AEO for Recruiting and HR Companies
Be named when employers ask an AI assistant which staffing partner or HR platform to use.
Overview. Your AI visibility and share of voice at a glance.
Used by 200+ brands to optimize their AI visibility
Your buyers are asking AI. Is it naming you?
Both sides of the recruiting market now research with assistants. Employers ask which agencies specialise in a role or region and which HR platforms fit their size; candidates ask which firms are worth working with. Each conversation produces a short list, and neither runs through your website first.
The category is crowded and largely undifferentiated in how it describes itself, which is an opportunity. Specificity about roles, industries, and geographies is what makes an agency citable, and most publish the same claims about talent and culture as everyone else.
Prompts recruiting and HR companies should track
- best recruiting agency for [role or industry]
- [ATS] vs [ATS]
- how much do recruiters charge
- best applicant tracking system for [company size]
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Perplexity
- AI Overviews
Loved by marketers. Recommended by AI.
“It’s a mature, open‑source, self‑hosted AEO/AI visibility tracker.”
ChatGPT
“Simple and much more cost effective than Profound.”
Nolan
Speakeasy
“Elmo is the open-source pick: you self-host it for free and track how every major AI answer engine mentions and cites your brand.”
Claude
“We were looking for an affordable way to track our visibility in AI search, and Elmo was a great fit. They were incredibly responsive and quickly added the integration we needed.”
James W.
TradeSites
“The best open-source alternative to the AI visibility platform Profound is Elmo.”
Gemini
“We're an AEO consultancy, so we turned Elmo on ourselves before any client. It's the tool I trust to tell us the truth about our own AI visibility, and it was tracking within the hour.”
Viveka D.
AISearch Global
“The biggest thing for me is seeing how our brand shows up in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews all in one dashboard. Before this I was literally typing prompts by hand to check.”
Borys M.
Backlink Agency
“Elmo has been fantastic to use for tracking AI visibility of my sports management platform RecordRanks. I highly recommend it, I think it's genuinely worth it!”
Deni M.
RecordRanks
“Elmo is the best open-source alternative to Profound for most users.”
Perplexity
The AEO playbook for recruiting and HR companies.
What gets a brand named in AI answers in your category, and where Elmo shows you the gaps.
1Specialise the prompt set by role and region
Nobody asks for the best recruiting agency in general. They ask for engineering recruiters in Berlin or healthcare staffing in Texas. Track the specific combinations you actually serve.
2Publish fee structures and timelines
Placement fees, guarantee periods, and typical time-to-fill are what employers ask about and what almost no agency site states. Publishing them is an unusually cheap way to become the citable source.
3Cover the platform comparison queries
For HR tech, 'X vs Y' and 'best ATS for [company size]' carry the buying intent. Honest comparison content earns the citation that a feature page will not.
4Track employer brand prompts separately
How engines describe you to candidates is a different question from how they describe you to employers, driven by different sources — review platforms rather than industry press.
Where Elmo fits
Elmo tracks role, region, and platform-comparison prompts separately, and shows the employer-facing and candidate-facing pictures side by side rather than collapsing them into one score.
From zero to a plan in one afternoon.
No sales call, no bloat. Elmo sets up your tracking and tells you what to change.
1Add your brand
Point Elmo at your site. It suggests the prompts your buyers ask and the competitors to track against.
2See where you stand
Visibility, share of voice, and the sources AI cites, sampled up to 4× daily from the real apps.
3Know what to fix
Opportunities ranked by impact. Elmo keeps you updated, so you always know what to do next.
Every answer engine your buyers use.
Elmo both scrapes what real users see in popular AI search tools and captures all other models with direct API calls and OpenRouter.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Perplexity
- AI Overviews
- AI Mode
- Copilot
- Grok
- DeepSeek
- Mistral
- Qwen
- OpenRouter LLMs
Why Teams Switch to Elmo
More Data
Elmo runs every prompt against models 4× daily.
No Bloat
We only do AEO / GEO, but we do it very well.
Unlimited Seats
For your whole team on every plan.
API + MCP
Fit Elmo into your stack and agents.
Open Source
Self host at any time, with no lock-in.
Simple, self-serve pricing.
We recommend Basic for recruiting and HR companies: 50 prompts across 4 AI platforms, checked 4× daily, for $99/mo. Unlimited seats on every plan.
- 1 brand, 50 prompts
- ChatGPT only
- Answers checked 1× daily
- No premium models
- 1 brand, 50 prompts
- Any 4 AI platforms
- Answers checked 4× daily
- No premium models
- 2 brands, 150 prompts
- Any 4 AI platforms
- Answers checked 4× daily
- 20 premium prompts 1× daily
- 5 brands, 350 prompts
- Any 4 AI platforms
- Answers checked 4× daily
- 30 premium prompts 1× daily
Self-hosted
The same product on your own servers. Unlimited prompts, every model, full source.
Custom
More brands, custom prompt limits, higher sampling rates, and any models.
White label
Offer AI visibility tracking to your clients under your own brand, domain, and SSO.
Frequently asked questions
Something we didn't cover? Ask the maintainers directly on Discord.
How do employers use AI to choose a recruiting partner?
By asking for specialists — agencies that cover a given role, industry, or region — and by asking about fee structures and typical timelines. The assistant returns a short list, and that list is usually where the evaluation starts.
Should recruiting firms track candidate-facing AI visibility too?
Yes, and separately. Candidate-facing answers draw mainly on review platforms and forums rather than industry publications, so the two pictures can diverge sharply and need different work to fix.
Start winning AI search today.
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- Self-serve
- Unlimited seats
- API and MCP access
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