Best AI SEO & AEO Agencies for Ecommerce and Online Retail in Singapore (2026)

1. What is AI SEO and AEO for ecommerce?

AI SEO is the work of getting your store named, and your product and category pages cited, when shoppers ask AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot what to buy. It builds on SEO. Google rankings still matter, because AI assistants pull many of their sources from pages that already rank well.

You will also see it called AEO (answer engine optimisation) or GEO (generative engine optimisation). Agencies use different names for the same work, so this guide uses each agency's own term.

How is AI SEO and AEO measured for ecommerce?

Three measures cover most of what a store owner needs to know. Ask any agency to report all three, for each AI assistant, every month.

AI answers change from one run to the next, so each shopper question should be checked several times and reported as a range. The 35% in the first example is an illustration only.

What shoppers ask AI assistants

For a store, AI search starts with the shopper's question. Someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews which product suits a need, and the answer names a few brands and sometimes links a page. A store that is missing from that answer never enters the comparison, however well it ranks lower down the Google results.

Store owners ask the AI engines about agencies in a similar way. Queries for which our own site appeared in Google Search Console include "suggest some agencies that handle ai search optimization for e-commerce", "where can i find a geo partner for my e-commerce brand in singapore?", "how to measure aeo performance and roi for e-commerce product pages" and "is aeo worth investing in for a small ecommerce brand with a limited budget?". Another query reads like a complaint: "our online store is never named when shoppers ask ai assistants what to buy in our category." In our Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance data, "AEO vs SEO ecommerce explained" appeared 192 times as a grounding query, the most of any ecommerce query.

What an agency has to handle for a store

• The catalogue. Filters, tags, variants and pagination create duplicate URLs, and each one competes for crawl and for the same queries. Canonical and indexing rules come before any content work.
• Product data machines can read. Product, offer and review structured data, with prices and availability that match the page, so engines can quote them.
• Category pages that answer shopper questions. Category and collection pages carry the commercial queries, and they need copy that answers what shoppers ask before they buy.
• Own store and marketplaces. Many Singapore brands also sell on Shopee and Lazada, and where they do, the plan has to cover both.
• Measurement per engine. In our study of AI search as three channels, 94.2% of cited pages across 500 buyer queries appear in exactly one engine, so one blended AI visibility number hides which engine moved.

For the full store playbook, our guide to AEO for ecommerce covers product pages, reviews and the queries shoppers ask AI.

2. The best AI SEO & AEO agencies for ecommerce in Singapore: at a glance

One row per agency, in ranked order. Every cell comes from the agency's own pages, linked in its entry under "All 10 agencies" below. "Not published" means we looked on the pages listed and found no price.

How these agencies were chosen and ordered

We started from the agencies named in two competing ecommerce agency lists for Singapore and from agencies with a live AEO or GEO service and a Singapore address. Four candidates (First Page Digital, MediaOne, Cleverly and Heroes of Digital) blocked our requests on every page we tried, so we left them out unverified. We then read each remaining agency's own pages on 28 October 2026 and looked at the same five things:

1. Ecommerce proof. Does the agency publish an ecommerce case study with results, show ecommerce clients, run an ecommerce service page, or only mention ecommerce in passing?
2. AI search capability (AEO and GEO). Does it sell AEO or GEO, and does it publish an AI search result, such as AI Overview citations or sessions from AI assistants?
3. Singapore presence. Does its own site state a Singapore office or base, and where does the team work?
4. Transparency of method and pricing. Does it describe how the work is done, and does it publish prices on its own pages?
5. Evidence quality. Are results linked to named clients, to unnamed clients, or to an illustration, and do they state the measurement source and period?

