AI SEO Agency for B2B: Become the Brand AI Recommends
We measure whether AI recommends you — not just whether it mentions you — across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot. Then we tell you what to do about it.
Search has changed.
Traditional SEO measures where your website ranks. AI Search Optimization measures whether AI systems understand, trust, cite, and recommend your brand.
Your buyers may never reach Google result #1.
Modern buyers increasingly receive answers directly through AI-generated search experiences. The competitive question is no longer where you rank — it's whether AI recommends you.
- 1Query
- 2Google
- 3Search results
- 4Website
- 1Question
- 2AI engine
- 3Generated answer
- 4Recommended brands
- 5Sources
The question changes from "Where do we rank?" to "Does AI recommend us?"
Measured movement, not projections.
A single engagement in a heavily regulated insurance category, measured monthly across five AI engines and reported on citation and recommendation separately.
Across approximately 19,900 monthly searches in the client's category.
Tracked over 14 months of continuous prompt measurement.
Ranking queries grown over the same engagement period.
Identified the category leader's true competitive moat — and what could be contested.
Cited is not the same as recommended.
A page can be cited as a source in an AI answer while the answer itself recommends a competitor. Research shows this happens roughly 43% of the time. Most tools report mentions. We report whether the answer actually recommends you.
Citation — your page was used
The engine retrieved your content, footnoted it, and used it to construct the answer. That is a retrieval win: your page is inside the model's working set for that prompt. It says nothing about which vendor the buyer is told to shortlist.
Recommendation — your brand was chosen
The answer names you as the option to consider. This is the outcome that moves pipeline, and it is the one that most commonly diverges from citation: your source informs the answer while a competitor collects the recommendation.
~43%
of the time, a cited source is not the recommended brand. We score every prompt in your universe on both axes and report them separately — citation movement and recommendation movement — so you can tell the difference between being read and being chosen.
Read the full methodologyFour ways to work with us.
Start with a fixed-scope audit, or run measurement, direction, and execution as an ongoing program.
AI Visibility Audit
$3,500
one-time · delivered in 2 weeks
The entry point.
- 100+ prompt universe built from your buyer research and competitor set
- Baseline measurement across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot
- Citation vs. recommendation gap analysis
- Competitor share-of-voice benchmark
- Source-ecosystem analysis: which third-party sites AI actually pulls from in your category
- Prioritised 90-day roadmap
Fee credited toward the first month if a retainer begins within 30 days.
Start with the auditMeasurement
$2,500
per month
For teams who know what to do and need to know whether it's working.
- Ongoing prompt tracking across five AI engines
- Monthly visibility report covering citation and recommendation movement
- Quarterly competitor benchmark
- Search Console and GA4 integration
No strategy work included.
Talk to usRoadmap & Measurement
$4,500
per month
Your team executes; we direct and measure.
- Everything in Measurement
- Content briefs
- Technical specifications
- Schema and entity specs
- Two hours of monthly working sessions with your team
Embedded Partner
$9,500
per month
For teams without in-house capacity.
- Everything above, plus execution
- Content production
- Schema deployment
- Technical implementation
- Citation acquisition
Limited to 2 clients.
Check availabilityRoadmap & Measurement assumes you have a writer and a developer who can act on specs. If you don't, Embedded Partner is the honest recommendation — a roadmap nobody executes is worse than no roadmap.
Published pricing. Most agencies in this category won't give you a number until the third call.
A repeatable methodology for AI-era search.
Five phases that combine traditional SEO fundamentals with AI visibility strategy, entity optimization, content engineering, and digital PR.
Discover
Determine what AI currently says about you and your competitors across every relevant platform.
Map
Identify the queries, topics, sources, entities, and conversations shaping buyer discovery.
Optimize
Improve content, technical architecture, structured data, entity clarity, and search foundations.
Build authority
Increase credible third-party mentions, citations, expert authority, and digital PR.
Measure
Track AI visibility, citations, competitor share of voice, organic growth, and business impact.
Beachhead industries where AI search matters most.
Long buying cycles, high customer lifetime value, sophisticated buyers — the exact conditions where AI-mediated discovery is reshaping pipeline.
B2B SaaS
Make your software visible when buyers ask AI which tools to evaluate, compare, and buy.
Cybersecurity
Become the vendor AI recommends inside evaluation, comparison, and category-defining queries.
Fintech
Own the conversations happening in AI around payments, treasury, embedded finance, and risk.
Professional Services
Show up in the shortlists AI creates when buyers ask which firms to hire and why.
AI search requires more than SEO.
Traditional SEO is still important — but it's now one input into a much larger discovery system. We optimize the entire information ecosystem your buyers rely on.
- Keywords
- Rankings
- Traffic
- Backlinks
- Google only
- Buyer conversations across every AI engine
- Recommendation & citation share
- Entity authority & knowledge graph
- Trusted third-party sources
- Google + ChatGPT + Perplexity + Gemini + Copilot
- Pipeline & revenue attribution
AI search optimization — common questions
- What is an AI search optimization agency?
- An AI search optimization agency makes a brand visible inside AI-generated answers rather than inside blue-link results. Visibility Partners measures whether ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot cite you and whether they recommend you, then executes the content, entity, schema and citation work that moves both numbers.
- Is being cited by AI the same as being recommended?
- No. A citation means the engine used your page as a source; a recommendation means the answer names your brand as the option to consider. Research shows a cited source is not the recommended brand roughly 43% of the time, which is why we score and report the two outcomes separately on every prompt.
- How do you measure AI visibility?
- We build a locked prompt universe of 100+ real buyer questions across seven intent types, then re-run it on a fixed monthly cadence across five engines. Each result is scored for citation and recommendation, benchmarked against named competitors, and reported as movement rather than a one-off snapshot.
- How much does AI search optimization cost?
- Engagements start at a $3,500 one-time AI Visibility Audit, then run $2,500/month for Measurement, $4,500/month for Roadmap & Measurement, and $9,500/month for Embedded Partner, which includes execution. Pricing is published in full — no discovery-call gate.
- How long before AI visibility improves?
- Most programs show citation movement within 60–90 days and recommendation movement between months four and eight, because recommendation depends on third-party source signals that take longer to accumulate. Our benchmark insurance engagement moved AI Overview coverage from 32% to 88% over 14 months.
Ranking is no longer enough
You need to be cited, mentioned, and recommended.
Get a free AI Visibility Report — see exactly where your brand appears across ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot, and where competitors are winning instead.