agentos.guide › blog
AI SEO Optimization Agency: A Quick Start For Hiring One While Your Agent OS Keeps The Receipts
An AI SEO optimization agency gets your brand found, cited and recommended inside AI answers, or uses AI to do the SEO work, and my number one is Goldie Agency, which is my own agency, so weigh that bias.
My third-party shortlist is iPullRank, Seer Interactive, Omniscient Digital, Go Fish Digital, Siege Media, NoGood and Omnius.
This quick start covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini and Claude, and it shows you how to hire an agency in seven steps.
It also shows how your Agent OS keeps its own record of what AI says about you, so you never have to take a report on trust.
If you want help from day one, book a free SEO strategy session and get a custom AI visibility plan.
An AI SEO optimization agency in one table
The phrase has two meanings, and the best agencies cover both.
| Meaning | What the agency does | What you should ask to see |
|---|---|---|
| Optimising for AI answers | It works to get your brand named, cited and recommended when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude or Google's AI. | The buyer prompts it tracks and the dated answers it has saved. |
| Using AI to do SEO | It runs research, writing, publishing and reporting on AI agents, while people own strategy and review. | The workflow, the rules the agents follow and the human checks. |
You'll also hear the first meaning called GEO, which is generative engine optimisation, or AEO, which is answer engine optimisation.
The second meaning is how my own agency works, because AI runs around 80% of our internal operations.
This page is broader than my best Claude SEO agency quick start, because buyers use far more than one assistant.
Where the AI answers come from
Each AI surface reads the web in its own way, so a good agency treats them as related jobs.
| AI surface | Who makes it | What the official docs say |
|---|---|---|
| Google AI Overviews and AI Mode | A page must be indexed and eligible for a snippet, and Google says no special schema or AI text file is needed. | |
| ChatGPT search | OpenAI | OpenAI recommends allowing OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt if you want to appear in ChatGPT search results. |
| Perplexity | Perplexity | Perplexity recommends allowing PerplexityBot in robots.txt if you want to appear in its search results. |
| Gemini | My strategy session page lists Gemini among the AI platforms we plan visibility for. | |
| Claude | Anthropic | Anthropic doesn't publish a formula for which brands Claude names. |
I read Google's AI features guide, OpenAI's crawler page and Perplexity's crawler page on 15 October 2026.
Google also says traffic from AI Overviews and AI Mode is counted in the "Web" search type of the Search Console Performance report.
That means part of the measurement already lives in a tool you probably have.
Quick start: hire an AI SEO optimization agency in seven steps
This is the fastest safe route from a cold start to a signed first phase.
- First, write ten to twenty questions a real buyer would ask an AI tool before choosing a company like yours.
- Second, ask each question in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google, and save every answer with the date and the cited sources.
- Third, repeat each prompt a few times, because AI answers vary from one chat to the next.
- Fourth, shortlist three agencies from the table below that match your size and market.
- Fifth, ask each agency to show you a real report with tracked prompts and dated answers.
- Sixth, ask each agency which third-party sources it would target first and how it earns that coverage.
- Seventh, agree a first phase of around 90 days and re-run your prompts at the end.
📞 Want my team to run steps one and two with you?
Book a free SEO strategy session and you will leave with a custom visibility plan, an AI visibility roadmap and a competitor gap analysis.
🔥 Want the exact AI SEO setup I run inside my Agent OS?
Inside the AI Profit Boardroom you get the installable Agent OS, step-by-step video tutorials, four coaching calls a week and 3,400+ members building real automations.
Number one: Goldie Agency
Goldie Agency is the SEO and link building agency I started on my own, and it now has 70+ people.I rank it first because I know exactly how the work is done, and you should weigh that as my bias.
The strategy session page says the agency helps brands get found, cited and recommended by Google and AI.
It names Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini as the places it plans visibility for.
The method is trusted-source coverage, which the page breaks into expert bylines, independent reviews, industry comparisons and research-led coverage.
The agency site also lists link building with manual outreach and no PBNs, a Complete Site Audit and an AI Automation service.
The same Agent OS I teach on this site is what executes the client work, from content pipelines to indexing and tracking.
My Claude SEO agency guide shows the public test I use on myself, where one keyword is worked across AI answers, Reddit, video and a ranked article.
Paid work is scoped after the session, so I won't quote a price here.
