The best provider depends on who must diagnose, interpret, and implement the work.
- Controlled diagnosis
- Choose an audit-first provider.
- Implementation
- Choose a full-service agency.
- Recurring data plus interpretation
- Choose monitoring with advisory.
- Governance and integrations
- Choose an enterprise program.
For a bounded B2B SaaS recommendation diagnosis, RecoProof may fit. For specialist professional-services work, NBound is more specific. Broadcastwell publishes the clearest repeat protocol in this shortlist. GTM Engage fits hands-on SaaS execution, Total Authority connects the work to digital PR, and Kanon combines GEO with agent-readiness implementation.
Not every AI visibility service provider sells the same thing.
Audit-first provider
You have not validated the problem, want a bounded engagement, need competitor recommendation evidence, and expect an action plan your team can implement.
Full-service AI visibility or GEO agency
You want to outsource diagnosis plus content, authority, technical, entity, or distribution work and can support a project or recurring retainer.
Monitoring plus advisory provider
The prompt portfolio already exists, recurring movement matters, and an analyst must interpret what changed and which action deserves attention.
Enterprise AEO/GEO program
Multiple teams need integrations, governance, reporting, regional scope, specialist execution, and a longer operating relationship.
Compare AI visibility audits, agencies, and advisory providers.
Facts/pricing last verified September 2026. Public price means the provider displayed the amount on an official page when checked; “Not publicly listed” means we did not infer a figure.
| Provider | Best for | Engagement | Evidence | Human review | Implementation | Monitoring | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RecoProof | B2B SaaS teams that want a bounded commercial recommendation diagnosis before software or agency commitment | Free snapshot; fixed-scope paid audit; managed monitoring is available only after an audit | Approved commercial questions, retained answers and source URLs, mentions, recommendations, citations, three-competitor displacement, and stated run conditions | Yes — on the paid Recommendation Audit | No full-service implementation; the paid audit delivers a prioritized 90-day action plan | Managed post-audit option; not daily self-serve tracking software | Free snapshot; $499 founding audit ($750 standard) |
| NBound | Specialist and regulated B2B professional-services firms—not SaaS or ecommerce | One-time audit, then optional rolling monthly analyst monitoring and separately quoted implementation projects | 50+ buying prompts across five platforms, citation rate, competitor share of voice, sentiment, and prioritized gap analysis | Yes — monthly analyst commentary, report, recorded walkthrough, and quarterly strategy session are documented | Yes — content, structured data, entity fixes, and earned citations are quoted as fixed-price projects | Monthly analyst-led monitoring from the audit baseline | Audit from £2,500; monitoring from £650/month |
| Broadcastwell | Vertical B2B software companies that want a published measurement method plus ongoing content and source work | One-time diagnostic or a three-month-minimum monthly GEO program | Ten buyer questions, four engines, three documented repeats per question/engine pair, 120 answers, named/cited outcomes, competitors, sources, spread, and limitations | Yes — every paid-diagnostic answer and citation is documented as reviewed by a person | Yes — monthly answer pages, schema/entity work, and third-party placement | Monthly leading indicators and quarterly like-for-like re-score | $1,500 diagnostic; $4,500/month program |
| GTM Engage | B2B SaaS companies seeking hands-on content, entity, citation-network, and community execution | Agency program with audit, implementation, outreach, and monthly reporting | Twenty target prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, with citation rate, share of model voice, sentiment, and cited-source reporting | Agency-delivered; a distinct public human-review protocol for the audit was not documented | Yes — content architecture, schema/entity implementation, citation outreach, and community footprint | Monthly reporting across the documented target-prompt set | Not publicly listed |
| Total Authority | Professional-services and local-service brands that want AI visibility strategy connected to digital PR and authority building | Audit and strategy products with optional broader authority-building execution | Buyer prompts, brand and competitor appearances, citations, source links, visibility gaps, and a 90-day strategy roadmap | Professional analysis is marketed; a separate public human-review and QA protocol was not documented | Yes — official industry pages describe digital PR, earned media, content, entity optimization, and citation building | Not publicly documented as a standardized recurring monitoring service | $499 for the public Strategy Blueprint; a separate limited audit promotion lists a lower changing price |
| Kanon Agency | B2B SaaS and professional-services teams combining GEO diagnosis with technical agent-readiness implementation | Two-week audit, one-time Foundation implementation, monthly retainer, or custom Enterprise scope | Thirty-prompt test across four AI platforms, citation rate and position, brand-mention accuracy, competitor share of voice, documented results, and a prioritized roadmap | Agency team leads methodology and strategy; a separate public QA or human-review protocol was not documented | Yes — schema, semantic HTML, content restructuring, crawler configuration, and agent-readiness work | Monthly prompt audit, content/schema iteration, and regression testing | Not publicly listed |
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RecoProof
What they provide
A free five-question snapshot and a paid Recommendation Audit covering up to 30 approved commercial questions across three documented model/provider conditions, with web, PDF, and CSV deliverables.
