The 12 best generative engine optimization companies in 2026
Broadcastwell publishes this list and appears on it, at number one. It is an editorial list scored on criteria a buyer can verify, not a measured ranking. The scoring, the sources and the dates are below.
Broadcastwell ranks first here, on seven of the eight criteria a buyer can verify without a sales call. This list puts agencies and productised services side by side, because a buyer choosing a generative engine optimization company is choosing between a retainer and a fixed price deliverable long before choosing a brand. Twelve companies are scored on a published method, open data with a DOI, engines named, a published entry price payable without a call, published refund terms, named B2B software case studies, third party reviews, and machine readable results.
Key takeaways
What does a generative engine optimization company do?
It works to get a company named and cited inside the answers AI engines produce for buyer questions. In practice that is three jobs: measuring which vendors the engines name today, fixing what the engines can read about the company, and getting in front of the third party sources those answers cite.
Agency or productised service?
A productised service sells a fixed scope at a fixed price and ends. An agency sells a retainer and continues. This page lists both, because the honest first purchase for most buyers is a fixed scope measurement, and the retainer decision belongs after it.
How was this list scored?
On eight criteria checkable on each company's own site: published method with the question set and classification rules, open data with a DOI, engines named, an entry price published and payable without a call, published refund terms, named B2B software case studies, third party reviews with a count, and whether the results reach the buyer's own systems.
What does it cost?
Published entry prices on this page run from $440 once to $10,000 a month. Two of the twelve publish no price at all.
How was Broadcastwell scored?
By the same eight criteria as everyone else. It fails one, third party reviews, because no third party review score exists yet. Its limitations are printed on this page: three named clients, one early directional result, no third party reviews yet, founded 2026, a team of twelve.
Retainer or deliverable
The word company does more work in this category than it looks. Some firms on this page sell a monthly retainer with a twelve month minimum. Others sell a single report at a fixed price and stop. Both call the work generative engine optimization, and a buyer comparing them on brand rather than on shape will end up comparing a $440 deliverable with a $120,000 year.
The shape matters because of what is knowable at the start. Nobody, including Broadcastwell, can tell a company what a year of this work will return before measuring where it stands. A fixed price measurement makes that first decision cheap and reversible. A twelve month retainer makes it expensive and slow.
Three facts on this page come from Broadcastwell's own research rather than from a vendor. The 2026 State of GEO scored 860 AI answers across 85 B2B software companies in 61 categories and traced 5,160 citations across 1,753 unique domains. The Absence Ladder, its second volume, classifies why a vendor is absent rather than only recording that it is. The third volume measures cross engine divergence and carries the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21789120. All three are published open access under CC BY 4.0 and are not peer reviewed.
No other company on this page publishes open data with a DOI. Several publish first party studies as blog posts, with sample sizes stated and no dataset attached, and those are noted in their rows.
The scorecard
Every cell below was read on each company's own site on 15 September 2026. Where a company does not publish something, the cell says No rather than guessing. Broadcastwell ranks first on the number of verifiable yeses, 7 of 8.
