New York is a hard search market for B2B companies. Fintech, financial services, media, adtech and professional services firms compete for the same head terms, and many of those terms are also chased by national publishers and marketplaces. Reaching page one for a broad phrase is slow and costly.
The buying journey has also changed. A CFO comparing payment platforms or a CMO shortlisting adtech vendors may start on Google, read an AI Overview, then ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Copilot for a comparison. The companies named in those answers tend to be the ones with clear, specific pages that answer the buyer's real question.
This guide lists five agencies offering SEO in New York, explains how we chose them, and gives practical questions for a first call. Regulated teams will also find notes on compliance review, which shapes how fast any agency can publish for you.
Disclosure: this list is published by Lemniscate Growth, which is included. We list ourselves first and describe the other four firms from what they publish on their own websites. Last checked: September 2026.
How we chose
- The firm's website loads and describes a currently operating agency.
- It lists SEO or search services on its own site.
- It lists an office in New York City. The exception is Lemniscate Growth, a remote firm that serves US clients.
- Its site gives enough detail about services, industries or approach to describe it fairly and specifically.
- We did not use ratings, awards, client lists or prices to select or describe any firm.
Inclusion is based on what each firm publishes on its own site, checked in September 2026. The order after entry 1 is not a quality ranking, so confirm details directly with any agency before you sign.
1. Lemniscate Growth
Lemniscate Growth is a B2B revenue pipeline generation agency, and AEO, GEO and SEO are a core service. Search work runs alongside the rest of the funnel, so visibility is judged by qualified pipeline rather than traffic alone. The company is registered in the US and Dubai, its team is in Hyderabad, it works with 35+ active clients, and it builds programs to generate up to $10M in pipeline per client.
Best for: B2B software, fintech and data companies selling to New York buyers that want search, AI answer visibility and pipeline reporting in one program.
Services: Answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, technical and content SEO, AI visibility tracking, and pipeline generation across the rest of the funnel.
Why it made the list: It is our own firm, so weigh this entry with that in mind. For IQLECT, a real-time analytics platform, organic search and technical content built a $6.4M pipeline. For CipherBC, a Dubai crypto infrastructure company, the program put organic and AI search first. It is not the right choice for a local service business, a consumer brand, or a team that wants an agency in Manhattan for regular on-site meetings.
2. Amsive
Amsive is a data-driven marketing agency that lists SEO and AEO as a combined service, alongside paid search, programmatic, social, direct mail, email, analytics and creative. Its contact page lists a New York office at 915 Broadway, plus offices in Illinois, Tennessee, Indiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Industries named on its site include healthcare, financial services and insurance, retail, education and B2B.
Best for: Larger marketing teams, especially in financial services, insurance or healthcare, that want SEO and AEO connected to audience data and paid media under one agency.
Services: SEO and AEO, paid search, programmatic and social advertising, direct mail and email, data analytics and customer modeling, creative and web development.
Why it made the list: Amsive names answer engine optimization as a service, publishes guidance on AI search visibility, and has a Manhattan office. It suits buyers who want search tied to data and media. Smaller B2B teams should ask who will run their account day to day and how SEO is scoped within the wider media mix.
3. Lounge Lizard
Lounge Lizard is a digital agency that lists web design and development, digital marketing, e-commerce, branding, and an AI search and creative practice. Its site gives a New York City office on West 34th Street, with other offices including Long Island, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Miami and Austin. It describes AI search optimization as positioning a brand to appear in responses from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and other AI tools.
Best for: Companies planning a website rebuild or rebrand that want SEO, structured data and AI search built into the new site from the start.
Services: Web design and development, branding, e-commerce, digital marketing, AI search optimization, structured data and omnichannel SEO strategy.
Why it made the list: It has a Manhattan office and explicitly lists AI search optimization and structured data work. Its industry list includes financial services, technology and SaaS, and professional services, which matches much of New York's B2B demand. If you only need ongoing SEO without a site project, ask how it staffs search-only retainers.
4. Sure Oak
Sure Oak describes itself as a New York SEO agency and lists its office at 77 Sands Street in Brooklyn. Its services include SEO, technical SEO, enterprise SEO, link building and digital PR, and what it calls AI Search Optimization (AISO), which it says covers ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews. It names financial services and fintech, insurance, SaaS, education and B2B services among its industries.
Best for: Fintech, insurance and SaaS companies that want a search specialist rather than a full-service agency.
Services: SEO strategy, technical SEO, enterprise SEO, link building and digital PR, AI Search Optimization.
Why it made the list: Sure Oak is search-focused, based in Brooklyn, and names fintech and financial services as target industries. It says it favors custom strategy over templated plans. Link building and digital PR can raise compliance questions for regulated firms, so ask how placements are reviewed before they go live.
