framing with B2B SaaS proof (Nextiva at a reported 41% lower cost per lead).
Watch-outs: “AI-native” spans both true answer-engine work and AI-augmented conventional marketing, so pin down how much of the engagement is pure AEO and how it gets reported. Boutique-to-mid scale, so a very large enterprise wanting deep single-channel bench depth may look elsewhere.
Webflow-native technical AEO
Karpi Studio
Best for: B2B SaaS companies on Webflow that want AEO and schema handled by the team that builds the site.
Specialty: Webflow-native AEO, technical structured data, and CRO.
Here is the honest placement. Karpi is the smallest and most specialized name on this list. We are not Profound’s platform or Graphite’s experiment library or NP Digital’s global machine. What we are: the only Webflow-native agency here with a measurable AI-citation footprint, focused specifically on B2B SaaS.
The proof we can point to: our own guide to Webflow AEO agencies earned 1,226 Bing AI citations in three months, which is the kind of result we build for clients. We maintain Schema HQ, a 300+ entry schema reference, and structured data is a primary deliverable for us, not an add-on. On the broader organic side, our dYdX migration drove a 3,722% increase in Google organic growth, and Blueberry Pediatrics saw a 144% lift in conversions. We work where AEO, CRO, and schema intersect on Webflow, which is a narrow lane nobody else on this list occupies.
Strengths: Webflow-native, so AEO and schema are engineered into the build rather than bolted on. Proven AI-citation footprint of our own. Technical and structured-data depth via Schema HQ.
Watch-outs: We are a small senior team, not a global agency or a self-serve platform. We are Webflow-specific, so if you are committed to WordPress or a custom stack, several agencies above fit better. If you need a 50-person bench running paid media across ten markets, that is not us.
This is exactly the work we do for B2B SaaS founders on Webflow. See the Karpi AEO service page and the dYdX case study.
Platforms you will also hear about (not agencies)
These three dominate the conversation, and a buyer searching for an “AEO agency” will run into all of them. They are software you operate, not done-for-you teams. Worth knowing, worth possibly buying, but not a substitute for an agency if you need the work done for you.
Profound is the category-defining platform and the first unicorn in AI-search visibility (founded 2024, around $155M raised, a $1B valuation backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, and Lightspeed). It helped popularize the term AEO. It measures how you show up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews, and its flagship case (Ramp moving from 3.2% to 22.2% AI visibility on a target topic in a month) is real. You still need people to act on what it tells you.
Conductor is an enterprise organic-marketing platform repositioned hard around AEO (“Win in AI Search,” “#1 for Enterprise AEO”). It ships real product (AgentStack, a native ChatGPT app, AI-bot crawl monitoring) and serves large in-house teams at companies like Citibank and American Express. Enterprise contracts, enterprise scale.
BrightEdge is one of the original enterprise SEO platforms, with a genuinely data-rich AI-search stack (Generative Parser and AI Catalyst) that tracks how engines cite brands across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI surfaces. Best for large organizations with an in-house SEO team to drive it.
Key takeaway: buy a platform when you have the people to operate it. Hire an agency when you need the work done.
How to choose
Match the agency to your stage and your actual gap, not to whoever has the loudest homepage.
- You are B2B SaaS and want proof before you spend. Start with Graphite (experiment-backed) or Omniscient (pipeline-attributed).
- You are early stage and AI-native by instinct. Daydream is built for you, if you are comfortable being an early customer.
- You are enterprise or mid-market and want a recognized name. iPullRank or Seer Interactive.
- Your gap is content quality and citations, not infrastructure. Siege Media (scale and PR) or Animalz (editorial depth).
- You want one partner for all of marketing. NP Digital (global) or Single Grain (hands-on, AI-forward).
- You are on Webflow and want AEO plus schema built into the site. Karpi Studio.
- You have an in-house team and want tooling, not a partner. Profound, Conductor, or BrightEdge.
One more filter. Ask any agency how they measure AEO. If the answer is “we track keyword rankings,” that is SEO with new vocabulary. If the answer involves share of voice inside the models, citation counts across ChatGPT and Perplexity, and AI-sourced conversions, they are doing the real work.
Common questions
What is the difference between an AEO agency and an SEO agency?
An SEO agency optimizes for blue-link rankings in Google. An AEO agency optimizes for citations inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. The two overlap (both reward authority and good content) but the measurement differs, and 28.3% of the most-cited AI pages have no Google ranking at all. The best agencies do both and report them separately.
How do you get a B2B brand cited by ChatGPT or Perplexity?
Through source-worthy content that answers real buyer questions, strong entity and author authority, citations and mentions on sites the models already trust (including Reddit and YouTube in many categories), clean structured data, and content formatted for extraction. Then you measure share of voice inside the models and iterate. It is a different motion from chasing a single keyword ranking.
Can my existing SEO agency do AEO?
Sometimes. Ask them how they measure it. If they can show you share-of-voice tracking inside ChatGPT and Perplexity, citation counts, and AI-sourced conversions, they are doing real AEO. If “AEO” means the same keyword reports relabeled, they are not. Several agencies on this list rebuilt their methodology and measurement for AI search. Many shops have not.
How much does an AEO agency cost?
It ranges widely by model. Self-serve platforms run on software subscriptions. Done-for-you agencies run on monthly retainers that scale with scope and company size. Pricing is not published by most agencies because engagements are scoped per client, so ask for a proposal against your specific goals rather than a list price.
Is AEO worth it for B2B SaaS specifically?
Yes, because B2B buyers increasingly research in AI tools before they ever hit a vendor site, and AI-sourced traffic often converts better than generic organic. Graphite reported LLM-sourced signups converting at 24% versus 4% for non-brand SEO on one B2B SaaS engagement. The buyers who arrive through an AI answer have already had the model vouch for you.
What should I look for when hiring an AEO agency?
ICP fit (do they have B2B SaaS proof), a documented methodology rather than vibes, published results with real numbers, AEO-specific measurement (not relabeled keyword reports), and honesty about who they are not a fit for. An agency that only tells you what it is great at, and never who it is wrong for, is selling rather than advising.
Methodology and disclosure
Karpi Studio wrote this guide and is included in it. We placed ourselves where our rubric placed us: a narrow Webflow-native technical-AEO niche, not at the top of the list. The six criteria were ICP fit, methodology proof, published results, AEO credibility, longevity and team depth, and honest watch-outs. Every result figure is self-reported by the company that published it, attributed in-line, and not independently audited. Where a company anonymizes its clients, we did not add named logos. This reflects our honest read of the landscape as of June 2026. If you run one of these agencies and something here is factually off, email pavel@karpi.studio and we will correct it within a day.
By Pavel Karpisek. Founder of Karpi Studio, Premium Webflow Enterprise Partner with 6+ years on the platform and 200+ B2B projects shipped. Last updated: June 2026.