Vendar ranks 9 of 46 SEO agencies serving Los Angeles for AI search visibility: the ones with documented AI search visibility work on file, verified through September 2026. The top three by evidence-weighted score are HawkSEM (66/100), Coalition Technologies (59) and Directive (56). 1 of them has documented AI search visibility work for clients in Los Angeles itself. No paid placements; every position below cites its sources. 37 more Los Angeles SEO agencies have no AI search visibility claim on file yet and are listed unranked.
Ranked agencies have at least one claim from an outside source that names AI-answer work: citations in AI Overviews or assistants, answer-engine optimisation, entity and llms.txt work, or generative-engine optimisation; official case studies and third-party reviews weigh most, profile tags least. Full rubric 2026.09 and the scoring model: How we rank.
Grouped by the clients named in documented AI search visibility work: client reviews and case studies, not the agencies' own positioning. The number is the place in the ranking below.
Grouped by the clients named in documented AI search visibility work: client reviews and case studies, not the agencies' own positioning. The number is the place in the ranking below.
“Independent” means a third-party source names AI search visibility work. Each profile holds the claims with their sources; the points per criterion behind every position are in the machine-readable feed.
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2006
HQ in Los Angeles · From $4,500/month 1 documented
…AEO to help drive quality traffic", SEO together with AEO (answer engine optimization). The quoted line is all this record holds; the client's details… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 51-200 · since 2009
HQ in Los Angeles · From $1,800/month no outside source
Asphalt Kingdom: …It reports AI search sessions up 766.9% year over year and users arriving from AI platforms up 604%; the paid-search results in the same engagement are… (coalitiontechnologies.com)
Irvine, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2014
serves Los Angeles from Irvine · From $6,000/month no outside source
Case Status: …for law firms, says the company had zero visibility in ChatGPT and Perplexity in early 2025. Directive built an LLM information page for AI crawlers… (directiveconsulting.com)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 50-199
HQ in Los Angeles · From $7,000/month no outside source
GR0's case study for Mito Red Light says the brand was getting little to no traffic or revenue from AI search platforms and LLMs. GR0 ran AI-focused… (gr0.com)
Calabasas, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2017
serves Los Angeles from Calabasas · Projects from $5,000 no outside source
An industrial ground-monitoring equipment manufacturer: …The agency reports about 4,500 AI citations of the client's content across 18 pages over six months (Bing AI Performance: Microsoft Copilot and partner… (alchemyleads.com)
Profile below decision-ready status
Los Angeles, CA, USA · since 1995
HQ in Los Angeles · From $1,800/month no outside source
LAv1's case study for a luxury flower shop in Beverly Hills (the client is not named) says AI tools such as ChatGPT and Perplexity never mentioned the… (lav1.com)
El Segundo, CA, USA · team 200+
serves Los Angeles from El Segundo · From $7,000/month no outside source
Travelpro: …and inclusion in rich SERP features like Google AI Overviews". Reported year over year: SERP-feature appearances +154%, organic revenue +23%, organic impressions +15%… (wpromote.com)
Glendale, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2020
serves Los Angeles from Glendale · Projects from $1,000 no outside source
Feedbird: …21.2 to 9, and 600 sessions in 28 days from AI assistants, ChatGPT 389, Claude 98, Gemini 95, Perplexity 20, with frequent appearances in AI Overviews by… (b2bseo.io)
Profile below decision-ready status
Santa Monica, CA, USA · since 2007
serves Los Angeles from Santa Monica · From $1,000/month no outside source
Storm Brain's AEO/GEO client-results page (June 2026) reports, for clients it does not name, a moving company that built 122 ChatGPT mentions from zero and a financial-services client that reached a 35% AI visibility scor… (stormbrain.com)
On the Los Angeles SEO list, but nothing on file names AI search visibility work. One sourced claim moves an agency into the ranking.
No AI search visibility claim on file yet.
Only Vendar profile tags name AI search visibility; no outside source on file yet.
Sources on file say the vendor offers AI search visibility; no case study or client review documents the work yet.
Evidence-weighted ranking 2026.09.1: each agency is scored on the AI search visibility query from claims with sources. Evidence for this query 30 · Fit to this query 25 · Capability depth 15 · Reliability 10 · Transparency 10 · Reputation 5 · Market credibility 5, minus penalties; confidence is shown separately. Paid visibility never changes the order of a listing. The points, the claims and the limits behind every position are on its card above; the criteria, penalties, eligibility and ordering rules are on How we rank.
Visibility in assistants is a different surface from the ten blue links: it rewards entities, clear sources and content that answers directly. Anyone selling it should be able to show a baseline and a change in it.