AI-specialist agencies. Nobody else.
Open a “marketing agency” on any other directory and it also does development, and branding, and now AI. The specialist and the everything-shop sit in the same list, so you cannot tell them apart. We only admit firms whose work is genuinely AI — and publish how many we turned away.
A firm is listed only if AI work is at least 70% of its business, or it is AI-native or AI-vertical, or it clears two of five evidenced AI-first delivery signals. Every directory says it is selective. This is the number that shows it.
AI SEO & GEO
Agencies working on visibility inside AI answer engines, not just Google.
Not open yetAI PPC & paid media
Paid media shops whose automation is theirs, not the ad platform's.
Not open yetAI development & engineering
Teams that ship AI systems, with a public commit history to prove it.
Not open yetAI automation & agents
Agent and workflow builders who tell you who owns it afterwards.
Not open yet
Each firm carries a strip with one segment per check on its ladder: filled means we established it, hollow means we have not run it yet, struck means it did not pass. The hollow segments are as visible as the filled ones on purpose — a “12 of 20 verified” badge lets us round up, and a strip does not.
- Established
- Did not pass
- Not run yet
The score measures research completeness, not the quality of anyone's work, and it never moves because a firm paid us. The scorer reads a database view that cannot see billing status at all, and a test in the deploy gate asserts every score is byte-identical whether a firm is a customer or not. If that test fails, nothing ships.