5. Mimvi
Mimvi SEO is a New York search firm that lists a Manhattan address on Park Avenue and a Long Island presence. Its services include SEO, AI SEO, web design, SEM and PPC, and social media marketing. The site says it optimizes for Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, Perplexity and other LLM discovery tools, and it mentions GEO.
Best for: Small and midsize businesses in New York City and Long Island, including local and regional service companies, that want AI search included in their SEO.
Services: SEO, AI SEO and GEO, web design, SEM and PPC, social media marketing.
Why it made the list: We confirmed Mimvi is still operating in the New York market, with a current site and a Manhattan address. Its published case studies lean toward small business categories such as production, masonry and solar repair rather than enterprise B2B. Buyers with long sales cycles should ask for examples in their category and how results connect to pipeline.
New York agency comparison
| Agency | Best for | Headquarters | Core services | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lemniscate Growth | B2B tech and fintech companies focused on pipeline | US and Dubai (registered); team in Hyderabad | AEO, GEO, SEO, pipeline generation | lemniscategrowth.com |
| Amsive | Data-led teams in financial services, insurance and healthcare | Several US offices, including New York (915 Broadway) | SEO and AEO, paid media, analytics, direct mail | amsive.com |
| Lounge Lizard | Website rebuilds with SEO and AI search planned in | New York City, plus other US offices | Web design, branding, AI search optimization, SEO | loungelizard.com |
| Sure Oak | Search-focused fintech, insurance and SaaS programs | Brooklyn, New York | SEO, technical SEO, link building, AI Search Optimization | sureoak.com |
| Mimvi | Small and midsize NYC and Long Island businesses | Manhattan, New York | SEO, AI SEO and GEO, web design, PPC | mimvi.com |
How to choose an AEO, GEO and SEO agency in New York
Plan for compliance review before you plan content
If you are a broker-dealer, FINRA Rule 2210 governs your communications with the public. It defines retail communications as written or electronic material distributed to more than 25 retail investors within any 30 calendar-day period, and requires an appropriately qualified registered principal to approve each one before use or filing. Ask your compliance team how public web content is classified before an agency drafts a single page.
Banks, insurers and other firms licensed under New York's Banking, Insurance or Financial Services Law are covered by the NYDFS cybersecurity regulation, 23 NYCRR Part 500, which requires risk-informed cybersecurity policies and programs. Expect your security team to ask how an agency will access your CMS, analytics and tag manager.
Build the review cycle into the plan. An agency that promises weekly publishing without asking about your approval process is not planning around the way regulated New York firms work.
Compete where head terms are saturated
Broad phrases such as "payments platform" or "wealth management software" are crowded. A better plan targets the specific questions buyers ask late in a decision: comparisons, integrations, security, implementation effort and how pricing models differ. That is also the kind of specific, sourced content an AI answer can cite when a buyer asks for a shortlist.
Understand how AI answers fit in
Google says there are no additional requirements or special optimizations for AI Overviews or AI Mode: a page must be indexed and eligible to show in Search with a snippet. Google also counts traffic from those features within the overall Web search data in Search Console, so it will not appear as a separate line.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot each assemble answers in their own way, so test a fixed set of buyer prompts on a schedule and record which companies and sources appear. Our guide on how to benchmark AI visibility explains the setup, and the AEO and GEO playbook covers the content side.
Weigh local presence against category expertise
Most New York B2B programs do not depend on the agency sitting in Manhattan. What matters more is whether the team knows your category and your review process. If in-person workshops matter to you, give more weight to the firms with New York offices.
For our own approach, see AEO, GEO and SEO for New York companies. If you are also comparing firms in other markets, read our Boston and Washington, D.C. lists.
Questions to ask on the first call
- Who on your team has written search content that went through compliance or legal review, and how did you adjust timelines for it?
- Which buyer prompts would you track for us across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, and how often?
- For our most competitive head terms, what is your plan if page one is out of reach this year?
- How will you connect organic and AI visibility to pipeline in our CRM, not just to sessions?
- What access do you need to our CMS, analytics and tag manager, and how do you handle a vendor security review?
- Who does the work day to day, and where are they based?
- How is pricing scoped, and what exactly is included in each phase?
- What will you deliver in the first 90 days?
Red flags
- Guaranteed rankings for broad New York head terms, or guaranteed placement in AI answers.
- A content calendar that ignores your compliance approval process.
- Link building or PR placements that no one on your side can review before they go live.
- Reporting built on traffic and keyword counts with no connection to pipeline.
- AI visibility claims backed only by a few screenshots rather than a repeatable prompt set.
- Requests for broad admin access to your systems before any security review.
- Case studies that do not match your category, buyer or deal size.
Get a baseline before you shortlist
Before you speak with any agency, it helps to know how your company shows up in Google and in AI answers for the questions your buyers ask. Lemniscate Growth offers a free audit of your current search and AI visibility, and you can use the findings in conversations with any firm on this list.
