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AI names three companies. Right now, you are not one of them.
A Google result gives the buyer ten links. An AI answer gives them a shortlist. If your brand is missing from it, there is no position two to fall back on.
51% start in a chatbot
More B2B software buyers now start research in an AI chatbot than in Google (G2, 2026). The first vendors they hear about are the ones the model chose to name.
69% switched vendor
69% of buyers chose a different vendor than planned because a chatbot recommended it (G2, 2026). The shortlist is being rewritten inside the answer.
Citations decay quietly
A page that earns citations loses them as competitors publish and models refresh their sources. Most teams never see it happen, because no one is counting citations per page.
Sources: G2 Buyer Behavior Report 2026; Ahrefs AI Overviews click-through study 2026; Pew Research Center 2025 (8% of visits clicked a result under an AI summary, against 15% without one).
Why GrowthSpree is good at this, in things you can check.
AEO is new enough that most agencies show screenshots. The better test is whether the agency does for itself what it sells: original data, its own AI tooling, and public reviews.
Report figures are from the published reports. The citation test above is GrowthSpree's own, run on 7 October 2026 across 8 agency-selection questions in ChatGPT; results vary by category and date.
What a page needs before an AI engine will cite it.
An AI engine does not reward length. It picks the page that answers in the first lines, comes from a named author with a reason to know, supports each claim with a source, and can be fetched and parsed without friction. These nine checks run on every page before it goes live, and any of them can be verified in the page source.
A page that fails a check is sent back, not published. That is why month one feels slow and month three does not.GrowthSpree AEO pod
Want to see who AI names in your category today? Meet the senior operator who would run your AEO program, and leave with the screenshots and a 90-day plan.
Meet an expert →Six things you can verify before you sign
Most agency pitches sound the same. These are the parts of ours you can check for yourself, on our site or in your own source code once we start.
Citations counted, per engine, per page
Weekly citation tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews and Copilot, plus AI crawler logs. Every number in the report names the page and the engine it came from.
Pages live on your domain
Every page publishes to a subfolder or subdomain of your site, not ours. You own the content and the images, and you can pause or leave at any time. No CMS access is needed.
Schema and llms.txt on every page
Article, FAQ, HowTo and Organization schema, llms.txt updates, internal links and canonicals ship with each page. Open the source on any page we publish and check.
Nothing publishes without your approval
You tick or skip topics in a weekly queue, about 10 minutes. Drafts that fail brand voice, sourcing or editor review are rewritten, not published.
Every demo traced to a page
CTAs carry CRM attribution, so the monthly report shows citations, visits, demos and pipeline by page, not a citation screenshot.
Senior operator, named editor
A pod with SEO, engineering and B2B marketing roles and a named account lead. Median first response under an hour during your working day, on Slack or WhatsApp.
SEO, AEO and GEO: three names, one program
SEO earns rankings in Google's list of links. AEO (answer engine optimization) gets your brand named and cited inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. GEO (generative engine optimization) is the same work seen from the engine's side: entity clarity, structured data and off-site mentions that generative models use to decide who to name. GrowthSpree runs all three as one program, because the same answer-first page, schema and authority work serves every one of them.
Rank for the questions that end in a demo
Technical SEO, bottom-funnel pages (comparisons, alternatives, pricing, use cases), internal links and authority. Reported on Google rankings, non-brand clicks and demos from organic.
Get named inside the answer
Answer-first page structure, named authors, sourced claims, FAQ and HowTo schema, llms.txt and AI crawler access. Reported on citations per engine and per page.
Be the entity the model trusts
Organization and Person schema, consistent entity data across G2, Clutch, LinkedIn and Crunchbase, presence in the Reddit threads and listicles AI tools cite, and original data worth citing. Reported on the share of AI answers that name you.
The SEO agency page covers the Google side in detail and the GEO agency page covers entity and off-site work. Or skip the reading and talk to the person who would run it.
Meet an expert →One pod owns the whole AEO loop: find, write, ship, track, refresh.
