Written for owners of Singapore businesses that depend on being found: shops, clinics, studios, trades and service companies. Especially if you are about to sign something.
Read this first
We sell this kind of work, so we have an interest in what you decide. That is why this guide does not rank anyone, does not name a winner and does not include a “number one”. It reports what each agency publishes on its own pages, with dates, so you can check every line yourself. Where we fit is at the end, clearly marked.
Key takeaways
- Nine of the ten publish their own “best agencies” article, and each one ranks itself first. One discloses that conflict in writing. The rest don’t.
- Only four publish a price. They run from about S$580 a month to S$8,000, and one firm’s annual fees start at $40,000.
- The packages are nearly identical: an audit, schema, answer-first content, entity work, monthly tracking. Three name the off-site work that actually moves AI answers.
- Across 283 customer reviews we read, six mention AI search at all. These agencies are praised, genuinely, for account managers, responsiveness and Google Ads.
- GEO and AEO describe work done to your website. Being named by an AI is decided mostly off your website. That gap is the whole argument of this post.
How we did this, and what we didn’t do
Most “best agencies” articles announce a scoring system and then never use it. We didn’t build one. Scoring other people’s work from outside would be guessing, and you would have no way to check it.
Instead we read what each agency publishes about itself and wrote it down.
Method
What we read. On 23 September 2026 we went through the service pages of ten Singapore agencies that publicly sell GEO, AEO or AI-search work, and recorded what each one says it delivers, any price it publishes, which AI tools it says it tracks, and what evidence it shows. We also pulled their Google Business Profile ratings and read up to 40 of the most recent reviews at each.
What we did not do. We did not test their work, interview their clients, or judge their results. We did not repeat what one agency says about another, because those claims carry no weight. We left out grant eligibility: several state PSG or similar pre-approval, but none of the pages we read ties a grant to the GEO work itself, so we are not repeating it.
Where we are less sure. One firm’s site blocks automated reading, so its entry is shorter. Three of the published prices don’t state a currency. One agency’s own two pages give different prices. We say so in the table rather than picking the flattering version.
Agencies covered: AI Studio Singapore, Verz Design, MediaPlus Digital, OOm, Hashmeta, First Page Digital, MediaOne, Impossible Marketing, Stridec and Gen-Optima. Source links are in the references at the foot of this post.
Nine of these ten publish their own “best agencies” article. Every one of them ranks itself first.
One, Gen-Optima, states the conflict plainly in its article. Another titles its list “A Neutral Roundup” and appears at number one in it. This is not dishonest in itself, and we are doing the same thing by writing this. It just means a ranking is not information. What each firm publishes about itself is.
What GEO agencies in Singapore actually sell
The packages are more alike than the branding suggests. Almost every one offers an audit, schema markup, content rewritten into answer-first blocks, entity or listing consistency work, and a monthly report on where you appear in AI answers. The differences that matter are price, evidence, and whether anything happens off your own website.
What each agency publishes on its own pages, read on 23 September 2026.
| Agency | What they call it | Published price | Evidence they show |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Studio Singapore | SEO, AEO and GEO in a “Triple-Engine Framework” | Its AEO page lists SGD 550 to 800, 1.5k to 2.5k, and from 5k a month. Its GEO page says price is quoted per job. | Figures for its own website’s citations |
| Verz Design | Generative Engine Optimisation | None on the service page | One case study, client not named |
| MediaPlus Digital | AI SEO and GEO | From S$1,000 a month as an add-on, from S$2,500 on its own | Figures for its own keywords |
| OOm | SEO plus GEO, “agentic search” | None | Named clients, with traffic and ranking results rather than AI results |
| Hashmeta | GEO and AEO | $2,500 and $5,000 a month on the AEO page, currency not stated | Results by sector, clients not named |
| First Page Digital | AI SEO and answer engine optimisation | None. Offers a free session | None on the service page we could read |
| MediaOne | GEO | $580, $980 and $2,890 a month by number of AI tools, no lock-in. Currency not stated | Named clients with AI visibility numbers. The only one in this set |
| Impossible Marketing | AI SEO, GEO and AEO | None on the AI SEO page | A wall of client logos, not tied to this service |
| Stridec | Google AI Overviews only | S$2,500, S$4,500 and S$8,000 a month, cancel anytime, you keep the work | Its own product as the case study |
| Gen-Optima | GEO only | $40,000 to $300,000 a year, currency not stated | Global brand logos. Founded 2025, head office in Shanghai |
Three things the table shows
Read down the columns and the same three patterns appear.
