/ SaaS SEO consultant for founders and growth teams

Senior SaaS SEO consultant advice your team can ship.

No SEO lead yet? A SaaS SEO consultant gives founders and growth teams senior direction without a full-time hire. Founder Andrej Zafirov or a senior specialist decides with you what to build first, briefs your product marketers and engineers, and reviews the work before it goes live.

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You speak to the consultant directly, never a salesperson. If you'd be better off hiring, we'll say so.

Want the full scope? SaaS SEO services: what is included

Direct line to a senior consultant
Inbound leads, B2B services client2 years
0xmore inbound leads
0xwebsite traffic
Year 1Year 2Year 3

Illustrative growth curve. The totals are real, rounded down.

Your team builds, we guide
0xmore inbound leads for a B2B services client in two years
0xvisitor-to-lead rate, roughly, for that client
0xwebsite traffic over the same period
0hto your free, written SaaS SEO audit
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/ Sound familiar?

Smart team. No SEO lead.

Many software companies reach a point where search matters, but hiring a head of SEO still feels early. The gap shows up in a few familiar ways.

Everyone owns SEO, so nobody does

Product marketing writes pages, engineering ships the site, growth runs ads. Search decisions fall between them, or get made by whoever cares most that week.

Site, app and docs pulling apart

The marketing site is on Webflow, docs on another platform, the app on its own subdomain. Nobody has decided how they should fit together for search.

A programmatic idea nobody can judge

Someone proposed thousands of template pages. It might be your best growth lever or a risk to the whole domain, and nobody internally can tell which.

Briefs that produce generic pages

Writers get a keyword and a word count. The pages come back accurate but flat, and they neither rank nor convert.

A consultant adds the senior judgement your team is missing, while your people keep doing the work.

/ What's included

Five ways to work with a SaaS SEO consultant.

Pick the format that matches the decision in front of you. Most teams begin with a sprint, then move to monthly advice once they're shipping.

Two-week strategy sprint

A focused sprint to decide what your SaaS SEO consultant would have you build first. We review your product, competitors and search data, agree priorities in a working session, and hand over a written plan your team can start on.

Why it matters: a clear first-quarter plan stops your team spending months on pages that will never produce sign-ups.

What you get
  • Kickoff interview with founders and growth lead
  • Review of search data, competitors and current pages
  • Page types ranked by sign-up intent
  • A working session to agree the plan together
  • A written roadmap for the next 90 days
  • A recorded walkthrough for anyone who missed it
Senior consultantFounder Andrej Zafirov or a senior specialist, every session.
Written outputEvery session ends with notes and next steps in writing.
Your team buildsWe advise; the know-how stays inside your company.
Extra capacityOur agency team can take on work for a busy quarter.

/ How it works

How a consulting engagement runs.

Consulting works best with a clear question and a short loop between advice and action. This is how we run it.

1Before we start

Free audit

A written review of your site, delivered within 48 hours, shows how we think and where the gaps are, before you commit to anything.

You get: a shared view of the biggest problems.

2Week 1

Define the question

We agree the decision you need help with, who on your team is involved, and which format fits: sprint, review, decision or advisory.

You get: a written scope and a booked first session.

3Weeks 2 to 3

Advise and decide

Working sessions with your team, plus written recommendations. Decisions get made in the session where possible, not deferred to the next report.

You get: a plan your team can start on immediately.

4Ongoing

Review and adjust

Your team implements. We review drafts, tickets and releases, and adjust the plan as results come in.

You get: better work from your team, and less need for us over time.

/ Results

The results behind our advice.

The source here is a B2B services firm, not a software business, and search was one channel among several: paid media and conversion work ran alongside it. What carries over to our SaaS SEO consulting is the thinking about intent and tracking.

B2B services company

Lead generation
0x

more inbound leads in two years

1x
Year 1
10x
Year 2
14x
Year 3, to date
~19x
Year 3 pace

And this year already beat last year, with a quarter still to go.

12xwebsite traffic
~2xvisitor to lead rate
+40%leads vs last year, in 9 months

Our clients' data stays theirs, so we show rounded totals rather than their dashboards.

/ Is this for you?

When a SaaS SEO consultant is the right call.

✓A great fit if you are

  • A founder or growth lead who owns SEO alongside five other things
  • With writers and engineers who can implement with good guidance
  • Facing a big decision a migration, redesign or programmatic build
  • Comparing agency proposals and wanting a neutral second opinion
  • Planning a first SEO hire and needing a plan they can pick up

✕Probably not a fit if you

  • Have nobody to implement. Our SaaS SEO agency team can do the work instead
  • Want a partner accountable for results. See our SaaS SEO company page
  • Need general advice, not software-specific. Our SEO consultant page covers that
  • Want someone who just agrees. We'll disagree when the data says so

/ Before you decide

When to hire a SaaS SEO consultant.

