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Most GEO agencies guarantee effort or trends, not outcomes. The three kinds of guarantee, what no honest operator can promise, and four checks to run.

A free month keeps your money with the agency that missed. A cash remedy returns it on a date. The one question that settles any GEO remedy clause.

Most GEO guarantees deserve the skepticism, and some GEO tactics are plain spam. The 13-point test from Citant.ai that finds the rare real, refund-backed ones.

You asked a GEO agency what happens if ChatGPT still ignores your brand, and heard that nobody can promise AI results, or were offered a free extra month. Your budget carried the risk. Most GEO agency guarantees give a buyer nothing to enforce. Of the 9 rivals here, 6 publish none, and the 3 that do never name the queries or the bar a buyer could check.

You have narrowed the best answer engine optimization tools down to four browser tabs, and every one shows the same dashboard: brand mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. None of them tells you whether Google lifted your page into an AI Overview, the block that sits above your organic listing. Citant.ai tested every tool in August 2026 against one rule: the vendor must name a Google answer surface as a feature on its own site.

You want to rank in Gemini and you cannot find the lever. No form to submit, no Gemini tag to add, and a Google-Extended line already sitting in your robots.txt that nobody on the team can explain. Citant.ai reads that line against Google’s own crawler documentation, which states that Google-Extended does not impact a site’s inclusion in Google Search nor is it used as a ranking signal.

Your Bing Webmaster Tools account is verified, your Google Search Console sits clean, and you still cannot work out how to rank in Perplexity. Neither of those two accounts reports on Perplexity at all, because Perplexity does not retrieve through either index. Citant.ai starts every attempt to optimize for Perplexity from Perplexity’s own crawler documentation, which names PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User as two separate agents with two different robots.txt behaviors.

To appear in Google AI Overviews, a page must be indexed in Google Search, eligible to be shown with a snippet, and structured so that a single passage answers one question completely.

Google publishes no separate submission route, no inclusion request, and no AI Overviews specific schema type. Selection happens at the passage level, so passage quality decides inclusion, not overall page length.