Most AEO offers stop at a dashboard or a batch of articles. The loop only works when the same team sees the citations drop and rewrites the page.
- Best [category] platforms for a 200-person teamkill test: pass
- [Competitor] vs [you] pricingkill test: pass
- What is [category]?kill test: skip
- [Category] for fintech compliancekill test: pass
- Best [category] platforms for a 200-person teamkill test: pass
- [Competitor] vs [you] pricingkill test: pass
- What is [category]?kill test: skip
- [Category] for fintech compliancekill test: pass
The first 90 days of an AEO program
Setup takes about 40 minutes of your time: connect the domain, the CRM, analytics and Search Console, all read-only, and share case studies and positioning. After that, one short weekly call and a 10-minute approval queue.
- 1Week 1
Baseline the answers
Connect domain, CRM, analytics and Search Console, read-only. Run your buyer prompts across five engines and record who is named today; audit crawler access and entity records.
- 2Weeks 2 to 4
First answer pages
Buyer-question map with the kill test; approval queue opens; llms.txt, schema and crawler fixes shipped; the first comparison and alternative pages go live.
- 3Weeks 5 to 8
Scale and log
20 to 40 pages a month, each with schema and internal links; AI crawler logging confirms ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google are fetching them; citation tracking per engine switched on.
- 4Weeks 9 to 12
Refresh and attribute
First citation report against the week-one baseline; pages that slipped rewritten; first demos traced to pages in the CRM; next-quarter plan.
What to expect on a typical account
Typical account, not a guarantee. Timing depends on category, starting authority and how many open buyer questions exist. New domains are often cited before they rank, because engines weigh answer fit and entity clarity over domain authority.
The tools behind the weekly citation checks
Salient does the finding, drafting, shipping and tracking. People approve topics, edit drafts and read the crawler logs. You approve what publishes.
Runs the loop: finds buyer questions, drafts in your voice, ships schema and llms.txt, tracks citations per engine and flags decay. People check every step and you approve every topic.
- Weekly gap report: Search Console, live AI answers, Reddit, G2, sales calls
- Approval queue, about 10 minutes a week
- Citations, visits, demos and pipeline by page
Shows which pages the engines actually read before answering, so a missing citation can be traced to access, structure or authority.
- Crawler visits by page and engine
- Alert when a page stops being fetched
- Evidence that a page is reachable, not just live
The open Search Console MCP from GrowthSpree lets the pod query impressions, clicks and positions by page and query each week.
- Impressions without clicks become answer pages
- Position drops trigger a refresh
- Runs on your own property
Each CTA carries attribution into HubSpot or Salesforce, so the report says which page and which buyer question produced the demo.
- Pipeline influenced by page and query
- Uses your existing CRM fields
- Read-only analytics and Search Console access
How GrowthSpree compares with AI visibility software, an SEO retainer, and hiring
Most teams start AEO by buying a monitoring tool. The tool tells you that you are not cited. It does not write the page that gets you cited. Here is how the work splits.
| What to compare | GrowthSpree | AI visibility software | Traditional SEO agency | In-house hire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shows you are missing from answers | Yes, then fixes it | Yes, dashboards | Sometimes, as a screenshot | If they buy a tool |
| Writes the pages that get cited | 20 to 40 a month, approved by you | No | 4 to 6 a month | 2 to 4 a month |
| Your time each month | About 80 minutes in month one, then under an hour | 40+ hours doing the work | 8 to 15 hours | A full-time role |
| Schema, llms.txt, crawler access | On every page | Recommendations only | Sometimes | Depends on the hire |
| Citations per engine, per page | Weekly, included | Yes | Rarely | Needs a tool |
| Refresh when citations drop | Triggered automatically | Alert only | On request | Manual |
| Demos traced to pages in your CRM | Every CTA | Not included | Traffic and rankings | Depends on RevOps |
| Terms | Quoted on a call, month to month | Monthly software fee | Usually 6 to 12 months | Salary, tools, ramp-up |
Agency page counts and team-time figures are taken from Salient's published comparison of typical agency, freelancer and self-serve options (October 2026). Software columns refer to tools such as Profound and Peec AI, which monitor AI visibility but do not produce the pages.
