Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?
AEO and GEO Agencies for Small Businesses: What The Shortlist Report Finds
3 firms lead, appearing in 23.5–24.7% of 255 AI responses. The sample cannot separate them, so we do not pretend it can.
Three firms lead
FIVESIXTEN, Omniscient and EVOIX come up most often here. They are close enough together that the order between them is not worth reading anything into.
FIVESIXTEN63 of 255
Offers productized AEO and GEO services for small businesses, professional services, and local service businesses.
Omniscient63 of 255
EVOIX60 of 255
Founder-led AEO and AI visibility services for small and local service businesses.
Based on 255 ChatGPT responses to this question, collected September 4, 2026–October 29, 2026. Firms are counted once per response. How we measure.
Which firm for which industry
7 of the 10 firms named an industry in the way ChatGPT described them, and they are grouped below in those words. A firm that named several industries appears under each of them, so the groups add up to more than 7. This is a reading of the descriptions rather than a second measurement — the counts, and every firm, are in the table.
SaaS & technology
- generative.qa
Provides GEO consulting and AI visibility analytics for early-stage and seed-stage startups.
- House of Growth
Combines GEO with content and growth strategy for B2B SaaS startups and VC-backed scale-ups.
- iPullRank
Technical SEO and GEO agency for complex enterprise sites and B2B SaaS with AI search readiness capabilities.
Financial services
- FIVESIXTEN
Offers productized AEO and GEO services for small businesses, professional services, and local service businesses.
- Magna
Offers GEO and AEO services for legal, real estate, insurance, and professional services businesses.
Law firms
- FIVESIXTEN
Offers productized AEO and GEO services for small businesses, professional services, and local service businesses.
- Magna
Offers GEO and AEO services for legal, real estate, insurance, and professional services businesses.
Ecommerce & retail
- AEO Agency
Provides AEO/GEO services for ecommerce and DTC brands, including product content, schema, reviews, and AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
Healthcare & life sciences
- EVOIX
Founder-led AEO and AI visibility services for small and local service businesses.
Real estate
- Magna
Offers GEO and AEO services for legal, real estate, insurance, and professional services businesses.
The ranking
| Firm | Responses | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 3 firms, 23.5–24.7% | |||
| FIVESIXTENfivesixten.comOffers productized AEO and GEO services for small businesses, professional services, and local service businesses. | 63 of 255 | 24.7% | |
| Omniscientomniscientdigital.com | 63 of 255 | 24.7% | |
| EVOIXevoix.ioFounder-led AEO and AI visibility services for small and local service businesses. | 60 of 255 | 23.5% | |
| Tier 2 7 firms, 9.0–13.3% | |||
| generative.qaProvides GEO consulting and AI visibility analytics for early-stage and seed-stage startups. | 34 of 255 | 13.3% | |
| RankSagesranksages.comFounder-led SEO and AEO/GEO agency with transparent pricing and month-to-month engagements for small businesses. | 32 of 255 | 12.5% | |
| Magnamagna.soOffers GEO and AEO services for legal, real estate, insurance, and professional services businesses. | 31 of 255 | 12.2% | |
| House of Growthhouseofgrowth.ioCombines GEO with content and growth strategy for B2B SaaS startups and VC-backed scale-ups. | 30 of 255 | 11.8% | |
| AEO Agencyaeoagency.orgProvides AEO/GEO services for ecommerce and DTC brands, including product content, schema, reviews, and AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. | 27 of 255 | 10.6% | |
| iPullRankipullrank.comTechnical SEO and GEO agency for complex enterprise sites and B2B SaaS with AI search readiness capabilities. | 24 of 255 | 9.4% | |
| Otterly.AITracks AI search visibility, brand mentions, and competitor comparisons across AI platforms. | 23 of 255 | 9.0% | |
Key findings
- FIVESIXTEN, Omniscient and EVOIX lead this sample, each named in 23.5–24.7% of 255 ChatGPT responses to the question “Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?”, collected September 4, 2026–October 29, 2026.
- The gaps between FIVESIXTEN, Omniscient and EVOIX are inside the margin of error at 255 responses, so The Shortlist Report groups them in one tier rather than ranking them against each other.
- 10 firms cleared the reporting threshold on “Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?” in ChatGPT as of October 29, 2026; the full table with response counts is below.
- iPullRank appears in 6 of the 11 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 FIVESIXTEN, Omniscient and EVOIX, named in 60 to 63 of the 255 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.
Tier 2 holds generative.qa, RankSages, Magna, House of Growth, AEO Agency, iPullRank and Otterly.AI, named in 23 to 34 of 255 responses (9.0–13.3%). The sample does separate these firms from the tier above: the difference from the leading group is larger than the margin of error, which is what puts them in a tier of their own.
The test is McNemar’s at 95%, applied against the same 255 responses for every firm. The full reasoning, and what happened when we ranked one-to-N instead.
What the sample shows
3 firms lead this question: FIVESIXTEN, Omniscient and EVOIX. They appear in 23.5–24.7% of the 255 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.
351 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 September 4, 2026–October 29, 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 Agencies for Small Businesses: What The Shortlist Report Finds. The Shortlist Report. https://www.shortlistreport.com/article/geo-agencies-for-small-business
Underlying counts: CSV · JSON. Every answer they were counted from: plain text · JSON. All reusable under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.