- Most won’t tell you the priceSix of the ten publish nothing. The four that do sit between about S$580 and S$8,000 a month, which is a fourteenfold spread for packages that list nearly the same deliverables.
- Most of the proof is about the agency, not a clientThree show numbers for their own website or their own product. One shows named clients with AI-visibility figures.
- The strongest claims come with the least detailOne firm describes itself as the world’s first GEO and AEO agency and guarantees “AI citation dominance”. Another offers a full refund if you get no new AI citations in 90 days, which is a real commitment, though a citation is not the same as your name being said.
What their customers actually praise
Service pages are marketing. Reviews are the customers talking. So we read up to 40 of the most recent Google reviews at each agency, 283 in all, and counted what people brought up.
Google Business Profile ratings, checked 23 September 2026.
| Agency | Rating | Reviews | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| OOm | 4.8 | 310 | Largest review base in the set |
| Verz Design | 4.6 | 301 | The most mixed: strong majority at five stars, a visible group at one |
| MediaOne | 4.8 | 246 | Praise centres on named account managers |
| First Page Digital | 4.9 | 236 | No review below four stars |
| Impossible Marketing | 4.9 | 207 | Three of the forty we read mention AI search |
| MediaPlus Digital | 4.8 | 93 | Mostly about web design projects |
| Hashmeta | 4.9 | 75 | The reviews we read describe training courses, not marketing work |
| Stridec | 3.0 | 2 | Too few to read anything into |
| Gen-Optima | 5.0 | 1 | A single review |
| AI Studio Singapore | None | 0 | No Google profile reviews. Its site shows 4.9 from an unnamed source |
| Get Brand Exposure (us) | None | 0 | No Google profile yet. We opened this offer to the public in September 2026, so our proof is dated client results rather than stars |
Now the part that surprised us.
Out of 283 reviews we read, six mention AI search, ChatGPT or being recommended by AI.
Everything else praises a named account manager, quick replies, a website that launched on time, or Google Ads that worked. Those are real strengths, and if that is what you need, these are well-reviewed firms. It just means almost nobody has yet reviewed them on the thing this whole category is named after.
The complaints, where they exist, follow the same pattern as any agency market: staff changing mid-project, delays at launch, and expectations set higher than the results. One listing carries noticeably more of those than the others. We are not going to characterise any firm on the strength of a handful of reviews, and neither should you. Read them yourself before a call, and ask about the specific thing that worries you.
Optimisation and exposure are different jobs
Here is where we part company with the category, and the reason we don’t use either label.
GEO and AEO both describe optimisation: work done to your website so machines can read it better. Schema, headings, answer-first paragraphs, a file that tells AI crawlers what you do. All of it is fine. None of it is the thing that decides whether ChatGPT says your name.
Said plainly
Optimisation is something you do to a website. Exposure is something you build for a name. AI answers are built from what the internet already says about you, and almost none of that is on your site.
Schema was never the gate
Here is the part that gets sold hardest and holds up worst. AI companies were reading the open web long before anyone attached the letters GEO to it, and the fights about that reading have been about permission and payment, never about markup.
Look at the dates. Schema markup as we know it arrived in June 2011, when Google, Bing and Yahoo agreed on a shared vocabulary. The llms.txt file, the one now sold as essential, was proposed in September 2024. Reddit started in 2005, before either existed, and has never presented itself as AI-ready.
It became one of the most valuable text sources on the internet anyway. Valuable enough that AI companies pay for access to it, and end up in court over taking it.
Reddit sued Anthropic in June 2025, saying its bots kept crawling the site after being asked to stop. In October 2025 it sued Perplexity and three data-scraping firms over the same kind of access. At the same time it licenses its content to OpenAI and Google, reportedly for tens of millions a year. Every one of those arguments is about robots files, terms of use, contracts and money. None of them is about markup.
