What AEO means and why it matters now
AEO stands for Answer Engine Optimization. It means getting a brand cited correctly when someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google's AI Overviews a question. Traditional SEO optimizes for clicks. AEO optimizes for citations. The two disciplines overlap. They are not the same job. Most agencies claiming both today only have depth in one.
Founded 2003Mumbai
ibs Fulcro runs structured AEO and GEO work for enterprise clients. This includes technical site audits, schema implementation, and citation-testing methodology that compares how different content formats perform in AI fan-out queries. The practice sits alongside the agency's existing digital strategy, technology and engineering, and digital marketing services. That combination matters. The team can fix the technical groundwork AEO depends on - structured data, page architecture, content gaps - rather than just advising on it from outside.
We know this agency's hiring patterns closely through our own recruitment work with them. The technical and strategy roles they have been building out line up with the depth we see in the work itself.
Clients on record: Hero MotoCorp, Airtel, Tata Motors, HDFC Bank, MakeMyTrip, Marico, Bajaj Auto, Standard Chartered, JK Tyre, Samsung
Founded 2021Bangalore & Plano, TX
TripleDart is an AI-native marketing agency for B2B SaaS companies. It publishes named client results specific to AI visibility: Glean at 275 percent higher organic clicks and AI visibility across three verticals, Signeasy at a 3,650 percent increase in LLM sessions, Meegle at a 134 percent rise in AI citations. These are the agency's own published figures, not independently audited. They are still the most specific AEO evidence in this list.
Clients on record: Glean, Signeasy, Meegle, Helpshift, Airbase, SalesDuo
Noida & Phoenix, AZ
GetCito runs AI visibility monitoring and GEO execution across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Claude. Published case studies name Relific, Loop Earbuds, and Prismara, with specific results including a 421 percent rise in AI visibility for Loop Earbuds. Client testimonials carry named executives, though the site does not state a founding year or lay out detailed technical methodology.
Clients on record: Relific, Loop Earbuds, Prismara
Founded 2010Noida & Philadelphia, PA
EZ Rankings is a 16-year-old agency that says it has served more than 16,000 clients worldwide. It lists AEO, GEO, and LLMO services prominently. Its published case studies cover traditional SEO and performance results - traffic, conversion rate, lead volume - not AI-visibility metrics specifically, and it does not name individual clients on its public case-study pages.
Founded 2009
AdLift offers a named AI-visibility product, Tesseract, that tracks citations across AI search engines, alongside AI keyword clustering and LLM-focused content optimization. The agency says it serves BFSI, retail, tech, healthcare, and D2C clients, but does not name individual clients for this specific service on its site.
Founded 2000
SEOValley is a long-running SEO company that formally launched a Generative Engine Optimization service, covered by outlets including PR Newswire and Yahoo Finance. It says it has worked with over 6,000 clients but does not name individual clients publicly.
Chennai & Bangalore
Ferventers markets itself as an AI SEO and GEO agency targeting ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude citations. Its site does not state a founding year and does not name any clients - its results page uses first names and generic titles only.
Noida, Miami, Essen & Lagos
HikeMyTraffic states it delivers AEO, GEO, and AI SEO strategy alongside broader digital marketing services. Its founder cites 13-plus years of experience, though the company's own founding year isn't stated.
Clients on record: Cars24, ICICI Lombard, ITC Hotels, MoneyControl, Pine Labs, Shaadi.com, Tata AIG, Amity University
New Delhi
Value4Brand lists Generative Engine Optimization and Answer Engine Optimization among its services alongside broader digital marketing work. It says it has operated "for over a decade" without giving an exact founding year, and does not name individual clients on its site.
Founded 2012Mohali, Texas & Dubai
IndeedSEO advertises Google AI Overviews optimization and ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity optimization.