Avium launches in Lithuania, targets AI-driven speaker visibility

Avium has launched in Lithuania with a pitch that speaks directly to the new AI search economy: if speakers, authors, executives, and founders are not showing up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI tools, they may be invisible when buyers start looking.

Founder and CEO Benas Leonavicius is positioning the firm as a personal-brand visibility agency built around an integrated stack that combines SEO, AI search visibility, LinkedIn strategy, YouTube content, and podcast placements. The company says it enters the market with more than 36 client engagements already completed and a documented 794 percent year-over-year increase in AI-referred traffic across that portfolio.

That headline number is the kind of claim that demands careful reading. Avium’s launch material ties the growth to a broader authority system rather than to classic on-site optimization alone, with examples that include a bestselling author moving from weak rankings to page one, a Harvard-affiliated keynote speaker generating 921,000 Google impressions, a leadership speaker seeing organic traffic rise fivefold, and a client reaching 165 ChatGPT citations in under four months after starting with no search presence. The business case is clear: for high-ticket experts, visibility is no longer just about ranking in Google. It is about being named, cited, and surfaced across multiple discovery layers.

Leonavicius has framed the opportunity around the way meeting planners and corporate decision-makers now use AI tools to find speakers and experts. That aligns with broader industry signals. American Express Global Business Travel’s 2025 Global Meetings & Events Forecast said 50 percent of meeting planners were embracing AI software and apps, while the 2026 forecast surveyed 601 meeting professionals in eight countries and said AI was helping the sector work smarter and drive engagement.

The launch also lands in a search environment where trust signals are fragmenting across platforms. Yext’s analysis of 6.8 million AI citations found that Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity do not reward brands in the same way, and Search Engine Journal has noted that AI search engines often cite third-party content heavily. That makes Avium’s mix of SEO, social proof, video, and podcasting less like a marketing bundle and more like an attempt to manufacture authority in the exact places AI systems look for it.

Leonavicius, who is based in Vilnius and is described on his personal site as building Avium for world-class experts, has been sharpening this model in public for months. An episode of The Unscripted SEO Interview Podcast featuring him aired on February 9, 2026, before the formal launch on May 22, 2026. The bigger question now is whether Avium’s 794 percent figure becomes a repeatable agency benchmark or just a strong opening number in a market that is still defining its rules.