🎧 START pod: Liam Karlsson & William Gyltman, Co-Founders of Rankad.ai "Turn AI visibility into revenue. On autopilot."

🎧 START pod: Liam Karlsson & William Gyltman, Co-Founders of Rankad.ai "Turn AI visibility into revenue. On autopilot."

Author: Fondo March 31, 2026 Duration: 12:05

Liam Karlsson had no clue why his SEO clients were losing traffic while rankings held


Then his 57-year-old mom asked ChatGPT for new running shoes


Nike answer. Bought the shoe. Was super happy. 


Google was never part of that customer journey...


That was the seed of Rankad.ai


He pitched Co-Founder William Gyltman. They went all in


Track and grow brand visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. 


Enter your domain, 30 seconds later you're in the app. AI agent optimizes your site directly


Liam Karlsson & William Gyltman, Co-Founders, Rankad.ai at The Residency Demo Day 


🎙️ Fondo START pod w/ David J. Phillips (full ep in comments)

00:25 “We’re helping companies earn more money in AI search”
02:34 AI search is moving fast: new models, algorithms, protocols
03:05 A new source of income beyond Google traffic
03:31 AI search is growing fast, but has not outrun Google yet
05:34 Enter your domain and get inside the app in about 30 seconds
05:52 Visibility, competitor, and company data inside one platform
06:07 AI gives optimization tasks based on scan data
06:15 The agent executes tasks on your site
09:41 SEO rankings held, but traffic still disappeared
09:47 Liam’s mom used ChatGPT to buy running shoes
10:00 “That was like the seed of Rankad”


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