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Rankai

Building AI Agents to replace Marketing Agencies

Marketing agencies are expensive and human-powered. Rankai is building AI agents to replace them. Our first AI agent automates the entire SEO process and makes it 20x more affordable.
Rankai
Founded:2023
Team Size:3
Location:San Francisco
Group Partner:Dalton Caldwell

Active Founders

Dyllan Liu, Co-Founder and CEO

Co-Founder and CEO of Rankai. Previously: Ex-McKinsey, Engineering @ Amazon, ML Research @ Stanford, Business & Data Science @ Berkeley, Online education platform serving 20 schools and 1500+ rural students
Dyllan Liu
Dyllan Liu
Rankai

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.
Hugo (Kanghong) Zhan
Hugo (Kanghong) Zhan
Rankai

Company Launches

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.

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