Which AEO and GEO agencies connect AI visibility to leads and revenue?
AEO and GEO Attribution: What The Shortlist Report Finds
10 firms lead, appearing in 13.3–33.3% of 30 AI responses. The sample cannot separate them, so we do not pretend it can.
No clear leader
No single firm dominates this question. Ten come up regularly and they specialise in different things, so the firm worth calling is the one that fits your situation rather than whoever sits highest.
Optimist10 of 30
Connects AI visibility to organic revenue and pipeline for B2B technology companies through AEO and SEO.
Cro Metrics8 of 30
Ties AI visibility work to conversion metrics and revenue outcomes, measuring visibility through business results rather than mentions.
Peec7 of 30
Provides AI-search monitoring and recommendation-share tracking tools showing AI traffic, leads, pipeline and revenue attribution.
Profound7 of 30
Tracks brand mentions, citations, and recommendation visibility across AI search experiences; also optimizes ecommerce product feeds and schema.
BrightEdge5 of 30
Provides enterprise SEO and AI search visibility measurement and optimization technology infrastructure.
+5 more, tiedin the table
Based on 30 ChatGPT responses to this question, collected October 1, 2026–October 7, 2026. Firms are counted once per response. How we measure.
The ranking
| Firm | Responses | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 10 firms, 13.3–33.3% | |||
| OptimistConnects AI visibility to organic revenue and pipeline for B2B technology companies through AEO and SEO. | 10 of 30 | 33.3% | |
| Cro Metricscrometrics.comTies AI visibility work to conversion metrics and revenue outcomes, measuring visibility through business results rather than mentions. | 8 of 30 | 26.7% | |
| Peecpeec.aiProvides AI-search monitoring and recommendation-share tracking tools showing AI traffic, leads, pipeline and revenue attribution. | 7 of 30 | 23.3% | |
| Profoundtryprofound.comTracks brand mentions, citations, and recommendation visibility across AI search experiences; also optimizes ecommerce product feeds and schema. | 7 of 30 | 23.3% | |
| BrightEdgebrightedge.comProvides enterprise SEO and AI search visibility measurement and optimization technology infrastructure. | 5 of 30 | 16.7% | |
| Data Decision ConsultingMeasures AI recommendation share, referral share and conversion share as distinct metrics for ecommerce clients. | 5 of 30 | 16.7% | |
| Otterlyotterly.aiProvides AI-visibility tracking platform at lower cost than agency-only reporting. | 5 of 30 | 16.7% | |
| Seal GlobalBuilds citations and brand mentions on industry publications, directories and press for ecommerce and enterprise cloud-security clients. | 5 of 30 | 16.7% | |
| Semrushsemrush.comSEO platform expanding to track AI visibility, mentions, and brand monitoring across AI search results. | 5 of 30 | 16.7% | |
| DareAISearchdareaisearch.comTracks and attributes recommendations, click-throughs, conversions and revenue from AI recommendation sources. | 4 of 30 | 13.3% | |
Key findings
- No firm answers “Which AEO and GEO agencies connect AI visibility to leads and revenue?” reliably in ChatGPT. The most-named, Optimist, appeared in 10 of 30 responses (33.3%) collected October 1, 2026–October 7, 2026, and 9 other firms scored close enough that the sample cannot put any of them in order.
- Optimist, Cro Metrics and Peec were named most often, in 7–10 of 30 responses. All 10 firms in the leading group are listed with their counts in the table below.
- 10 firms cleared the reporting threshold on “Which AEO and GEO agencies connect AI visibility to leads and revenue?” in ChatGPT as of October 7, 2026; the full table with response counts is below.
- Profound appears in 3 of the 10 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies reports published by The Shortlist Report, the widest coverage of any firm named on this page.
- No firm paid to appear in this ranking; placement cannot be bought, and the counts come from ChatGPT responses rather than from submissions.
Why the tiers fall where they do
Tier 1 holds Optimist, Cro Metrics, Peec, Profound, BrightEdge, Data Decision Consulting, Otterly, Seal Global, Semrush and DareAISearch, named in 4 to 10 of the 30 ChatGPT responses. They are grouped rather than ranked because the gaps between them are inside the margin of error at this sample size — one extra mention would reorder them, so an order would be reporting noise as a finding.
The test is McNemar’s at 95%, applied against the same 30 responses for every firm. The full reasoning, and what happened when we ranked one-to-N instead.
What the sample shows
10 firms lead this question: Optimist, Cro Metrics, Peec, Profound, BrightEdge, Data Decision Consulting, Otterly, Seal Global, Semrush and DareAISearch. They appear in 13.3–33.3% of the 30 responses. The gaps between them are inside the margin of error at this sample size, so they are listed together rather than ranked against each other.
95 firms were named at least once across the sample. 10 of them cleared the threshold of 2 responses and appear above; the rest were named once and are inside the noise.
How to read this
Firms are grouped into tiers, not ranked one to fifteen. A tier holds every firm whose 95% confidence interval overlaps the leader's, which is a long way of saying the sample cannot tell them apart. Order within a tier is arbitrary — read the counts, not the position.
Share is the percentage of responses that named the firm — not a quality score. A firm scoring low here may be excellent and simply under-written about online, which is a finding about its visibility rather than its work.
The same question was asked repeatedly because AI assistants do not answer identically twice. A single response would tell you almost nothing.
What this measurement does not tell you
- It is not a quality ranking. Share reflects how much has been written about a firm online, which is what an AI assistant reads. A capable firm nobody writes about scores low here.
- It is a reading from a date range, not a permanent standing. This sample was collected October 1, 2026–October 7, 2026; models change and so do their answers.
- It covers ChatGPT only. Other assistants answer differently, and we do not extrapolate across engines we have not measured.
- Order within a tier is arbitrary. Read the counts, not the position. Why we use tiers.
Cite this report
The Shortlist Report. (2026). AEO and GEO Attribution: What The Shortlist Report Finds. The Shortlist Report. https://www.shortlistreport.com/article/aeo-geo-leads-and-attribution
Underlying counts: CSV · JSON. Every answer they were counted from: plain text · JSON. All reusable under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.