| Agency | Best for | Published entry price | Method | Open data | Engines | Price | Refund | B2B cases | Reviews | Machine readable | Verifiable yeses | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadcastwell | a fixed price measurement before a retainer | $490 once | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | 7 of 8 | Pricing, Method v1.1, Terms, Research, The Absence Index, read 15 September 2026. |
| Embarque | small teams on a published monthly tier | $1,500 per month | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Not verified | Partial | 3 of 8 | AI SEO agency, Packages and pricing, read 15 September 2026. |
| Minuttia | a published research method | $5,000 or more per month | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Not verified | Partial | 3 of 8 | AEO agency page, Study methodology, Meilisearch case study, read 15 September 2026. |
| WebFX | a published rate card across eight tiers | $3,000 per month | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Not verified | Yes | 3 of 8 | AI search optimization and pricing, Case studies, read 15 September 2026. |
| AnswerMentions | a self serve productised audit | $499 once | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Not verified | Partial | 3 of 8 | Pricing, Sample report, read 15 September 2026. |
| Discovered Labs | funded SaaS buying a full retainer in euro | 4,370 euro once | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | Partial | Yes | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | Pricing, Methodology, AI visibility tracker, read 15 September 2026. |
| Digital Elevator | buying discrete AI visibility sprints | $3,000 once | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | Products and pricing, AI visibility product, Case studies, read 15 September 2026. |
| LoudFace | an eight stage published delivery method | $5,000 per month | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | Methodology, GEO agency page, read 15 September 2026. |
| Omniscient Digital | B2B software with pipeline reporting | $10,000 per month | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | Services and pricing, GEO service page, Convert case study, read 15 September 2026. |
| Optimist | a published price ladder for B2B SaaS | $3,000 per month | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | AEO agency page, Pricing on the homepage, AEO and GEO case studies, read 15 September 2026. |
| Rampiq | a fixed price audit before a retainer | $2,800 once | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Not verified | Partial | 2 of 8 | AI visibility optimization, AI search and GEO audit, read 15 September 2026. |
| Citant | a cheap fixed price citation diagnostic | $440 once | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Not verified | No | 2 of 8 | Pricing, About and method, Case studies, read 15 September 2026. |
Method: Method published, with the question set and the classification rules public. Open data: Open data published with a DOI. Engines: Engine coverage stated by name. Price: Entry price published and buyable without a call. Refund: Refund or guarantee terms published. B2B cases: Named B2B software case studies on the site. Reviews: Third party reviews, with the count. Machine readable: The buyer's own AI can read the results, through an account, an export or a connector.
The list
1. Broadcastwell: best for a fixed price measurement before a retainer
- Website
- broadcastwell.com
- Best for
- a fixed price measurement before a retainer
- Pricing
- $490 once. Category Audit $490 once, bought by checkout with no call. AI Visibility Diagnostic $990 once. The program is $13,500 per 90 days, billed $4,500 monthly.
- Notable clients
- Vantaa Tax, Neurvalis AI Automation, Valren Atelier
- Scorecard
- Method Yes, Open data Yes, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund Yes, B2B cases Yes, Reviews No, Machine readable Yes. 7 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. The method is published and versioned at v1.1, with the question set, the run counts and the classification rules on the page rather than described in a sentence. The research is published open access under CC BY 4.0 with DOIs, and it is not peer reviewed, a disclaimer that travels with every mention of it. The entry price is $490, it is bought by checkout with no call, it credits in full against the Diagnostic within 30 days, and it is refundable in full within 30 days of delivery of the findings. Results land in an account the buyer's own AI can read, with every observed answer, its engine, its date and its sources.
Limitations. Three named clients. One early directional result. No third party reviews yet. Founded 2026. A team of twelve.
Sources. Pricing, Method v1.1, Terms, Research, The Absence Index, read 15 September 2026.
2. Embarque: best for small teams on a published monthly tier
- Website
- www.embarque.io
- Best for
- small teams on a published monthly tier
- Pricing
- $1,500 per month. Four published monthly tiers from $1,500 to $10,000, billed over three, six or twelve months paid quarterly. Every tier books a call.
- Notable clients
- MentorCruise, Flick, Cleanvoice, UXCam, SignHouse, Growform
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund Yes, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes four tiers with exact monthly prices, the lowest in this set of agencies, and states its billing terms on the same page. Its case study index carries around 35 entries, several reporting AI citation counts over a stated 90 day window. It publishes a money back guarantee and a cancel any time policy on the homepage.
Limitations. Several AI visibility case studies are listed by category only, with no client named. The money back guarantee is stated with no conditions, timeframe or eligibility rule, and its AI SEO FAQ quotes a monthly range that does not line up with the four published tiers.
Sources. AI SEO agency, Packages and pricing, read 15 September 2026.
3. Minuttia: best for a published research method
- Website
- minuttia.com
- Best for
- a published research method
- Pricing
- $5,000 or more per month. The figure appears in the company's own llms.txt as a typical minimum engagement, not on a customer facing pricing page. No minimum commitment is stated.