Engagement model
Free snapshot; fixed-scope paid audit; managed monitoring is available only after an audit
Evidence and methodology
RecoProof retains the question, response, provider/model condition, competitor, citation, and confidence context. The paid engagement adds human review and prioritizes supported actions instead of presenting a universal ranking.
Implementation
No full-service implementation; the paid audit delivers a prioritized 90-day action plan
Monitoring
Managed post-audit option; not daily self-serve tracking software
Pricing
Free snapshot; $499 founding audit ($750 standard)
Choose them if: you need to validate whether a commercially meaningful recommendation gap exists, see who is winning instead, and give an internal team an evidence-led order of operations.
Consider another provider if: you want an agency to write, publish, implement technical changes, earn third-party placements, or operate an always-on self-service dashboard.
Official sources: RecoProof Recommendation Audit scope, RecoProof pricing, RecoProof measurement methodology.
NBound
What they provide
An audit-first sequence for specialist B2B services firms: diagnose across five AI platforms, monitor the resulting baseline monthly, then ship selected fixes as defined projects.
Engagement model
One-time audit, then optional rolling monthly analyst monitoring and separately quoted implementation projects
Evidence and methodology
The public service pages document prompt volume, platform count, citation rate, competitor share of voice, sentiment, monthly analyst interpretation, and delivery timing. A full public answer-level audit protocol was not found.
Implementation
Yes — content, structured data, entity fixes, and earned citations are quoted as fixed-price projects
Monitoring
Monthly analyst-led monitoring from the audit baseline
Pricing
Audit from £2,500; monitoring from £650/month
Choose them if: your reputation and named experts are central to the purchase and you want an agency that explicitly specializes in professional-services firms.
Consider another provider if: you are a SaaS or ecommerce company; NBound explicitly says it does not work with those categories.
Official sources: NBound positioning and engagement model, NBound audit and implementation services, NBound monitoring scope and pricing.
Broadcastwell
What they provide
A decision-ready diagnostic for vertical B2B software and an ongoing program combining measurement, answer pages, entity hygiene, third-party placement, and a client dashboard.
Engagement model
One-time diagnostic or a three-month-minimum monthly GEO program
Evidence and methodology
Broadcastwell publishes its question construction, engine coverage, repeat protocol, matching rules, error handling, limitations, and versioned methodology. The diagnostic price is credited against month one if the program begins.
Implementation
Yes — monthly answer pages, schema/entity work, and third-party placement
Monitoring
Monthly leading indicators and quarterly like-for-like re-score
Pricing
$1,500 diagnostic; $4,500/month program
Choose them if: you want a research-led partner whose audit denominator, answer evidence, uncertainty, pricing, and quarterly re-score are publicly specified.
Consider another provider if: you need a lower-cost bounded audit, a broad enterprise operating system, or a provider outside vertical B2B software.
Official sources: Broadcastwell AI Visibility Diagnostic, Broadcastwell GEO service and pricing, Broadcastwell methodology.
