# Optimist — AEO/GEO and SEO consulting agency for B2B SaaS, running the CORE Framework. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/optimist (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-03 Optimist is a B2B SaaS organic growth agency that unifies SEO and answer engine optimization through its CORE Framework. It sells a one-time diagnostic roadmap plus advisory or full-service retainers covering strategy, content execution and AI visibility measurement. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://www.yesoptimist.com/ | | Price | from $3000/month | | Free tier | Yes | The Organic Revenue Opportunity Report is a free custom analysis - competitive benchmark across the five AI models, a 24-month revenue projection, and gaps and opportunities. Requested via form, delivered about 5 business days after qualification, and yours to keep with no obligation. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Benchmarking runs a client's buyer prompts through five named models and captures mention rate, positioning language and citation frequency, so watching AI answers is core to the engagement rather than an add-on. > Then we run each prompt through five AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews). We capture the output from each model and analyze them to capture brand mention rates, brand positioning language, citation frequency, competitor visibility > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/the-core-framework/ · Phase 2: AEO Benchmarking section **Optimises your content** · Yes — Existing pages are scored and sorted into action categories, and each page in a cluster gets a prescribed change, so this is analysis of the site you already have rather than only new production. > Content Audit: Every existing page scored by quality, funnel stage, AEO readiness, and optimization opportunity. Shows what to keep, refresh, or retire. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/the-core-framework/ · Building a Clear Plan: The CORE Roadmap, key deliverables list **Generates content** · Partly — Writing is included only on full-service engagements; the advisory retainer stops at briefs and specs the client's own team executes, so content production depends which tier you buy. > Optimist offers advisory-only AEO engagements where we provide strategy and your team executes, and full-service engagements where we handle content production, optimization, and technical implementation. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/aeo-agency/ · FAQ, 'Does Optimist produce content as part of AEO, or just provide strategy?' **Technical AEO** · Yes — Schema implementation, entity graph work and AI-crawler-accessible architecture are a named service line, and the technical foundation phase audits robots.txt access before any content work starts. > Site architecture designed for AI crawlability and citation > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/aeo-agency/ · Answer Engine Optimization Services That Drive B2B Growth, Technical AEO block **Done-for-you service** · Yes — This is a people-delivered agency, not software: it sells advisory retainers where clients execute and full-service retainers where Optimist's team leads execution end to end. > Optimist works as both an AEO agency and a GEO agency, offering clients both organic growth (SEO + AEO) consulting and full-service execution. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/the-core-framework/ · Organic Growth Starts With The CORE, closing section _Not established: Publishes to your site_ ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is first in the five-model set used for both the paid benchmark and the ongoing measurement of referred sessions and conversions. > Optimist tracks AI visibility, AI-referred sessions, and conversions for all major AI surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'How does Optimist actually measure GEO results?' **Perplexity** · Yes — Perplexity appears in the same enumerated five surfaces for measurement and in the prompt-level benchmark run during the CORE Analysis. > Optimist tracks AI visibility, AI-referred sessions, and conversions for all major AI surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'How does Optimist actually measure GEO results?' **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is named as its own surface, separate from Google AI Overviews, in both the benchmark model list and the ongoing tracking list. > AI visibility analysis across 5 models (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews) using realistic buyer prompts mapped to your topic clusters. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/approach/ · The CORE Roadmap, AEO Benchmarks block **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is one of the five benchmarked surfaces and is also broken out per channel in the free opportunity report. > See how you show up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and traditional SEO. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/organic-revenue-opportunity-report/ · Visibility Breakdown by Channel section **Google AI Mode** · No — Google AI Mode is absent from an explicitly closed list of five models the vendor repeats on four pages; only AI Overviews represents Google's AI surfaces here. > a custom benchmark of your AI visibility across all five major models > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'Does Optimist offer GEO audits as a standalone deliverable?' **Claude** · Yes — Claude is one of the five models every prompt is run through, and the agency cites a retail client whose recommendations it moved in Claude specifically. > Then we run each prompt through five AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews). > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/the-core-framework/ · Phase 2: AEO Benchmarking section **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Microsoft Copilot is named nowhere on the site and is missing from the closed five-model list the vendor calls all major AI surfaces, so it is outside the tracked set. > Optimist tracks AI visibility, AI-referred sessions, and conversions for all major AI surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'How does Optimist actually measure GEO results?' **Grok** · No — Grok is absent from every engine list on the site, including the one the vendor presents as covering all major AI surfaces, so the default benchmark excludes it. > Optimist tracks AI visibility, AI-referred sessions, and conversions for all major AI surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'How does Optimist actually measure GEO results?' **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek never appears on the site and falls outside the five surfaces the vendor enumerates as its measurement scope for AI visibility and referred conversions. > Optimist tracks AI visibility, AI-referred sessions, and conversions for all major AI surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'How does Optimist actually measure GEO results?' **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is not among the five models benchmarked or the surfaces tracked; the vendor's own radar comparison charts six channels and Meta AI is not one of them. > Optimist tracks AI visibility, AI-referred sessions, and conversions for all major AI surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'How does Optimist actually measure GEO results?