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GEO agency for B2B SaaS

The GEO agency for B2B SaaS that shows its working.

Generative engine optimization, done for you and measured on pipeline.

We get your brand cited when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews and Copilot about your category. No black box: you see what we changed, which engines noticed and what it earned.

4.9/5 on G2 Trusted by 300+ B2B teams B2B and B2B SaaS only
Weekly GEO report
Citations by engineThis week
  • ChatGPTCited
  • PerplexityCited
  • GeminiCited
  • AI OverviewsCited
  • CopilotCited
Illustrative report. One row per engine, never one blended score.
5

AI engines tracked, each one reported on its own, page by page.

Stands for
Generative engine optimization
Term comes from
A 2023 Princeton and IIT Delhi paper
Also called
AEO, AI SEO, LLM SEO
Measured on
Citations per engine and pipeline
4.9/5 on G2 16x AI citations on our own site 0 to 5,630 AI-crawler visits for a client Run by the GrowthSpree team

01GEO, AEO and SEO

What is GEO, and how is it different from AEO and SEO?

GEO (generative engine optimization) gets your brand cited in answers that AI tools write. A search engine shows ten links. A generative engine writes one answer and names two or three companies.

SEOSearch engine

Rank in a list of links

Shows up in Google and Bing results. Measured by rankings and clicks.

AEOAnswer engine

Be the direct answer

Shows up in featured snippets, voice answers and AI Overviews.

GEOGenerative engine

Get cited in AI-written answers

Shows up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. Measured by citations per engine.

Today AEO and GEO mean the same work, and we run them as one program. Prefer plainer terms? See our AI SEO agency page.

02What the research says

What improves GEO results, according to the research?

Researchers at Princeton and IIT Delhi tested nine ways of rewriting a page across 10,000 questions.

Best methods in the studyUp to 40%

more visibility inside AI-generated answers

  • ↑
    Adding statisticsWorked best
  • ↑
    Adding quotationsWorked best
  • ↑
    Citing sourcesWorked best
  • ↓
    Keyword stuffingMade pages less visible

Source: Aggarwal and others, GEO: Generative Engine Optimization, KDD 2024. Live results vary by category and engine.

How we apply it: every page carries original data, linked sources and quotes where they add proof.

03The GEO levers

What decides whether AI quotes your page?

AI has to reach your page, understand it, trust it and find it current. Check your own site with our 20-point AEO audit.

01Reach

Crawler access

We check access and log which AI crawlers read each page.

02Understand

Answer-first structure

Every page opens with the answer, then the detail.

03Trust

Data, quotes and sources

Original data and linked sources on every page.

04Understand

Schema and llms.txt

Shipped with every page and kept up to date.

05Understand

Topic coverage

Questions grouped into topics, linked together.

06Current

Freshness

A drop in citations triggers a rewrite.

07Trust

Clear brand facts

Organization schema and consistent product facts.

08Trust

Third-party sources

We show which outside sources AI cites for competitors.

09Reach

Bing's index

Bing Webmaster Tools connected, Copilot tracked.

04GEO for B2B SaaS

Which buyer questions should B2B SaaS win first?

Each one sits close to a buying decision, so we win these first.

Shortlist

“Best [category] for enterprise teams”

A category guide that compares options

Alternatives

“[Competitor] alternatives”

An alternatives page with clear picks

Head to head

“[Your product] vs [competitor]”

A side-by-side comparison page

Pricing

“[Category] pricing compared”

A pricing breakdown by team size

Risk and fit

“Does it handle SOC 2?”

A security and compliance explainer

Switching

“How to migrate off [competitor]”

A step-by-step migration guide

05How we measure it

How do you measure GEO results?

No single score nobody can verify. You see what each engine did, and you can check most of it in tools you own.