The order is stated plainly. Novastacks is first because this is our list and our pick. The other nine are ordered by the strength of their published ecommerce evidence, then their AI search capability, then the quality of their evidence. Ecommerce evidence has four levels: an ecommerce case study with results, ecommerce clients shown, an ecommerce service page, and a passing mention. Within a level, an agency that publishes an AI search result comes first. Evidence quality then runs from a named client with a stated source and period, to a named client with a stated period, a named client with no period, an unnamed client, and a worked example. If two agencies are still level, the agency with more ecommerce material on its own site comes first. That places Hashmeta (five named Shopify case studies plus an ecommerce SEO page) ahead of Stridec (two named Shopify case studies), BThrust (Happy Bird, within six months, plus ecommerce and Shopify SEO pages) ahead of BestSEO (Little Red Dot Florist, within 3 months, plus one ecommerce SEO page), and Verz Design (two named Shopify Plus cases, no period stated) ahead of OOm (one named case, no period stated). The evidence type column in the table above shows where each agency sits on the first of those, and each entry under "All 10 agencies" links the pages behind it.

Three notes on what we found. BestSEO's own contact page says its Singapore address is for mail and its team is fully remote. marketingagency.sg publishes AI search results for a SaaS client and a home improvement client. Hashmeta's ecommerce case studies are published on hashmeta.ai, the site of Hashmeta AI, which describes itself as part of Hashmeta.

All 10 agencies

Every other entry has the same parts: what the agency does, its ecommerce evidence, who it suits, its pricing and one limitation. Quotes and figures come from the linked pages, read on 28 October 2026.

1Novastacks Operator-led. Agent-powered.

Best for: ecommerce and marketplace teams with large catalogues that want product page and AI search work traced to dated Search Console results. The store scope is on our page for ecommerce AEO, GEO and SEO services in Singapore.

What's distinctive: SEO and AEO run as one programme on a published method. Senior marketing operators direct Novastacks AI Search OS, the proprietary agentic system Novastacks built for AI search, so one team brings senior judgment and execution at scale. Founder Tina Chu spent 18+ years leading growth at Tencent, Expedia, Klook, Traveloka and Cabital; Head of AEO Eki Riandra is a Google Product Expert.

Engagement model: a senior engagement lead sets priorities, checks the work and is accountable for it. Each programme is configured per market and per language, in English and Chinese, with its own set of buyer questions.

Ecommerce evidence: our game top up marketplace case study covers a marketplace serving Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, with the client name withheld. We catalogued 459 product pages across the three markets in one maintained record. From May to August 2026, non branded clicks grew 153% in Indonesia and 194% in the Philippines. A new product title standard, live from 3 September, lifted clicks on retitled Philippine product pages by 131% in the 17 days after the change against the 17 days before, and click through rate moved from 1.41% to 3.07%. Of the 121 pages we published in Indonesia, 108 appeared in Google AI Overviews between May and September. The source for every figure is Google Search Console.

Watch outs: we do not publish prices; you get a quote after the free audit. The ecommerce case study client is masked, and there is no published Singapore ecommerce case study yet.

How the method works

Four layers, each feeding the next: what goes in, what determines your AEO strategy and tactics, what gets built, and what you get. Read The Novastacks Methodology.

Senior operators

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What others offer

What Novastacks offers

Not offered: All-Human Agencies

Senior judgment, with output constrained by headcount and cost.

Not offered: All-AI Tools

Speed and volume, with no strategy or judgment applied to the output.

Offered: Operator + Agentic System

Senior judgment combined with execution at scale in a single team.

• Tackle previously impractical work
• Business-specific AI workflows
• Learning retained between cycles

2Hashmeta: Chinese speaking shoppers and social commerce

What they do: Hashmeta's homepage lists its Singapore office at 30A Kallang Place and says its teams combine SEO, GEO and AEO for search, Xiaohongshu and TikTok for social, and KOL and KOC programmes for creators. It describes itself as a TikTok Shop Partner and MCN, an authorised cross border marketing agency for Xiaohongshu, and the operator of Hashmeta Academy, which offers the CITE certification on AI search and GEO.

