Best AI SEO & AEO Agencies for Fintech and Financial Services in Singapore (2026)
Ten agencies that sell AI SEO, AEO or GEO in Singapore, compared on the same five criteria, with every claim linked to the agency's own page.
Key Takeaways
- We compared 10 agencies that sell AI SEO, AEO (answer engine optimisation) or GEO (generative engine optimisation), two names for getting a firm named and its pages cited in AI answers, in Singapore on five criteria: fintech proof, AI search capability, Singapore presence, transparency of method and pricing, and evidence quality. Agency pages were read on 28 October 2026.
- Novastacks is first because this is our list and our pick. The other nine are ordered by the strength of their published fintech evidence, then their AI search capability, then evidence quality.
- Two agencies on the list have a published fintech case study with dated periods and a named data source: Novastacks and Hashmeta. OOm, marketingagency.sg, Impossible Marketing and MediaOne show fintech or finance marketing work for a client but name no data source. Stridec shows fintech blog content only.
- Two agencies publish a price for the AI search work itself: Stridec (GEO and SEO plans from S$2,500 to S$8,000 a month) and Hashmeta (SEO, AEO and GEO retainers from US$1,500 to US$10,000 a month). The other eight publish no package price for it on the pages we read; Novastacks gives a market range and quotes after an audit.
- For a licensed firm, the agency question that matters most is how its drafts pass compliance review, because every published page is also an advertisement.
A fintech marketing lead in Singapore now has two shortlists to win. One is Google's results page. The other is the written answer a prospect gets when asking ChatGPT, Gemini or Google AI Overviews which payment app, robo adviser or insurer to consider, and that answer usually names two or three firms. Every page that could earn a place in either list also has to clear a compliance review before it goes live, and few agencies selling AI search work publish an example written for an approver.
Short answer
Our pick for fintech and financial services in Singapore is Novastacks, with a published fintech case study carrying dated periods and a named data source. Next come Hashmeta (a GEO programme for the online broker Longbridge, with 19.8M Google impressions in the 12 months to December 2025), OOm (an SEO case for a licensed moneylender with an 800% rise in organic traffic), marketingagency.sg (an unnamed financial advisory case with consultation bookings up 2.4x, plus fintech pages written around the rules of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)) and Impossible Marketing (AI SEO services plus a testimonial from Wealth Directions Asia). MediaOne, Stridec, Verz Design, BThrust and Rankpage complete the ten.
1. What is AI SEO and AEO for fintech?
AI SEO is the work of getting your firm named, and your pages cited, when buyers ask AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot which payment app, robo adviser, insurer or lender to consider. 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 page uses each agency's own term.
| SEO | AI SEO (AEO / GEO) | |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank card, loan, insurance and payment pages in Google and Bing results | Get your firm named and your pages cited when a buyer asks an assistant which provider to consider |
| Where you show up | The list of links on a results page | Answers in ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot |
| What the work includes | Keyword research, product page content, technical fixes, links | All of the SEO work, plus pages written to be quoted with their date, source and disclosure, structured data, and mentions on sites AI assistants trust |
| How it is measured | Rankings, clicks and traffic | AI Visibility Rate, AI Citation Rate, and AI performance in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools |
How is AI SEO and AEO measured for fintech?
Three measures cover most of what a buyer needs to know. Ask any agency to report all three, for each AI assistant, every month.
| Measure | What it shows |
|---|---|
| 1. AI Visibility Rate | How often an AI assistant names your firm in its answer, across the buyer questions you track. Example, for illustration only: if ChatGPT names your firm in 7 of 20 tracked questions such as "which robo adviser should I use in Singapore", your AI Visibility Rate on ChatGPT is 35%. |
| 2. AI Citation Rate | How often the answer links to, or quotes, a page on your website as a source. An assistant can quote your fees page and still name a competitor, so track both measures side by side. |
| 3. AI performance in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools | Google Search Console has a Generative AI performance report with impressions from AI Overviews and AI Mode. Bing Webmaster Tools shows the queries where Copilot and Bing AI answers used your pages. Both are free and come from the search engines themselves. Our money transfer case study reports AI Overview impressions on its destination pages from this source. |
AI answers change from one run to the next, so each question should be checked several times and reported as a range.
