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

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Podcast: [START](https://stenobird.com/podcast/start-7171926)
Published: 2026-03-31T00:33:02+00:00
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## Resource

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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