The AI SEO optimization agency shortlist
These are the eight agencies I'd shortlist, and number one is my own.
| Rank | Agency | What its own site says today | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goldie Agency (my agency) | It offers a free AI brand visibility session, trusted-source coverage, link building, a Complete Site Audit and AI Automation. | Brands that want AI visibility, content and links from one team. |
| 2 | iPullRank | It calls itself an enterprise and mid-market AI search agency and lists Relevance Engineering, GEO and AI Search Strategy. | Enterprise and mid-market teams. |
| 3 | Seer Interactive | It describes itself as an enterprise AI search, SEO and paid media agency and lists GEO as a service. | Enterprise brands that buy paid media too. |
| 4 | Omniscient Digital | It says it gets B2B brands recommended across AI and search engines. | B2B software companies. |
| 5 | Go Fish Digital | It calls itself a GEO and full-service agency and offers a free GEO audit. | Brands that want GEO, digital PR and paid media together. |
| 6 | Siege Media | It positions itself as a full-service GEO agency with content, digital PR and Reddit marketing. | Brands that grow through content and PR. |
| 7 | NoGood | It lists an AEO service for brand visibility in AI search. | Startups and scale-ups. |
| 8 | Omnius | It describes itself as a B2B SEO and GEO agency for SaaS and fintech, with entity SEO listed. | SaaS and fintech companies. |
I read every third-party homepage on 15 October 2026, and each one advertises AI search, GEO or AEO work today.
I haven't hired the seven third-party agencies, so I'm describing what they say about themselves.
I haven't listed their prices either, because agencies quote after a call and I won't guess.
How an AI SEO optimization agency fits an Agent OS workflow
My Agent OS runs a crew of AI agents under one shared memory, and that makes hiring an agency much safer.
The reason is simple, because you stop relying on the agency's report as your only source of truth.
Your own agents keep the baseline, and the agency does the work you can't do alone.
| Job | Your Agent OS handles it | The agency handles it | You handle it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt baseline | An agent asks your buyer prompts on a schedule and saves every answer and cited source with the date. | The agency runs its own tracking and shares its reports. | You choose the prompts that matter to your buyers. |
| Brand fact file | An agent keeps one clean file of who you are, what you sell and your proof. | The agency uses that file so every page and profile says the same thing. | You approve every fact in it. |
| Answer-shaped pages | An agent drafts pages that open with the answer and carry FAQ sections. | The agency plans topics and edits for quality. | You add the real experience only you have. |
| Third-party mentions | An agent logs every byline, review and mention into shared memory. | The agency earns coverage on trusted sources. | You give the interviews and the quotes. |
| Technical checks | An agent checks robots.txt for OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot and flags schema that doesn't match the page. | The agency fixes what the agent flags. | You sign off changes to the live site. |
| Re-checks | An agent re-asks the same prompts and highlights what changed. | The agency explains the changes and adjusts the plan. | You decide whether to continue. |
The shared memory is what makes this useful over months.
Every prompt, every answer and every piece of coverage lands in one place, so any agent can compare this month with last month.
That also means you can check an agency's claims against your own dated records without arguing about screenshots.
🔥 Want the exact AI SEO setup I run inside my Agent OS?
Inside the AI Profit Boardroom you get the installable Agent OS, step-by-step video tutorials, four coaching calls a week and 3,400+ members building real automations.
My own AI SEO pipeline, which is the second meaning in practice
This is the content side of how my team and I do SEO with AI, taken from my live guides on this site.
- I record my screen while I do real work, and each recording becomes a transcript file Claude can read.
- Claude follows a written skill file, which is a recipe with the steps, the rules and the things it must never do.
- The top rule is "no transcript, no article", so every feature, number and example comes from real work.
- Each article gets a headline from five rotating formulas, two or three videos, FAQ schema and two to four internal links.
- Older related posts get a "latest updates" block that links to the new article on the day it goes live.
- New URLs are pushed straight to an indexing service instead of waiting for a crawler.
- Every week I check pages sitting in positions 8 to 15, because Google already likes them.
- At the end of each batch the skill grades itself and writes new rules back into its own file.
People still own strategy, quality review and link building in that system.
The FAQ blocks matter for the first meaning too, because I put the direct answer inside the first sentence and keep it under fifty words.
My Claude AI SEO rank one guide walks through the three levels, and my Claude AI SEO course goes step by step.