GTM Engage
What they provide
A full-service B2B SaaS program that begins with prompt-gap mapping and continues into owned-content restructuring, structured data, entity work, third-party outreach, community activity, and monthly measurement.
Engagement model
Agency program with audit, implementation, outreach, and monthly reporting
Evidence and methodology
The official service page describes the SIGNAL framework and named deliverables. It does not publicly document repeat counts, a detailed answer-level scoring protocol, engagement term, or price.
Implementation
Yes — content architecture, schema/entity implementation, citation outreach, and community footprint
Monitoring
Monthly reporting across the documented target-prompt set
Pricing
Not publicly listed
Choose them if: your SaaS team wants to outsource both diagnosis and ongoing execution across owned content and external citation channels.
Consider another provider if: you require public pricing, a bounded one-time engagement, or a fully published repeat-and-scoring methodology before a sales call.
Official sources: GTM Engage B2B SaaS AI visibility program, GTM Engage AEO and GEO services, GTM Engage company and delivery model.
Total Authority
What they provide
A strategy-led audit and blueprint covering AI visibility, cited sources, competitors, entity signals, content opportunities, and a phased implementation roadmap, with broader authority work available.
Engagement model
Audit and strategy products with optional broader authority-building execution
Evidence and methodology
The public pages describe the outputs and example platform coverage. A stable repeat protocol, error policy, and standardized recurring monitoring cadence were not found in the reviewed documentation.
Implementation
Yes — official industry pages describe digital PR, earned media, content, entity optimization, and citation building
Monitoring
Not publicly documented as a standardized recurring monitoring service
Pricing
$499 for the public Strategy Blueprint; a separate limited audit promotion lists a lower changing price
Choose them if: your business depends on professional reputation or local authority and you want digital PR and earned-media capability connected to the plan.
Consider another provider if: you need a clearly documented recurring measurement protocol or a SaaS-specific commercial-question audit with fixed scope.
Official sources: Total Authority AI visibility services, Total Authority Strategy Blueprint and pricing, Total Authority implementation scope.
Kanon Agency
What they provide
A combined GEO and AI-agent-readiness audit, followed by optional technical/content implementation, monthly iteration, or custom agent-integration work.
Engagement model
Two-week audit, one-time Foundation implementation, monthly retainer, or custom Enterprise scope
Evidence and methodology
Kanon documents its 30-prompt/four-platform GEO test, 17-point agent-readiness scan, composite outputs, prompt results, two-week delivery, and prioritization approach. Pricing is not public.
Implementation
Yes — schema, semantic HTML, content restructuring, crawler configuration, and agent-readiness work
Monitoring
Monthly prompt audit, content/schema iteration, and regression testing
Pricing
Not publicly listed
Choose them if: the buying decision includes both AI answer visibility and whether agents can navigate or complete tasks on the website.
Consider another provider if: you need public pricing, a narrow recommendation audit, or a provider focused on third-party authority rather than technical implementation.
Official sources: Kanon services, process, and methodology, Kanon engagement models, Kanon scope and delivery FAQ.
Best AI Visibility Audit Services
RecoProof, NBound, Broadcastwell, Total Authority, and Kanon each publish an identifiable audit or diagnostic offer. Compare the declared question count, engines or model conditions, competitor benchmark, retained evidence, human review, turnaround, action plan, and price—not the word “audit” alone. GTM Engage includes an audit inside its agency program, but standalone paid-audit terms and pricing were not publicly documented.
Most bounded B2B SaaS entry
RecoProof: free snapshot, then a fixed paid audit with human review and a 90-day plan.
Most publicly specified repeat protocol
Broadcastwell: 10 questions × 4 engines × 3 repeats, with 120 reviewed answers.
Most specialized professional-services fit
NBound: specialist B2B firms, with SaaS and ecommerce explicitly excluded.