What makes AI search work different in financial services
Three conditions make AI search work in financial services different from the same work for a retail or software brand.
A published page is regulated marketing material. Singapore's Financial Advisers Regulations carry separate provisions for product advertisements (regulation 22), the approval of a product advertisement (22A), exemption from regulation 22(1) (22B), records of that approval (22C) and advertisements other than product advertisements (22D). The Payment Services Act, administered by MAS, covers payment services, including digital payment token services, a different activity from financial advice, so a payments firm and an adviser work under different rules about what they may say. In practice, a headline, a statistic and a comparison table are all claims, and each one passes an approver before it goes live.
Money topics are judged on who stands behind the page. Google's guidance on creating helpful, reliable content names "Your Money or Your Life" topics as the category that receives the strongest scrutiny. For a finance page that means a named author, a credited reviewer and firm data (legal name, licence number, address) that match across the site and third party listings.
The buyer's shortlist forms inside an AI answer. An assistant's answer names two or three firms and shows no list of links to scroll, so a firm missing from the answer loses the shortlist place without any lost click showing up in its analytics.
The questions fintech buyers ask AI engines
Searches that reached our own site show what financial services buyers ask when they look for this work, many of them written as full prompts:
- "aeo tool for fintech saas"
- "financial services and wealth management aeo agency"
- "which free dashboards or checkers help finance marketers see whether ai bots can read their site and how their brand narrative appears in ai answers?"
- "which geo services can support tight compliance review for financial ai content?"
- "which firms specialize in seo content for asset managers and fintechs?"
- "which singapore agencies have specific expertise in financial services geo?"
Bing Webmaster Tools, which reports the queries where our pages grounded AI answers, shows the same pattern for tools: buyers ask for the best AEO tools for the insurance industry, for fintech and for retail banking. Buyers in this sector ask about compliance review, about specialists by subsector (asset managers, neobanks, digital lenders, payment processors) and about free checks before a contract.
What an agency must handle
- Drafts written for the approver. Every figure carries its date, source and conditions, and the disclosure sits in the template before the draft reaches compliance.
- Author and entity data. Named authors with a real licence or designation, reviewers credited by name, and firm data that matches everywhere a machine reads it.
- Measurement per engine. Engines cite different pages: in our study of 500 queries across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, 94.2% of cited pages appeared in exactly one engine. A single blended visibility score hides which engine moved.
- Data handling under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). Storage location, retention period and the sub processor list belong in the statement of work before any customer data reaches the agency.
2. The best AI SEO & AEO agencies for fintech in Singapore: at a glance
One row per agency. Every cell comes from the agency's own pages, read on 28 October 2026, and each detailed entry below links the page it came from. "Not published" means we looked and found no figure.
| Rank | Agency | Evidence level | Best for | Fintech evidence | AI search services | Published pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novastacks | Case study with results | Licensed firms that want AI search work written for compliance approval and reported per engine | Published case study: international money transfer company (client masked), dated Search Console figures | SEO, AEO and GEO across Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot | Not published as a package; market range of roughly SGD 3,000 to 15,000+ a month on its financial services page |
| 2 | Hashmeta | Named client with results | Brokers and investment platforms that want AI search, social and creator work from one agency | Longbridge (online broker, Singapore and Hong Kong) GEO case: 19.8M Google impressions in the 12 months to December 2025, source Google Search Console | GEO and AEO services for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews | Retainers of US$1,500 to US$10,000 a month |
| 3 | OOm | Named client with results | Lenders and finance brands that want SEO, GEO and web under one team | Moneyplus Capital (licensed moneylender) SEO case: 800% more organic traffic within 5 months | SEO x GEO (SEO, GEO, International SEO) | Not published |
| 4 | marketingagency.sg | Unnamed case study | Fintech marketers that want acquisition written around MAS advertising rules | Unnamed financial advisory site rebuild: consultation bookings up 2.4x; dedicated fintech marketing page | AEO, GEO and AI SEO on its AI marketing agency page, plus free AI visibility tools | Not published |
| 5 | Impossible Marketing | Named client | Financial advisers that want a large, established agency with AI SEO | Testimonial from Wealth Directions Asia | AI SEO services naming ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity | Not published |
| 6 | MediaOne | Unnamed case study | Growth teams that want conversion and lead generation work | Unnamed Series C fintech case, conversion led | Not verified (no AEO or GEO wording found on the homepage) | Not published |
| 7 | Stridec | Blog content | Teams that want a priced GEO service and MAS focused reading | Fintech blog content only; no named fintech client found | GEO and SEO, "done for you" GEO | GEO and SEO plans from S$2,500 to S$8,000 a month |
| 8 | Verz Design | Named client (design work) | Fintech teams that need web design and development with GEO | EQ Insurance app portfolio piece (design work, no SEO results) | Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) | Not published |
| 9 | BThrust | Industry listing | Finance and accounting SMEs that want AI SEO | "Accounting & Finance" industry tile only | AI SEO and GEO service pages, including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini SEO | Not published |
| 10 | Rankpage | Industry listing | Fintech firms that want AEO and GEO split by AI engine | "Finance & Fintech" listed as an industry served | AI SEO, AEO, GEO and optimisation for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude | Not published (custom quote) |
How these agencies were chosen and ordered
We looked at each agency on the same five criteria, using only what the agency publishes on its own site.
