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About us

Search is changing. We’re building the platform for what comes next.

We’re two engineers in two cities, building the SEO platform we wished existed when ChatGPT started eating the SERP. No screenshot scrapers. No vanity metrics. Daily, honest, fast.

Founded 20242 foundersBootstrapped
Our story

Why we exist.

We started SEONova because the tools we’d grown up with stopped working. Not all at once, not loudly — slowly. Rankings stopped correlating with traffic the way they used to. ChatGPT recommendations started mattering more than featured snippets. The dashboards we paid for were measuring what was easy, not what mattered, and there was no version of them on anyone’s roadmap that fixed it.

In late 2024, we built the first version of what’s now AI Visibility — a Python script that ran nightly, asked the LLMs the same 50 buyer-intent prompts our team was tracking, and emailed us the diffs every morning. Within three weeks, we’d caught two competitor product launches that none of our other dashboards saw. Within six weeks, the script was running for two other companies. Within twelve weeks, we’d both quit our jobs.

We didn’t set out to build an AI search tool. We set out to build the SEO platform we wished existed — and AI is just what search has become.

That was eighteen months ago. The company is still two people, working from two cities, building the SEO platform we wished existed. No screenshot scrapers. No vanity metrics. No “AI features” tacked onto a 2017 architecture. Just the engines we’d want to use, on the cadence the new search landscape demands.

What we believe

Six things we’d argue about.

The principles that decide what we build, what we don’t build, and how we write about it. Mostly we got these from having the wrong opinion first.

Track what changes, not what's stable.

Averages lie. Deltas don't. The dashboard fights for the foreground of every change, not the comfort of every aggregate.

Build from the model layer up.

No screenshot scrapers. No third-party wrappers we can't reach into. The data is honest because the pipeline is.

Honest over optimistic.

If our number disagrees with another tool's number, we tell you why. We'd rather lose a feature comparison than a customer's trust.

Daily over weekly.

AI search moves overnight. Weekly cadences miss the majority of meaningful changes. So we refresh every engine, every day.

Voice matters.

We write blog posts the way we'd want to read them. We write product copy the way we'd want to read it. No listicles, no padding, no SEO bait.

Ship, then polish.

Velocity is a feature. Shipping the right thing at 70% beats shipping the perfect thing six weeks later. The platform improves on a daily cadence.

Parent company

Built at Whiteunicorn.

SEONova is a product of Whiteunicorn — an Indian product studio that ships software for B2B and SaaS teams. We don’t do client work. We build the products our team would want to use, then run them as standalone businesses.

A studio product

Whiteunicorn.in

A product studio building category-defining software for the teams who can’t find a tool that fits. SEONova is the first product. More on the way.

2024

Founded

India

Based in

Independent

Funding

Currently

What we’re building now.

What’s on our screens this quarter. Updated regularly — we’d rather show you the rough roadmap than a polished one we wrote six months ago.

  1. Shipping

    Hourly AI Visibility for priority prompts

    From daily to hourly on the top 500 prompts per project. Same engine, 24× more granular history. In production this week.

  2. In beta

    Public read API

    Everything in the dashboard, behind one token. Stable endpoints for rank, AI mention, audit, and backlink data. Open to design partners; broader beta in July.

  3. In beta

    Looker + BigQuery deep integration

    Direct destination sync so your data team can build dashboards in the warehouse instead of working from CSV exports.

  4. Planning

    Enterprise data residency in APAC

    EU residency shipped last quarter; Singapore + Tokyo regions are the next milestone. Targeting late Q3.

  5. Research

    Open-sourcing the AI extraction pipeline

    The brand-mention scoring layer is small enough to give away and broad enough to benefit the whole field. We're working out the licensing.

In good company

Backed by people we trust. Built for teams we admire.

Backed by

Y CombinatorSouth Park Commons+ angels from Stripe, Linear, Vercel

Trusted by teams at

AURORALeaf Labsbeacon.HayfieldTRIADFLAMENorthstar
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