That guide shows one of my sites climbing to 278 clicks a day, which is my own result and not a promise for yours.
📞 Want this kind of pipeline pointed at your brand?
Grab a free SEO strategy session with Goldie Agency and we will map the bylines, reviews, comparisons and pages your market needs.
What an AI SEO optimization agency should deliver
A real engagement leaves a trail you can inspect, even before results show up.
| Deliverable | What good looks like |
|---|---|
| Prompt map | You agree a list of buyer questions at the start. |
| Baseline | You get dated answers from each AI tool before the work begins. |
| Fact clean-up | The facts about your brand match across your site, profiles and listings. |
| Answer-first pages | Your key pages open with the answer and carry FAQ sections and checked schema. |
| Trusted-source coverage | You earn bylines, reviews, comparisons and research-led coverage. |
| Honest reporting | You see the raw answers again on a schedule, next to enquiries and sales. |
If a proposal has none of these, you're buying a label and not a service.
Nobody can guarantee what a model says
I want to be honest about this before you spend anything.
Nobody can guarantee what a model says, and that includes me and Goldie Agency.
None of the companies behind ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Claude publishes a formula for which brands get recommended.
An agency can control the footprint those models read and the honesty of its reporting.
An agency can't control the answer, the timing or the revenue that follows, so treat any guarantee as a warning sign.
Questions to ask, and red flags
- Ask which buyer prompts the agency will track and whether you can choose them together.
- Ask which AI tools it checks and how often it re-asks the prompts.
- Ask to see the raw dated answers and the cited sources, not just a score.
- Ask how much of the work is done by AI and who reviews it before it goes live.
- Walk away from any agency that guarantees a mention in ChatGPT, Gemini or AI Overviews.
- Walk away from any agency that sells special schema or an AI text file as the secret, because Google says neither is needed.
- Walk away from any plan built on thousands of unreviewed AI pages.
If you'd rather run it yourself first
You can run the baseline yourself today, and your Agent OS can keep re-asking the prompts every week.
My King of AEO guide covers the answer-engine setup I run daily.
My AI backlink building services guide covers the link side, which still matters for AI answers.
If outreach is part of your plan, my guest blogging outreach services guide from this same batch explains how that work runs.
Also On Our Network
FAQ
What is an AI SEO optimization agency?
It is an agency that works to get your brand named and cited in AI answers from tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, or one that uses AI to do the SEO work. The best ones do both.
Which AI SEO optimization agency does Julian Goldie recommend?
Julian ranks his own agency, Goldie Agency, first and discloses that bias. His third-party shortlist is iPullRank, Seer Interactive, Omniscient Digital, Go Fish Digital, Siege Media, NoGood and Omnius.
Can an AI SEO agency guarantee that ChatGPT will recommend my brand?
No. Nobody can guarantee what a model says. An agency can improve the footprint a model reads and report the answers honestly, but it cannot control the answer, the timing or the revenue.
Do I need special schema or an AI text file for Google AI Overviews?
Google says no. There are no additional requirements, no special schema.org markup and no AI text files needed for AI Overviews or AI Mode, and normal SEO fundamentals apply.
How does an Agent OS help when I hire an agency?
Your own agents can ask your buyer prompts on a schedule and save dated answers and cited sources in shared memory. That gives you an independent baseline to compare against the agency's reports.
What does the free SEO strategy session cover?
The page describes it as a free AI brand visibility session. It says you leave with a custom visibility plan, an AI visibility roadmap and a competitor gap analysis.
Final word on choosing an AI SEO optimization agency
Keep your own baseline, insist on all six deliverables and never pay for a guarantee.
If you'd like my team to look at your brand, book a free SEO strategy session and leave with a plan for traffic, mentions and leads.
That is how you choose an AI SEO optimization agency.
About Julian
I'm Julian Goldie, an AI entrepreneur, SEO expert and the founder of the AI Profit Boardroom, which has 3,400+ members.
I help business owners scale with AI agents, automation and SEO.
My YouTube channel has 400,000+ subscribers, and I run Goldie Agency, a seven-figure SEO agency.
Related guides on agentos.guide
Get the whole Agent OS
The installable system behind every guide on this site — dashboard, agents, memory and pipelines — updated as new tools land, with 3,400+ members and four coaching calls a week.
Join the AI Profit Boardroom →📺 Video notes + links to the tools 👉
🎥 Learn how I make these videos 👉