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GEO

Search is moving into the answer. Are you in it?

A growing share of buyer questions now get answered inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews, never reaching a blue link. Here is how to become the source they cite.

BY Gyan Vardhan Chauhan, Founder · 7 min read
Search is moving into the answer. Are you in it?
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GEO · 7 min

Search is moving into the answer. Are you in it?

A growing share of buyer questions now get answered inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews, never reaching a blue link. Here is how to become the source they cite.

BY Gyan Vardhan Chauhan, Founder
ASO · 5 min

Most app store keywords are chosen wrong. Here is the fix.

Founders pick keywords by gut, not by search volume and difficulty. That single mistake caps organic installs before a single download lands.

BY Sajidhussain Agharia, Operations Lead
Growth · 8 min

The growth channel that compounds, the one that just burns.

Paid acquisition stops the moment you stop paying. Organic compounds. Here is the sequence we install so every paid dollar later works harder.

BY Gyan Vardhan Chauhan, Founder
SEO · 6 min

Stop writing for rankings. Write to be quoted.

Classic SEO optimizes for position ten years ago. The pages that win now are the ones structured so both Google and the AI engines can lift a clean answer from them.

BY Sajidhussain Agharia, Operations Lead
Growth · 5 min

How we drove 700K installs with zero ad spend.

The exact organic playbook behind a 700,000+ install portfolio built without a single dollar of paid acquisition, and what transfers to your product.

BY Gyan Vardhan Chauhan, Founder
Hot Takes · 4 min

The feature-shop trap: why post-PMF startups stall.

You shipped 17 features last quarter. Revenue did not move. Here is why, and the one thing to do about it.

BY Sajidhussain Agharia, Operations Lead
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