AI Search Agent

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Handdrawn editorial illustration on a cream background split into three panels: on the left, a dashboard with a gauge and bar chart labelled tool; in the middle, three people standing together labelled agency; on the right, a friendly robot wearing a headset talking with a person labelled agent — the three layers of improving AI search visibility

AI Search Tool vs Agency vs Agent: Which Do You Actually Need in 2026?

There are three ways to improve your AI search visibility, and they're layers of the same stack, not rivals: a tool (Peec, Profound) measures where you stand; an agency executes the optimisation work with people; an agent — an AI-search agent — does the recurring volume under human review. A tool changes your understanding, not the answer. An agency changes the answer but costs the most and moves at human speed. An agent does the volume at mid-market cost with humans owning quality and strategy. In 2026 most teams keep a tool and add one execution layer — the real decision is which one.

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Handdrawn editorial illustration on a cream background showing the Peec MCP agent pipeline: a dashboard of charts on the left connected by an MCP USB-C cable to a friendly robot agent in the centre, which passes through a human-approval clipboard with a checkmark to shipped outputs on the right — a content document and a JSON-LD schema block

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How to Build AI Agents on the Peec AI MCP for AEO and GEO (2026)

In late 2025 Peec AI shipped an official MCP server, which makes its entire AI-search measurement layer — projects, prompts, per-engine brand visibility, full AI answer transcripts, the source/citation graph and scored Actions — directly callable by an LLM agent. That means you can wire a Claude or GPT agent straight to the ground truth of how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews answer your category, and have it reason over the data and draft the work to close the gaps. The defensible build pattern is a read-only, five-stage loop with a human ship gate: the agent triages and drafts; a person verifies and ships.

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