LLM SEO Provider: 7 Ranked + How To Pick One In 5 Steps

Q: Who is the best LLM SEO provider in 2026?

Julian Goldie ranks his own agency, Goldie Agency, first and discloses that bias. His other picks are Peak Ace, Metehan Yesilyurt, Ahrefs Brand Radar, the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit, Scrunch and AthenaHQ.

The LLM SEO provider I'd pick first for most businesses is my own agency, Goldie Agency, and because this is my own list I'm telling you that bias in the very first line.

An LLM SEO provider is any person, team or tool you pay to help your brand get named and cited when people ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity or Google's AI a question.

That covers four very different things, which are agencies, independent consultants, tracking software and your own in-house team running AI agents.

My other six picks are Peak Ace, Metehan Yesilyurt, Ahrefs Brand Radar, the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit, Scrunch and AthenaHQ, and I checked each one on its own website on 18 October 2026.

This is the operator version, so after the ranking I'll walk you through picking the right provider type for your situation in five steps.

If you'd rather talk it through with my team first, book a free SEO strategy session and get a custom game plan for Google and AI search.

Here's my full ranking of the seven LLM SEO providers in one table, with my agency at number one.

Rank	Provider	Provider type	Best for
1	Goldie Agency (mine)	Agency	Owners who want a plan and a team that does the work
2	Peak Ace	Agency	Marketing teams that want a structured LLM consulting programme
3	Metehan Yesilyurt	Independent consultant	Teams that want a hands-on AI search researcher
4	Ahrefs Brand Radar	Tracking software	Teams already working inside Ahrefs
5	Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit	Tracking software	Small and mid-sized teams that want tracking plus prompt research
6	Scrunch	Tracking and site software	Brands that want to see how AI agents use their site
7	AthenaHQ	Tracking and agent software	Brands tracking many AI assistants at once

Top 3 Picks At A Glance

🥇 Goldie Agency is my pick if you want strategy and execution in one place, starting with a free SEO strategy session.
🥈 Peak Ace is my top third-party agency pick for marketing teams that want a clear four-stage LLM programme.
🥉 Metehan Yesilyurt is my pick if you'd rather work with one independent consultant who publishes his own AI search research.

What An LLM SEO Provider Actually Is

LLM stands for large language model, which is the technology behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the AI answers inside Google.

LLM SEO is the work of making your brand easy for those models to find, trust and name when a buyer asks a question.

You'll also hear it called GEO, which means generative engine optimisation, or AEO, which means answer engine optimisation, and most providers use the terms almost interchangeably.

In my video above I put it simply, because when someone asks Google AI, Gemini or ChatGPT a question, you want your business to be the name in the answer.

Old SEO gave you ten blue links, and even position seven still got clicks.

An AI answer usually gives a short list of maybe one to three names, so there's no room left for number seven.

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The 4 Types Of LLM SEO Provider

Before you look at names, you need to know which type of provider you actually need.

Provider type	What you get	When it wins	What to watch for
Agency	A team that plans and executes content, mentions, links and technical fixes	You don't have the people to do the work	Packages that are only more blog posts on your own site
Independent consultant	One senior person's diagnosis and plan	You have a team that can execute and need direction	One person's capacity and availability
Tracking software	Dashboards that show where AI tools mention you and your competitors	You need a baseline and ongoing measurement	Data without anyone acting on it
In-house team with AI agents	Your own people running agents that research, draft and track	You want to build the skill and keep it	The learning curve and the need for human review

The fastest way to waste money is to buy a tool when you needed a team, or to hire a team when you only needed a measurement.

My sibling post on the best LLM SEO agency goes deeper on the agency route if you already know that's what you want.

How I Ranked These LLM SEO Providers

I ranked the providers on things I could check today, and not on reputation alone.

I checked that each provider's own site talks about AI search, LLM visibility, GEO or AEO right now.
I checked what each provider actually sells, such as consulting, execution or software.
I noted the first step each site offers, such as a contact form, a demo or a free audit.
I matched each provider to the situation it fits best, because the right pick depends on your team and budget.

I haven't hired or paid any of the six third-party providers, so I'm describing what each says about itself.

I haven't listed prices either, because I won't guess, and engagements and plans change.

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The 7 Best LLM SEO Providers In 2026

1. Goldie Agency (My Agency)

Goldie Agency is the SEO and link-building agency I started on my own, and it now has 70+ people in Bangkok.

The site lists link building, a complete site audit and AI automation, and it describes manual outreach with no PBNs.