Ecommerce evidence: its case study index lists five named Shopify stores. For Green Kulture, a Singapore eco cleaning store, it reports "668K Google impressions" in the 12 months to May 2026 (Google Search Console) and "472 AI citations" by June 2026 (SEMrush). For AI Pilot, a Singapore store for AI learning and translation devices, daily Google impressions rose from 137 to 2,173 between July 2025 and January 2026 (Google Search Console). Its ecommerce SEO page describes senior ecommerce SEO consultants with 8+ years on Singapore stores across Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento, and shows a Shopify Partner badge.

Best for: stores selling across Southeast Asia and to Chinese speaking shoppers that want SEO, GEO and social commerce together.

Pricing: published, US$1,500, US$5,000 or US$10,000 a month for SEO, AEO and GEO on a 12 month minimum (quoted and linked in section 3).

Limitation: its Shopify case studies report Google impressions, clicks and AI citations, with no revenue or order figures.

3Stridec: Shopify stores cited in AI Overviews

What they do: Stridec Worldwide Pte Ltd lists its office at CT Hub 2 on Lavender Street (contact page). Its homepage describes the business as "AI Overview SEO for ecommerce and SaaS brands", based in Singapore with engagements worldwide.

Ecommerce evidence: its case studies page names two Shopify stores. For Bread Garden, rankings held steady while clicks grew 27 times and click through rate 9 times. For Qwang Coffee, a new Shopify store was cited in Google's AI Overviews within about 48 hours and led on 3 of 5 documented queries. The Bread Garden case study names Bread Garden's own Google Search Console as its source, for April to August 2026.

Best for: ecommerce brands, especially Shopify stores, that want to be cited in AI Overviews as well as ranked.

Pricing: published, S$2,500 to S$8,000 a month for GEO and SEO (quoted and linked in section 3).

Limitation: Stridec wrote a competing ecommerce agency comparison that ranks itself first, and it says so on that page.

4marketingagency.sg: own store plus marketplaces

What they do: Marketing Agency Singapore lists its office at International Plaza, 10 Anson Road (contact page). Its ecommerce marketing page says it manages marketing across Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Shopify and WooCommerce, and frames the job as balancing a brand's own store with the marketplaces. For AI search, its Solmi.ai case study describes AEO and GEO work built on structured, factual and sourced content with clean schema, and reports 14K sessions from AI assistants, up 39,930%. Solmi.ai is a SaaS brand. Its AI marketing agency page adds that a home improvement client, D&G Flooring, "is cited in more than 79,000 AI responses across Copilot, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI".

Ecommerce evidence: a fashion ecommerce case study for an unnamed Singapore client describes a move from paid only acquisition to blended growth: organic grew to a quarter of revenue and blended acquisition cost fell 34%.

Best for: Singapore ecommerce brands that sell on their own store and on marketplaces and want organic growth led by content.

Pricing: not published. The ecommerce page gives general market ranges only.

Limitation: the ecommerce client is unnamed, and the AI search results it publishes are for Solmi.ai and a home improvement client.

5BThrust: ecommerce and Shopify SEO with AI SEO

What they do: Business Thrust Pte. Ltd. lists its office at Ubi Techpark (contact page) and its homepage dates the business to 2014. Its AI SEO page says it helps businesses appear in AI answers on Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, alongside ecommerce SEO, Shopify SEO and ecommerce web design.

Ecommerce evidence: an ecommerce SEO page for online stores in Singapore, which notes up to 50% support for eligible SMEs, and a Shopify SEO page. Its Happy Bird case study, a corporate gifts supplier, reports an 82% increase in organic traffic, 89% in impressions and 76% in conversions. The case study, which BThrust labels eCommerce, says "Organic traffic grew by 82% within six months".

Best for: Singapore online stores, including Shopify, that want ecommerce SEO and AI SEO from one team.

Pricing: not published on the pages we read.

Limitation: we found no AI search result or price on the pages we read.

6BestSEO: dedicated ecommerce SEO from a remote team

What they do: BestSEO is the trading name of Best Marketing Agency. Its contact page states that its address at The Metropolis Tower Two, North Buona Vista Drive, is a mailing address only and that the team is fully remote. It sells GEO and AEO on a dedicated AI SEO page aimed at being cited in ChatGPT. Its homepage claims more than 200 clients across 43 industries since 2019 and the IMDA SME AI Impact Awards 2026 Innovation Excellence Trustmark.