- Fintech proof. Whether the site shows fintech or finance marketing work for a client (a case study, a named client or a testimonial), or only fintech blog content, an industry page or an industry listing.
- AI search capability (AEO and GEO). Whether the agency sells a dedicated AI SEO, AEO or GEO service, or only names AI search in a tagline, a page title or free tools.
- Singapore presence. Whether the site gives a Singapore street address or only states that the agency works in Singapore.
- Transparency of method and pricing. Whether the agency publishes a price for its own service, a method or a cost range.
- Evidence quality. Whether fintech results come with dated periods and a named data source, or arrive without either.
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 fintech evidence (client work first, then fintech content or industry pages, then general material only), then by their AI search capability, then by evidence quality. Where agencies match on all three, the one whose own site carries more fintech material comes first, counted as the number of its own pages about a finance client or fintech topic: Stridec's fintech guides, then Verz Design's EQ Insurance portfolio page, then BThrust's industry tile and Rankpage's industry listing. BThrust and Rankpage each show only a line on the homepage, so they are equal on that count. When two agencies are equal on these steps, alphabetical order decides, which puts BThrust before Rankpage. Among agencies with client work, results with a stated time period come before work without results, and a named client comes before an unnamed one. Hashmeta and OOm both show a named client with a dated result and both sell a dedicated AI search service, so evidence quality separates them: Hashmeta names Google Search Console as the source of its Longbridge figures, and OOm names no source for Moneyplus Capital. OOm (Moneyplus Capital, within 5 months) before marketingagency.sg (an unnamed client, within a quarter), and both before Impossible Marketing (a testimonial without figures). MediaOne follows them because we could not verify an AI search service on its site.
The evidence level column in the table above summarises the first criterion for each agency, and every detailed entry below links the pages it rests on.
All 10 agencies
Each other entry covers what the agency does, its fintech evidence with links, who it suits, its pricing and one limitation.
1Novastacks Operator-led. Agent-powered.

Best for: Banks, insurers, wealth managers and fintechs that want AI search work written for compliance approval and reported per engine.
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.
Fintech evidence: The international money transfer SEO case study covers an international money transfer company in Indonesia, with the client name withheld. Every destination page ran on one template, so Google saw the same page again and again. Novastacks set a title and heading standard built around how each destination is searched, live on the priority pages by late July. Clicks on the destination pages rose 20% from May to August 2026 while impressions held flat. Over the first 20 days of May against the first 20 days of September, the click through rate on those pages moved from 1.35% to 1.76%. AI Overview impressions on the destination pages rose 20% from 1 to 20 July against 1 to 20 September. Weekly clicks on the articles produced or refreshed grew 25x from early July to late September, and 88 pages produced were earning clicks from 1 to 20 September. The page names Google Search Console and the Search Console AI Overview report as its sources.
AI search depth: The SEO for financial services in Singapore page describes a buyer prompt set built from the firm's own demand evidence and put to Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot, with each answer graded recommended, sourced or absent. For a licensed firm, the monthly report also counts the days each page spends waiting for approval.
