TL;DR: Key Takeaway
verdict
Rock The Rankings ranks first for B2B SaaS and tech companies that want AEO tied to revenue, with answer-engine leads counted rather than estimated. Optimist is the strongest alternative, with founder-led AEO from $2,500/mo and a published 49x LLM referral revenue result. Ask every agency what changes on your pages, because AEO sold as schema alone rarely moves answers.
Price starts at
From $4,050/mo · published tiers
Best for
- Answer engine optimization
- SEO
- Answer-first content
- Citation building and digital PR
- Technical SEO and schema
- AI search attribution
- Published results: Lendbuzz named in 21 of 23 tracked answer themes, 2.3× ahead of its nearest competitor
- Accuracy audits that trace wrong answers to the source an engine quotes, then fix them there
- Two-signal attribution that counts answer-engine leads the CRM files as Direct
- A forecast before you sign, and the founder on your account from first call to monthly report
- SaaS and tech first. Other sectors should ask for examples close to their category.
- Search only. Paid, lifecycle, and brand sit with another partner.
Price starts at
From $2,500/mo
Best for
- Answer engine optimization
- SEO strategy and advising
- Content strategy and production
- Organic growth consulting
- Published AEO case study: 49x growth in LLM referral revenue for a B2B tech client
- Founder Tyler Hakes leads strategy on every engagement
- Clients including Semrush, ZoomInfo, and Superhuman
- One verified Clutch review
- Execution relies on a network of freelance specialists rather than a large in-house team
Price starts at
From $5,000/project
Best for
- Answer engine optimization
- Reddit and community-led content
- Third-party listicles and Wikipedia
- SaaS SEO strategy
- Content production
- AEO plus the off-site work answer engines draw on: Reddit, listicles, Wikipedia, and YouTube
- One client reports organic pipeline up 203% half over half across SEO, AEO, and Reddit
- SaaS-only, with every Clutch review rated 5.0
- A small team (2 to 9 on Clutch)
- Third-party write-ups say it expects at least one in-house marketer
Price starts at
From $3,495/mo · published tiers
Best for
- Answer engine optimization
- AI visibility programs
- Bottom-funnel content
- Editorial link building
- UX/UI and web design
- Published pricing, with AI visibility programs from $3,495
- Reports a 1,182% rise in LLM sessions for Halo Labs
- 5.0 on Clutch across 14 verified reviews
- Most published work is biotech and life sciences
- A team of two to nine on Clutch
Price starts at
From $1,000/project
Best for
- Answer engine optimization (MERIT)
- SEO
- Paid search
- Conversion rate optimization
- Web development
- 4.9 on Clutch across 100 verified reviews, the deepest record on this page
- A named framework for answer engine visibility (MERIT)
- Short 3 to 6-month contracts and a $1,000 Clutch minimum
- Serves ecommerce, real estate, and local businesses alongside B2B
- Paid search is a quarter of its service mix
Price starts at
From $2,250/mo · published tiers
Best for
- LLM optimization (AEO)
- SaaS content strategy and writing
- Listicle and digital PR placements
- Link building
- AI visibility reporting
- Published tiers, with content plans from $2,250 a month
- AEO work covers prompt research, listicle placements, and AI visibility reporting
- Content Execution plan runs month to month
- Limited technical SEO beyond publishing
- SEO plus AI visibility retainers carry a 3-month minimum
Price starts at
From $4,000/mo
Best for
- B2B and SaaS SEO
- Answer engine optimization
- Revenue-focused content
- Technical SEO
- Web design and development
- SEO and AEO aimed at demos rather than traffic
- Reports VerifyTreatment growing from 5 to 32 monthly demos
- Published pricing from $4,000 a month
- No verified Clutch reviews
- 6 or 12-month contracts, with no month-to-month option
Price starts at
From $495/mo (Goodie platform)
Best for
- Answer engine optimization
- Goodie AEO platform
- Growth marketing and experimentation
- Content marketing
- Paid media
- Its own AEO platform, Goodie, available standalone from $495 a month
- Experiment-led growth model across content and paid
- Clients including TikTok, Intuit, and MongoDB
- No verified Clutch reviews
- AEO is one service in a broad growth agency, and retainers are custom
Price starts at
From $50,000/project
Best for
- Answer engine optimization
- SEO
- Earned media and digital PR
- Paid media
- Content marketing
- Entity-first AEO approach backed by large earned media and PR teams
- Global reach across offices in North America and the UK
- Founded by Neil Patel, with a large research and content operation
- Most Clutch projects run $50,000 to $199,999
- 4.5 on Clutch across 17 reviews, the lowest rating on this page
Price starts at
From $10,000/project
Best for
- Answer engine optimization
- Thought leadership content
- B2B SEO
- Digital PR
- Offering AEO since 2023, among the earliest movers
- Thought-leadership content built to be cited
- Long experience in complex B2B categories
- No verified Clutch reviews
- Reported 12 to 24-month commitments and a $10,000 minimum
The board
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Wighted criteria, pipeline impact first. Filter by how each agency is built.
Editorial scores by the Rock The Rankings team · Review counts from Clutch.co · Updated quarterly
How we scored
The criteria, weighted for pipeline.
We reviewed public case studies, client rosters, pricing pages, and third-party reviews. One question outranks the rest: does the agency connect search activity to pipeline you can audit, or does it report traffic and hope you are impressed.
The breakdown
Every agency; the full breakdown:
Read the criteria, check the results, and judge for yourself. Every other entry gets the same fields and an honest tradeoff line.
Rock The Rankings
Optimist
Optimist is a remote B2B content and AEO agency founded in 2016 by Tyler Hakes, working with B2B technology and SaaS companies. Its framework treats AEO and SEO as one program mapped to the buyer journey, and it advises on strategy or runs execution with a network of senior freelance specialists.