Ecommerce evidence: a dedicated ecommerce SEO service page addresses the duplicate URLs that filters, tags, variants and pagination create, offers GA4 ecommerce tracking attributed to organic search so you can see which products and collections drive revenue, and says it can push changes to Shopify stores through the Admin API. Its portfolio includes Little Red Dot Florist, labelled "Ecommerce, Flower Delivery", where local SEO and Google Ads "Achieved 2x return on investment within 3 months".

Best for: stores that want a dedicated ecommerce SEO service with a published starting price.

Pricing: published, from $2,800 a month (quoted and linked in section 3).

Limitation: the Singapore address is for mail only and the team works remotely. The florist result combines SEO with Google Ads and names no data source.

7Verz Design: Shopify Plus builds with SEO and GEO

What they do: Verzdesign Pte Ltd lists its office at HH@Kallang, 56 Kallang Pudding Road (contact page), and its homepage cites 16 years of practice. Its AI SEO page sells GEO services for AI search and generative answers, claims a guarantee of up to 40% visibility on popular LLMs, and carries a testimonial from the owner of Atlas, a Shopify store that has worked with Verz for several years.

Ecommerce evidence: the Loft Home case study reports a 104% increase in organic revenue, a 166% increase in organic users and 70% of targeted keywords on the first page. Its Shopify Plus agency page describes Verz as a Shopify Plus partner agency and features Saturday Club, which "went global with Shopify Plus and increased sales by 100%".

Best for: brands building or rebuilding a Shopify Plus store that need SEO and GEO linked to the build.

Pricing: not published on the pages we read.

Limitation: prices are not published, and the Loft Home gains carry no time period. We found no AI search result for an ecommerce client on the pages we read.

8OOm: ecommerce builds with EDGE Grant support

What they do: OOm Pte Ltd lists its office at Orchard Building, 1 Grange Road (contact page), and its homepage shows Premier Google Partner status, top 3% in Singapore. Its GEO page presents OOm as an AI SEO agency for generative engine optimisation and answer engine optimisation.

Ecommerce evidence: an ecommerce grant page offers up to 50% EDGE Grant support for ecommerce website design and development. Its case study index lists Google Shopping among its services and a 195% increase in revenue for a client it does not specify. Its Megafurniture case study, for an online furniture store in Singapore, reports a "78% Increase in organic website traffic" and a "2X Increase in online transactions" from SEO.

Best for: stores that want an ecommerce build with grant support and SEO plus GEO from a long running Google Premier Partner.

Pricing: not published. OOm's pricing article gives market ranges, which are not its own package prices.

Limitation: the Megafurniture case states no time period or data source, and the ecommerce grant page centres on site builds.

9Digital Market: published prices for smaller stores

What they do: Digital Market's GEO page describes a Singapore AEO and GEO agency founded in 2022 by Carl Huang, who has 18 years in digital marketing, offering to get brands named and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. It also runs an ecommerce marketing page.

Ecommerce evidence: its homepage gives its address at 120 Robinson Road, says it works with service businesses, B2B firms and online stores in Singapore and Malaysia, and shows two unnamed product clients: an adult care products client that moved from position 89 to 4 for "adult diapers for caregivers", and an office supplies client that moved from 2 to 1 for "whiteboard supplier singapore".

Best for: small and mid size Singapore online stores that want published prices and rank tracking.

Pricing: published for SEO and GEO (quoted and linked in section 3).

Limitation: the clients are unnamed and the results are ranking positions. Digital Market also publishes a competing ecommerce agency list that ranks itself first.

10Impossible Marketing: generalist AI SEO

What they do: Impossible Marketing lists its office at 14A Yan Kit Road (contact page). Its AI SEO page sells GEO and AEO services and claims more than 700 reviews.

