AI search visibility agencies for software teams, compared in 2026

A software company with a few thousand dollars cannot buy a year of anything in this category, and should not try. What it can buy is one decision: whether AI engines name it when its buyers ask category questions, who is named instead, and whether the engines can read its site at all. That is a measurement, and it costs a few hundred dollars from several of the companies on this page.

The trap is that the cheapest published prices come with the least published scope. Of the three options under $500 on this page (checked 15 and 25 Sep 2026), one names no engines on its pricing page, one publishes no turnaround, and one publishes no client and no case study. That is not a reason to avoid them. It is a reason to read the cost table next to the scorecard rather than on its own.

Choose Answer Repair for one completed page or fix, or Agency Deadline Audit for a white-label client report and one paste-ready change. Both entries are $490. Answer Repair is due 48 elapsed hours after recorded Ready; agency findings are due within 48 hours of recorded scope confirmation. Both have a full 30-day refund right. Read /pricing and the versioned /terms for the complete scope.

Fix Sprint is $3,900 ($3,410 after the $490 entry is credited, once). Its six contracted pages or rewrites over 30 days include the credited entry page. One primary test is agreed before payment and re-measured at day 30. Measured gain on that test, or the full $3,900 back. You keep the work.

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.

Companies and prices are listed alphabetically. Each recorded price has a source and a read date; unverified prices are marked. No value-for-money ranking is asserted.

Below all of them sits a free 10-question check on one engine, which costs nothing and is named exactly that, ten questions, rather than being called an audit.

We offer two entries: Answer Repair, $490 for one buyer question and one source-backed page or fix, and Agency Deadline Audit, $490 for one white-label client report and one paste-ready change. Fix Sprint is $3,900 ($3,410 after the $490 entry is credited, once), for six contracted pages or rewrites over 30 days. Care is $490 a month after setup. Program is $5,500 a month. The 150-page build is $6,000 plus $250 a page, in batches of 25, after a 5-page paid trial. Read /pricing for each scope and /terms for its deadline and refund conditions.