GEO agencies in 2026, compared on what a buyer can verify

Ask Google for the best GEO agencies and the answer is assembled from lists that agencies wrote about themselves. Ten of the eleven publishers in this category rank their own agency first. This page used to do the same thing. Until 21 September 2026 it ranked Broadcastwell first. The ranking was removed on that date: the companies are now listed alphabetically, nobody is ranked, and since 25 September 2026 Broadcastwell is in no table on this page and does not score itself.

What is left is not a ranking at all. This page is not a measurement of which agency is best at the work, and it does not order anyone. It is a count of what each agency lets a buyer check before spending anything: a published method, open data, named engines, a published price, published refund terms, named case studies, third party reviews, and results a buyer's own systems can read. Those eight things are either on a company's website or they are not.

Earlier July 2026 agency mention counts have been withdrawn because the underlying answer records could not be reverified. This page makes no claim about how often an AI engine names an agency.

Twelve companies were read for this page, Broadcastwell included, and nine are listed below, alphabetically. Broadcastwell is not scored because it publishes the page. Siege Media and iPullRank were read to the same standard and are not among the nine. Siege Media publishes a minimum of $8,000 per month and a 12 month contract with a 30 day out clause, and names no AI engine on its generative engine optimization page (read 15 Sep 2026). iPullRank publishes investment bands from $30,000 on its AI search page (checked 25 Sep 2026) and names no client in any case study.

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 Category Audit 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.

Five of the nine agencies on this page publish no price at all. The four that do publish monthly floors and from prices, so they are not directly comparable. What is comparable is whether the number can be acted on without a call, and none of the nine publishes an entry price a buyer can pay that way.

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 Fix Sprint is $2,900 once, or $2,410 after the Audit credit. 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 $490 credits once against the $2,900 Fix Sprint within 30 days of delivery, so the Sprint is $2,410. A standalone Category Audit 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. The only exception is third party costs paid on the client's behalf, disclosed before they are incurred.