Building a Startup AI Company’s Website and Search Presence from Zero

A computer vision company had deep technical capability and almost no digital visibility. Within six to eight months, organic traffic grew sixfold and demo enquiries fourfold.

Engagement
Ongoing, results within six to eight months
Channels
Website build, search foundations, content
Markets
Computer vision and AI automation
Starting point
Little search presence, global competitors

The situation

Computer vision was a young category. Buyers were still learning what to search for, and the pages that ranked belonged to global AI companies with far bigger budgets.

The client’s engineers could explain the technology. The website needed to explain the business result.

The call we made

Choose the searches a decision-maker makes.

Broad AI terms carried big volumes and bigger competitors. We built the keyword plan around industry applications and the problems buyers were trying to solve, and accepted smaller search volumes in return for visitors more likely to book a demo.

The site followed the same logic, with a main page for each industry use case.

How we worked

Plan

  • Audited the search landscape across global AI competitors
  • Found high-intent keywords in computer vision and AI automation
  • Mapped buyer stages from awareness to evaluation to a demo request
  • Structured the site around industry use cases and business outcomes

Implement

  • Designed and built the website, with clear paths to a demo for enterprise buyers
  • Rewrote technical capability as business outcomes
  • Set the search foundations, including site structure, structured data and page speed
  • Built main pages for each industry application
  • Started a regular thought-leadership publishing calendar

Engage

  • Kept publishing to build topical depth
  • Tracked and expanded keywords as the category evolved
  • Refined landing pages based on what visitors did

Results

6x

organic traffic in six to eight months

3.5x

keywords ranking on page one

4x

inbound demo and contact enquiries

“We are happy to see us being recognised, and yes, we are hiring now due to a spike in inquiries.”

Founder, AI and computer vision company

Outcome

The site now brings in enterprise visitors who arrive with a problem to solve. Time on site rose, and the company earned early visibility in computer vision search while the category was still forming.

In a new category, the buyer's problem is a better keyword than your product's name.

Client name withheld under NDA. Figures as reported by the client.