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We got tired of SEO work nobody could verify

A small team building the tool we wanted when we were the ones being invoiced for content and had no way to tell whether it did anything.

The three of us have been on the buying side of SEO. Between us we have signed off on retainers where the monthly report was a list of articles published and a domain rating that went up by two points. Nobody in that arrangement could answer a simple question: which of these pages earned anything, and how would we know?

When the current generation of AI SEO tools arrived, they made that worse rather than better. They solved the expensive part, which is producing text, and left the hard part alone. You get more pages, faster, with the same silence about whether any of it worked. A few of them advertise the absence of human review as a feature, which in 2026 is a strange thing to put on a pricing page.

So we started at the other end. The first thing we built was not a writer. It was the measurement layer: crawl the site, connect Search Console, track every published page individually, and check whether assistants cite it. Only once that worked did we let the system write anything, because a plan that cannot see its own results is just a content calendar with extra steps.

We are early. The product is real and running, the customer base is small, and there are gaps we are open about. If you want the honest version of what it does and does not do yet, the comparison table on the home page is the closest thing we have to a full answer, and this post covers the biggest thing we deliberately left out.

Started
2025
Team
3 people
Funding
Self-funded
Working from
Lisbon and Manchester

Four things we decided early

These came out of watching what the category does and choosing differently. Each one costs us something.

Show the work or do not claim it

Any result we put in front of you has to be traceable to a page, a date and a source. If we cannot attribute it, we do not put it on the dashboard. That rules out a few impressive-looking charts, which is the point.

A human signs off on everything

Not because machines write badly, but because oversight is what separates a content programme from a spam problem. The review queue is part of the product on every plan and we will not sell a version without it.

Say no to the shortcuts

No link exchanges, no scraped competitor copy, no auto-generated pages for every city name in a spreadsheet. Each of those would make the numbers move faster and each of them eventually costs the customer more than it earned.

Price where anyone can see it

Same price in every country, published on the site, cancel from the dashboard. Gated quotes and geographic price discrimination are common in this category and we have no interest in participating.

Who is building it

Tom Vasilev

Co-founder, product

Spent six years running content for a marketplace and watched three agencies bill for work nobody could verify.

Rhea Kulkarni

Search lead

Technical SEO on large ecommerce catalogues. Owns the crawler, the scoring model and most of our arguments about it.

Inés Duarte

Content quality

Former editor. Designed the review queue and the gates that reject drafts before they reach it.

Want to ask us something awkward?

Email us directly at hello@scalerank.io and one of the three of us will answer it.