What is POLARIS known for?

ChatGPT names POLARIS most often on the question “Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?”, where it appeared in 20 of 84 sampled responses (23.8%). Across the 9 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies questions measured by The Shortlist Report, POLARIS cleared the reporting threshold on 2.

Is POLARIS a good AEO, GEO and AI visibility agency?

This measurement cannot answer that. It counts how often ChatGPT names POLARIS when asked buyer questions, which follows how much has been written about the firm online rather than how well it works. POLARIS was named in 27 of the 162 responses sampled on the questions it appears in. A firm named rarely may still be excellent, and a firm named often may not suit a given brief.

Why is POLARIS in tier 1?

Tier 1 does not mean ranked first. It means that at the sample sizes measured, the gap between POLARIS and the most-named firm is inside the margin of error, so the sample cannot separate them. Firms sharing a tier are listed in arbitrary order.

Which firms compete with POLARIS?

POLARIS appears on too few questions in this sample for a reliable overlap with other firms to be reported.

Firm profile

POLARIS

POLARIS was named in 2 of the 9 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies questions measured by The Shortlist Report, appearing in 27 of the 162 AI responses sampled across those questions (16.7%).

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2 / 9Questions named in

27Responses naming it

17%Of 162 sampled

1Best tier reached

POLARIS is strongest on “Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?”, where it was named in 20 of 84 responses (23.8%), placing it in tier 1 of that report.

What POLARIS is surfaced for in AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies

Based on the measured answers, POLARIS is most likely to be surfaced when buyers ask about “Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?” and “Who handles the technical side of AEO and GEO?”.

How the answers describe the firmOffers GEO audits, entity optimization, technical GEO, digital PR, and LLM visibility tracking for larger organizations.

In this sample, POLARIS was named on 2 of the 8 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies ranking questions measured. These are the buyer questions where it appeared most often:

Ai citation content — named in 20 of 84 responses (23.8%), tier 1.
Technical aeo geo — named in 7 of 78 responses (9.0%), tier 1.

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

POLARIS was named on 2 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 POLARIS placed, or a dash where it was not named often enough to clear the reporting threshold. Every row links to the full report.
Question	Leader	POLARIS
Which GEO agencies work with B2B and SaaS companies?84 answers	Omniscient Digital35%	—
Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?84 answers	Siege Media27%	24% · tier 1
Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?84 answers	Omniscient Digital27%	—
What are the best AEO and GEO agencies?78 answers	iPullRank77%	—
Who handles the technical side of AEO and GEO?78 answers	Enleaf15%	9% · tier 1
Which GEO agencies handle enterprise programs?78 answers	iPullRank46%	—
Which AI visibility agencies work with ecommerce brands?72 answers	Tinuiti28%	—
Who measures brand visibility across AI assistants?66 answers	Profound59%	—
How much does an AEO or GEO agency cost?pricing · 78 answers	what 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 POLARIS was named

One row per report in which POLARIS 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.
Question	Tier	Responses	Share
Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?	1	20 of 84	23.8%
Who handles the technical side of AEO and GEO?	1	7 of 78	9.0%

What POLARIS gets named for

Across the 9 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies questions measured, POLARIS is named most often on “Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?” — it appears in 20 of the 84 ChatGPT responses to that question, or 23.8% of them. Its next strongest question is “Who handles the technical side of AEO and GEO?”, where it appears in 7 of 78 responses (9.0%).

POLARIS clears the reporting threshold on 2 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 POLARIS’s tier placings mean

On “Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?”, POLARIS sits in tier 1 of 1, named in 20 of 84 responses (23.8%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 84 responses, the gap between POLARIS and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. POLARIS shares tier 1 with Siege Media, Landis Communications, AMP Public Relations, iPullRank, Go Fish Digital, Volume PR, Percepture, Intero Digital and Search Agency, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary.

On “Who handles the technical side of AEO and GEO?”, POLARIS sits in tier 1 of 1, named in 7 of 78 responses (9.0%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 78 responses, the gap between POLARIS and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. POLARIS shares tier 1 with Enleaf, The AI Search Agency, Pfaff Digital, AI Search Engineers, Cursive, CrawlCheck, OpenForBots, Revisible and VOCTOS, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary.

What this page is, and is not

It is a count of how often AI assistants named POLARIS when asked buyer questions about AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies. Nothing here is a review, a rating, or an assessment of the firm’s work.
POLARIS did not submit this listing, was not contacted about it, and cannot pay to change it, move up, or be removed.
A firm named in few responses may still be excellent. Share follows what has been published about a firm online, which is what an AI assistant reads.
Wrong details, or a firm merged with another of a similar name? We fix those.

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