About us

The WP SEO AI story

At WP SEO AI, we believe a company and its culture should be crafted with the same care as a great product.

2023

How it all started

WP SEO AI started as a side project. Like many entrepreneurs, we built it first for ourselves. We were running our own companies and hitting the same SEO roadblocks everyone knows: scaling content, tracking what works, and seeing what actually drives visibility.


Instead of patching together half-solutions or outsourcing, we built our own. Call it eating our own dog food, solving our own problem, only to realize the problem was everywhere. Across industries, across markets.


What began as an internal experiment proved too valuable to keep in-house. In 2023, Mikael, Henrik and Pontus made the call to turn it into a company. The original idea was never to launch WP SEO AI as a product. But the impact was too strong to ignore.

Our Mission

From day one we have been driven by two clear principles

These guiding principles are not slogans. They are the foundation for how we design our product and how we run our company. Every feature we build is measured against them: does it make SEO easier, fairer, and more transparent for businesses of all sizes?

#1 Making SEO accessible to everyone

Large companies have long had the advantage in digital visibility thanks to big budgets, huge content teams, and endless resources. Our vision is to level the playing field by giving smaller and mid-sized businesses access to the same kind of power, without the complexity or costs that usually come with it.

#2 Bringing complete transparency to SEO

Traditionally, SEO has been treated like a black box. Agencies and consultants gave recommendations, but few businesses truly understood what was happening or how results were achieved. With WP SEO AI, we show every step: where opportunities lie, how content performs, and what actions to take. Our goal is to remove the mystery from SEO and replace it with clarity and measurable progress.

The types of companies we serve

Who we're built ror

WP SEO AI is a WordPress-native Search Visibility Platform built especially for small and mid-sized businesses generating revenue not freelancers, and not large enterprises with a fully-staffed in-house SEO team.

You're a great fit if:

Your company has at least €1,000,000 in annual turnover.

Your website runs on WordPress. We're deeply integrated into WordPress and don't work with Shopify, Webflow, or custom-built sites.

You don't have or don't want to build an in-house SEO, content, and paid-search team.

You want a managed, hands-off service, not another dashboard to operate yourself.

You're ready to commit to an ongoing program, minimum 12 months, because search visibility compounds over months, not days.

We're not the right fit for:

Pre-revenue startups or freelancers

Businesses under €1,000,000 in annual revenue

Companies not built on WordPress

Results, not just recommendations

What we achieve for our customers in 2026

We don’t just tell you what to do. We do the work, and we stay accountable for the result. Since 2023, we’ve helped more than 2,500 companies across Europe grow their visibility in Google, AI-generated answers, and paid search.

SEO

+108% organic traffic growth and up to 300% more leads

Across a cohort of 66 companies, total organic clicks more than doubled in nine months, while non-AI organic traffic grew by just 11%. For an individual customer, this growth contributed to a 300% increase in leads.ge 1 of Google is no longer enough. 

GEO

30% of brand-owned AI citations already come from WP SEO AI content

Our prompt data study shows that 70% of commercial questions are answered using brands’ own sources. WP SEO AI content already accounts for 30% of those brand-owned citations. 

SEA

67% lower cost per conversion with WP SEO AI managed ads

Compared with non-managed Search Ads, campaigns managed by WP SEO AI achieve 48% lower costs per click and a 56% higher conversion rate. Continuous testing and optimization turn more clicks into customers while making every advertising euro work harder. 

Rated Excellent, and we execute.

Why we're the best at what we do

We hold a 4.8/5 TrustScore (“Excellent” on Trustpilot), based on 224 customer reviews and that trust is earned by actually doing the work, not just advising on it. Most SEO tools hand you data and leave the work to you. Agencies are manual, slow, and expensive to scale. Building an in-house team means hiring separate specialists for SEO, GEO, and paid search. WP SEO AI is different: our AI agents and dedicated human search specialists do the actual work: researching, producing, publishing, measuring, and optimizing your visibility, all from inside WordPress.

The category

The first platform to unify SEO, GEO, and SEA

We’re the world’s first Search Visibility Platform built to unify organic search, AI-generated answers, and paid search in one system, so you don’t need to stitch together separate tools, agencies, or teams for each channel.

The integration

Built inside WordPress, not outside guessing

We don’t send a prompt to a model and read back a proxy signal, like pure tracking tools do. We sit inside your website’s own code, so we can connect a specific change directly to a measurable before-and-after result.

The people

Your dedicated Customer Success Manager

Every client has a named person at WP SEO AI who knows your account, understands your goals, and stays accountable for moving the needle, not a rotating account team billed by the hour.

THE MODEL

AI-powered execution, backed by real experts

Autonomous agents handle research, production, and monitoring around the clock. Real human search specialists direct strategy and quality control, so results are never left to automation alone.

Today

WP SEO AI in 2026

By 2026, WP SEO AI has grown into a team of more than 200 people, serving over 2,500 customers across Europe. From Finland, Sweden and Estonia to the UK, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, we have proven that our approach works across languages, markets and business cultures.

And this is only the beginning. As search evolves with new technologies, AI overviews and smarter advertising, our mission stays the same: to lead in SEO, GEO and SEA innovation. We build tools that help companies stay visible today and prepare for the future of search tomorrow.

WP SEO AI makes digital visibility fair, transparent and achievable for everyone. We believe every company, big or small, deserves a real chance to be found, to compete and to grow.

Our Experience

Leadership Team

Mikael da Costa

CEO, Co-Founder

Miikka Arala

CRO, Co-Founder

Noy ben Avi

Head of Finance & Operation

Where to find us

Our Offices

Find us either at our European headquarter in Amsterdam or in Helsinki, Finland. Our teams are ready to help you locally.

Amsterdam Office

Sint Jorissteeg 2, Floor 2, 1012 XV Amsterdam

Helsinki Office

Kumpulantie 5, 00520 Helsinki, Finland

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