None of that value came from markup. It came from millions of people answering each other’s questions in public, for twenty years. Think about where AI answers actually come from: forum threads, news stories, directory listings, YouTube transcripts, comment sections. Plenty of it carries no structured data at all, and it gets read and quoted anyway. Schema helps a machine understand a page it has already reached. It is worth adding, it takes minutes, and it decides nothing about whether your business gets named. Anyone selling it as the way into AI answers is selling the easy part.
The research we have published elsewhere on this blog points the same way every time. We set out which kinds of page AI quotes and which get a name said in an earlier post. Across 75,000 brands, how often a brand was mentioned around the web tracked its visibility in Google’s AI answers roughly three times more closely than its backlinks did. In healthcare, more than half of AI citations came from listings and directories rather than company websites. And in the answers themselves, a site gets linked far more often than the business gets named.
The four steps we would run instead are in our guide to getting a business mentioned in ChatGPT. So when an agency’s package is a site audit, schema and a rewrite of the pages you already have, ask what happens off your website. In the ten packages we read, three name digital PR or off-site citation work, and one names asking customers for reviews. The rest are, in the main, website jobs sold for AI outcomes.
The words they will use on the call
None of this is complicated once it is said in plain English. Here is the same vocabulary, translated.
| What they say | What it means | Does it get you named? |
|---|---|---|
| Schema markup | Hidden code that tells a machine which text is your address, your opening hours, your prices | Helps a machine read a page it already found. Takes minutes to add |
| llms.txt | A text file suggesting what AI tools should read on your site. Proposed in 2024 | Nobody has shown it changes who gets named. Harmless to have |
| Entity consistency | Your name, address and description written the same way everywhere | Yes. This one is worth the effort, and it is unglamorous |
| Answer-first content | Putting the answer in the first two lines instead of the fifth paragraph | Helps you get quoted. Good writing, sold as a technique |
| Citation | The AI used your page as a source and linked it | Not the same as saying your name. Ask which one they are counting |
| GEO or AEO | A label for optimising a site for AI answers | It is a category name, not a method. Ask what is in the package |
Seven questions to ask before you sign
You can answer most of these from an agency’s own website before the call. If a question can’t be answered, that is an answer.
- What does it cost, and what happens if I stop?Six of the ten publish no price at all. Ask for the monthly figure, the minimum term and what you keep if you leave.
- Show me a live answer with a client’s name in itNot a traffic chart. Open ChatGPT or Google, ask a customer question, and let them show you a client being named.
- How much gets published, where, and how often?Most of these packages rewrite the pages you already have. Only two say how much new material you get: one publishes 8, 15 or 25 pieces a month by tier, another 20 or 40 question-and-answer pages. Ask for the number, and ask how much of it appears anywhere other than your own site.
- Who else in my category do you work with?Singapore is one city, so a district line means little: people cross the island for a good clinic. Ask whether they already work with your direct competitor anywhere here. If they do, you are paying someone to compete with themselves, and one of you loses.
- Who actually does the work?Reviews in this market praise named individuals more than firms. Ask who your person is, and what happens when they leave.
- What will the report actually show?Not a traffic chart, and not a score out of 100. It should be a list of the questions your customers ask, the same list every month, marked with where you appear and who gets named instead. Expect the narrow questions to move first and the competitive ones to take months. If the report can’t show that progression, it is measuring the wrong thing.
- If I’m a clinic, who checks the rules?See the next section. Most agency pages in this market don’t mention them at all.
Test them with your own business, before the call
Five minutes, no cost, and it changes the conversation. Use a temporary chat or log out first, so ChatGPT doesn’t answer from your own history.
Paste these into ChatGPT
Best [your service] in [your area]?Who should I see for [the problem you solve] in Singapore?Is [your business name] any good?
Write down who gets named. Then ask the agency in front of you to explain those answers, and what they would change about them. An agency that cannot explain the answer you just got is not ready to change it. The longer version of this test is in our guide to getting mentioned.
If you hold a healthcare licence
This is the part missing from every agency page we read, and it matters more than any of the technical talk.