- Notable clients
- ServiceTitan, Sitecore, Docebo, Toggl, Meilisearch, LearnWorlds
- Scorecard
- Method Yes, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund No, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It is the only agency in this set that publishes a full research methodology, including prompt counts by type, the five platforms sampled, an LLM judge against a fixed five way rubric, a limitations section and downloadable aggregate data. Its llms.txt publishes its founding year, a named reporting stack and a typical minimum engagement, which makes the commercial shape checkable. The Meilisearch case study names the client and publishes the 259 query set behind the work alongside its LLM traffic and conversion figures.
Limitations. The minimum engagement figure appears only in llms.txt, not on a customer facing pricing page. The published study carries no DOI and no citation guidance.
Sources. AEO agency page, Study methodology, Meilisearch case study, read 15 September 2026.
4. WebFX: best for a published rate card across eight tiers
- Website
- www.webfx.com
- Best for
- a published rate card across eight tiers
- Pricing
- $3,000 per month. Eight published GEO tiers from $3,000 a month upward, each with a stated six month commitment. Every route is a proposal request.
- Notable clients
- Thompson Tractor, Enabling Devices, RC Mowers, Centrak, Cleveland Brothers, HydroWorx
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund No, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Yes. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes a full eight tier GEO rate card with monthly figures, which no other agency in this set does. The GEO page names ten specific AI surfaces, including Claude, Grok and Apple Intelligence. Three case studies on the index are stated in AI sourced traffic or lead terms, with the client named.
Limitations. All GEO plans carry a stated six month commitment and no refund or performance guarantee is published. Its case study index of more than 60 entries contains one B2B software example.
Sources. AI search optimization and pricing, Case studies, read 15 September 2026.
5. AnswerMentions: best for a self serve productised audit
- Website
- answermentions.com
- Best for
- a self serve productised audit
- Pricing
- $499 once. A one time audit at $499 bought by checkout with no call, then a monthly fix plan and an agency white label tier.
- Notable clients
- None named on its site
- Scorecard
- Method Yes, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Yes, Refund No, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 3 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes a fixed one off audit price with an itemised deliverable list, and the audit can be bought without a sales call. It publishes a sample report and a scoring methodology page, so the deliverable can be inspected before buying. Reports are saved to an account behind a verified email login.
Limitations. No named client or case study is published anywhere on the site, and the sample report uses a placeholder company. No turnaround time is stated for the paid audit.
Sources. Pricing, Sample report, read 15 September 2026.
6. Discovered Labs: best for funded SaaS buying a full retainer in euro
- Website
- discoveredlabs.com
- Best for
- funded SaaS buying a full retainer in euro
- Pricing
- 4,370 euro once. A one off Search Visibility Diagnostic at 4,370 euro with a stated six business day turnaround, then retainers from 6,995 euro a month. Every tier books a call.
- Notable clients
- Gladia, incident.io, Sova Assessment, Advisory AI, Granola, Instantly
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund Partial, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes exact monthly retainer prices and a fixed one off diagnostic price with a stated turnaround in business days. It names real B2B software clients with specific AI visibility movement, including one moving from 38 percent to 64 percent. It runs its own tracker across five named engines and gives retainer clients dashboard access with an export.
Limitations. Prices are quoted in euro only, and the diagnostic is credited against a retainer rather than refunded. The tracker is not sold separately and is available only to retainer clients.
Sources. Pricing, Methodology, AI visibility tracker, read 15 September 2026.
7. Digital Elevator: best for buying discrete AI visibility sprints
- Website
- thedigitalelevator.com
- Best for
- buying discrete AI visibility sprints
- Pricing
- $3,000 once. AI visibility sold as sprints from $3,000, off site campaigns from $3,495 per 30 day cycle, and local SEO from $1,250 a month. A discovery call follows the free audit.
- Notable clients
- McKesson, Kelly Services, Fitness Mentors, OEM Bimmer Parts, Harmonic, Halo Labs
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund No, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It prints a from price for every product on one page, including its AI visibility and off site campaign products. It published a first party study of 33 businesses and 177 buyer intent prompts across four named engines. It publishes AI specific client results, including LLM session lift figures per named client.
