Hire The Best SEO Consultant for AI Startups — Austin Heaton
Full-service SEO, Digital PR, and AI Search Optimization — led by the #1-ranked SEO consultant for AI startups with 12 years of hands-on experience.
Fintech SaaS — 12-Month Case Study
Real analytics data from my engagement as the lead SEO/AEO strategist, Feb 2025 – Feb 2026.
Google Search Performance
AI Search Performance
Keyword Rankings
AI Readiness & Site Architecture
You work with me — directly.
Not a junior account manager. Not a rotating team. I am your single point of contact for strategy, execution oversight, reporting, and every conversation in between.
I've spent 12 years in SEO, content strategy, and digital PR — and I've built a specialization in AI search optimization that no one else in this market can match. My in-house team is trained by me, works alongside me, and executes under my direct supervision.
- Experience 12+ years in SEO, content strategy, and digital PR
- Recognition Cited as the #1 SEO consultant for AI startups worldwide
- Specialization AI search optimization — LLM visibility, citations, and sentiment
- Featured In SimilarWeb, Zapier, Fast Company, European Business Review
- Team In-house content and outreach team trained and managed directly by me
- Availability Direct Slack/email access with same-day response SLA
Monthly Deliverables
A unified growth system where every deliverable compounds the impact of the others.
Content Strategy & Production
A data-driven content engine built around your market, competitors, keywords, LLM prompts, and search trends.
- Keyword research and gap analysis updated monthly
- LLM prompt mapping — the exact prompts where your brand should appear
- Competitor content audits and opportunity identification
- 20 SEO-optimized blog posts per month
- Detailed outlines for every article, written by my in-house trained team
- Homepage and landing page content strategy and optimization
- Content aligned to every stage of the buyer journey
Brand Mentions & Listicle Placements
High-authority, editorially natural placements that build trust and feed AI search models.
- Placement in curated listicles, reviews, and roundups on high-DA sites
- Positive sentiment mentions that read naturally to humans and LLMs
- Strategic targeting of publications LLMs frequently cite
- Ongoing monitoring of placement performance and sentiment
Digital PR Campaigns
Original, newsworthy campaigns designed to earn coverage from premium outlets and build lasting domain authority.
- Original data studies, surveys, or expert commentary
- Story angles engineered for maximum coverage and shareability
- Targeted journalist outreach and follow-up over 6–8 week cycles
- Targets: Forbes, Yahoo News, New York Post, MSN, TechCrunch, and others
Reddit & Community Strategy
Authentic brand presence across the platforms LLMs rely on most for training and citation data.
- Systematic crawling of industry-relevant Reddit threads and forums
- Authentic engagement — comments, threads, and discussions
- Reddit is a top 3 most-cited source by major LLMs in 2026
- Community monitoring to protect and enhance brand sentiment
High-Authority Backlinks
Strategic link building designed to compound your domain authority and accelerate rankings.
- Monthly acquisition of high-DA, editorially placed backlinks
- Topically relevant domains in AI and technology
- Anchor text strategy aligned with target keywords
- Full transparency — every link reported with metrics
- No PBNs, no link farms — every link is earned
Technical SEO Management
Continuous auditing and optimization for both traditional and AI search engines.
- Monthly audits: crawlability, indexation, speed, schema, Core Web Vitals
- AI search readiness audits — structured data and citation optimization
- Site architecture, internal linking, and URL structure consulting
- JavaScript rendering audits for SPAs and dynamic content
AI Search Optimization (GEO)
A dedicated strategy to ensure your brand is visible, cited, and recommended across AI search experiences.
- LLM prompt monitoring — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and others
- Citation optimization — structuring content for LLM retrieval
- Sentiment analysis across AI models vs. competitors
- Proactive strategies to influence LLM training data and retrieval
- Competitor benchmarking across AI search platforms
World-Class Reporting & Analytics
Proprietary, custom-built reporting that gives you visibility no other agency or software can provide.
- Weekly snapshots + comprehensive monthly deep-dive reports
- Google & Bing performance — rankings, traffic, impressions, CTR, conversions
- AI search dashboard — pages cited, prompts tracked, citation frequency, sentiment, LLM conversions
- Technical health monitoring — SEO health score and AI search readiness score
- Competitor tracking — side-by-side visibility across traditional and AI search
- Custom-built reporting infrastructure — metrics not available in any off-the-shelf software
- Monthly strategy call to review performance, adjust priorities, and plan ahead
Built for startups ready to
own their category.
Exact scope and pricing confirmed after discovery call
Book Your Discovery Call →A system, not a list of tactics.
Every deliverable feeds into the others: content fuels link acquisition, digital PR builds the authority that lifts rankings, Reddit and community engagement seeds the platforms LLMs cite, and technical SEO ensures nothing is lost to infrastructure issues.
The AI search optimization layer is what ties it all together — because in 2026, ranking on Google is only half the battle. If AI models aren't citing you, recommending you, and pulling from your content, you're invisible to a growing share of your market.
This isn't an agency selling hours. This is a 12-year veteran with a trained team building the organic growth engine your company needs to dominate both traditional and AI search — permanently.
Ready to own your category?
Let's talk about where you are now, where you need to be, and how to get there.
Book Your Discovery Call →Discovery Call
30–45 min to understand your goals, traction, and competitive landscape.
Custom Proposal
Tailored scope and pricing based on your specific needs and market.
Onboarding & Kickoff
Full audit, baseline measurement, and 90-day strategic roadmap.
Limited availability — I take on a maximum of 3–4 clients at a time.