16 best AEO agencies for SaaS (according to AI)

If a SaaS founder asks an AI assistant “who are the best AEO agencies for SaaS?”, which agencies get named?

We asked 11 AI platforms that exact question and recorded the agencies they named and the pages they cited. Answer engine optimization (AEO) helps a business become visible in AI-generated answers. This report shows which agencies appeared in one complete capture; it does not evaluate the quality of their services.

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Key findings

1. Three agencies tied for the widest coverage. Omniscient Digital, First Page Sage, and iPullRank were each named by 9 of 11 platforms. No agency was named by all 11.
2. Most agencies appeared on few platforms. The answers named 46 agencies. Of those, 24 (52%) appeared on only one platform.
3. Google AI Overview named the fewest agencies. It named 4, followed by Google AI Mode and DeepSeek at 6 each, then ChatGPT at 7. Gemini named 17. These are counts from one capture, not a measure of how difficult each platform is to influence.
4. Own roundups and agency mentions overlapped. Of 30 agency/platform pairs where an agency’s own roundup was cited, 23 (77%) also included the agency in the answer. This is an association, not evidence that publishing a roundup caused the mention.
5. An own roundup was not required to appear. iPullRank, Minuttia, and NoGood reached the top seven by score without their own roundup appearing among the captured citations.

The leaderboard

The top 16 agencies below are sorted by Rankability Score. The score combines platform coverage with the best mention position, not the average position. The methodology explains the formula and how ties are ordered. Mention position refers to the order in Tracker’s extracted entity list, not a search ranking or an assessment of agency quality.

The leaderboard

Rank	Agency	Platforms naming it	Visibility	Best mention position	Avg. mention position	Score
1	Omniscient Digital	9 of 11	82%	1	2.8	82
2	First Page Sage	9 of 11	82%	1	5.4	82
3	iPullRank	9 of 11	82%	3	8.0	65
4	Minuttia	6 of 11	55%	2	8.0	49
5	Discovered Labs	5 of 11	45%	1	4.0	45
6	Skale	5 of 11	45%	1	8.8	45
7	NoGood	6 of 11	55%	3	8.3	44
8	Siege Media	4 of 11	36%	3	6.3	29
9	Directive	3 of 11	27%	2	7.7	25
10	Grow and Convert	3 of 11	27%	2	8.0	25
11	Omnius	4 of 11	36%	6	8.0	18
12	Sequence Commerce	2 of 11	18%	1	6.0	18
13	Optimist	2 of 11	18%	2	3.5	16
14	Animalz	4 of 11	36%	7	11.5	15
15	LoudFace	2 of 11	18%	3	4.5	15
16	RevenueZen	3 of 11	27%	6	6.7	14

Alias correction: Directive and Directive Consulting are combined here. Directive appeared on 3 of 11 platforms (27%), with a score of 25. The original edition displayed only two platforms under the shorter name.

Also named this month

The remaining 30 agencies appeared on one or two platforms. The agency CSV includes their counts, positions, and scores.

• AEO Collective
• Agency AEO
• Avenue Z
• Blue Array
• Breaking B2B
• Broworks
• DerivateX
• Driven Metrics
• Flow Agency
• Flying Cat Marketing
• Focus Digital
• Genevate
• Graphite
• Growth Plays
• Growth-onomics
• Growthner
• Linkflow
• Marcel Digital
• Mint Position
• Orbit Labs
• OutreachBloom
• Posirank
• Powered by Search
• Quoleady
• RankingBite
• Rock The Rankings
• Seer Interactive
• SimpleTiger
• Spicy Margarita
• Virayo

OutreachBloom was first in DeepSeek’s extracted entity list and Posirank was first in Brave Search AI’s. Neither appeared on another platform in this capture.

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Which platforms name which agencies

The top 10 agencies by score across all 11 platforms. ✓ means the captured answer named the agency; ✕ means it did not. An ✕ applies only to this capture. On a narrow screen, scroll the table to see every platform.

Which platforms name which agencies

Agency	ChatGPT	Google AI Overview	Google AI Mode	Gemini	Perplexity	Claude	Microsoft Copilot	Grok	Meta AI	Brave Search AI	DeepSeek
Omniscient Digital	✓Named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named
First Page Sage	✓Named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named
iPullRank	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named
Minuttia	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named
Discovered Labs	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✕Not named
Skale	✕Not named	✓Named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named
NoGood	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named
Siege Media	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named
Directive	✕Not named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named
Grow and Convert	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✕Not named	✓Named	✕Not named	✓Named

Agencies named per platform

The platform counts total 112 agency/platform mentions, matching the sum of the 46 agencies’ platform counts. An agency appearing on several platforms contributes one mention to each platform.

Even the three coverage leaders have gaps. Omniscient Digital is absent from Google AI Overview and Microsoft Copilot. First Page Sage is absent from Google AI Overview and DeepSeek. iPullRank is absent from Gemini and DeepSeek. If AI Overviews matter to your clients, see these tools for tracking Google AI Overviews.

If ChatGPT is where your buyers start, learn how ChatGPT picks sources.

What the cited pages show

Own roundups and agency mentions

Across the 11 answers, we recorded 55 unique cited URLs from 46 domains. Based on their recorded titles and URLs, 50 of the 55 pages (91%) were agency or consultant roundups, including AEO, GEO, and SEO lists. The other five were three Reddit threads, a YouTube video, and an agency service page. This classification describes page format, not source quality or AI trust.