Limitations. Prices are from figures only, with no fixed scope attached. Direct purchase is not available and a discovery call is required.
Sources. Products and pricing, AI visibility product, Case studies, read 15 September 2026.
8. LoudFace: best for an eight stage published delivery method
- Website
- www.loudface.co
- Best for
- an eight stage published delivery method
- Pricing
- $5,000 per month. A published floor of $5,000 a month across three named tiers, on a three month initial engagement with no setup fee. The route is an intro call.
- Notable clients
- Toku, Hoxhunt, Montblanc, Radisson Hotels Group, LIQID, Eraser
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund No, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes an eight stage methodology with each stage described rather than named in a slogan. It published a first party citation study covering 128,515 citations across three named engines over a stated 90 day window. It publishes a named AI visibility case study with per prompt citation share and average cited position.
Limitations. Only a floor price is published, and the three named tiers carry no individual prices. Fixed scope project prices are referred to on the pricing page but not printed.
Sources. Methodology, GEO agency page, read 15 September 2026.
9. Omniscient Digital: best for B2B software with pipeline reporting
- Website
- beomniscient.com
- Best for
- B2B software with pipeline reporting
- Pricing
- $10,000 per month. Full service engagements start at $10,000 a month. A strategy development package starts at $15,000. Both book a strategy call.
- Notable clients
- Jasper, Order.co, Smartling, Convert, AppSumo, Lokalise
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund No, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes both a retainer floor and a package price on its services page, so the starting cost is checkable before a call. Almost every case study is a named B2B software client, including Jasper, Smartling, SpotDraft and Lokalise, with several reporting pipeline figures rather than traffic alone. Its Convert case study is a named client GEO study that discloses the tracking platform used and reports prompt visibility moving from 31 percent to 55 percent.
Limitations. Publishes no guarantee, refund or contract term. Its own AI information page carries no pricing, no engagement minimum and no client list, so it does not match the pricing published on the services page.
Sources. Services and pricing, GEO service page, Convert case study, read 15 September 2026.
10. Optimist: best for a published price ladder for B2B SaaS
- Website
- www.yesoptimist.com
- Best for
- a published price ladder for B2B SaaS
- Pricing
- $3,000 per month. Roadmap is a one time engagement at $7,500. Advisory starts at $3,000 per month. Full Service starts at $4,000 per month. Every tier books a strategy call.
- Notable clients
- Semrush, ZoomInfo, DreamHost, HelloSign, Superhuman, Stampli
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund No, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes three priced tiers on the homepage, including a $7,500 one time Roadmap, which makes the cost of starting checkable before any call. The AEO page names seven surfaces, including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google and Bing. It publishes three AEO case studies with LLM revenue and LLM referral figures, and names B2B software clients including Stampli, Contentstack and HelloSign elsewhere on the site.
Limitations. The three AEO case studies name no client, describing them as a large B2B tech client, a retail client and a fintech client. The CORE Framework page describes stages and phases but publishes no scoring rubric, prompt set or classification rules.
Sources. AEO agency page, Pricing on the homepage, AEO and GEO case studies, read 15 September 2026.
11. Rampiq: best for a fixed price audit before a retainer
- Website
- rampiq.agency
- Best for
- a fixed price audit before a retainer
- Pricing
- $2,800 once. A one time AI Visibility Intensive at $2,800, then monthly programs from $3,800 and from $9,700. Every route is a scheduled audit or a quote request.
- Notable clients
- Case-IQ, TigerComm, Tech Pro Marketing, OMI, AnalyticVue, Webvizio
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund No, B2B cases Yes, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable Partial. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes three price points for AI visibility work, including a fixed price one time audit, which is unusual in this set. The audit page itemises five deliverables and scopes the roadmap to a stated page and keyword count. Its about page states team size, countries and the named leadership team.
Limitations. Its dedicated audit page names no specific AI engine, referring only to LLMs and AI Overviews. Monthly programs are quoted as from figures with no upper bound or scope table published.
Sources. AI visibility optimization, AI search and GEO audit, read 15 September 2026.