Aesthetic clinics, medical and dental clinics and hospitals are licensed, and the Healthcare Services (Advertisement) Regulations 2021 govern what they may publish. No laudatory words like “best” or “leading”. No comparing yourself with other providers. No reviews or testimonials in your own material. No before-and-after photos. Everything you state must be able to be backed up. A breach can bring a fine of up to $20,000.
What that rules out
Several tactics sold as standard in this market are not available to a licensed clinic: a “best clinics” page with your own name in it, a testimonial wall, before-and-after galleries, and paying for a place in someone else’s ranking article. Physiotherapy, chiropractic, TCM and salons are not licensed in the same way, but since June 2023 nobody at all may advertise a skill or service for treating a condition in order to attract patients. Nothing here is legal advice, and your own compliance check has the last word.
Three things to check in any proposal, if you are a clinic
- Does it include testimonials, reviews or before-and-after photos?All three are out for a licensed clinic’s own advertising. If they are in the proposal, the agency has not read the rules.
- How much of the budget leaves your website?Ask for the split. If everything happens on your own site, you are paying for the part that moves an AI answer least.
- Who signs off before anything goes out?The answer should be you, or your compliance adviser, every time. Your licence, your name on it.
If an agency has never raised any of this with you, it is not thinking about your licence. You are the one who carries it.
Where we fit, and where we don’t
We are in this market, so here is our entry, written the same way as the others.
We don’t call ourselves a GEO or AEO agency, and we won’t. Not because the work is fake, but because the label describes a website task and sells it as an outcome. We call ourselves an exposure and visibility agency. The job is to put your name where people are already looking for what you do, or where someone needs it badly and hasn’t worked out who to call yet. On Google. In AI answers. In the places they check before they book. Right in front of them, at the moment they are looking.
| Get Brand Exposure | What we publish |
|---|---|
| What we call it | Exposure and visibility. No GEO, no AEO, no “AI SEO” |
| Who it’s for | Owner-run businesses in Singapore that depend on being found. Most of our work right now is with clinics, salons and wellness, and the method is the same for a shop or a service company |
| Price | MultiCasting from S$1,297 a month. Booked. from S$397 a month. The rest is set on a call, because scope and category change the number |
| What happens off your site | Articles, videos, podcasts and slideshows published in many places every month, plus press placement, listings and reviews |
| Exclusivity | One client per category in Singapore. No second chiropractor, no second steakhouse, no second orthopaedic surgeon. Different categories are fine, direct competitors are not |
| Evidence | One client’s results, dated, with screenshots, below |
| Google reviews | None yet. Until September 2026 the work ran quietly on client projects, so there is no review base to show. That is a gap, and we are not going to dress it up |
Our evidence, dated
How we know it works
Dr Neck Pain is a chiropractic clinic in Singapore. We started publishing for them in early September 2026, and these are dated captures from a private browser window.
On 17 September, Google’s AI Overview for “the best neck pain specialist” listed the clinic second in its top options, above a medical pain clinic and a private hospital group. On 22 September we published a page comparing two treatments, and Google’s AI cited it as the first source about two hours later. The same evening, asked about dizziness coming from the neck, Google’s AI named the clinic first.
Google, Singapore, private window, 17 September 2026. The clinic sits second in the AI answer’s top options, and its guide is one of the cited sources.
Google, Singapore, private window, 22 September 2026, 6:48pm. The page went live that afternoon and is already the first source in the AI answer.
Google, Singapore, private window, 22 September 2026, 7:00pm. Asked about dizziness coming from the neck, the answer names the clinic first, ahead of spine surgeons.
In Search Console, the guides we published earned nearly one in three of all the times the site appeared in Google’s AI answers, against about one in six of its ordinary search appearances. The site’s Semrush Authority Score is 9 out of 100, so this is not a big website outranking small ones.
That is also what the progression looks like in practice. The narrow question, two treatments compared, moved in hours. The competitive one, “the best neck pain specialist”, took weeks and sits among hospitals and doctors. Narrow questions are not a lesser win: the person asking one is usually closer to booking. They are just the ones that move first.
Captured in Singapore, in a private window, on the dates given. AI answers move, which is why we ask the same questions again every month. More results from the same method are on our homepage.
What we are not good for
And the honest limits, since we asked everyone else for theirs.
