SEO agencies in San Francisco that AI assistants recommend

Name: AI assistant recommendations: SEO agencies in San Francisco, November 2026
Creator: AIGROW
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Victorious is named most, in 86% of 36 answers.

The ranking

AI Recommendation Rate

1Victorious86%
95%: 71 to 94%
ChatGPT
100%
Claude
100%
Gemini
58%
Questions
4 of 4
Avg. position
2
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
Also written Victorious SEO
Is this your business?
2Straight North56%
95%: 40 to 71%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
92%
Gemini
75%
Questions
4 of 4
Avg. position
1.8
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from Claude and Gemini
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Claude and Gemini
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from Claude and Gemini
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from Claude
Is this your business?
3Jives Media33%
95%: 20 to 50%
ChatGPT
100%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
4 of 4
Avg. position
2
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from ChatGPT
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
4Thrive Internet Marketing Agency28%
95%: 16 to 44%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
83%
Gemini
0%
Questions
4 of 4
Avg. position
2.5
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Claude
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from Claude
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from Claude
Is this your business?
5Ignite Visibility25%
95%: 14 to 41%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
8%
Gemini
67%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
2.2
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from Gemini
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Gemini
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from Claude and Gemini
Is this your business?
6WebFX19%
95%: 10 to 35%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
58%
Gemini
0%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
3.7
Named in answers to
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Claude
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from Claude
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from Claude
Is this your business?
7SEO Inc.14%
95%: 6 to 29%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
0%
Gemini
42%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
2.8
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from Gemini
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Gemini
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from Gemini
Is this your business?
8Directive Consulting14%
95%: 6 to 29%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
42%
Gemini
0%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
3
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Claude
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from Claude
Is this your business?
9SEO Brand14%
95%: 6 to 29%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
42%
Gemini
0%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
4.6
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Claude
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from Claude
Is this your business?
10SEO San Francisco11%
95%: 4 to 25%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
0%
Gemini
33%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
1
Named in answers to
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Gemini
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from Gemini
Is this your business?
11CSTMR11%
95%: 4 to 25%
ChatGPT
33%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
3
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
12First Page Sage11%
95%: 4 to 25%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
33%
Gemini
0%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
3.3
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?, from Claude
Is this your business?
13Stackmatix8%
95%: 3 to 22%
ChatGPT
25%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
3
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
14Online Optimism6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
17%
Gemini
0%
Questions
1 of 4
Avg. position
2.5
Named in answers to
- What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
Is this your business?
15Cyrusson Inc6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
17%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
3
Named in answers to
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from ChatGPT
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from ChatGPT
Also written Cyrusson Inc.
Is this your business?
16Searchbloom6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
8%
Gemini
8%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
4
Named in answers to
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?, from Claude
- Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?, from Gemini
Is this your business?

Open a row to see each assistant's share of its own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 8 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.

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24different names in 36 answers, 8 of them only once. The assistants change their minds from one answer to the next.

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AI Visibility Index · November 2026

Asked about SEO agencies in San Francisco, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini named Victorious most often, in 86% of answers (its AI Recommendation Rate), then Straight North (56%) and Jives Media (33%). Across 36 answers they named 24 different businesses, 8 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in November 2026.

The AI Recommendation Rate is the fraction of the 36 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.

Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.

86% of answers named Victorious

Answers: 36
Businesses named: 24
Named only once: 8
Named by 2+ assistants: 4 of 16
Named again on a rerun: 63%

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What each assistant said

The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.

#	ChatGPT	Claude	Gemini
1	Victorious100%	Victorious100%	Straight North75%
2	Jives Media100%	Straight North92%	Ignite Visibility67%
3	CSTMR33%	Thrive Internet Marketing Agency83%	Victorious58%
4	Stackmatix25%	WebFX58%	SEO Inc.42%
5	Cyrusson Inc17%	Directive Consulting42%	SEO San Francisco33%

Questions about SEO agencies in San Francisco

How AI assistants recommend SEO agencies

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini named Victorious most often, in 86% of 36 answers, then Straight North (56%) and Jives Media (33%). The names come from what the assistants answered to four buyer questions in November 2026; we have not checked that any of them is good, open or real.

Not always. ChatGPT named Victorious most often (100% of its answers), Claude Victorious (100%) and Gemini Straight North (75%). 4 of the 16 listed businesses were named by two or more of them.

Each question was asked three times. Of the names an assistant gave for a question, 63% came back in two or more of those runs; the rest came up once. The 95% range beside each rate in the ranking shows how far it could move by chance.

Run the free checker: it asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok two of the Index questions for SEO agencies, with the category and the place already filled in, and shows every answer word for word. About 30 seconds, no sign-up. The page on how AI assistants recommend SEO agencies shows what an owner can work on. Nothing can guarantee that an assistant names you.

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Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.

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The questions

Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.

1What is the best SEO agency in San Francisco?
2I run a small business in San Francisco and want to rank higher on Google. Which SEO agency would you recommend?
3Which SEO agency in San Francisco would you recommend for showing up on Google Maps?
4Which SEO agency in San Francisco is affordable for a small business?

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The full method

What it measures: Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
Why the ranges matter: 36 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
One business, several spellings: Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
A name is wrong: If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.