Spinning up
Spinning up
B2B SaaS buyers in 2026 do vendor research inside AI engines first. The CFO at a Series-A company types "best [category] tool for [use case]" into ChatGPT or Perplexity, reads the cited answer, and books demos with the 3-5 brands the AI named. Your brand either makes the cited set or it doesn't. Xpand Media runs GEO + Performance Marketing + AI Automation as the operating spine for B2B SaaS engagements scaling Series A through C across MENA, EU, and APAC. Engagements include weekly share-of-citation tracking, AI-qualified inbound nurture, and named-account outbound calibrated to the technical buyer.
Last updated: May 2026 · Reviewed by the Strategy team
ICP stage
Series A through C, $1M-$50M ARR
Key platforms
LinkedIn Ads · Google Ads · Perplexity
Active in
8 cities
Xpand first-party data
Q1 2026 Xpand data across 14 B2B SaaS engagements: median time-to-first-citation in Perplexity was 41 days when entity + content engineering ran in parallel; content-only programs stalled past 90 days.
The operating spine
Service
Full-funnel paid media managed for pipeline and revenue. not impressions. Google, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Meta under one operator.
Service
Custom AI workflows that eliminate manual reporting, route leads instantly, and keep your CRM clean. so your team can focus on closing.
Service
Optimize your brand to appear in AI-generated recommendations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Service
Cold email, LinkedIn outreach, and AI-powered lead qualification. all connected to your CRM and optimized for booked demos.
Where B2B SaaS clusters
FAQ
GEO + Performance Marketing as the foundation. AI engines are now a primary buyer-research surface; without GEO infrastructure, the brand is invisible at the discovery stage regardless of how strong its Google ranking is. Performance Marketing converts the demand GEO generates.
The mix shifts. Series A leans GEO + AI-qualified outbound (low spend, high precision). Series B layers in Performance Marketing at scale. Series C adds AI Creative and brand-building. The operating spine stays the same.
Selectively. We work best with $1M+ ARR brands that have funding to deploy. Pre-revenue or pre-funding usually doesn't have budget headroom for the senior strategist time required.
Month-to-month after a 3-month minimum. Median engagement runs 9-14 months as the GEO + Performance compounding produces ARR growth that funds continued investment.
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