{"id":85538,"title":"Rankai – AI Agents that Replace Marketing Agencies","tagline":"Building AI Agents to replace marketing agencies","body":"**_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.\n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtACzv0uiV4\u003e\n\n# **What’s the insight?**\n\nMarketing 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. \n\n# **What did we build?**\n\nRankai 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.\n\nHow it works:\n\nStep 1: Crawl through your website pages and understand your business.\n\nStep 2: Suggest technical SEO fixes based on Google SEO Guide.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=85538\u0026key=user_uploads/804786/38787d8a-f2b6-4192-a390-978a58725a1e)\n\nStep 3: Research for target keywords tailored to the business.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfvDlVknS_1BOO7TT6rVukxlz7ROXbt8sg9mLlsqMfsV8HLNjiq-JQUS43zNtq1_98fFFygSLSg83emG0O55j8afS0CegUWoP1N2xHwxkAvaiqDxuCKmvwE9QVKISbciRQFVd0jzw?key=_60rhAaWD9CT0jrsgoEW3IYz)\n\nStep 4: Craft keyword-optimized SEO content.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeLgTVPuUR6tTMOOeGGqoUsueqcHs_RtCr_cPyHDG4MriprwfgzlzAeCm_v5WVNkJfSXLoOoiUAlaM9fYUmvH4CrVXyJMll_LTFmhO2KcdL00vswJK5VUCnQPK0i40YjIUVIXPTCA?key=_60rhAaWD9CT0jrsgoEW3IYz)\n\nStep 5: Finally, Rankai publish the technical SEO fixes and weekly blogs straight to your website.\n\n# **The Team**\n\n[Boyuan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyuan-deng/): Built and scaled FlowGPT from 0 to 4M users via SEO \u0026 organic traffic, EECS at UC Berkeley\n\n[Hugo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugo-z-21197a122/): Engineering at Amazon, National Junior Math Olympiad Team, Blockchain Dev at Eluvio, Research at BAIR, Math \u0026 CS at UC Berkeley\n\n[Dyllan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dyll/): Ex-McKinsey, Engineering at Amazon, Built an education platform serving 1500+ rural students, Business \u0026 DS at UC Berkeley\n\n# **Our Ask (and Offer)**\n\nTry it yourself: [rankai.ai](http://rankai.ai)\n\nDemo/SEO Strategy Session: [Book here](https://calendly.com/rankai/rankai-ai-demo)\n\nIntro: Any SMBs that aren’t SEO-optimized for organic traffic (Ecommerce owners, startups, agencies, local businesses, freelancers, etc.)\\\n\\\nEmails: [dyllan@rankai.ai](mailto:dyllan@rankai.ai) and [hugo@rankai.ai](mailto:hugo@rankai.ai)","slug":"MFe-rankai-ai-agents-that-replace-marketing-agencies","created_at":"2024-11-13T21:43:46.169Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:52:28.067Z","total_vote_count":238,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFe-rankai-ai-agents-that-replace-marketing-agencies","share_image_url":"https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeLgTVPuUR6tTMOOeGGqoUsueqcHs_RtCr_cPyHDG4MriprwfgzlzAeCm_v5WVNkJfSXLoOoiUAlaM9fYUmvH4CrVXyJMll_LTFmhO2KcdL00vswJK5VUCnQPK0i40YjIUVIXPTCA?key=_60rhAaWD9CT0jrsgoEW3IYz","company":{"id":28992,"name":"Rankai","slug":"rankai","url":"https://rankai.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/32ccd0a8e163e6c0cf404e4f9c6202d57317315c.png","batch":"Summer 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","SaaS","B2B","Marketing"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/28992"}}