Its published AEO results include 49x growth in LLM referral revenue for a B2B tech client, and clients include Semrush, ZoomInfo, and Superhuman. Pricing starts at $2,500 a month for advisory. The gap is third-party proof: Clutch shows a single verified review.
Scalerrs
Scalerrs is a SaaS-only SEO and AEO agency founded in 2023 by Jules Davies. Its scope pairs answer-ready content with the off-site sources answer engines lean on, including Reddit, third-party listicles, Wikipedia, and YouTube.
Milient Software reports organic pipeline up 203% half over half after adding AEO and Reddit work, and every Clutch review is rated 5.0. The constraint is size, with two to nine people on Clutch.
Digital Elevator
Digital Elevator is a remote agency founded in 2010 that focuses on biotech, life sciences, medtech, and healthcare companies, with AEO, SEO, bottom-funnel content, and UX work. It publishes pricing, with AI visibility programs from $3,495.
It reports a 1,182% increase in LLM sessions for Halo Labs and holds 5.0 across 14 Clutch reviews. The trade is focus and scale: most published work is in life sciences, and Clutch lists a team of two to nine.
Searchbloom
Searchbloom is a Utah agency founded in 2014 that runs SEO, paid search, CRO, and web development, and sells AEO through a framework it calls MERIT, covering mentions, evidence, relevance, inclusion, and ongoing improvement.
No agency here has a deeper review record, at 4.9 across 100 Clutch reviews, and contracts run 3 to 6 months. The trade is focus: clients span ecommerce, real estate, and local businesses as well as B2B.
Quoleady
Quoleady is a remote SaaS content marketing agency founded in 2020 that plans, writes, and promotes content for B2B software companies. Its LLM optimization work covers prompt research, listicle placements, and AI visibility reporting.
Content plans start at $2,250 a month, and combined SEO plus AI visibility retainers run $3,500 to $7,000 with a 3-month minimum. Clients include airfocus, Expandi, and DataForSEO. The trade is depth: it is a content and links shop, with lighter technical SEO and revenue measurement.
Breaking B2B
Breaking B2B is a UK agency founded by Sam Dunning that runs SEO and answer engine optimization for B2B SaaS and regulated software companies, with web design and podcasting alongside. Its work is framed around demos and pipeline rather than traffic.
It reports VerifyTreatment, a behavioral health insurance verification platform, growing from 5 to 32 monthly demos, and publishes pricing from $4,000 a month. The gaps are third-party proof and flexibility: no verified Clutch reviews and 6 or 12-month contracts.
NoGood
NoGood is a New York growth marketing agency founded in 2016 that runs content, paid, and experiment-led programs, and built Goodie, an AEO platform that tracks how brands appear in AI answers. The platform is sold standalone from $495 a month.
That tool-plus-team model suits a company that wants to measure AEO in-house while buying help with content. The gaps are verification and focus: no verified Clutch reviews were found, and AEO is one service among many.
NP Digital
NP Digital is a global agency founded in 2017 by Neil Patel, with 1,000+ staff and offices including Las Vegas, Toronto, and Egham. It sells AEO alongside SEO, paid media, earned media, and content, with an entity-first approach to how brands appear in AI answers.
Scale is the draw for enterprise brands that want AEO tied into large PR and media programs. For most B2B teams the trade is price and attention: most Clutch projects run $50,000 or more, and its rating is 4.5 across 17 reviews.
First Page Sage
First Page Sage is a San Francisco Bay Area agency founded in 2009 by Evan Bailyn that builds thought-leadership content for complex B2B companies and has offered AEO since 2023.
Its strength is authoritative long-form content that answer engines can cite. The concerns are verification and commitment: independent audits report no verified Clutch reviews, and third parties report 12 to 24-month commitments from about $10,000.
How to choose
Six questions to ask before you sign.
Which questions will you track, and in which engines?
What changes on our existing pages?
How much of the plan is schema?
How will you fix wrong answers about us?
How will you measure revenue from answer engines?
What are the terms if citations do not move?
FAQs
Common questions about hiring an agency
If yours is not here, bring it to the call. Same unpolished answer either way.
What is the best AEO agency?
+For B2B SaaS and tech companies that want AEO tied to revenue, we would argue for Rock The Rankings, and the criteria are published so you can check the reasoning. Optimist is the strongest alternative, with founder-led AEO from $2,500 a month, Quoleady is the budget pick for answer-ready content, and Searchbloom has the deepest review record here.
What is answer engine optimization?
+AEO is the work of becoming the answer AI tools give. It means structuring pages so engines can quote them, naming the products and categories involved, earning mentions on the sources engines trust, and checking that what engines say about you is accurate.
How is AEO different from SEO?
+SEO earns a ranking; AEO earns the answer. The overlap is large, because pages that rank are often the ones engines cite. The difference is format and sources: answer-first pages, entity clarity, and mentions on third-party sites matter more.
How much does an AEO agency cost?
+Across these ten, entry points run from NoGood's $495 Goodie platform and Searchbloom's $1,000 Clutch minimum to NP Digital's typical $50,000+ projects. Quoleady's content plans start at $2,250 a month, Optimist at $2,500, and Rock The Rankings at $4,050 on 12-month terms.
How fast does AEO work?
+Faster than classic SEO. Churn Buster went from 0% to 62% visibility on tracked prompts in 72 hours, and one SaaS client saw answer engines grow from 0% of demos to 40% by month six. Revenue takes longer to prove than visibility.
How is this list scored, and did you rank yourself first?
+Seven weighted criteria, fixed before scoring and re-scored quarterly, with a tested answer engine practice weighted highest. Yes, we ranked ourselves first, without a perfect score on any criterion. Every entry carries the same fields and a tradeoff line, ours included.
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