AI runs about 80% of the agency's internal operations, so the team uses the same agent workflows I teach.

In my GEO examples video I show my own screens for the search "best HARO agency", where Google's AI Overview lists five suppliers and links Goldie Agency first.

The same page also ranks first in the normal results, and I say in the video that the approach works for normal service businesses too.

That's my own result on my own screens, and it isn't a promise for your brand.

The first step is the free strategy session, which the page describes as a free AI brand visibility session covering Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.

The page lists a custom visibility plan, an AI visibility roadmap, a competitor gap analysis and a plan for traffic, mentions and leads.

Best for: I'd pick this route if you want one team to plan the work and then actually build the coverage, content and links.

Price: The session is free, and paid work is scoped after it.

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2. Peak Ace

Peak Ace has a page called LLM Consulting and Generative Engine Optimisation, and it says the goal is to make your brand a trusted source within AI-generated answers.

The page describes a four-stage system of prompting, monitoring, analysing and optimising.

Prompting means building and maintaining prompt clusters, and monitoring means tracking brand presence across AI systems, search results and competitors.

Analysing means using the data to find visibility gaps, and optimising means structural, semantic and technical changes to your content.

Best for: I'd pick Peak Ace for marketing teams that want a structured LLM programme with clear stages.

Price: The page uses a contact form, and I didn't see prices.

3. Metehan Yesilyurt

Metehan Yesilyurt offers AI-driven search visibility consulting covering SEO, AEO and GEO, according to his consultancy page.

The services he lists include technical SEO audits, AI search optimisation for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, content strategy for AI citations and international SEO.

He also lists custom MCP server development for SEO tools, which connects your SEO workflows to language models.

His blog publishes his own AI search research, including recent posts on how ChatGPT handles pages it fetches.

Best for: I'd pick Metehan for teams that want one hands-on consultant who tests how AI search works.

Price: His page asks you to get in touch, and I didn't see prices.

4. Ahrefs Brand Radar

Ahrefs Brand Radar is the Ahrefs feature that tracks your brand's visibility in LLMs, according to the Ahrefs site.

The page says you can see any brand's AI visibility, and the menu also lists Custom Prompts for tracking the AI prompts that matter most to you.

Best for: I'd pick Brand Radar for teams already using Ahrefs who want AI visibility in the same place as their SEO data.

Price: Check the Ahrefs pricing page directly, because I won't quote plan prices here.

5. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit

The Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit shows how brands appear in AI-generated answers, according to the Semrush knowledge base.

Semrush says you can benchmark AI visibility and mentions, compare brand sentiment with competitors, research prompts and track daily visibility for the prompts that matter.

It also says the toolkit can audit your site for technical issues that could block AI crawlers.

Semrush says the toolkit is built with small businesses, agencies and mid-market companies in mind.

Best for: I'd pick it for small and mid-sized teams that want tracking and prompt research without a big setup.

Price: Check the Semrush pricing page directly.

6. Scrunch

Scrunch calls itself an AI customer experience platform for AI search visibility and optimisation.

Its product menu lists monitoring and citations, agent traffic analysis, site optimisation and Agent Pages, which it says deliver an optimised experience to AI agents.

The homepage offers an AI visibility audit and says you can see results in 30 seconds with no credit card.

Best for: I'd pick Scrunch for brands that want to see how AI agents actually read and use their website.

Price: Check the Scrunch pricing page directly.

7. AthenaHQ

AthenaHQ describes itself as agents to win on AI search.

Its site says it tracks brand mentions across 11+ major LLMs, analyses citation sources and monitors competitor AI visibility.

Best for: I'd pick AthenaHQ for brands that want to watch a long list of AI assistants from one dashboard.

Price: Check the AthenaHQ plans page directly.

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How To Pick An LLM SEO Provider In 5 Steps

This is the operator part, so here's the exact process I'd follow if I were choosing for my own business.

Step 1: Write 20 buyer questions

Write down 20 questions a real buyer would type into an AI tool before choosing a business like yours.

Step 2: Record your own baseline

Ask each question in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google, and save every answer with the date and the sources it cites.

Ask each question more than once, because AI answers change from one chat to the next.

Step 3: Decide who will do the work

Look at your baseline and ask one honest question, which is whether you have people who can write, pitch and fix things every week.

If you don't, you need an agency, and if you do, a tool plus some AI agents might be enough to start.

Step 4: Check the basics yourself

Open your robots.txt file and check that you aren't blocking OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot.

