We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 20 questions a buyer asks when hiring a SaaS SEO agency, three times each, on 18 October 2026. The 180 answers named 144 different agencies. Skale, a SaaS SEO agency, was named in 106 of them (59%), more than any other agency, and came up in answers to all 20 questions. Omniscient Digital (99 answers) and SimpleTiger (83) followed, and those three sat in every engine's top five.
Past the top few, the engines rarely agreed. 82 of the 144 agencies were named by only one engine, and ChatGPT and Gemini often named different agencies when we asked the same question again. This is one day, one country (the US), three runs and 20 questions we wrote, so read it as a snapshot.
This is what AI engines say, not our recommendation. GetIntel did not vet, hire or rank these agencies, and none of them paid to be listed. GetIntel sells AI visibility tracking, which is how we ran the questions. Every agency's counts are downloadable as a CSV.
In this article
- Which SaaS SEO agencies do AI engines name most?
- Do ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity agree?
- How consistent are the answers?
- Which agency comes up for which need?
- How we asked the questions
- How should you use this list if you're hiring?
- What should an agency do with these results?
Which SaaS SEO agencies do AI engines name most?
Skale, Omniscient Digital and SimpleTiger, by a clear margin. Across 180 answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity on 18 October 2026, these were the agencies named most often:
Answers naming each agency, split by engine. An agency counts once per answer. Chart by GetIntel, October 2026.
| Agency | Answers naming it (of 180) | ChatGPT (of 60) | Gemini (of 60) | Perplexity (of 60) | Named first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skale | 106 | 39 | 45 | 22 | 24 |
| Omniscient Digital | 99 | 39 | 30 | 30 | 29 |
| SimpleTiger | 83 | 33 | 25 | 25 | 20 |
| Grow and Convert | 65 | 30 | 22 | 13 | 21 |
| Directive Consulting | 60 | 14 | 24 | 22 | 8 |
| Siege Media | 57 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 2 |
| Animalz | 40 | 15 | 22 | 3 | 0 |
| First Page Sage | 35 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 3 |
| Rock The Rankings | 33 | 14 | 4 | 15 | 2 |
| MADX Digital | 31 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| Embarque | 28 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 7 |
| iPullRank | 24 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 |
Being named often and being named first are different things. Omniscient Digital was the first agency in 29 answers, more than any other. Siege Media was named in 57 answers but came first in only 2, so it is usually one of several options rather than the lead pick.
The top three took 23% of all 1,237 agency mentions, and the top ten took 49%. An average answer named about seven agencies.
Do ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity agree?
On the top three, yes. Skale, Omniscient Digital and SimpleTiger were in the top five on every engine. Below them, the lists split:
- 27 agencies were named by all three engines. 82 were named by only one.
- Animalz was named 22 times by Gemini and 15 by ChatGPT, but only 3 times by Perplexity.
- Searchbloom was named 15 times, all by Perplexity.
- Grizzle was named 10 times by Gemini and once by Perplexity.
The engines also led with different agencies. ChatGPT named Omniscient Digital first in 18 of its 60 answers. Gemini most often opened with Skale (13 answers), and Perplexity with Omniscient Digital (11).
So an agency that checks only one engine sees one version of its standing. One that Perplexity names often can be missing from ChatGPT, and the reverse.
How consistent are the answers?
Perplexity repeated itself most. On 18 October 2026 we asked each question three times on each engine and counted which agencies came back every time. Each engine named a different number of agencies, so the pair counts differ.
| Engine | Agency and question pairs named in all 3 runs |
|---|---|
| Perplexity | 75% (130 of 173) |
| Gemini | 37% (78 of 210) |
| ChatGPT | 30% (60 of 199) |
On ChatGPT, 7 in 10 agency and question pairs did not repeat across all three runs. Perplexity searches the live web for every answer, so its steadiness may come from stable search results rather than the model. Either way, tracking ChatGPT's recommendations means asking the same questions on a schedule. One check is a sample, not a measurement.
Which agency comes up for which need?
The broad questions put the same three agencies near the top. The specialist ones did not. For each specialist question on 18 October 2026, the agency named most often out of 9 answers (3 engines, 3 runs each):
| Question | Named most often | Next |
|---|---|---|
| Best link building agencies for SaaS | SAASY LINKS and uSERP (9 each) | Siege Media (8) |
| Best technical SEO agency for SaaS websites | Onely and iPullRank (6 each) | Skale and SimpleTiger (5 each) |
| Best SaaS SEO agencies for AI search and GEO | Omniscient Digital and iPullRank (8 each) | Skale (6) |
| Best SEO agency for an enterprise SaaS company | Directive Consulting and iPullRank (9 each) | Omniscient Digital (8) |
| Best SEO agency for a fintech SaaS company | Omnius (7) | Skale (5) |
| Best SEO agency for a developer tools company | Draft.dev (8) | Infrasity (6) |
| Affordable SEO agencies for SaaS startups | Embarque (9) | Rock The Rankings, Quoleady and Position Digital (4 each) |
| Best SaaS SEO agencies in the UK and Europe | Skale and Gripped (9 each) | Peak Ace and Accelerate Agency (6 each) |
| SEO agency for SaaS that focuses on bottom-of-funnel content | Grow and Convert (8) | Skale, Omnius, SEO Montreal, SpearPoint Marketing and Visionary Marketing (3 each) |
Nine of nine means every run on every engine named the agency. That happened for Embarque on the budget question, and for both leaders on the enterprise, link building and UK and Europe questions.
How we asked the questions
We asked 20 buyer questions, each three times, on three engines, all on 18 October 2026, from the United States.
- ChatGPT and Gemini were asked through their real web apps, using the same Bright Data scrapers GetIntel uses for its own tracking. ChatGPT did not run a web search for any of the 60 answers, so its picks came from what the model already knew. The Gemini app answered with its Flash-Lite model and showed no citations.
- Perplexity was asked through its API with the sonar model, which searches the web for every answer.
- Counting: Claude Haiku listed the agencies each answer named as options to hire, leaving out directories and review sites such as Clutch. Every one of the 1,237 names it listed appears word for word in its answer, and we read three answers in full to check for missed names. We merged spellings of the same agency ("Directive" and "Directive Consulting"). An agency counts once per answer.
- Limits: GetIntel wrote the 20 questions, all listed in the method file, and we did not test why any agency was named.
The questions ranged from "What are the best SaaS SEO agencies in 2026?" to "Best SEO agency for a developer tools company". Each agency's per-engine counts are in the CSV.
How should you use this list if you're hiring?
Treat it as a shortlist, not a ranking of quality. A high count shows an agency is visible to AI engines, not that it will do good work for you. The engines probably reflect what is published about agencies, such as roundups, directories and the agencies' own pages, though we did not test that.
Check whether an agency is named first or merely listed. Omniscient Digital and Siege Media are both common names, but Omniscient Digital came first in 29 answers and Siege Media in 2. Then add a specialist for your situation, such as developer tools, fintech or link building, and ask each agency for SaaS case studies with numbers.
For paid ads, brand and demand generation, the engines named a different set: see our SaaS marketing agency count.
What should an agency do with these results?
Check more than one engine, more than once. In our test the answers changed by engine and by run. Our guide to AI visibility for agencies covers what to measure. To turn your own counts into share of voice, use the AI share of voice calculator. GetIntel asks your buyer questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews every day and shows where competitors are named and you are not.