ThriveFinity vs First Page Digital for AI Search Optimisation (GEO) in Singapore

First Page Digital suits a company that wants AI search handled inside a wider SEO and paid advertising programme, by a large performance marketing group with its own reporting tool. ThriveFinity, which is us, suits a B2B company that wants AI search as a separate, priced job: a diagnosis of 100 to 150 buyer questions across five AI tools, fixes to its own pages and a re-test at day 30. The clearest differences are scale, the breadth of channels, and how much each publishes about price and method.

Google's page on whether you need an SEO, last updated in June 2026, says to ask anyone selling AEO or GEO services whether their advice lines up with Google's own guidance. Put that question to both firms on this page.

Facts about First Page Digital come from its own website, as published on 31 October 2026. Its contact page didn't load when we checked, so we couldn't read its address there. Services and terms change, so check its site before you decide. We have a commercial interest in this comparison and we're not affiliated with First Page Digital. Where its pages are silent, the table says "not published". That doesn't mean it doesn't offer the thing. Ask.

A Marketing Group or a Fixed-Scope Studio

Both firms will work on how AI tools describe and recommend you. They come at it from opposite ends.

First Page Digital's Who We Are page calls it a global performance marketing partner that answers to its clients, not its shareholders. The same page names Shane Liuw as chief executive and says the group includes 10 companies and operates in 11 countries and 8 languages, without listing them. Its homepage says it has created SEO strategies since 2011 and works with brands from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

AI search is one service among many. Its AI SEO page describes the firm as an answer engine optimisation agency and refers to its generative engine optimisation services. The rest of the menu covers SEO of several kinds, Google, Bing and social ads, ChatGPT ads, reputation management, content and strategy work.

ThriveFinity sells AI search optimisation (GEO) on its own: a free Signal, a fixed-price AI Presence service, an AI Visibility service priced by estimate from a published starting price, and an optional monthly AI Growth plan. We're a one-person company registered in Chennai, India, working with B2B companies in the UK, Singapore and elsewhere. We don't run ads.

AEO and GEO, by the way, are two names for much the same work. Both mean getting a business found, described and recommended in AI answers.

Side-by-Side Comparison

The table sets out what each firm publishes on twelve points. First Page Digital's column summarises its own pages.

"Not published" means the pages we checked didn't say. Our prices come from our published pricing. They're set in each currency rather than converted, exclude tax, and businesses billed in Singapore pay in USD.

What First Page Digital Publishes About Its AI SEO Work

First Page Digital's AI SEO page lists a broad set of tasks. It starts with audience research drawn from support tickets, live chats and forum threads. Then come conversational, question-led content with the answer at the top, structured data for products, articles and FAQs, and E-E-A-T signals such as author bios and case studies. It adds FAQ pages, topic hubs with internal links, voice and local search work, Google Business Profile, review generation and citation building.

Most of that is established SEO practice pointed at AI answers. Google's guidance on its own AI features backs that approach:

So a firm with deep SEO and content teams has a natural starting point. One item deserves a question in any proposal. Review generation can mean many things, so ask how it works and what would be sent to your customers.

Its site also treats individual AI tools separately. Its page sitemap lists separate pages for SEO on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, an LLM information page, and sector AEO pages for interior design and education. That suggests it treats each assistant as its own channel. I haven't read each of those pages, so I can't say how the work differs between them.

What I couldn't find: prices, a minimum term, how many buyer questions it tracks or how often each is run. The homepage invites you to find out what kinds of performance guarantees and milestones it can help you achieve, but the conditions aren't on the pages we read. If a guarantee matters to you, get its exact wording, its conditions and the remedy in the contract.

How Each One Measures Results

Measurement is where AI search proposals differ most, because AI tools rarely give the same answer twice.

In January 2026, SparkToro and Gumshoe had 600 volunteers run 12 prompts through ChatGPT, Claude and Google's AI a combined 2,961 times. Rand Fishkin reported a chance of less than 1 in 100 that ChatGPT or Google's AI would give the same list of brands in any two responses to the same prompt. Getting the same list in the same order was closer to 1 in 1,000.

A single run of each question tells you very little. What you want is a rate, such as named in 7 of 10 runs, measured the same way before and after the work.

First Page Digital measures through NexSEO, a tool it describes as giving statistics on how often your brand is recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI platforms. Its AI SEO page lists the measures as AI citation frequency, branded search volume, zero-click visibility, and traffic quality and conversion. Its FAQ says that measuring AI SEO with traditional analytics can be a challenge. Branded search and conversion are sensible measures, because they're closer to revenue than mention counts.

