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RankAI grows your website on autopilot

Websites used to be static billboards, passive and waiting to be found.

 RankAI helps startups and agencies grow websites on autopilot. It learns from your site, market, competitors, and performance data to identify which pages should exist, creates them in your brand, publishes them directly to your live website, and continuously improves them based on real traffic and conversion — so your website gets discovered, trusted, and converted on by both human and Agents.
Active Founders
Hugo (Kanghong) Zhan
Hugo (Kanghong) Zhan
Co-Founder, CTO
Co-Founder and CTO @ Rankai. Previously: Engineering @ Amazon, National Junior Math Olympiad team, 74th nationally ranked table tennis player (U15), CS at UC Berkeley.
Company Launches
Rankai – AI Agents that Replace Marketing Agencies
See original launch post

TL;DR: Rankai is building AI Agents to replace marketing agencies. Its 1st agent automates the entire SEO process and makes it 20x more affordable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtACzv0uiV4

What’s the insight?

Marketing agencies grew and made $400B in 2024, despite the rise of affordable marketing tools. We talked to 100+ SMB owners, and found that many would still pay thousands for marketing agencies. They want to pay for a service – for someone to think about what to do, then just execute and deliver results.

What did we build?

Rankai is building AI Agents to strategize and execute on marketing objectives, just like an agency. It’s first AI Agent automates the SEO process and makes it 20x more affordable.

How it works:

Step 1: Crawl through your website pages and understand your business.

Step 2: Suggest technical SEO fixes based on Google SEO Guide.

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Step 3: Research for target keywords tailored to the business.

Step 4: Craft keyword-optimized SEO content.

Step 5: Finally, Rankai publish the technical SEO fixes and weekly blogs straight to your website.

The Team

Boyuan: Built and scaled FlowGPT from 0 to 4M users via SEO & organic traffic, EECS at UC Berkeley

Hugo: Engineering at Amazon, National Junior Math Olympiad Team, Blockchain Dev at Eluvio, Research at BAIR, Math & CS at UC Berkeley

Dyllan: Ex-McKinsey, Engineering at Amazon, Built an education platform serving 1500+ rural students, Business & DS at UC Berkeley

Our Ask (and Offer)

Try it yourself: rankai.ai

Demo/SEO Strategy Session: Book here

Intro: Any SMBs that aren’t SEO-optimized for organic traffic (Ecommerce owners, startups, agencies, local businesses, freelancers, etc.)

Emails: dyllan@rankai.ai and hugo@rankai.ai

Rankai
Founded:2023
Batch:Summer 2023
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco