TrustedFirms

Get listed

TrustedFirms lists AI-specialist agencies only. That is a real restriction, not positioning — of the firms we have examined so far, we list 6 of 15. The rule is below, along with a way to check yourself against it before you write anything down.

What we require

There are two ways in. You need one of them, not both.

  1. AI work is 70% or more of your business

    Measured against your own public materials, not the figure you give us. Where the two disagree we publish the gap rather than picking one.

  2. Or: 2 of these 5 AI-first signals, each with a public URL

    This route exists because a pure percentage floor would empty the category. Almost every good AI SEO firm is an SEO firm that went AI-first, and a rule that excluded them would be precise and useless. So the floor stays strict and this route stays generous in reach — but every signal needs a source, because “we’re AI-first” is a sentence anyone can write and none of these are.

    A published AI methodology we wrote
    A named, publicly documented AI/GEO methodology the firm authored — not a blog post about someone else's.
    AI tooling we built and run ourselves
    AI tooling the firm built and operates itself, publicly demonstrable.
    We sell AI work only
    The service menu itself is AI work only — no separately sold non-AI service lines.
    A named AI-visibility measurement stack
    A publicly named AI-visibility measurement stack, i.e. they can show what they claim to move.
    Named staff in AI-specific roles
    Named individuals whose stated roles are AI-specific, not generalists with an AI title.

There is a third route we apply ourselves: firms whose own product is the AI (AI-native), and firms that serve AI companies specifically (AI-vertical). Both are AI-specialist in the way a buyer means it, and neither survives a percentage test.

Check yourself against it

This runs the same rule we would run, at your best possible case — it assumes we go and find that everything you enter is true. It writes nothing down and does not need your email.

Which of these can you show publicly today?

Apply

One person reads every application. There is no fee to be listed and no fee to be assessed — paying us cannot move you up the page, and the scoring that orders the list cannot see whether you have paid.

Which categories do you want to be considered for?
AI-first signals — tick one and give us the URL that shows it

Leave blank anything you cannot point at. An unsourced signal does not count towards the 2 you need, and claiming one you cannot show costs you more than leaving it empty.

We keep what you send to assess the application and to tell you the outcome. United States data protection applies; your IP is stored only as a hash for abuse handling.

What happens after you send it

  1. We check the public record. Your site, your case studies, the registries, whatever independent sources exist. We do not ask you to prove things we can look up ourselves.
  2. We run the inclusion rule on what we established, not on what you declared. Where those disagree, the evidenced figure wins and the gap is published.
  3. You get the outcome and the reasoning. Including, if it is a no, which rule you missed and by how much.
  4. If we decline you, we may publish that — the firm, the measured figure, the reason, and the sources. Only ever what we measured, never what we think of you. Publishing what we turned away is the only thing that makes listing mean anything.
  5. You can ask us to look again at any point. Firms change. A refusal is dated and re-reviewable, not a permanent judgement.