Watch outs: we do not publish package prices; our financial services page gives a market range of roughly SGD 3,000 to 15,000+ a month, and scope is quoted after the free audit. The fintech case study is from Indonesia with the client masked.
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.
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: AI search, social and creators in one agency

What they do. Hashmeta says it "helps brands grow their visibility across AI search, Google, social media and creators". Its about page lists a Singapore office at 30A Kallang Place and offices in Johor Bahru and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its AI search site, run by Hashmeta AI, which describes itself as part of Hashmeta, has a services page that says it gets "brands cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews".
Fintech evidence. A named client with dated results and a named source. Its Longbridge case study covers an online broker for investors in Singapore and Hong Kong and says that from September 2025 Hashmeta ran a GEO content programme on longbridge.com, and that "In the 12 months to December 2025, the site earned 19.8M Google impressions and 310K clicks", with Google Search Console named as the source. The same page shows ChatGPT listing a longbridge.com article first among its sources for one query in December 2025. Hashmeta AI also runs a financial services page with its own research on the sources AI engines cite for 13 brokers and 4 banks active in Singapore, and the Hashmeta blog carries a post on fintech SEO among more than ten finance posts in its sitemap.
Best for. Brokers and investment platforms that want AI search, social and creator work from one agency.
Pricing. Published on its pricing page: managed SEO, AEO and GEO retainers at US$1,500, US$5,000 or US$10,000 a month, with a 12 month minimum.
Limitation. The Longbridge totals cover the whole longbridge.com property, including searches for the brand name, and the ChatGPT example is one query in one session, as the page itself notes. The programme began in September 2025, so most of the 12 month window predates it.
3OOm: SEO, GEO and web under one team

What they do. OOm, at 1 Grange Road, Orchard Building, says it "has done this since 2006, combining SEO and SEM with social media, content and web development". Its menu groups SEO, GEO and International SEO under "SEO x GEO".
Fintech evidence. A Moneyplus Capital case study describes "a licensed moneylender in Singapore" and reports "800% Increase in Organic Website Traffic", reached "within 5 months" of engaging OOm's SEO services. OOm also published a 2019 blog post, Insurance Marketing that Sells.
Best for. Lenders and finance brands that want SEO, GEO, social, content and web development from one team.
Pricing. Not published.
Limitation. The Moneyplus Capital result is organic traffic, with no data source and no AI search result; the finance blog post dates from 2019.
4marketingagency.sg: acquisition planned around MAS advertising rules

What they do. marketingagency.sg lists "Fintech & Financial Services" as a vertical for "fintech, payments, wealth, and insurance brands". It offers free tools, including an AI Visibility Checker, an AI crawler robots and llms.txt generator and a Readability and AEO Clarity Checker. Its contact page gives an address at 10 Anson Road, International Plaza. Its AI marketing agency page lists "AI search visibility (AEO, GEO and AI SEO)" as a service and reports around 14,000 sessions referred by AI assistants for SaaS client Solmi.ai; it 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".
Fintech evidence. A dedicated digital marketing for fintech page frames the work as growing sign ups "without tripping MAS advertising guidelines, FAA expectations, or retail cryptocurrency promotion restrictions" (FAA is the Financial Advisers Act). Its financial advisory website case study, for a client it does not name, reports "Consultation bookings up 2.4x on the same traffic within the first quarter after launch".
Best for. Fintech marketers who want paid and organic acquisition planned around MAS advertising rules.
Pricing. Not published.
Limitation. The financial advisory client is unnamed and the result is conversion led, with no data source; the AI search results it publishes are for a SaaS brand and a home improvement client.
5Impossible Marketing: established agency with AI SEO and a wealth client

What they do. Impossible Marketing, at 14A Yan Kit Road, calls itself the "Best Digital Marketing Agency with 2000+ Clients Since 2012". Its menu lists AI SEO and AI SEO Services, with separate entries for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. The homepage says it has worked with Singapore businesses "from F&B outlets and retail brands to financial institutions and education providers".
Fintech evidence. A published testimonial from Wealth Directions Asia, a named financial client. We found no fintech case study with figures.
Best for. Financial advisers and smaller institutions that want an established agency with AI SEO services.
Pricing. Not published.