12. Citant: best for a cheap fixed price citation diagnostic
- Website
- citant.ai
- Best for
- a cheap fixed price citation diagnostic
- Pricing
- $440 once. A one time AI Search Audit at $440, delivered within 72 hours of kickoff, then a fixed price pilot and a retainer from $5,000 a month. The price is published but the route is a contact form.
- Notable clients
- AI-Toolbox.co
- Scorecard
- Method Partial, Open data No, Engines Yes, Price Partial, Refund Yes, B2B cases No, Reviews Not verified, Machine readable No. 2 of 8 verifiable yeses.
What they do well. It publishes exact prices for all three products, including a fixed price audit with a stated 72 hour turnaround. It publishes a falsifiable refund condition tied to a named number of agreed queries across a named number of tracked platforms, rather than a vague promise. It states the six AI platforms it tracks and reports its share of model metric per platform separately.
Limitations. Its about page states the company was founded on 16 October 2025. One client case study is published, and it is a consumer browser extension rather than B2B software.
Sources. Pricing, About and method, Case studies, read 15 September 2026.
How to choose
| Criterion | What good looks like | The red flag |
|---|---|---|
| Method | The question set and the classification rules are on the site, versioned and dated, so a second party could repeat the run. | A named framework with no question set, no sample size and no rule for what counts as a mention. |
| Data | The underlying research is published openly with a DOI and a stated limitations section. | A headline percentage with no dataset, no denominator and no link. |
| Engines | The engines are named, and the report separates them rather than folding them into one score. | The site says AI search, LLMs or answer engines and never names one. |
| Price | An entry price is printed on the site and can be paid without a call. | Custom quote only, or a price that is printed but still needs a sales call to act on. |
| Refund | Refund or guarantee terms are published, with the condition that would trigger them. | A money back guarantee with no timeframe, no condition and no eligibility rule. |
| Cases | Named clients in your own category, with the measurement described rather than only the outcome. | Results attributed to a B2B tech client or a fintech client with no name attached. |
| Reviews | A third party review profile with the count visible. | A rating quoted on the company's own site with no link to the profile behind it. |
| Machine readable | The observed answers, their engines, their dates and their sources land somewhere your own AI can read. | A monthly slide deck, and nothing your systems can query. |
The eight criteria are not a ranking of quality. They are the eight things a buyer can check in an afternoon without talking to anyone, and they are the eight things that decide whether a claim can be argued with later. A firm that publishes its question set can be told it asked the wrong questions. A firm that publishes nothing can only be believed or not believed.
The single most useful question to ask any firm on this page is how the questions were written. AI answers to questions that already contain a company name will usually contain that name, so a mention count built on name seeded questions measures the prompt rather than the engine. Broadcastwell published that finding against its own category research, and it is the reason no question in a Diagnostic names any brand.
The second most useful question is what happens when the runs disagree. AI answers vary between runs and shift as models update, so a single screenshot is not a measurement. Ask how many runs sit behind a figure, and whether the disagreement between them is reported or averaged away.