- We are small, and new to selling this here. We opened the offer publicly in September 2026, though the method behind it has been refined over twelve years. If you want a large team with a named department for each channel, several firms above are better suited.
- We are selective, and that can be inconvenient. One client per category in Singapore means the answer is sometimes no, even when we would like the work.
- We can’t promise an AI answer. Nobody controls what ChatGPT says. We can promise the publishing, and we show you the answers every month.
- We don’t do technical SEO retainers. If your site is broken, keep your web person. That work is real, it just isn’t this.
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What is the difference between GEO, AEO and SEO?
They describe the same kind of work aimed at different places. SEO is aimed at Google’s results, AEO at answer boxes, GEO at AI-generated answers. All three mostly describe changes to your own website. What decides whether an AI names your business is largely off your website: what other sites say, what your listings say, and what your reviews say.
How much should this cost in Singapore?
Published prices in this market run from about S$580 to S$8,000 a month. Six of the ten agencies we checked publish nothing at all, and one pure-play firm starts at $40,000 a year. Ask for the monthly figure, the minimum term, and what you keep if you stop.
Is this article ranking you first?
No, and that is deliberate. Nine of the ten agencies we looked at publish a list with themselves at number one. We report what each firm publishes, we don’t score anyone, and our own entry sits at the end with our limits written next to it.
Which agency is best for my kind of business?
That depends on what is broken, not on your industry. If your website is slow or badly built, a web-design-led firm will help you more than we will. If your Google Ads need managing, several firms above do that daily. If your problem is that nobody is talking about you anywhere except your own site, that is the work we do, and it is worth asking any agency how much of your budget leaves your website.
You have no Google reviews. Why should I take you seriously?
Fair question, and the honest answer is that we spent that time on the work. We opened the offer to the public in September 2026, after running it quietly on client projects. The method itself is not new: it has been refined over twelve years, and our time went into testing what actually moves AI answers rather than collecting stars. So instead of stars, we publish dated screenshots of real answers, with the dates and the search terms, and you can re-run any of them yourself.
Do you work with two businesses in the same category?
No. One client per category, for the whole of Singapore. The island is small enough that district lines are meaningless: Google Maps shows three names, an AI answer often shows fewer, and people travel. If we took two chiropractors we would be pushing them at the same shortlist and competing with ourselves. Different categories are fine. Direct competitors are not.
Why should I trust a review written by an agency in the same market?
Don’t trust it, check it. Every figure here comes from a page you can open yourself, and we’ve dated all of it. If something has changed since 23 September 2026, the agency’s own page wins and we will correct this one.
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Get My Free Audit ↗References
- Agency service pages and Google Business Profiles, read on 23 September 2026: AI Studio Singapore, Verz Design, MediaPlus Digital, OOm, Hashmeta, First Page Digital, MediaOne, Impossible Marketing, Stridec and Gen-Optima. Prices, deliverables and claims are quoted from those pages as they appeared on that date.
- Bing Search Blog. Introducing schema.org: Bing, Google and Yahoo unite to build the web of objects. 2 June 2011. blogs.bing.com
- Answer.AI, Jeremy Howard. The /llms.txt proposal. 3 September 2024. answer.ai
- CNBC. Reddit accuses Perplexity of stealing user posts, expanding data rights battle with AI industry. 23 October 2025. cnbc.com
- Ahrefs, Louise Linehan and Xibeijia Guan. An analysis of AI Overview brand visibility factors (75K brands). 26 May 2025. ahrefs.com
- Yext. AI citations research. 9 October 2025. yext.com
- Semrush, Margarita Loktionova, with Kevin Indig. Why 62% of AI citations don’t lead to brand mentions. 9 June 2026. semrush.com
- Singapore Statutes Online. Healthcare Services (Advertisement) Regulations 2021. sso.agc.gov.sg
- Ministry of Health. FAQs on the Healthcare Services (Advertisement) Regulations, version 1.1, November 2024. moh.gov.sg
This is a factual summary of what ten agencies publish about themselves, read on 23 September 2026, plus their public Google ratings. It is not a ranking, a rating, or an assessment of anyone’s results, and it is not legal advice. Prices and claims change: check the agency’s own page before you decide. We sell competing services, which is stated at the top of this post. If we have any detail wrong, tell us and we will correct it.