We compared each agency’s own roundup with the platforms that cited it:

Own roundups and agency mentions

Agency	Platforms citing its own roundup	Of those, platforms naming the agency
First Page Sage	5	5
Discovered Labs	4	3
Omniscient Digital	3	3
DerivateX	3	1
LoudFace	2	2
Omnius	2	2
Sequence Commerce	2	2
Optimist	2	1
Posirank	2	1
Growth-onomics	2	1
Animalz	1	1
Growthner	1	1
Avenue Z	1	0

The total is 23 matches across 30 agency/platform pairs (77%). Each pair counts once even if a platform cited more than one of the agency’s roundups. Discovered Labs’ service page is excluded from this roundup comparison; it was previously counted together with the agency’s list article.

An agency may include itself in its own roundup. These observations do not establish why the AI named it. DerivateX’s roundups were cited by three platforms but the agency appeared on only one. Avenue Z’s roundup was cited by Microsoft Copilot, while Avenue Z appeared only in Grok’s answer.

Agencies mentioned without an own roundup citation

iPullRank appeared on 9 of 11 platforms without an iPullRank-published roundup among the cited pages. Minuttia, Skale, NoGood, Siege Media, and Grow and Convert also reached the top 10 without a cited roundup of their own. Their inclusion is consistent with appearing on other publishers’ pages, but this capture does not isolate reputation or another cause.

Omniscient Digital and First Page Sage appeared widely and also had their own roundups cited.

Examples of cited sources

These are examples from the captured citations, with links to the exact pages. Their order does not imply a trust score or a measured contribution to the answer.

Perplexity returned the largest source list, with 19 citations; Microsoft Copilot returned 12. The three Reddit threads appeared only in Google AI Mode or Google AI Overview citations for this prompt.

What this means if you run an agency

Buyers can receive different agency shortlists depending on the AI platform they ask. This capture gives you three practical starting points:

1. Check each platform separately. Strong coverage overall can coexist with absence from a particular platform. Across our broader AI search research, no pair of AI platforms shared more than 24.1% of the pages they cited.
2. Review the pages already being cited. For this question, most were agency or consultant roundups. Review their inclusion criteria and improve the evidence available about your agency. Publishing your own list does not guarantee a citation or mention. Our free AI SEO checklist covers additional actions.
3. Measure changes over time. One capture is a baseline. Repeated measurements help distinguish persistent gaps from ordinary answer variation. Here is how to track brand mentions over time.

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Methodology

Capture settings

• Prompt: “who are the best AEO agencies for SaaS”
• Capture date: September 30, 2026 (UTC). The downloadable dataset includes each platform’s capture timestamp.
• Coverage: 11 of 11 platforms returned an answer. This edition uses that capture only, not the later October 1 run.
• Language: English. No location was configured for this benchmark.
• Platforms: ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Meta AI, Brave Search AI, and DeepSeek. Brave Search AI refers to Brave’s search answer service, not the Leo browser assistant.
• Tool: Rankability Tracker. This recurring benchmark currently has an effective weekly schedule; the editorial report is planned monthly.
• Unrecorded settings: The exported capture does not provide a complete per-platform model/version, personalization, login state, or sampling configuration. Those conditions cannot be reconstructed from this dataset. Platform implementations differ, so the capture is not a controlled comparison of identical model settings.

Metrics and ordering

• Visibility: distinct platforms naming the agency divided by 11, rounded to a whole percentage.
• Mention position: the one-based order in Tracker’s extracted entity list for an answer, before editorial exclusions. Non-agency entities can occupy earlier positions. This is not necessarily an explicit numbered recommendation rank in the answer.
• Best mention position: the lowest mention position across the platforms naming the agency.
• Average mention position: the mean of those positions, rounded to one decimal place.
• Rankability Score: round(max(0, 100 - 10 × (best mention position - 1)) × platforms naming the agency / 11). An agency absent from a platform receives no coverage for it. A best position of 11 or later produces a zero score, even if the agency was named.
• Ties: score descending, then platform count descending, then average mention position ascending, then agency name alphabetically. A numbered row is its display order, not evidence that tied agencies differ in service quality.
• Own-roundup match rate: unique agency/platform pairs that both cited an agency-owned roundup and named that agency, divided by unique pairs that cited an agency-owned roundup. Service pages are excluded. Multiple roundup URLs for one agency on the same platform count once.
• Sources: URLs are deduplicated by hostname and path, ignoring tracking parameters and trailing slashes. Domains exclude the www prefix. Source-format classification uses the recorded citation title and URL; it is not an independent audit of each page’s contents.

Agency cleanup

The captured extraction contains 67 distinct entity labels. We excluded 17 non-agency entities and merged four alternate names, leaving 46 agencies and 112 agency/platform mentions.

• Merged names: Directive Consulting → Directive; The AEO Collective → AEO Collective; Graphite.io → Graphite; Grow & Convert → Grow and Convert. Mentions under alternate names are retained.
• Software companies and client examples: Adobe, Asana, Glassix, Hotjar, Jasper, Loom, Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce, VeriSign, Webflow, Nerdwallet, and CreditKarma.
• Other exclusions: Goodie and Atomic AGI (software platforms), Growth Marketing Pro (a marketing publication), and Mike King (a person, rather than a separate agency).

Download the evidence

• All 46 agencies, mention positions, and scores — CSV
• Agency coverage across the 11 platforms — CSV
• All 55 cited URLs and their platforms — CSV
• Complete cleaned dataset and calculation definitions — JSON

Limitations: AI answers vary between runs. A mention does not establish that an agency is suitable for your company or that its work is effective. Citation/mention overlap does not establish causation. The report measures the captured answers and extracted entities; it does not evaluate contracts, pricing, client satisfaction, or results.

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