Best Platforms for Agentic Engine Optimization
Nine agentic engine optimization platforms scored on six questions: AI answers, crawler logs, conversions, actions, publishing and human approval. Use the scorecard on your own vendor calls.
Most shortlists for agentic engine optimization judge vendors by the demo. The demo always shows an agent doing something impressive. What it rarely shows is whether the agent worked from real data, and whether anyone on your team gets to say no before its output goes live.
So this guide is a scorecard first and a ranking second. There are six questions, and each gets a yes, a partial, a no, or "not published". We filled it in for nine platforms using only what our catalog documents for each tool, then ranked them. If you want background on what the agentic loop is and why AEO and GEO end up as one purchase, our earlier guide to agentic engine optimization platforms covers it. This post is the buying tool.
The six-question scorecard
| # | Question | What counts as yes | What to ask the vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does it measure AI answers across engines? | Scheduled prompts on several engines, not one | "Which engines are on the plan you're quoting, and how often do they refresh?" |
| 2 | Does it see AI crawlers? | Logs of AI bot requests to your pages | "Which crawlers do you name, and where do the logs come from?" |
| 3 | Does it attribute AI-referred visitors and conversions? | Sessions from AI engines tied to a conversion | "Show me a conversion from a ChatGPT referral inside your product." |
| 4 | Does it recommend specific actions? | A named page, prompt or fix, not a score | "What would your tool tell me to do this week?" |
| 5 | Can it execute? | Publishes to a CMS, opens pull requests, or changes what crawlers receive | "Where does the output land: my CMS, my repo, or a doc?" |
| 6 | Does it keep a human approval step? | A review queue or merge step before anything goes live | "Can I require approval on every item, and is that the default?" |
We weight the first three more heavily than the last three. An agent that publishes from a one-engine sample, with no idea whether a crawler can fetch the page or whether the traffic converts, is working blind. Execution is only worth paying for when the measurement under it is wide.
The capability matrix
"Not published" means the catalog entry does not document the capability. Treat it as a vendor question, not a hard no.
| Platform | AI answers | AI crawlers | Visitors and conversions | Recommends | Executes | Human approval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Promptwatch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AthenaHQ | Yes | No | Partly | Yes | Partly | Not published |
| Scrunch AI | Yes | Yes | Not published | No | Yes | Not published |
| Relixir | Yes | Not published | Not published | Yes | Yes | Not published |
| Profound | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not published | Enterprise only | Not published |
| Sightivo | Yes | Not published | Not published | Yes | Partly | Not published |
| Okara | Partly | Not published | Not published | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Seology | Partly | Not published | Not published | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AirOps | Partly | Not published | Not published | Partly | Yes | Not published |
The ranking
1. Promptwatch
Promptwatch is the only platform in this group that answers yes to all six questions, and it does so in one workspace. Paid brand plans run prompts daily across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral and Copilot, plus Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Agent Analytics logs ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther and the Meta AI crawler, with a crawl-to-citation path and error tracking. Visitor analytics, installed with a lightweight script or a GTM template, ties AI-referred sessions to conversions.
The action side is where it earns the agentic label. Unified Actions turns prompt, citation and crawler data into one AI-generated to-do list. Content Agents run content gap analysis, write the page, and publish to Webflow, Framer or WordPress (through an official plugin with a sync token), with a review inbox in front of every draft. Agent Chat answers questions over the live data, and the MCP server and REST API come with every paid plan.
One scorecard caveat: crawler logs are not on Essential ($95/mo). They start on Professional ($245/mo, 25M crawler logs) and are on every agency plan from Kick-off ($199/mo). And one question to settle internally: on Framer, going live redeploys the whole Framer site rather than a single item, so decide who owns that button.
2. AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ is the strongest recommender here after Promptwatch. Its Action Center turns visibility data into assignable tasks such as schema generation, content reformatting and LLM metadata optimization, and it automates schema and entity tagging. Starter is $295/mo ($245 annual) for 9 engines in a single country, with credit-based usage, and a free tier comes with about 300 credits. It lists GA4, Shopify and Webflow revenue attribution, which earns the partial on question three.
It drops points on question two, because the catalog lists no crawler analytics, and execution beyond schema is your team working the queue. Ask: "How many credits will my prompt list use per month at daily cadence?" The catalog flags credit-based usage as hard to forecast.