What 49 G2 reviewers say about GrowthSpree
Rated 4.9 out of 5 from 49 verified reviews on G2, and 5.0 out of 5 from 6 reviews on Clutch. We read all 49 G2 reviews; here is how often each theme comes up, including the one thing reviewers wish we did.
- Works like an in-house teamHalf of reviewsReviewers describe an extension of their own team: proactive, fast, and close to sales.
- Multi-channel lead qualityNamed in reviews"Generating high-quality leads on various platforms like LinkedIn and Google while also highlighting our work as a brand." Creative and landing page support comes up again and again.
- Owns outcomes, not tasksMore than 1 in 4Accountability for pipeline and revenue, not just lead volume.
- End-to-end attribution1 in 4Ads connected to HubSpot, the CRM, and analytics, so every dollar maps to pipeline.
- AI-first operations1 in 5MCPs and AI agents surface wasted spend before it compounds.
- The honest critique1 in 6No video production, and until 2026 no content program. These reviews predate the SEO and AEO program, which now runs through Salient.
Results reviewers reported
ROI on paid ads across the US and UK
Financial services, mid-marketROAS within six months, from $100K+ a month in ad spend
Software, mid-marketcost per SQL on about $200K a month across Google and LinkedIn
Internet, mid-marketrevenue with 25% lower CPL in three to four months
IT services, mid-marketof monthly revenue from performance marketing campaigns
LimeChat, conversational commercerevenue from performance marketing in six months
B2B commerce, verified reviewerFigures as written by verified reviewers on G2. One reviewer reports a 38% lower cost per SQL on about $200K a month across Google and LinkedIn; another works with GrowthSpree "on paid marketing (mainly on Google and Facebook)" and saw a sizeable reduction in cost per lead within a quarter.
What our clients say
From marketing leaders at PriceLabs, Rocketlane, Hubilo, Fielddrive, and more.
GrowthSpree brought a level of data-driven rigor to our demand gen that we hadn't experienced before. They didn't just execute campaigns, they built an engine.
Who GrowthSpree is built for, and who it is not
Organic and AI visibility compound over months, so the fit matters more than the pitch. Here is the honest version.
GrowthSpree is a fit if you are
- A B2B or B2B SaaS company with paying customers and a stable ICP, in a category buyers ask AI tools about
- Losing deals to vendors that get named in AI answers, or unable to see whether you are named at all
- Willing to publish answer-first pages on your own domain and approve topics weekly, about 10 minutes
- Running HubSpot or Salesforce, so demos can be traced back to pages
- Patient enough for 90 to 160 days before judging pipeline
Choose someone else if you are
- A B2C brand, consumer app, ecommerce store, or DTC company
- Pre-product-market-fit, or still changing your ICP
- After a monitoring dashboard only; a tool is cheaper for that
- Wanting a guaranteed number of citations or a guaranteed place in the answer
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of getting a company named and cited inside the answers that AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot give when buyers ask a question. It differs from classic SEO in what is measured: not a ranking in a list of links, but whether the brand appears in the answer and which page is cited. The work overlaps heavily with SEO (crawlable pages, clear structure, authority), and adds answer-first page structure, named authors and sourced claims, FAQ and HowTo schema, llms.txt, AI crawler access and logging, and citation tracking per engine. GrowthSpree runs AEO for B2B and B2B SaaS companies on their own domain and reports citations, visits, demos and pipeline by page. AEO, GEO and AI SEO describe the same job.
Questions B2B teams ask before hiring an AEO agency
Meet the operator who would run your AEO program.
Bring your domain and your CRM. Leave with screenshots of who AI names in your category today, the buyer questions you are missing, and a 90-day plan to be in the answer.
A calendar opens next so you can pick a time.