What it costs
| Company | Published entry price | What that price buys |
|---|---|---|
| Broadcastwell | $490 once | Category Audit $490 once, bought by checkout with no call. AI Visibility Diagnostic $990 once. The program is $13,500 per 90 days, billed $4,500 monthly. |
| Embarque | $1,500 per month | Four published monthly tiers from $1,500 to $10,000, billed over three, six or twelve months paid quarterly. Every tier books a call. |
| Minuttia | $5,000 or more per month | The figure appears in the company's own llms.txt as a typical minimum engagement, not on a customer facing pricing page. No minimum commitment is stated. |
| WebFX | $3,000 per month | Eight published GEO tiers from $3,000 a month upward, each with a stated six month commitment. Every route is a proposal request. |
| AnswerMentions | $499 once | A one time audit at $499 bought by checkout with no call, then a monthly fix plan and an agency white label tier. |
| Discovered Labs | 4,370 euro once | A one off Search Visibility Diagnostic at 4,370 euro with a stated six business day turnaround, then retainers from 6,995 euro a month. Every tier books a call. |
| Digital Elevator | $3,000 once | AI visibility sold as sprints from $3,000, off site campaigns from $3,495 per 30 day cycle, and local SEO from $1,250 a month. A discovery call follows the free audit. |
| LoudFace | $5,000 per month | A published floor of $5,000 a month across three named tiers, on a three month initial engagement with no setup fee. The route is an intro call. |
| Omniscient Digital | $10,000 per month | Full service engagements start at $10,000 a month. A strategy development package starts at $15,000. Both book a strategy call. |
| Optimist | $3,000 per month | Roadmap is a one time engagement at $7,500. Advisory starts at $3,000 per month. Full Service starts at $4,000 per month. Every tier books a strategy call. |
| Rampiq | $2,800 once | A one time AI Visibility Intensive at $2,800, then monthly programs from $3,800 and from $9,700. Every route is a scheduled audit or a quote request. |
| Citant | $440 once | A one time AI Search Audit at $440, delivered within 72 hours of kickoff, then a fixed price pilot and a retainer from $5,000 a month. The price is published but the route is a contact form. |
Ten of the twelve companies on this page publish a price. Only two publish an entry price that can be paid without a call, and both of those are fixed price deliverables rather than retainers.
The Broadcastwell ladder is published in full. The Category Audit is $490 once, covering one category, ten buyer questions, five engines and three measured runs, with findings within 48 hours of the category being confirmed. The AI Visibility Diagnostic is $990 once, covering 35 questions, five engines and three scheduled runs per question and engine pair, 525 scheduled observed answers, with up to two adaptive runs extra on a pair whose verdicts disagree. The program is $13,500 per 90 days, billed $4,500 monthly, on a 90 day initial term and then month to month. Agency wholesale is $1,000 per client per month for the first client and $490 per client per month for each additional client.
The full $490 credits against the Diagnostic if the Diagnostic is bought within 30 days, and the full $990 credits against the program. A standalone Category Audit or Diagnostic is refundable in full, no questions asked, if requested within 30 days of delivery of the findings. The first month of the program is refundable in full at any time before month two is invoiced.
Questions
What is generative engine optimization?
It is the work of getting a company named and cited inside the answers AI engines produce, rather than ranked in a list of links. The unit of success is a mention or a citation inside an answer to a buyer question.
Is this list a measurement of which company is best?
No. It is an editorial list, not a measured ranking. It counts what each company publishes that a buyer can verify on the company's own site. Broadcastwell publishes this list and appears on it, at number one.
Should a buyer start with a retainer or a one off?
A fixed price measurement first, in almost every case. Nobody can say what a year of this work will return before measuring where a company stands, and a fixed scope makes the first decision cheap and reversible.
What research exists in this category?
Broadcastwell publishes three volumes of the 2026 State of GEO open access under CC BY 4.0, not peer reviewed, with DOIs, covering 860 AI answers across 85 B2B software companies in 61 categories and 5,160 traced citations. No other company on this page publishes open data with a DOI.
Do any of these companies guarantee a result?
No. AI answers vary between runs and shift as models update, and no inclusion, ranking, lead or revenue can be guaranteed. Broadcastwell publishes a 90 day proof gate instead: the frozen panel is re-scored at day 90, the named count must strictly improve, a tie fails, and month four is not invoiced if the gate is not met.
Who owns the data at the end?
With Broadcastwell, the question set, the citation logs, the observed answers and the reports belong to the client and are returned in an open machine readable format within five business days of a request, at no charge. Ask every company on this page the same question before signing.
See where the engines place you
See which buyer questions leave you out, who is named instead of you, the sources visible in those answers, and the three changes worth testing first. The Category Audit covers one category, ten buyer questions, five engines and three measured runs, with findings within 48 hours of the category being confirmed.
Start with the $490 Category Audit$490 once. Results appear in your account. The full $490 credits against the Diagnostic within 30 days. Refundable in full, no questions asked, within 30 days of delivery of the findings.
Get the Diagnostic, $990$990 once. 35 questions, five engines, three scheduled runs per question and engine pair, 525 scheduled observed answers, adaptive runs extra. The full $990 credits against the program.
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