Ecommerce evidence: its homepage says it has worked with thousands of Singapore businesses for more than a decade, including retail brands, and has one line on ecommerce: social media ads and retargeting drive repeat purchases while SEO drives organic sales growth.

Best for: Singapore brands that want AI SEO from a long established generalist agency.

Pricing: not published on the pages we read.

Limitation: we found no ecommerce service page, ecommerce case study or price.

3. How much does AI SEO & AEO cost for ecommerce in Singapore?

Four of the ten agencies publish prices for this work on their own sites:

• Hashmeta: managed SEO, AEO and GEO retainers at US$1,500, US$5,000 or US$10,000 a month on a 12 month minimum term, scaled by output, markets, languages and the number of AI engines tracked (pricing page).
• Stridec: GEO and SEO priced from S$2,500 to S$8,000 a month, in three plans of S$2,500, S$4,500 and S$8,000 a month. The same pricing page describes the work as finding the questions customers ask Google and ChatGPT, publishing content built to be cited, and reporting monthly on where the brand is named.
• Digital Market: "SEO packages cost S$980 a month (Basic), S$2,980 a month (Premium) and S$5,980 a month (Enterprise)", with a monthly Keyword.com ranking report (SEO pricing page). Its GEO page, linked in its entry above, states retainers from S$2,000 a month.
• BestSEO: "From $2,800 /month" (pricing page).

The other six, Novastacks included, publish no package price on the pages we read; Novastacks quotes on request. OOm publishes an SEO pricing article with market ranges, and marketingagency.sg gives general ranges on its ecommerce page; neither states its own package price. We do not estimate prices for the agencies that do not publish them.

4. How to choose an AI SEO & AEO agency for ecommerce

Use the same checks on any shortlist, this one included. Start with proof for stores like yours, then look at method, reporting and price.

Factors to consider

• An ecommerce case study with results. Named is better; if the client is masked, the source and dates of every figure should be stated.
• An AI search result. Ask for at least one AI Overview citation, AI assistant mention or AI referral figure, ideally for a store.
• Platform experience. Shopify, Shopify Plus, WooCommerce or Magento, matching your stack.
• Marketplace coverage. If Shopee, Lazada or Amazon carry a large share of your sales, check that the agency works on them.
• Published method and prices. A written process and a price you can compare before the first call.
• Singapore team. If you want people in the same room, confirm where the team works.

Questions to ask in the first call

1. Which ecommerce clients have you grown, and what is the source and period of each figure?
2. Which shopper questions will you track, in which AI engines, and how often will you report on them?
3. How will you handle duplicate URLs from filters and variants on our platform?
4. Which product data and structured data changes come first, and who implements them?
5. How will you measure the effect on revenue, and over what time windows?
6. What does the first three months cost, and what is included?

Red flags

• An ecommerce case study that gives no source or period for its figures.
• A promise of a ranking position, or of being named by a given AI assistant by a given date. No agency controls either.
• One blended AI visibility number with no split by AI engine.
• A plan made only of keyword rankings, with no list of shopper questions to track.
• No answer on how duplicate URLs from filters and variants will be handled on your platform.

How long does AI SEO take to show results?

No agency can promise a date, because AI answers change from one run to the next. Ask for a plan with dated measurement windows: a baseline in the first month, then the same set of shopper questions checked again after each round of changes, next to Search Console clicks and impressions for the same pages. The Novastacks case study measured its results over May to August 2026, and tested a title change over 17 day windows before and after.

5. Free tools to check any agency's work

Do not rely on any agency's word for its results. Run your own store, and the sites of agencies' clients, through these free tools. Each report is a one time check of how things stand on the day it runs.

• Free AEO Checker: an instant score out of 100 for your homepage in under 60 seconds, with no email needed, covering AI crawler access, page structure, schema and citation quality.
• Free AI Visibility Tracker: 30 to 50 buyer questions for your market, tested across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overview, showing who is named and cited. The report arrives in 48 hours.
• Free AEO Audit: checks whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews recommend your brand, with a snapshot against two direct competitors. The report arrives in 48 hours.

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