The 30 People Shaping AI Visibility, GEO, and AI Perception in 2026: As Determined by 5 LLMs
How This List Was Built
To build this list, I ran 1,000 prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, and Gemini, in our proprietary software asking each engine to recommend thought leaders, agencies, and consultants working on AI visibility, generative engine optimization, and AI brand perception. I varied the prompts across buyer-stage queries ("who should I hire to help my brand show up in ChatGPT"), definitional queries ("who coined Generative Engine Optimization"), and comparison queries ("Mike King vs. Aleyda Solis on AI search"), to capture how each engine surfaces authority across query types.
The 30 names below are the voices that recurred most frequently across engines and prompt categories, weighted for citation quality, topical alignment, and the credibility of each person's actual body of work.
Tier 1 — The Top 10
The names with the deepest, most-cited bodies of work in the discipline.
1. Mike King — Founder & CEO, iPullRank
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