Limitation. The testimonial is a client endorsement without a stated period, metric or data source.
6MediaOne: conversion and lead generation for fintech

What they do. MediaOne, at 1 Neil Road, presents SEO and a paid media funnel on its homepage. We found no AEO or GEO wording there, so its AI search services are not verified for this list.
Fintech evidence. The homepage carries an unnamed fintech case about cutting cost per acquisition (CPA) for what it calls "a Fintech Unicorn". The client is described as "A Series C fintech company", and the case is conversion led: MediaOne "redesigned their landing page architecture", and the reported results are "a 74% reduction in CPA" and a 340% increase in the rate at which demos convert to closed deals. The case reports no search ranking or AI answer result.
Best for. Fintech growth teams whose first need is conversion rate and lead generation work.
Pricing. Not published on its own site.
Limitation. AI search services not verified, and the fintech case gives no period or data source.
7Stridec: published GEO price and MAS focused guides

What they do. Stridec describes itself as a "GEO/SEO Agency with Proven Methodology to Get Your Brand Cited in AI Search". Its about page dates the business to 2001 ("SEO Agency in Singapore Since 2001") and gives an address at 114 Lavender Street, CT Hub 2.
Fintech evidence. Fintech blog content only. Stridec publishes a guide titled "AI SEO for Fintech in Singapore: MAS Considerations, Accuracy Requirements, and How AI Assistants Cite Financial Content", and its sitemap lists further posts on AI SEO for fintech startups, AEO for fintech and SEO for fintech in Singapore. We found no named fintech client; the product case on its about page is AeroChat, Stridec's own software product.
Best for. Fintech teams that want a priced GEO service and a body of MAS focused reading before they talk to anyone.
Pricing. Published: the Stridec GEO and SEO pricing page lists plans at S$2,500 a month (one channel: Google AI Overviews with Gemini, or ChatGPT), S$4,500 a month (two channels) and S$8,000 a month (three channels, adding Claude). It is the only price for AI search work published by any agency on this list.
Limitation. No fintech client work or fintech results on the pages we read. Stridec also publishes its own fintech agency list and ranks itself first there, so treat that list the way you treat this one.
8Verz Design: web and app builds with GEO

What they do. Verz Design is a web design and development agency "Backed by 16 years of proven best practices", with 289+ clients stated. It offers "Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)" with the line "Increase your visibility in AI and dominate citations", and lists an address at 56 Kallang Pudding Road, HH@Kallang.
Fintech evidence. The EQ Insurance portfolio page describes a mobile app "which diminishes the idea that insurance is difficult to understand". It is design and development work with no SEO or AI search results.
Best for. Fintech teams that need a site or app built and GEO added by the same team.
Pricing. Not published.
Limitation. No fintech search results shown; the finance client work is an app build.
9BThrust: AI SEO for finance and accounting SMEs

What they do. BThrust (Business Thrust Pte. Ltd., 10 Ubi Crescent, Ubi Techpark) titles its homepage "Digital Marketing Agency Singapore: SEO, AI SEO & PPC". It says it has worked from Ubi Techpark since 2014 and describes itself as a solution approved in advance under the IMDA SMEs Go Digital programme. Its menu lists AI SEO, GEO, ChatGPT SEO, Claude AI SEO and Gemini SEO services, with a dedicated AI SEO page.
Fintech evidence. An "Accounting & Finance" industry tile on the homepage. No fintech content or client work found.
Best for. Finance and accounting SMEs that want AI SEO from a provider in the IMDA SMEs Go Digital programme.
Pricing. Not published.
Limitation. No fintech evidence beyond the industry tile.
10Rankpage: AEO and GEO split by AI engine

What they do. Rankpage lists the widest set of named AI search services on this list: AI SEO Services, ChatGPT Optimisation, Gemini Optimisation, Perplexity Optimisation, Claude Optimisation, AEO Services and GEO Services. The homepage offers a "Start AI Audit" entry point and a section headed "SEO & AI Citation Case Studies". Its contact page gives an address at 133 New Bridge Road, Chinatown Point.
Fintech evidence. "Finance & Fintech" appears under "Industries We Serve" on the homepage. We found no fintech case study.
Best for. Fintech firms that want AEO and GEO work split by AI engine.
