SEO and AI search
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the work that brings a website higher in Google. These tools do that work, or measure how AI assistants mention a business.
SEO and AI search holds 6 of the 110 stories on Aiolum: 0 run by a solo founder and 6 by a team of 2 to 10. Together they report US$3M in verified outcomes; the largest is SEObot, US$888K in the last 12 months, October 2026. 5 headline numbers carry evidence grade A (disclosed or verified), 0 grade B (independent press) and 1 grade C (founder claim). The median story reached its headline number 19 months after launch. The founders are in 4 countries, most often USA and Canada. The most common main channel is the founder's posts and audience (3 of 6). The tools named most often in their sources are Stripe (6), Google Tag Manager (5) and TrustMRR (5).
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A customer enters a website address. SEObot reads the site, chooses search phrases, makes a plan of articles, writes the articles with language models and publishes them to the customer's blog every week. The customer pays a monthly plan of article credits and can approve, edit or decline each article.
The founder had about 117,000 followers on X and more than 20 other products for the same customers, so the tool had buyers before it had a public launch. It sold a finished result, a published article, for about US$3.50 to US$5.44. Payment records show about US$100,000 a month at the end of 2025 and a fall in every month since January 2026.
Software for marketing agencies and local businesses that want to appear higher in Google Maps and in local search results. One subscription covers a rank tracker that checks positions from a grid of points on the map, one-click listing of a business on more than 550 directories, scheduled posts and review replies for Google Business Profile, a database of local business contacts, and AI-written articles that aim to make ChatGPT and other assistants recommend the business.
The founder had an audience before the product existed: a daily YouTube show about SEO since 2023 and an X account that has 62,000 followers today, so the first customers cost nothing. A developer co-founder built the software with AI coding tools. The product started as one plain rank tracker at US$19 a month, grew into a bundle at US$57 to US$2,997 a month, and by July 2025 the first payment of a new customer from a paid ad covered the cost of that ad.
A business or a marketing agency enters a website. RankAI learns the business and its market, decides which pages the site should have, writes them, publishes them to the site's content management system, fixes technical search problems, measures the results and rewrites pages that do not perform, for Google and for AI assistants. Agencies can resell it under their own brand.
It sells what a search agency sells, the research, the pages, the publishing and the rewrites, as a monthly service run mostly by software, for a fraction of an agency fee. Agencies resell it under their own brand. In 2026 it added visibility in AI answers, and verified revenue more than doubled between March and July 2026.
Software that asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Claude, Gemini and Grok the questions that a brand's customers ask, records whether each answer names the brand and which web pages it cites, and then suggests fixes, writes articles and contacts the cited sites. Agencies can resell it under their own name.
Four owners of marketing agencies built it for their own clients, who asked whether AI recommended them. They launched it with plans made for agencies and a 30% lifetime commission for agencies that resell it. The average subscription now pays about US$206 a month, close to the price of the agency plans.
An AI agent for search engine optimisation. The customer enters a website and connects Google Search Console. ChatSEO reads the real clicks, impressions and positions, gives a short list of changes in order of impact, writes articles and page titles, and can publish them to WordPress, Shopify or Webflow. Plans cost €29 to €79 a month.
One co-founder, Paul Vengeons, had worked as an SEO consultant in France since 2020 and had more than 10,000 followers on X, and the agents follow his method. The answers come from the customer's own Search Console data, the price is a fraction of Semrush or an agency, and the co-founders post free SEO guides every day that send readers to a 7-day free trial.
A web tool that turns one topic into a topical map: hundreds of search keywords, found and grouped by AI models into clusters of related articles, so that a blogger or an SEO worker can plan a whole site in minutes instead of hours. It sold a monthly number of credits to bloggers, freelancers and agencies.
The founder built it in about three days to remove the part of blogging he hated, keyword research and content planning. Then he took partners, SEO people who had the audience he did not have, and they promoted it. Revenue reached US$7,000 to US$8,000 a month about eight months after the launch, and he sold the product after he had stopped working on it.
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