For startups.
Free forever for your first 50 keywords.
Real SEO from week one. AI Visibility from launch day. YC + Techstars portfolio companies get six months of Pro free. No credit card to start, ever.
FLAME · Founder dashboard
YC W26 · 6 months Pro free
Free plan · keywords used
12 / 50
38 keywords remaining · forever
AI Visibility · 5 prompts
included
Onboarded in 14 minutes
What hurts about running it today.
SEO tools were built for established teams with budgets. Startups need them to ship value before the next investor update.
Real tools cost real money you don't have
Ahrefs starts at $129/mo. SEMrush at $139/mo. Plus the rank tracker. Plus the reporting tool. That's runway you'd rather spend on actually building the thing.
Free tiers are deliberately useless
Most 'free' SEO tools cap at 5 keywords or hide the data you need behind upgrade walls. The free tier exists to frustrate, not to help.
Enterprise platforms take a week to learn
Onboarding tutorials, certifications, admin panels — features built for SEO managers, not founders who need a number by Tuesday.
AI search matters more than Google, and you're blind to it
Your buyers ask ChatGPT 'best [your category]' before they Google anything. Without AI Visibility from day one, you're optimizing for the wrong platform — and won't notice until your competitor's mention rate triples.
What changes with SEONova.
Four ways SEONova adapts to startup constraints instead of pretending you have an SEO team and a procurement department.
Genuine free plan — 50 keywords, forever
Not a 14-day trial that ends in tears. Not 5 keywords. Fifty real keywords, tracked daily, with the same engine paid customers use. Free forever.
YC + Techstars: 6 months Pro free
Verified portfolio companies get 6 months of Pro free — 5,000 keywords, AI Visibility, the full feature set. Email us with your YC or Techstars batch.
Onboards in 15 minutes
Paste your domain. Get your first ranking report and AI Visibility baseline in the same session. No certification required.
AI Visibility from week one
Track how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude recommend you (or don't) — included on the free plan. Optimize for AI search before your competitors notice it matters.
From a team exactly like yours.
What it looks like when AI Visibility data starts arriving before the company is even out of stealth.
Free plan for our first four months, then Pro through YC credits. AI Visibility from week one — we were tracking our own launch mentions before our seed round closed. Closed Series A 14 months later with ChatGPT mentions as a key growth slide.
What they ran
14 months
Free plan → Series A close
ChatGPT mentions as a growth metric in the deck
The questions every team asks.
How free actually works, what counts as a startup discount, and the limits you'll bump into before the platform asks for money.
Yes. 50 keywords tracked daily, weekly site audits, basic AI Visibility (5 tracked prompts × 4 LLMs), one project, one user. No expiry, no credit card, no 'upgrade to see your data' walls. Forever means forever.
Ship fast. Rank faster.
Free plan covers 50 keywords forever. No credit card, no email-wall, no upgrade nag. Start in the next 60 seconds.