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First Page Sage

First Page Sage was named in 4 of the 9 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies questions measured by The Shortlist Report, appearing in 83 of the 312 AI responses sampled across those questions (26.6%).

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4 / 9Questions named in
83Responses naming it
27%Of 312 sampled
1Best tier reached

First Page Sage is strongest on What are the best AEO and GEO agencies?, where it was named in 29 of 78 responses (37.2%), placing it in tier 3 of that report.

What First Page Sage is surfaced for in AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies

Based on the measured answers, First Page Sage is most likely to be surfaced when buyers ask about “What are the best AEO and GEO agencies?”, “Which GEO agencies work with B2B and SaaS companies?” and “Which AI visibility agencies work with ecommerce brands?”.

How the answers describe the firmEstablished SEO and content agency offering GEO and AEO/GEO services for enterprise B2B and ecommerce.

In this sample, First Page Sage was named on 4 of the 8 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies ranking questions measured. These are the buyer questions where it appeared most often:

This describes when the firm is surfaced, not whether it is the right firm to hire. The sample measures recommendation visibility, not client outcomes.

Every question in AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies

First Page Sage was named on 4 of these 8 ranking questions. The rest are questions buyers ask that it did not come up for — with whoever did.

Leader is the most-named firm on that question. The last column shows where First Page Sage placed, or a dash where it was not named often enough to clear the reporting threshold. Every row links to the full report.
QuestionLeaderFirst Page Sage
Which GEO agencies work with B2B and SaaS companies?84 answersOmniscient Digital35%31% · tier 1
Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?84 answersSiege Media27%
Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?84 answersOmniscient Digital27%
What are the best AEO and GEO agencies?78 answersiPullRank77%37% · tier 3
Who handles the technical side of AEO and GEO?78 answersEnleaf15%
Which GEO agencies handle enterprise programs?78 answersiPullRank46%18% · tier 2
Which AI visibility agencies work with ecommerce brands?72 answersTinuiti28%19% · tier 1
Who measures brand visibility across AI assistants?66 answersProfound59%
How much does an AEO or GEO agency cost?pricing · 78 answerswhat firms charge

Who leads AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies overall: iPullRank tops 2 of 8 · Omniscient Digital tops 2 of 8 · Enleaf tops 1 of 8 · Profound tops 1 of 8 · Siege Media tops 1 of 8 · Tinuiti tops 1 of 8. See all reports.

Where First Page Sage was named

One row per report in which First Page Sage cleared the reporting threshold. Reports where it was not named often enough to clear that threshold are not listed. Each report states its own sample size and collection window.
QuestionTierResponsesShare
What are the best AEO and GEO agencies?329 of 7837.2%
Which GEO agencies work with B2B and SaaS companies?126 of 8431.0%
Which AI visibility agencies work with ecommerce brands?114 of 7219.4%
Which GEO agencies handle enterprise programs?214 of 7817.9%

What First Page Sage gets named for

Across the 9 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies questions measured, First Page Sage is named most often on What are the best AEO and GEO agencies? — it appears in 29 of the 78 ChatGPT responses to that question, or 37.2% of them. Its next strongest question is “Which GEO agencies work with B2B and SaaS companies?”, where it appears in 26 of 84 responses (31.0%).

First Page Sage clears the reporting threshold on 4 of the 9 questions. The spread matters as much as the peak: a firm named across several different questions is one an assistant reaches for generally, where a firm named on one is attached to a single specialism.

What First Page Sage’s tier placings mean

On What are the best AEO and GEO agencies?, First Page Sage sits in tier 3 of 4, named in 29 of 78 responses (37.2%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 76.9% of responses against First Page Sage’s 37.2%. It shares tier 3 with Go Fish Digital, Skale and AEO.ltd, which the sample cannot separate from it. 4 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate First Page Sage from them.

On Which GEO agencies work with B2B and SaaS companies?, First Page Sage sits in tier 1 of 2, named in 26 of 84 responses (31.0%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 84 responses, the gap between First Page Sage and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. First Page Sage shares tier 1 with Omniscient Digital, iPullRank, Directive and Siege Media, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary. 5 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate First Page Sage from them.

On Which AI visibility agencies work with ecommerce brands?, First Page Sage sits in tier 1 of 1, named in 14 of 72 responses (19.4%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 72 responses, the gap between First Page Sage and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. First Page Sage shares tier 1 with Tinuiti, Geostar, Charle, Siege Media, Constructor, Go Fish Digital, Algolia, Bloomreach and Coveo, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary.

On Which GEO agencies handle enterprise programs?, First Page Sage sits in tier 2 of 3, named in 14 of 78 responses (17.9%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 46.2% of responses against First Page Sage’s 17.9%. It shares tier 2 with Directive, Siege Media, Toren, LLM Pulse, Terakeet, Go Fish Digital and Outercite, which the sample cannot separate from it. 1 further firm was named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate First Page Sage from it.

Firms named alongside First Page Sage

When ChatGPT names First Page Sage, these firms most often turn up on the same questions: Go Fish Digital (4 shared questions), Siege Media (4 shared questions), Directive (3 shared questions), iPullRank (3 shared questions), Omniscient Digital (3 shared questions) and Skale (2 shared questions).

That overlap is the closest thing this data holds to a shortlist: these are the firms a buyer asking the same questions is most likely to see beside First Page Sage. It says nothing about which of them is the better fit.

Go Fish Digital · Siege Media · Directive · iPullRank · Omniscient Digital · Skale

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