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — Coverage is a fixed set of five models for the diagnostic benchmark, though the ongoing retainer tracking is offered as open-ended rather than limited to those five. > AEO Benchmarks: How visible you are across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews for real buyer prompts and how you compare to competitors. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/the-core-framework/ · Building a Clear Plan: The CORE Roadmap, key deliverables list ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Partly — Citation frequency and which competitors get cited are measured and reported by model and cluster, but the vendor never claims a list of the specific domains or pages engines cite. > Competitive AI intelligence — See which brands are being recommended and cited in your space > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · AI Search Visibility Audits & Reporting bullet list **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitor visibility is captured in the same benchmark run and reported as a share-of-voice comparison per model, and it appears even in the free report. > Share-of-voice and recommendation rate measurement against competitors > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/aeo-agency/ · AEO Reporting & Pipeline Attribution bullet list **Brand sentiment** · Yes — The benchmark captures the positioning language models use about the brand, and the vendor treats competitor-framed descriptions as a problem it exists to fix. > We monitor share-of-voice (how often your brand appears and is recommended vs. competitors in category queries), recommendation quality, and the accuracy of how AI models describe your brand. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'How does Optimist actually measure GEO results?' **Recommendations** · Yes — The diagnostic output is prescriptive, not descriptive: every page in a cluster is classified into one of six action categories and sequenced by pipeline impact. > Based on the combined data sets, we can prescribe specific actions for each page within the cluster to improve performance across both search and AI. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/the-core-framework/ · Phase 3: Integrated Analysis section **AI crawler analytics** · No — The technical phase checks whether AI crawlers are blocked, which is a directives audit; the enumerated measurement set is referred sessions and share of voice, with no bot-hit reporting. > Optimist tracks AI visibility, AI-referred sessions, and conversions for all major AI surfaces — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/geo-services/ · FAQ, 'How does Optimist actually measure GEO results?' **Wrong answers about you** · Yes — Accuracy of the model's description is an explicitly monitored metric, and the framework names hallucinated solution mapping as a defect the MOFU work targets. > Accurate solution mapping (the AI describes what you actually do, not a hallucinated version) > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/the-core-framework/ · MOFU: Category Ownership + Solution Clarity, Solution clarity bullet list ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — The unit is buyer prompts, not credits: the analysis builds a library of over two hundred persona-derived prompts and runs each through five models. > First, we generate a library of 200+ realistic buyer prompts ("the Prompt Space") from the topic clusters in our previous research. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/the-core-framework/ · Phase 2: AEO Benchmarking section **How often it checks** · Yes — Both retainer tiers list weekly AI visibility tracking, and the vendor's own results chart is plotted week by week, so cadence is weekly rather than on demand. > Weekly AI visibility tracking > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/ · How We Work Together, Advisory plan bullet list **Card required to start** · No — The free entry point is a requested custom report delivered after a qualification conversation, with no payment step; the vendor states outright there is no catch. > It's free. There's no catch. The report helps us understand the opportunity with real data and decide if a partnership would be a good investment. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/organic-revenue-opportunity-report/ · FAQ, 'Is Optimist's Organic Revenue Opportunity Report really free? What's the catch?' **Self-serve signup** · No — There is no sign-up path at all: even the free report is gated on qualification, and every engagement begins with a booked strategy call with the founder. > About 5 business days from qualification. Sometimes faster if the queue is light, sometimes a few days longer if Tyler is in client weeks. > — https://www.yesoptimist.com/organic-revenue-opportunity-report/ · FAQ, 'How long does it take to receive an Organic Revenue Opportunity Report?' _Not established: Projects or brands, Countries_ ## Answer-engine source observations 0 of 4 collected answers have source URL/title annotations naming CitedIndex. These are the latest stored observations per engine, not current consumer-UI results. They do not measure product mentions or establish that a source supports a claim. | Engine | Model | Collected on | Query | CitedIndex in source annotations | Source annotations | Other source hosts (up to 6) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | gpt-4o-mini | 2026-09-04 | Optimist alternatives | Not assessable — no source annotations | 0 | — | | Claude | claude-haiku-4-5 | 2026-09-04 | Optimist alternatives | Not assessable — no source annotations | 0 | — | | Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash | 2026-09-04 | Optimist alternatives | Directory domain not found in observed annotations | 24 | actionquest.com, saltwaterjournal.life, sailingbritican.com, quora.com, blogspot.com, bbyc.net | | Perplexity | sonar | 2026-09-04 | Optimist alternatives | Directory domain not found in observed annotations | 20 | merriam-webster.com, powerthesaurus.org, thesaurus.com, dictionary.com, craft.co, english.stackexchange.com | ## Provenance Every fact above comes from the vendor. Nothing here is independently corroborated yet. ## Coverage elsewhere None recorded. Every fact above comes from the vendor and is not independently corroborated yet. ## What changed - 2026-09-03 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price ## Correcting this record Anything marked "Not established" is a question we have not answered — it is not a No. If you represent Optimist, or anything here is wrong or out of date, you can supply it with a source: the operations this site accepts from an agent are listed at https://citedindex.com/.well-known/agents.json — that catalogue needs no key to read, and each entry states its own auth. Supplying evidence is free. Nothing that can be bought here changes what a field says, whether a gap is closed, or how this record is scored.