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The AI Citation

The AI Citation was named in 1 of the 9 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies questions measured by The Shortlist Report, appearing in 12 of the 84 AI responses sampled across those questions (14.3%).

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The AI Citation is strongest on Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?, where it was named in 12 of 84 responses (14.3%), placing it in tier 1 of that report.

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

Based on the measured answers, The AI Citation is most likely to be surfaced when buyers ask about “Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?”.

How the answers describe the firmProvides AI visibility audits, implementation, and sprint packages for small and medium businesses.

In this sample, The AI Citation was named on 1 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

The AI Citation was named on 1 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 The AI Citation placed, or a dash where it was not named often enough to clear the reporting threshold. Every row links to the full report.
QuestionLeaderThe AI Citation
Which GEO agencies work with B2B and SaaS companies?84 answersOmniscient Digital35%
Which agencies help brands earn citations from AI assistants?84 answersSiege Media27%
Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?84 answersOmniscient Digital27%14% · tier 1
What are the best AEO and GEO agencies?78 answersiPullRank77%
Who handles the technical side of AEO and GEO?78 answersEnleaf15%
Which GEO agencies handle enterprise programs?78 answersiPullRank46%
Which AI visibility agencies work with ecommerce brands?72 answersTinuiti28%
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 The AI Citation was named

One row per report in which The AI Citation 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
Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?112 of 8414.3%

What The AI Citation gets named for

Across the 9 AEO, GEO and AI visibility agencies questions measured, The AI Citation is named most often on Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses? — it appears in 12 of the 84 ChatGPT responses to that question, or 14.3% of them.

That is the only question in this set where The AI Citation cleared the reporting threshold, so its visibility is concentrated in one kind of buyer question rather than spread across the category.

What The AI Citation’s tier placings mean

On Which AEO and GEO agencies work with small businesses?, The AI Citation sits in tier 1 of 2, named in 12 of 84 responses (14.3%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 84 responses, the gap between The AI Citation and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. The AI Citation shares tier 1 with Omniscient Digital, FIVESIXTEN, EVOIX, iPullRank, NoGood, RankSages, Moonline AEO GEO and Magna, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary. 1 further firm was named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate The AI Citation from it.

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