Pricing. Not published: its SEO packages page offers a custom quote.
Limitation. The fintech claim is an industry listing, with no fintech client work found on the pages we read.
3. How much does AI SEO & AEO cost for fintech in Singapore?
Two agencies on this list publish a price for the AI search work itself. Stridec lists GEO and SEO plans from S$2,500 to S$8,000 a month on its pricing page, and Hashmeta lists managed SEO, AEO and GEO retainers at US$1,500, US$5,000 or US$10,000 a month on a 12 month minimum. Novastacks publishes a market range for financial services SEO in Singapore of roughly SGD 3,000 to 15,000+ a month and quotes each engagement after an audit. Rankpage offers a custom quote. The other six publish no package price on the pages we read.
For a licensed firm, the number of regulated entities, product lines and approvers moves the quote more than page count does, so ask every agency which of those three it priced.
4. How to choose an AI SEO & AEO agency for fintech
Use this checklist in the first meeting. Each item asks for something the agency either has or does not have.
Factors to consider
- A sample page written for approval. Ask where the product name, the date, the source and the disclosure sit before the page reaches your approver.
- A written approval path. Who drafts, who reviews, who releases, and where the agency sits in that path.
- Fintech work you can check. A case study with a period and a data source, or a client you can call. A blog post about fintech is reading material, and a logo is a logo.
- A dated AI answer report. Ask for a report at the level of single buyer questions, with a result per engine, for a real client.
- A price or a scoping method. A published price, or a clear statement of what sets the quote (licensed entities, product lines, approvers).
- Named people. Who attends the monthly review, and a written declaration of any conflict with your direct competitors.
What to ask in a pitch
- Which buyer questions would you track for our firm, and on which AI assistants?
- Where do the product name, date, source and disclosure sit in a draft before it reaches our approver?
- Who drafts, who reviews and who releases, and where do you sit in that path?
- Can we see a dated AI answer report, per engine, for a real client?
- Where will our customer data be stored, for how long, and which sub processors will see it?
Red flags when vetting an agency
Treat the agency with caution when:
- It asks you to explain MAS advertising obligations to it.
- It quotes one package for every firm, regardless of how many licensed entities you run.
- It asks for a customer list before a data agreement exists.
- It promises a ranking or an AI citation by a date.
Before any meeting, run your own site through the free tools in section 5 to get a baseline to hold every agency to.
5. Free tools to check any agency's work
Do not take any agency's word for its AI search results. Run your own brand, or the clients an agency names, through these tools before you sign. Each one is a single report from the day it is run, with no monitoring, alerts or re runs.
- Free AEO checker: an instant score out of 100 for your homepage in under 60 seconds, with no email needed. It covers AI crawler access, llms.txt, schema, page structure and citation quality.
- Free AI visibility tracker: 30 to 50 buyer prompts for your market tested on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overview, with the report delivered in 48 hours.
- Free AEO audit: a check of whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews recommend your brand, with the report emailed in 48 hours.
6. FAQ
What's the difference between AI SEO, AEO, GEO and AIO?
They overlap almost completely. AI SEO is the broad term most buyers search for. AEO (answer engine optimisation) means being the answer an AI assistant gives, GEO (generative engine optimisation) is the same idea named after generative AI, and AIO usually means optimising for Google's AI Overviews only. For a fintech, the label matters less than whether the agency reports results for each AI assistant.
Which Singapore agencies have specific expertise in financial services GEO?
On the evidence each agency publishes, Novastacks and Hashmeta are the two on this list with a published fintech case study that dates its periods and names its data source; Hashmeta's is for the online broker Longbridge. OOm publishes an SEO case for Moneyplus Capital, a licensed moneylender, and marketingagency.sg an unnamed financial advisory case. Impossible Marketing shows a testimonial from Wealth Directions Asia, and MediaOne an unnamed fintech case. Stridec publishes fintech blog content only.
Which AEO tool or agency suits a fintech SaaS?
A fintech SaaS needs an agency that tracks AI answers per engine and writes pages a compliance reviewer can approve. On this list, Novastacks reports per engine across Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot, Rankpage sells optimisation for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude separately, and Stridec publishes a GEO price. Ask any of them for a dated report on a real client.
