A technical base that indexes.
Crawl and indexation fixes, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering, canonical logic, and schema markup.
The startup SEO agency that bets its own fee on your results
We build the organic engine your next raise gets judged on: a site that indexes cleanly, the pages buyers convert on, and real placements in publications your market and the AI models already trust. Targets, outlets, and dates agreed before kickoff, behind a 100% guarantee.
The stakes
Runway is the only budget that really matters
Every founder shopping for a startup SEO agency runs the same arithmetic.
A fixed number of months of cash, a board that wants a channel which keeps working after you stop paying for it, and a paid line where CAC climbs every quarter.
The expensive part is rarely the retainer. It is the eight months you spend finding out it was the wrong one. While you wait, a company funded in the same round publishes the comparison page for your category and keeps it. Another gets quoted in the trade press, so when a buyer asks ChatGPT which vendors to consider, three names come back and yours is not one of them. Whoever holds those positions going into your Series A usually still holds them at Series B.
What it includes
What SEO for startups actually includes
SEO for startups is not a smaller version of enterprise SEO. Fewer pages, less budget, and a much shorter patience window change what you build first.
Keyword research from your sales calls.
Clusters pulled from closed won deals, rep objections, and support tickets rather than a volume export, then mapped so every page has a metric.
The pages that close.
Money pages, comparison and alternative pages, use case pages by ideal customer profile, integration pages, and the signup path. Revenue concentrates here, and most early teams have published none of it.
Authority through earned coverage.
Editorial placements and digital PR in publications journalists actually write for, plus a backlink gap analysis against whoever outranks you.
AI search visibility.
Entity data, structured markup, and monthly tracking of where you appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
Reporting a board can read.
GA4 and Search Console wired to your CRM, reported on qualified traffic, signups, pipeline, and AI citations. Rank tracking is a diagnostic, not the scoreboard.
By stage
The plan changes with your stage
Pre seed, before product market fit.
Skip the content calendar. Claim your entity, get the site crawlable, and earn founder coverage that keeps paying you links even if the product pivots underneath it.
Seed.
Demand capture beats volume. Twelve to twenty pages built on terms with buying intent, plus enough authority to rank them. Organic traction does quiet work in diligence too, because non paid demand answers the market question investors care about most.
Series A.
Scale content and take the category terms before a rival makes them permanent. Software teams start at SaaS SEO, broader B2B at B2B SEO.
Series B and beyond.
Governance, international targeting, migration safety, and share of search against named competitors.
Earned coverage
Earned coverage, not bought links, is what AI engines cite
Most agencies sell startups digital PR and deliver guest posts on sites nobody reads.
We run an actual PR practice, so links arrive attached to real articles with real journalists on the byline.
That matters more every quarter. Buyers now build shortlists inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, and those answers name two or three companies with no page two to fall back on. Models cite what they can verify, so we fix your entity data, implement structured data, write in quotable blocks, and get you mentioned in the titles those models already lean on. One placement in a publication Google and the LLMs trust does work fifty paid links cannot fake. We baseline your AI citations at kickoff and report them monthly. See startup PR and get featured in Forbes.
How it runs
How the engagement runs
- 1
Discovery and audit.
We crawl the site, pull twelve months of Search Console and GA4, read your win and loss notes, and check which competitors the AI engines already cite.
- 2
Roadmap in writing.
Deliverables, targets, outlets, and dates agreed before kickoff. You sign a scope, not a statement of intent.
- 3
Build, publish, pitch.
Developers ship the technical fixes, writers produce content from expert interviews, and our PR team pitches journalists in your category.
- 4
Review against the number.
Working sessions every two weeks and a quarterly review measured on qualified traffic, signups, pipeline, and citations.
Why AceIt
Why founders hire AceIt as their startup SEO agency
You may have paid for this once already.
A retainer that produced a content calendar, a dashboard nobody opened, and a quarterly call where the agency explained that search takes time. No coverage you could send your board. No movement on the terms with buying intent. For a company burning runway, that is not a bad campaign. That is a missed raise.