AI Visibility Audit vs AI Visibility Agency: Which should you hire?
| Choose | When it fits | What your team still owns |
|---|---|---|
| An audit | The problem is unverified, scope must stay bounded, internal teams can implement, and prioritization matters more than a retainer. | Implementation, publishing, stakeholder alignment, and retesting after the handoff. |
| An agency | Content, authority, technical, entity, or distribution execution must be outsourced and recurring spend is acceptable. | Approvals, access, subject-matter expertise, claims substantiation, and commercial outcome ownership. |
| Monitoring software | Questions, definitions, cadence, and response process already exist and daily or weekly data will actually be used. | Interpretation, prioritization, implementation, QA, and deciding whether movement matters. |
How much do AI visibility services cost?
Pricing varies substantially by delivery model. This shortlist does not support a credible market-wide price band, so compare actual published examples: RecoProof's founding audit is $499 and its configured standard price is $750; Broadcastwell lists a $1,500 diagnostic and a $4,500/month program; NBound starts at £2,500 for an audit and £650/month for monitoring; Total Authority lists a $499 Strategy Blueprint. GTM Engage and Kanon do not publish prices on the reviewed service pages.
Normalize question and engine scope, repetitions, retained answers, analyst time, implementation deliverables, cadence, minimum term, regions, and ownership of exported data before comparing two headline amounts.
Review RecoProof's current source-of-truth pricing →Already using an AI visibility tool but need someone to interpret the data?
Monitoring answers “what changed?” A diagnostic audit helps determine what deserves attention next. RecoProof reviews a defined commercial question set, competitor displacement, citations, source evidence, and confidence to produce a prioritized plan—not a promise that every dashboard movement needs a content change.
Turn Visibility Data Into an Action PlanWhen this fits
Your team can already see mentions, citations, or share of voice but lacks a defensible way to rank commercial gaps, competitor context, and next actions.
View the sample deliverableDo you need an agency yet?
A company does not have to jump directly into a large recurring engagement. A bounded diagnosis can establish whether a material gap exists, which commercial questions lose, where competitors win, what the evidence actually shows, and which actions should come first. The next step can then be internal implementation, a specialist agency, or a monitoring platform.
Start With the Free DiagnosticWhat to include in an AI visibility service provider brief
Send the same scope to each provider so proposals can be compared. Ask for a redacted example deliverable and have the provider identify which work is included in the audit, implementation, and recurring reporting fees.
- Buyer and query scope: category, target buyer, markets, languages, competitor list, and the commercial questions that should be tested.
- Measurement evidence: named interfaces or models, collection dates and repeats, retained answers, source URLs, and treatment of failed checks.
- Implementation responsibility: who writes, reviews, publishes, and approves changes; which deliverables your team must supply.
- Retest and handover: baseline definitions, a comparable follow-up sample, export ownership, recurring fees, and minimum engagement term.
For Google-specific work, use the Google AI search visibility measurement framework to specify the evidence. If you already have an internal owner, the B2B SaaS AI visibility tool comparison helps assess whether software alone covers the work.
How these service providers were evaluated.
We reviewed public service and pricing documentation; we did not purchase every service. Providers were assessed on engagement model, answer-level evidence, human review, actionability, implementation, monitoring, price transparency, and stated buyer fit. We used official provider pages as the source of product facts and marked missing public detail instead of filling gaps with assumptions.
Facts and pricing were last verified September 4, 2026. This is a fit guide, not a customer-review ranking, hands-on service test, or guarantee of provider results.
Official provider sources.
- RecoProof Recommendation Audit scope
- RecoProof pricing
- RecoProof measurement methodology
- NBound positioning and engagement model
- NBound audit and implementation services
- NBound monitoring scope and pricing
- Broadcastwell AI Visibility Diagnostic
- Broadcastwell GEO service and pricing
- Broadcastwell methodology
- GTM Engage B2B SaaS AI visibility program
- GTM Engage AEO and GEO services
- GTM Engage company and delivery model
- Total Authority AI visibility services
- Total Authority Strategy Blueprint and pricing
- Total Authority implementation scope
- Kanon services, process, and methodology
- Kanon engagement models
- Kanon scope and delivery FAQ