Your GEO report

Weekly in plain English, monthly in full
You receive
  • AI citations, split by engineWeekly
  • Which pages got cited, and for whatWeekly
  • Which AI crawlers read each pageWeekly
  • Visits from AI tools, page by pageMonthly
  • Demos and pipeline by pageMonthly

Three places to verify it yourself

  • BWT
    Bing Webmaster ToolsHow often Microsoft Copilot cites your pages
  • GA4
    Google AnalyticsVisits from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai and others
  • CRM
    HubSpotThe demos and deals those visits became
21

of a client's 56 new posts were read by AI crawlers but never by Google or Bing. That reach doesn't show in any Google report, so we track AI crawlers separately. Propelius case study

06Proof

What GEO results has Salient delivered?

On our own site, AI citations grew 16x in six months and we now see 60+ new sales opportunities a month. For our client Propelius, AI-crawler visits went from zero to 5,630 in ten weeks.

16x
more AI citations a month on our own site, Feb to Jul 2026
60+/mo
new sales opportunities, every month
$165K+
pipeline influenced
48,800
AI citations in six months
Fig. 01AI citations to growthspreeofficial.com, Feb to Jul 2026citations per month
0 5k 10k 15k Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul

Citations: Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance data for Microsoft Copilot, the one AI engine that shares citation numbers. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini aren't counted here. Opportunities and pipeline: HubSpot. Read the full case study.

Client resultPropelius TechnologiesProduct engineering studio for founders, July to September 2026
0 → 5,630
AI-crawler visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude in ten weeks
48 of 56
new posts picked up by AI search indexes
51 of 100
target buyer queries in Google's top 20
34
posts opened live by an AI assistant mid-answer
Measured in Propelius's server logs, July to September 2026.Read the Propelius case study

07Fit

When should you hire a GEO agency?

Hire a GEO agency if

  • Buyers research your category in AI tools
  • Competitors get named and you don't
  • You want pipeline, not a visibility score
  • Nobody has time to run it every week

Hold off if

  • You sell to consumers, online or locally
  • Your site can't host a subfolder or subdomain
  • You only need tracking. A GEO tool may suit you better.

08Questions

Questions about GEO agencies

What is a GEO agency?

A GEO agency gets your brand cited, described accurately and recommended in answers from AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot. It does this by making your pages easy for those tools to read and quote, and by measuring how often each one names you.

What does GEO stand for?

GEO stands for generative engine optimization. The term comes from a research paper by researchers at Princeton University and IIT Delhi, first published in 2023 and presented at the KDD 2024 conference.

What is the difference between AEO and GEO?

AEO (answer engine optimization) began as the work of becoming the direct answer in featured snippets, voice search and AI Overviews. GEO (generative engine optimization) covers how any generative AI tool finds, reads and cites your content. Today the two terms are mostly used for the same work, and we run them as one program.

Is GEO better than SEO?

No. GEO builds on SEO rather than replacing it. AI tools often pull from pages that already rank well, so every page we publish is built to rank in Google and to be quoted in AI answers.

What actually improves GEO results?

In the original GEO study, adding statistics, quotations and cited sources raised a page's visibility in AI answers by up to 40%, while keyword stuffing lowered it. In practice, crawler access, answer-first structure, schema, fresh pages, complete topic coverage and mentions on trusted third-party sites also matter.

How long does GEO take to work?

On a typical account, the first AI citations start within 30 days of pages going live. Citations and traffic climb across engines by 60 to 90 days, and high-intent visits with first conversions arrive around 90 to 120 days.

How do you measure GEO results?

We report AI citations per engine and per page, which AI crawlers read each page, visits from AI tools, and the demos and pipeline each page earns in your CRM. If you want the raw numbers behind any report, we send them.

Is GEO just SEO with a new label?

Partly, and any agency that says otherwise is overselling. The foundations are shared. What changes is the format of the page, the measurement, which is citations per AI engine rather than rankings, and the upkeep, because AI answers shift and pages need refreshing when citations drop.

Do you only work with B2B SaaS companies?

We work only with B2B and B2B SaaS companies. We don't take on ecommerce, local or consumer brands.

Find out where AI leaves you out.

In 30 minutes we show you where AI names your competitors, how you compare on each engine, and five questions you could win first.

No credit card, no sales script. Thirty minutes with the pod that would run it.