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5W Public Relations
PR agency with an AI visibility practice: citation source audits, GEO programs and monthly citation reporting.
Why it's on this listClaude · YesClaude is in the client audit list and is one of the five engines in the published research, weighted there for professional and B2B use cases.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Big Leads
- +Names the cited sources · YesNaming the sources behind the answer is the whole product: the audit maps which domains engines draw on and where the brand is present or missing.Evidence ↗
- +Brand sentiment · PartialThe GEO practice explicitly hands sentiment work to a different 5W practice, so attribute-level perception is not part of the citation program a buyer signs for; a separate published Reputation Index scores sentiment for named individuals.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Big Leads
No disadvantages found in the criteria researched so far.
31/32 researched criteria · 1 not established - 02
Digital Elevator
Productized AEO and SEO programs that build and monitor the signals AI answer engines cite.
From $1,500/monthWhy it's on this listCoverage in the vendor’s words · YesFour engines are monitored with no tier limit: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews. Claude is graded only in the free report and Copilot only in GA4 attribution.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Big Leads
- +How often it checks · YesReporting is monthly across rankings, traffic and AI citations, with citation monitoring described as ongoing; no query-refresh frequency is published.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Big Leads
No disadvantages found in the criteria researched so far.
31/32 researched criteria · 1 not established - 03
Omniscient Digital
B2B organic growth agency running GEO, SEO, digital PR and content programs as a retainer service.
From $10,000/monthWhy it's on this listClaude · YesClaude is named as a platform the GEO service optimises for, and the free bot analyzer tests ClaudeBot, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot access.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Big Leads
- +Names the cited sources · YesCitation analysis is a listed engagement deliverable and "Citation share" is one of the AI-native KPIs the team defines; per-domain citation data came from Peec AI in the Convert engagement.Evidence ↗
- +Brand sentiment · PartialPerception in AI engines is a stated Digital PR objective and the Convert work checked that product messaging is "displayed accurately and favorably", but no attribute or sentiment reporting is published.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Big Leads
No disadvantages found in the criteria researched so far.
30/32 researched criteria · 2 not established - 04
OMNIUS
B2B SEO, GEO and AEO agency for SaaS and fintech, with an in-house AI search tracking tool.
Why it's on this listPublishes to your site · YesThe team publishes the content it produces; 'schema-enriched publishing' is a listed activity.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Big Leads
- +Claude · YesNamed in the engine list and in the citation-tracking claim.Evidence ↗
- +Coverage in the vendor’s words · YesFive engines named for optimisation (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek); citation tracking is stated for four of them, plus Bing/Copilot via Bing work.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Big Leads
No disadvantages found in the criteria researched so far.
29/32 researched criteria · 3 not established - 05
AEO Engine
Human-managed AEO agency that ships schema, content, links and PR, with AI visibility tracking in its own platform.
From $1,597/monthWhy it's on this listPublishes to your site · YesFinished articles are pushed live to the client's own CMS on a schedule, with an approval hold available before anything goes public.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Big Leads
- +Coverage in the vendor’s words · YesCoverage is stated as four engines identically on every tier; what changes with price is the prompt ceiling, from 150 up to 1,000, not the engine list.Evidence ↗
- +Names the cited sources · YesThe free Google checker returns the actual cited URLs and domains for a query, while the paid dashboard reports which brands were cited per prompt and your share of them.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against Big Leads
- −Microsoft Copilot · NoCopilot sits outside the stated tracking inventory on every plan; the free Copilot page only audits whether your pages are reachable and answer-ready for Bing, it does not query the assistant.Evidence ↗
32/32 researched criteria - 06
RankZero
Done-for-you AI SEO services paired with a self-serve brand visibility tracking platform.
From €29/monthWhy it's on this listPublishes to your site · YesThe managed program publishes into the client's CMS (WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Shopify shown)Evidence ↗
Where it improves on Big Leads
- +Names the cited sources · YesDomain and URL level view of which sources AI answers used, with usage % and average citationsEvidence ↗
- +Brand sentiment · Yes0-100 sentiment score per response, for the brand and each competitor namedEvidence ↗
Trade-offs against Big Leads
- −Generates content · PartialThe agency retainer writes new pieces every month; the platform's own Content Generation is marked SoonEvidence ↗
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