Which GEO services can support tight compliance review for financial AI content?
Look for an agency that writes the disclosure, date and source into every draft before it reaches your approver. Novastacks builds disclosure, author and source blocks into the templates and reports the days each page waits for approval. marketingagency.sg frames its fintech work around MAS advertising guidelines. Ask every agency for a sample page and a written approval path before you sign.
How do financial services firms review marketing for compliance under MAS rules before publishing?
Each page is treated as an advertisement and passes an approver before it goes live. Singapore's Financial Advisers Regulations set separate provisions for product advertisements, their approval and the records of that approval, in regulations 22, 22A and 22C. Firms licensed under the Payment Services Act follow a different set of rules. An agency should deliver drafts that already carry the product name, date, source and disclosure.
Which GEO services offer pilots or free checks for fintech AI visibility?
Several agencies on this list offer a free starting point. Rankpage has a Start AI Audit entry point, marketingagency.sg offers a free AI Visibility Checker and an AEO clarity checker, and Novastacks offers a free AEO audit, a one time report on whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews recommend you or your competitors. None of these replaces a tracked set of buyer questions measured over months.
How much does SEO or GEO cost for a fintech in Singapore?
Two agencies on this list publish a price for AI search work: Stridec lists GEO and SEO plans from S$2,500 to S$8,000 a month, and Hashmeta lists SEO, AEO and GEO retainers at US$1,500, US$5,000 and US$10,000 a month. Novastacks publishes a market range for financial services SEO in Singapore of roughly SGD 3,000 to 15,000+ a month and quotes after an audit. The other agencies publish no package price on the pages we read.
How do I measure whether a financial firm is winning or losing visibility in AI engines over time?
Track a fixed set of buyer questions on each engine and record, for every answer, whether your firm is recommended, cited as a source or absent. Report each engine separately, because engines cite different pages: in our study of 500 queries, 94.2% of cited pages appeared in exactly one engine. Compare the same questions month on month beside pipeline and non brand demand.
Can a fintech startup outrank banks in AI answers?
Yes, on specific questions, because AI engines prefer sources whose claims they can attribute. A page that states a figure, its date, the product it applies to and who signed it can be lifted into an answer with the firm's name attached, whatever the firm's size. Start with the narrow buyer questions your pages can answer more precisely than a bank's general pages do.
How long does AI SEO take to show results for a fintech?
No honest agency gives a fixed date, because answers vary between runs and every page waits for compliance approval before it goes live. In our published money transfer case, the new title and heading standard was live on the priority pages by late July, and the click through rate comparison runs from May to September 2026. Ask any agency for a dated report before you sign.
What makes Novastacks different from other AI SEO agencies for fintech?
Three differences. First, we publish how our method works: senior operators direct Novastacks AI Search OS across four layers, from what goes in to what you get. Second, the work is operator led: founder Tina Chu (18+ years at Tencent, Expedia, Klook, Traveloka and Cabital) leads it, with Head of AEO Eki Riandra, a Google Product Expert. Third, each programme is configured per market and per language, in English and Chinese, across APAC.
Sources
- All agency pages read on 28 October 2026 with a neutral research user agent.
- Hashmeta homepage, about, fintech SEO post, sitemap, Longbridge case study, financial services page, services, pricing.
- OOm homepage, Moneyplus Capital case study and insurance marketing post.
- marketingagency.sg homepage, contact, fintech page, AI marketing agency page, financial advisory website case study.
- Impossible Marketing homepage and Wealth Directions Asia testimonial.
- MediaOne homepage.
- Stridec homepage, about, GEO and SEO pricing, fintech guide, fintech agency list.
- Verz Design homepage and EQ Insurance portfolio page.
- BThrust homepage and AI SEO page.
- Rankpage homepage and contact page, SEO packages page.
- Financial Advisers Regulations, Singapore Statutes Online.
- Payment Services Act, Monetary Authority of Singapore.
- Google Search Central, creating helpful, reliable, people first content.
- Novastacks international money transfer case study (Google Search Console and Search Console AI Overview report figures, May to September 2026).
- Novastacks study: AI Search Isn't One Channel. It's Three. (500 queries, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity).
- Novastacks Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools query data for novastacks-ai.com, pulled 28 October 2026.
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