What the page doesn't say is how many questions NexSEO tracks or how many times each is asked. Ask for that, plus a sample report.

We ask each of 100 to 150 buyer questions 3 times in each of five AI tools: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. We count how often you're named, recommended and described correctly against 3 to 5 competitors, record the sources cited, then run the same set again at day 30. AI Growth keeps the same questions running monthly. If you want to see why the sources matter, our study of where each AI assistant gets its answers breaks them down by engine.

When First Page Digital Is the Better Choice

First Page Digital is the better choice when AI search is one part of a large, multi-channel marketing programme. These are the situations where I'd point you there rather than to us.

• You want SEO, paid search, social ads and AI search run together. Its menu covers all of them, including Bing and ChatGPT ads. We do no paid media.
• You sell in several countries or languages. It says its group operates in 11 countries and 8 languages. We're a one-person company.
• Your reputation online needs work. It lists reputation management, including review responses. We don't offer that.
• You want content made for you at volume. It lists blog writing and video production. Our AI Visibility service writes 5 briefs for new pages, not the pages themselves.
• You want a performance guarantee discussed. Its homepage says it offers guarantees and milestones. We make no promise about what AI tools will say.
• You want a large team behind you. Its Who We Are page describes a group of 10 companies. We're one person, with a named verifier on every report.

The usual trade-off applies. With no published prices, get the AI search scope, the question set, the minimum term and any guarantee terms written into the proposal.

Questions to Ask Any Provider

Ask every provider the same questions, in writing. Google's hiring advice is the right place to start:

The same page suggests asking what results to expect and in what timeframe, how success is measured, and whether they'll share every change they make to your site. Then add the AI search questions:

1. How many buyer questions will you track, and can I see the full list before we start?
2. Which AI tools do you test, and how many times do you run each question?
3. When is the re-test, and will it use exactly the same questions and settings as the baseline?
4. What exactly will you change, and who does the work: you, or my team from your list?
5. What does it cost, what's the minimum term and what's the notice period?
6. If you offer a guarantee, what are its conditions and what's the remedy?

The longer version, with red flags, is in our GEO agency buyer's guide. Before the calls, get your own baseline. My guide to running an AI visibility check shows how.

How We Wrote This Comparison

Why First Page Digital? When we asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity best AI visibility agencies in Singapore three times each on 31 October 2026, First Page Digital was named in 5 of 12 answers. ThriveFinity was named in none of the 12. We ran the test through each provider's API (gpt-5.4-mini, claude-haiku-5-5, gemini-3.5-flash and Perplexity's sonar), so the consumer apps may answer differently.

That count shows how often the tools named each firm on one day. It doesn't rank quality, and the same test next week could come out differently.

This page names a competitor, so we hold it to the UK's rules on comparative advertising. Section 3 of the CAP Code says a comparison with an identifiable competitor must compare products meeting the same needs and objectively compare material, relevant, verifiable and representative features. So every fact about First Page Digital links to the page it came from and is dated. I haven't repeated its case-study results, client counts or awards, because I can't verify them and quoting them would only repeat its marketing.

Spotted something out of date or wrong? Email om@thrivefinity.uk. We respond within 5 working days, and corrections are logged on our errata page. The next scheduled recheck of every fact here is due by 29 January 2027.

Where ThriveFinity Fits

We fit when you want AI search as a defined job with a published price, tested across five AI tools and measured before and after. Every price below comes from our pricing page and is shown in GBP and USD.

• AI Presence Signal (free, under an hour): 12 buyer questions across GPT (OpenAI), Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, scored 0 to 100. It's automated and unsigned.
• AI Presence (£849 (US$1,099), 5 working days): a signed fact sheet, a scored audit and up to 10 profiles created or aligned in your name, re-scored at day 30.
• AI Visibility (from £2,250 (US$2,949), 10 working days): 100 to 150 buyer questions across five AI tools, your 10 highest-value pages fixed, 5 briefs for new pages and a re-test at day 30. Signed by a named verifier, with the Accuracy Commitment.
• AI Growth (from £2,250 (US$2,949) a month) or Quarterly Re-measurement (£595 (US$799)): after AI Visibility, if you want ongoing tracking. AI Growth has a 3-month minimum, then 30 days' notice.

We're not the right choice if you need paid media, reputation management, content at volume or work in several languages. First Page Digital covers each of those. We also don't buy links or placements, and we won't promise that any AI tool will name you. Our sample AI visibility report shows exactly what you'd get, and every comparison we've written is on the comparisons hub.

Pranav Unni

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Pranav Unni is the founder and lead verifier of ThriveFinity. He reads and signs every paid deliverable personally, and writes about go-to-market decisions for established B2B companies.