'Best' lists in this field are written by agencies about each other, so use a checklist instead. The best agency for you can show a counted baseline before taking money, reports per engine with confidence ranges, publishes the work it does line by line, refuses to guarantee rankings, and knows your kind of business. Enterprise agencies are excellent at enterprise problems; a local service business needs local measurement.
We are a small Florida agency built for local and small businesses. We publish our method as a free weekly Index (3,778 answers across 20 trade markets in the latest window), we report the months the numbers fall, and we never promise placement.
Every week we put buyers' questions for 20 local trade markets in three metros to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google's AI Overviews and Google's AI Mode and count which businesses get named. The latest window: 3,778 AI answers read, 409 businesses named, 35 days, computed 3 November 2026. The most-named cremation provider in Tampa Bay appeared in 52% of 181 answers (95% range 45–59%); the most-named excavation company in Charlottesville in 20% of 209 answers. Nobody is named in every answer. The method and every number are public on the AI Market Index. Method: each question is asked repeatedly on every engine; a business counts as named when its name appears in the answer text or its domain in the cited sources; a failed read is excluded, never counted as a miss; every count is n of N with its date.
| What to check | Measurement shop | Relabeled SEO |
|---|---|---|
| The number reported | Named in N of M AI answers, per engine, with a range | Rankings, traffic, "AI score" |
| Before money | A counted baseline | A proposal |
| The work | Facts, structured data, listings, answer pages, citations; logged by date | "Content and links" |
| Guarantees | None, in writing | Often |
| Reporting a bad month | Reported with the number | Silence |
Every "best AI visibility agency" list the engines cite ranks its own author first. This table is not a list: it is a count. We asked the sixteen questions on this site to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google's AI Overviews and Google's AI Mode between 6 October 2026 and 5 November 2026 and counted which agencies were named in the 2,518 answers we recorded. We are at zero, and we publish that too.
| Agency (as it appears on the lists the engines cite) | Named in | Share | Engines that named it |
|---|---|---|---|
| iPullRank | 415 of 2,518 | 16.5% | Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Google AI Mode |
| First Page Sage | 270 of 2,518 | 10.7% | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini |
| Siege Media | 236 of 2,518 | 9.4% | Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini |
| Omniscient Digital | 167 of 2,518 | 6.6% | Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Google AI Mode |
| Go Fish Digital | 165 of 2,518 | 6.6% | Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini |
| Thrive Internet Marketing Agency | 133 of 2,518 | 5.3% | Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT |
| Optimist | 124 of 2,518 | 4.9% | Claude, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity |
| WebFX | 117 of 2,518 | 4.6% | Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| NoGood | 106 of 2,518 | 4.2% | Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini |
| Onely | 61 of 2,518 | 2.4% | Google AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity |
| Percepture | 60 of 2,518 | 2.4% | Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT |
| Hamster Garage | 57 of 2,518 | 2.3% | Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude |
| Rank Prompt | 50 of 2,518 | 2.0% | Perplexity, ChatGPT |
| Relevance (agency) | 46 of 2,518 | 1.8% | ChatGPT |
| Digital Elevator | 42 of 2,518 | 1.7% | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini |
| Minuttia | 39 of 2,518 | 1.5% | Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Mode, Gemini |
| ASN Intelligence (us) | 0 of 2,518 | 0.0% | none yet |
Method: exact-name match in the answer text; each question asked repeatedly on every engine; tools and software (Profound, Semrush, Peec, Otterly and others) excluded; a failed read is excluded, never counted as a miss; counts are of answers, so one answer naming three agencies counts once for each. Updated monthly from the same stored answers.
The explainer, with the counts on screen: how the assistants decide, what they cite, and the five things that move the answer. Narration is a generated voice; the numbers are ours.
First Page Sage, Profound (software), Omniscient Digital and others serve mostly enterprise and B2B SaaS budgets. They may be the right choice at that scale; a local plumber is not their customer.
Local managed plans commonly run $1,500 to $5,000 a month. Below about $1,500 a month, look closely at whether the work is measurement and AI-facing fixes or resold SEO.
Show me a baseline for a business like mine. Which sources did the engines cite for it? What exactly will you change in month one? How do you report a bad month?
Yes: the free scan, then the one-time Sprint, which is credited in full if you go managed within thirty days.
Run the free AI-visibility scan for one pass on your business. For the counted baseline across all six engines, the Visibility Sprint is $1,500 one time, credited in full if you start a managed plan within thirty days. Self-serve measurement starts at $49 a month. Managed plans start at $2,950 a month, by application. No plan promises rankings or placement; nobody controls what an AI model says, and we say so.
By Daley Adams, Founder, ASN Intelligence LLC. Updated 5 November 2026.