A consultant isn't always the right answer. Here's an honest way to choose between a consultant, an agency and a first in-house hire, based on what your team can and can't do today.

01

You have builders but no direction

If writers and engineers have capacity but nobody knows what to build first, a consultant supplies the plan and the reviews. At this stage that's usually the most efficient spend.

02

A one-time decision is coming

Migrations, redesigns, domain changes and programmatic builds are made once and lived with for years. A few hours of senior advice before you start cost far less than repairs afterwards.

03

You're about to hire an SEO lead

A consultant can set the strategy and help write the role, then hand over. Bringing in a SaaS SEO expert for a few months first means your new hire inherits a plan, not a blank page.

04

You're judging agency proposals

A neutral reviewer can tell you which proposal fits your product, whether the scope is realistic, and which promises deserve hard questions before you sign anything.

05

Signs you need more than advice

Your backlog is already full, nobody owns the CMS, and engineering can't take SEO tickets this quarter. Recommendations would just gather dust, so an agency that does the work, or a hire, is the better spend.

Not sure which you need? Ask on the free call. We'll tell you honestly, even if the answer isn't us.

/ Your options

Consultant, agency or first hire?

Ways to get senior search thinking into a software company, compared on what founders ask about most.

Full SEO agency First in-house SEO hire DIY with SEO tools Perfometrics
Who implements The agency Your hire Your team, unguided ✓Your team, with senior reviews
Time to a working plan Weeks, after onboarding Months, after hiring Depends who has time ✓A two-week sprint
Knowledge stays in-house Partly Yes, until they leave Yes, if documented ✓Yes, by design
Flexibility Fixed retainer scope A full-time role Total, but no guidance ✓Sprints, reviews or monthly advice
Cost model Monthly retainer Salary plus tools Tool subscriptions ✓Fixed quote per format, after the audit

/ Questions

What teams ask about consulting.

What does a SaaS SEO consultant actually do?
Sets direction and checks quality. That means deciding which pages to build first, planning architecture across marketing site, app and docs, writing brief templates, reviewing drafts and releases, and giving a second opinion on big decisions. Your team does the implementation, so the skills stay in-house.
Who will be our SaaS SEO consultant?
Usually our founder, Andrej Zafirov. For questions that lean heavily on rendering or analytics, a senior specialist from our SEO agency takes part as well. You deal with the consultant in person, never a salesperson or a junior. If a question needs deeper technical work, the right specialist joins that session.
Where should we begin: sprint, review or advisory?
A two-week strategy sprint is the usual first step, since it leaves you with one plan the whole team can work from. If you face one specific decision, such as a migration or a programmatic build, a focused review is faster. Monthly advisory suits teams already shipping who want ongoing checks.
How quickly do you answer between sessions?
On monthly advisory, we answer messages within one business day. Urgent issues, like a traffic drop after a release, move to the front of the queue. Questions that need research get a short holding reply first and a full answer once we've looked properly.
Can you work with our engineers directly?
Yes. We join sprint planning when useful, write tickets with acceptance criteria, and review changes in staging before release. For deep rendering or migration work, our technical SEO consultant approach applies. We don't publish anything ourselves unless you ask us to.
What if we decide we need more than advice?
Then the work can move to our SaaS SEO agency team, with the same people and the same plan. Some teams switch for a busy quarter, then return to consulting. The full list of deliverables sits on our SaaS SEO services page.
How is consulting priced?
Each format gets a fixed quote, set after the free audit once we understand your question and your team. You know the cost before any session is booked. If a single sprint is enough and you don't need ongoing advice, we'll tell you that too.
Is SaaS SEO consulting different from general SEO consulting?
The method is similar; the decisions aren't. Software brings trials, integrations, docs, app subdomains and programmatic pages, which general advice often skips. If your business isn't software, our SEO consulting services page explains the general formats we offer, from one-off sprints to ongoing advisory.

/ Keep exploring

Other options.

SaaS SEO agency When you'd rather have the work done for you.Technical SEO consultant Senior advice on rendering, architecture and migrations.B2B SEO consultant Consulting for teams selling through long sales cycles.

/ Next step

Get a senior view before you build.

Tell us your site and the choice on your desk right now. A senior consultant reviews it by hand and replies with a written SaaS SEO audit within 48 hours. Prefer to talk it through? Book a free 30-minute call instead.

  • What your team should build first, and why
  • Architecture or programmatic risks worth checking now
  • Whether consulting, an agency or a hire suits you best

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