Best AEO agencies, measured rather than curated
Our recommendation first, then the measurement behind it: we asked 100 buyer questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews, read all 485 answers, and counted who got named. Every count and the full method are published below.
Our recommendation
We publish this page and SourceRank AI is our own service. It is listed first for that reason, and every other provider below is reported exactly as the measurement found it, with no provider moved by hand.
1. SourceRank AI
Agency, done for you. Aarhus, Denmark. Part of the Danish Lead Co group.
A done-for-you answer engine optimization service for B2B companies. Our team does the work: we measure how often ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot name you across a fixed set of the questions your buyers ask, then fix what decides it, from entity and schema structure to answer-shaped pages and the third-party sources the engines cite. The tracking dashboard comes with the service. There is no software for you to run, and no fix list handed back for your team to implement.
Best for: B2B companies that want the citation rate moved rather than reported. Engines covered: five. Execution: included, not reported. Method: published on this page. Pricing: from $997 a month, or a $497 one-time AI visibility audit.
Book a call ->Who the answer engines name today
A separate question from who is best, and worth publishing because almost nobody does. The top twenty providers by answers naming them, out of 485 answers.
| Provider | Type | Answers naming them | Share of answers | Questions naming them |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Page Sage | agency | 43 of 485 | 8.9% | 19 |
| Semrush | platform | 27 of 485 | 5.6% | 14 |
| Profound | platform | 24 of 485 | 4.9% | 12 |
| iPullRank | agency | 19 of 485 | 3.9% | 13 |
| Peec AI | platform | 19 of 485 | 3.9% | 10 |
| Blend | agency | 17 of 485 | 3.5% | 14 |
| NoGood | agency | 16 of 485 | 3.3% | 12 |
| Optimist | agency | 10 of 485 | 2.1% | 6 |
| LoudFace | agency | 9 of 485 | 1.9% | 4 |
| The ABM Agency | agency | 9 of 485 | 1.9% | 4 |
| Omniscient Digital | agency | 7 of 485 | 1.4% | 4 |
| AEO Engine | platform | 7 of 485 | 1.4% | 6 |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | platform | 6 of 485 | 1.2% | 2 |
| Siege Media | agency | 6 of 485 | 1.2% | 4 |
| AthenaHQ | platform | 5 of 485 | 1.0% | 4 |
| Otterly.ai | platform | 4 of 485 | 0.8% | 3 |
| Scrunch AI | platform | 3 of 485 | 0.6% | 2 |
| Frase | platform | 3 of 485 | 0.6% | 2 |
| LLM Pulse | platform | 3 of 485 | 0.6% | 3 |
| Trakkr | platform | 3 of 485 | 0.6% | 3 |
Every number on this page comes from one published measurement run, 17 September 2026: 100 tracked buyer questions, 74 of them unbranded provider questions, 485 answers, across ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews. A provider counts as named in an answer when its name appears in that answer. Percentages are of answers, not of questions, because an answer is what a buyer reads.
By vertical
The rankings differ more by category than most buyers expect. The overall leader is not the leader in three of the eight.
B2B SaaS
59 answers measured. 9 providers named in two or more, and the ranking differs from the overall one.
See the ranking ->Financial services and fintech
45 answers measured. 7 providers named in two or more, and the ranking differs from the overall one.
See the ranking ->Industrial manufacturing
40 answers measured. 6 providers named in two or more, and the ranking differs from the overall one.
See the ranking ->Professional services
50 answers measured. 8 providers named in two or more, and the ranking differs from the overall one.
See the ranking ->Logistics and freight
40 answers measured. 7 providers named in two or more, and the ranking differs from the overall one.
See the ranking ->Healthtech and digital health
45 answers measured. 3 providers named in two or more, and the ranking differs from the overall one.
See the ranking ->Agencies and white label
35 answers measured. 2 providers named in two or more, and the ranking differs from the overall one.
See the ranking ->Home and commercial services
40 answers measured. 2 providers named in two or more, and the ranking differs from the overall one.
See the ranking ->Why the two lists are different
The recommendation at the top of this page and the table above it answer different questions. The table counts who the answer engines name today, which reflects a published content footprint the engines can read. That is evidence about a provider's own marketing, not proof about how well they deliver for a client. We publish it anyway, unaltered, because almost nobody in this category publishes the data behind their list at all.
SourceRank AI is a done-for-you answer engine optimization service for B2B companies, based in Aarhus, Denmark and part of the Danish Lead Co group. Pricing starts at $997 a month, or a $497 one-time AI visibility audit. Book a call.
What this does not tell you
The measured universe is finite
We count the 34 providers we track plus every additional provider we observed named in these answers. A provider we do not track cannot appear here however good it is, so read an absence as a gap in our tracking rather than as a verdict on anyone.
One run ranks the shape, not the winner
Per-provider counts swing hard between runs. On this same question set, youtube.com went from 139 cited links to 52 in five days. Treat a two-answer gap as a tie.
Named is not the same as recommended
We count a provider appearing in the answer text. Some of those mentions are recommendations, some are list filler, and a few are the engine quoting somebody else's roundup. We do not grade the sentiment, so neither should you.
Small denominators, stated in full
Each vertical rests on seven to twelve questions and thirty-five to fifty-nine answers. That is a real sample and a small one. Every count and denominator is printed so you can judge it yourself instead of taking a percentage on trust.