So the commitment goes into the contract as numbers. Deliverables, targets, outlets, and timelines are agreed before kickoff, and if we do not deliver what we committed to on the timeline we committed to, you get your money back. We never guarantee a specific ranking position, because nobody owns those and any agency selling one is misleading you. We commit to measurable growth in qualified organic traffic, share of search, and AI citations, and the refund backs every agreed deliverable. Of the ten pages competing for this search, not one offers a refund of any kind.
Senior people run your account, with no junior account managers and replies in 1 to 2 hours. PR, SEO and GEO, and web sit under one roof, so the coverage we earn feeds your rankings instead of sitting in a clippings report.
What the last retainer produced
A content calendarA dashboard nobody opened“Search takes time”
Proof
Proof with numbers attached
4,200+Visits one anonymized client turned a single feature into
38%Increase in branded search from that feature
DA 94Authority of the backlink it earned
12Secondary pickups, each a citation a model can repeat
Clients have been featured in
Vezbi, a community super app, earned over 1 million brand impressions while expanding into the U.S., using organic PR only. Fifty plus Forbes placements across 12+ industries so far, most clients see a first Forbes opportunity within 4 to 8 weeks, and one anonymized client turned a single feature into 4,200+ visits, a 38% increase in branded search, a DA 94 backlink, and 12 secondary pickups. Clients have been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wired, Bloomberg, Inc., and Fast Company.
Cost
What a startup SEO agency costs
Since almost none of your other options will show you a number before a sales call, here is the market to measure them against.
Foundational programs run roughly $2,000 to $5,000 a month, growth programs $4,000 to $6,000, and comprehensive work $8,000 to $15,000.
Ours: search engagements run mid five figures to six figures annually against a 12 month roadmap, because meaningful results take 6 to 12 months and we would rather say so before you sign than in month nine. Project, retainer, and performance oriented models are available, and Forbes campaigns are scoped and priced in writing before kickoff. Full detail at our pricing page, and every option carries the same 100% guarantee: the agreed results or your money back.
The fit
Who this fits, and who it does not
Term sheetit fits
It fits funded startups from seed through Series B, bootstrapped companies with real revenue, and marketing leads of one who know what needs doing and have nobody to do it. Fintech, healthtech, marketplace, and ecommerce teams all qualify.
Passit does not
It does not fit anyone who needs demand inside 30 days, anyone buying on lowest monthly rate, or anyone who wants a number one position written into a contract. We also do not take equity in place of fees.
Questions
Asked before every startup SEO engagement
Anything else, email [email protected] and it comes back in 1 to 2 hours.
Foundational startup programs run roughly $2,000 to $5,000 a month across this market, growth programs $4,000 to $6,000, and comprehensive work $8,000 to $15,000. Our own engagements run mid five figures to six figures annually against a 12 month roadmap, with a refund if we miss what we agreed.
Yes, if you have 9 to 12 months of runway to let it compound. Paid acquisition stops the day the card stops, while rankings and editorial coverage keep returning traffic long after the work is done. Organic traction also carries weight in fundraising, because non paid demand is evidence of a real market.
Expect 6 to 12 months for meaningful results, which is why we plan against a 12 month roadmap. Earlier signals are real, though. Technical fixes and bottom of funnel pages can move qualified traffic within a quarter, and digital PR placements land faster still, often inside 4 to 8 weeks.
Start the technical and entity groundwork as soon as you have a website, and start content and authority work once your positioning stops moving every month. Before product market fit, keep it light: a crawlable site, clear pages describing what you sell, and founder coverage that survives a pivot.
Run paid first if you need signal this month, then start SEO in parallel rather than after it. Ads buy fast learning about messaging and which terms convert, and that data sharpens the organic plan. The mistake is waiting until ads are profitable, because a competitor owns the rankings by then.
Ask four questions. Who actually does the work, and are they senior. What gets delivered, in writing, by what date. What happens if those targets are missed. And can they earn real editorial coverage or only buy links. We answer all four in the contract, backed by a 100% money back guarantee.
Next step
See what your competitors already own
Send us your domain and the two companies you keep losing deals to. You get back the buying intent terms they rank for and you do not, where AI answers name them instead of you, the coverage we would pitch in month one, and what we would commit to in writing. Every engagement carries a 100% guarantee: the agreed results or your money back.
Every engagement carries a 100% guarantee: you get the agreed results or your money back