GEO AGENCIES
A GEO agency works on one surface.
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TECHNOLOGY
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Pepper runs the whole function.
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GEO agencies improve how AI answers describe you. That's one part of organic growth. The pages AI cites are usually the same pages Google ranks, and the third-party sites it trusts are the ones digital PR earns, so the work overlaps more than the category names suggest.
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Who each one is for
HIRE A GEO AGENCY
When your SEO already works and somebody owns it, and you want a specialist to diagnose and improve how AI answers describe you. It's a narrower brief with a shorter commitment, and a good one will deliver on it.

HIRE PEPPER
When organic is split across several owners and that split is the problem. We run search, AI answers, third-party authority and community presence as one function, with one team answering for the number.
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Three things, and most suppliers have one
Organic used to be a channel one person could run. Now you need all three working together.
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Strategy
Where you can realistically win across search and AI together. A topic you can't rank for is usually one you can't get cited for either, so planning them separately wastes half the work.
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Technology
Both of us have this. We track six AI engines daily, and our agents act on what the Tracking what AI answers say about you across six engines every day, plus the agents that do the work that changes it. A tracker on its own only tells you what already happened. finds.
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Talent
Senior strategists and specialists across technical, content, digital PR and community, with industry writers, editors and designers behind them.
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Most GEO agencies bring talent for one surface, and a tracking tool brings the technology. We bring all three, across every place an answer gets built from.
A GEO AGENCY
Strategy
Technology
Talent
A GEO agency brings a playbook and people, and reports from software it rents.
HOW WE WORK →
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Compare side by side
This only covers where we differ. Both of us track AI answers, write content and care about citations.
What changes
OTHERS
A GEO agency
US
WHAT’s IN THE SCOPE
AI engines covered
Varies, often three or four
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews
Google search and rankings
Often somebody else's job
Run by the same team, on the same plan
Third-party sites AI cites
Sometimes, as outreach
Digital PR aimed at the sources cited in your category
Communities, YouTube and
LinkedIn
Rarely in scope
In scope, because answers are
drawn from them
HOW THE WORK HAPPENS
Where the tracking comes from
Usually a licensed third-party tool
Our own platform
How much work fits in a month
Limited by headcount
Agents run it at volume, people
approve it
Time from finding a problem to
fixing it
Next sprint, if there's room
The same session
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Who carries the Number
An agency's contract lists the work it will deliver. Ours names the result we get paid against.
BEFORE YOU SIGN
IN THE CONTRACT
EVERY WEEK
THE OUTCOME
A GEO AGENCY
A GEO agency: a scope of work and a monthly fee.
A GEO agency: deliverables, and how many of each.
A GEO agency: a monthly visibility report.
Journey ends at the report.
Mentions get reported, whether or not pipeline moved.
Accountable for the result
A full strategy
and a projected
number.
The KPI itself,
agreed with
your team and
written in.
A review against your baseline, with a named strategist answering for it.
THE NUMBER MOVES
Pepper owns
the KPI, week
after week.
A visibility score can go up while the number you care about stays flat.
We haven't.
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Numbers we stood behind.
Both accounts ran on the same combination: our strategy, our platform, our team.
SalesHood
Sales enablement, as buyers moved to AI answers.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A GEO agency works on how AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity describe your brand. For most of them that's the whole brief. Google rankings and community presence often sit with another team or another supplier.
Not only. GEO is one part of what we do. Pepper runs organic growth as a single function, so one team handles Google search, AI answers, third-party authority and community presence, using our own tracking platform.
SEO decides which pages rank in Google's results. GEO decides whether an AI answer names your brand and cites your pages. They're measured differently and need some different work, but both run on the same content and the same authority, which is why we run them together.
We'd advise against it. Two agencies end up editing the same pages to two different plans. When the numbers don't move, each one can fairly blame the other, and no one owns the result.
When your SEO already works and has an owner, and you only want help with how AI answers describe you. You get a narrower brief and a shorter commitment. If organic is split across several owners and that split is slowing growth, Pepper is the better fit.
We track ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews, plus Google Search. We also work on the sources those answers pull from, like review sites, third-party publications, communities, YouTube and LinkedIn.
We run your buyers' prompts every day and track two numbers. One is how often answers mention your brand, and the other is how often they cite a page on your domain. We don't sell a single visibility score. SparkToro's research found the chance of an AI tool giving the same list of brands twice is under 1 in 100, so one score would hide too much.
Expect early movement within three months and meaningful results between months six and nine. A lot of your authority sits on sites you don't own, and those sites update on their own schedule.
Many GEO agencies charge a monthly retainer for a fixed scope, often on a three to six month term. Pepper engagements are annual and priced against an outcome. The KPI goes into the contract, and we review progress against your baseline every week.
Acceldata grew organic traffic 6x within twelve months, and its keywords in Google's top three went from 85 to 300+. SalesHood went from 14 to 97 keywords in Google AI Overviews in six months, while blog impressions rose from about 200,000 to 417,000.
You do. Everything we produce is yours, and you can export your brand and prompt tracking data at any time. Engagements are annual, with an out-clause at six months.
You'll see it early, because a named strategist reviews progress against your baseline every week. If the number isn't moving, we change the plan with you. If it still isn't on track at six months, you can use the out-clause and keep everything we've built.
Approvals and product knowledge, plus a customer or two we can speak to and whatever your sales team is hearing. You won't be writing weekly briefs or managing the project.

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