OpenAI's crawler page says sites that want to appear in ChatGPT search results should allow OAI-SearchBot, and Perplexity's crawler page says the same about PerplexityBot.

Google's AI features guide says there are no extra requirements for AI Overviews or AI Mode, and no special schema or AI text files are needed.

Step 5: Run a 90-day first phase

Agree a short first phase with clear deliverables, such as a fact clean-up, five rewritten pages and a list of target sources.

Re-run your baseline at the end and compare it with the first one before you commit to anything longer.

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What A Good LLM SEO Provider Actually Does

Whichever type you hire, the work underneath should follow the same three moves I use on my own sites.

I call my system the answer engine, and the three moves are be the source, be everywhere and be first.

Be the source

AI reads the pages that rank and sums up what they say, so if five good pages in the top ten say the same name, it tends to repeat that name.

That's why every page needs something real, such as a case study or a test only you ran.

Be everywhere

I publish across several websites with different angles that all point to the same answer, which lets a brand show up two to four times on page one.

My subreddit, AI SEO Insider, ranks on page one too, and spreading out keeps you safe if one site drops.

Be first

I create content within 24 hours of a topic appearing, such as my "Jev waitlist" pages the weekend Jev AI dropped.

Ask any provider how they would apply these three moves to your market, and listen for specific answers.

The Rule Every Provider Should Follow On AI Content

Google updated its guidance on using generative AI content on 1 October 2026.

It says "it is critical to manually factcheck and review all AI-generated content" before publishing.

The page says that review also covers titles, meta descriptions, structured data and image alt text.

So ask every provider who checks the facts in the content they produce, because a provider that publishes unchecked AI drafts puts your brand at risk.

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Red Flags When Hiring An LLM SEO Provider

Walk away from any provider who guarantees that ChatGPT, Gemini or Google's AI will recommend you.
Walk away from anyone who sells special schema or an AI text file as the secret, because Google says neither is needed.
Walk away from anyone who won't show you the raw answers behind their reports.
Walk away from any plan that is only more blog posts on your own site, because AI platforms look for consistent signals across the wider web.

Nobody can guarantee what a model says, and that includes me.

A good provider improves the footprint those models read and the honesty of the reporting, not the answer itself.

Final Verdict On The Best LLM SEO Provider

I rank my own agency first, and I've been open about that bias from the first line.

Peak Ace is the third-party agency I'd call first for a structured programme, and Metehan Yesilyurt is the consultant I'd call first for hands-on testing.

If you only need measurement, pick one of the four tools and make sure someone on your team acts on what it finds.

If you'd like a head start, book a free SEO strategy session and leave with a plan for traffic, mentions and leads.

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FAQ: Choosing An LLM SEO Provider

What is an LLM SEO provider?

An LLM SEO provider is a person, team or tool you pay to help your brand get named and cited in AI answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI.

The four types are agencies, independent consultants, tracking software and an in-house team running AI agents.

Who is the best LLM SEO provider in 2026?

I rank my own agency, Goldie Agency, first and I disclose that bias.

My other picks are Peak Ace, Metehan Yesilyurt, Ahrefs Brand Radar, the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit, Scrunch and AthenaHQ.

Should I hire an agency or buy an LLM visibility tool?

A tool tells you where you appear, while an agency or consultant changes what the AI tools can find about you.

Many businesses start with a tool for the baseline and hire people once they know the gaps.

Can an LLM SEO provider guarantee that ChatGPT will recommend me?

No, because nobody controls what a model says.

A good provider improves the footprint a model reads and reports the answers honestly.

Do I need special schema or an AI text file to rank in Google's AI Overviews?

Google says there are no additional requirements for AI Overviews or AI Mode, and that you don't need special schema or AI text files.

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About Julian

I'm Julian Goldie, an SEO entrepreneur, author and founder of the AI Profit Boardroom, which has 3,400+ members.

I help business owners scale with AI agents, automation and SEO.

I started Goldie Agency on my own, and it is now a 7-figure SEO and link-building agency with 70+ people.
I've grown my YouTube channel to 400,000+ subscribers.
I wrote "Link Building Mastery".
My Udemy courses have taught 29,000+ students.

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Work out the provider type you need, record your own baseline and run a 90-day first phase, and you'll find the right LLM SEO provider without paying for a promise.

LLM SEO Provider: 7 Ranked + How To Pick One In 5 Steps

Top 3 Picks At A Glance

What An LLM SEO Provider Actually Is

The 4 Types Of LLM SEO Provider

How I Ranked These LLM SEO Providers