3. Scrunch AI
Scrunch AI executes in an unusual place. Its Agent Experience Platform serves AI-optimized versions of your pages to LLM crawlers without changing the page humans see, and it includes crawler traffic analytics. Tracking scales to nine engines on Enterprise. Starter is $250/mo annual ($300 monthly) with 3 seats and 350 custom prompts.
The gaps: data refreshes weekly, the catalog describes its advice as showing where you're not cited rather than what to change, and no conversion analytics are published. Sitecore acquired it in June 2026. Ask: "Who on my side owns the crawler-facing variant, and how do I review what a crawler receives?"
4. Relixir
Relixir sells Rex, an agent that monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, then writes, refreshes and publishes GEO content through Webflow, WordPress, Contentful or Framer. It also runs deep research on topic gaps and automated backlink outreach.
Two things hold it back. Four engines is narrow next to the platforms above, and pricing is custom only, with Rex configured by Relixir's own team. The catalog documents no approval step. Ask: "Can I require sign-off on every Rex publish, and what does a credit cost?" The docs list 10 credits per draft and 1 per refresh, with no dollar price per credit.
5. Profound
Profound is sold as marketing agents for AEO, content, demand and PR, with AI search as one channel. Engine coverage is the widest in the catalog at up to ten on Enterprise, and its Prompt Volumes dataset estimates real query demand. The public tiers are thin, though. Starter is $99/mo billed yearly for ChatGPT only and 50 prompts. Growth is $399/mo yearly for three engines. The agents sit on Enterprise, which starts around $40k a year. Crawler logs, conversions and an approval flow are not published. Ask: "Which agents are on the tier you're quoting me?"
6. Sightivo
Sightivo works the off-site side. It tracks ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews, ranks recommendations (pages to write, prompt gaps to close, authors to pitch), drafts articles and outreach emails, and sends from a built-in inbox on your own domain. Solo is $99/mo and Studio is $399/mo. Prompt checks are low (20 a month on Solo), and no CMS publishing is described. Ask whether each outreach email can wait for your approval before it sends.
7. Okara
Okara gives the clearest answer to question six among the code-side tools. Its Coding Agent writes schema, llms.txt, canonicals and meta tags as real code, opens one GitHub pull request per batch, and nothing merges without your approval. The Coding Agent starts on AI CMO Lite at $129/mo ($108 annual), which tracks 15 AI search prompts. Measurement is the weak half: crawler logs, citation analytics and visitor conversions are not published.
8. Seology
Seology runs 200+ checks, GEO visibility checks for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini among them, then splits issues into auto-fixable and flagged. Co-pilot mode proposes fixes and waits. Autopilot opens pull requests on its own. Starter is free for one site, and Pro is $49/mo for five. Ask which mode is the default when you connect a site.
9. AirOps
AirOps is a visual LLM workflow builder with CMS integrations for publishing. As an agentic engine optimization platform it scores low: Solo tracks ChatGPT only with monthly refreshes, and neither Solo (about $200/mo) nor Pro (about $2,000/mo) is listed on the public pricing page. Ask whether overage protection is on, since the catalog says it ships switched off.
Who should pick which
- One platform that measures, explains and publishes: Promptwatch. Professional if you need crawler logs, Kick-off if you run several brands.
- A team that will work a task queue daily, selling into one country: AthenaHQ.
- Engineering will own a crawler-facing layer: Scrunch AI.
- An agent writing into Contentful or WordPress, and you'll take a sales call: Relixir.
- An enterprise buying a wider marketing agent program: Profound.
- Off-site mentions matter more than prompt depth: Sightivo.
- A site in a GitHub repo where fixes should arrive as pull requests: Okara or Seology, next to a measurement platform.
Before you sign: the vendor checklist
- Send your real prompt list and get the engine count and refresh rate for the quoted plan.
- Ask them to show one AI crawler hit on a page you shipped last month.
- Ask for one AI-referred conversion in the product, not on a slide.
- Ask for this week's recommendations for your domain, in writing.
- Ask where agent output lands and who can publish it.
- Ask whether approval is the default or a setting someone can switch off.
- Get the post-trial price in writing.
Why Promptwatch scores first
Questions two and three decide this table. Most platforms here can produce output. Few can show whether an AI crawler fetched the page afterward, and only one ties the resulting visit to a conversion. Promptwatch answers both from Agent Analytics and visitor analytics, feeds the same data into Unified Actions and Content Agents, and keeps the review inbox as the approval step. Explore is free (10 prompts, ChatGPT only), Essential is $95/mo with a 7-day trial, and annual billing is 12 months for the price of 10. Run the scorecard on it first at promptwatch.com.