Ayima

Founded in 2007 out of an in-house SEO team at an online poker site, Ayima is a New York-based technical SEO consultancy that works with enterprise brands rather than small businesses, operating with a lean, senior-only consulting team of 11-50 people. Clients cited include Verizon, PokerStars, Macy's, Wells Fargo, SharkNinja, QVC, and Elsevier, reflecting a focus on large-scale, complex organizations across challenging industries. The agency positions itself closer to a management consultancy than a traditional marketing agency, emphasizing that every project is staffed by experienced consultants rather than junior staff learning on the client's budget. Services span enterprise SEO strategy, competitive SEO, site migrations, and SEO for AI-driven search platforms. Enterprise SEO work includes technical audits, company-wide roadmaps, content strategy, SEO training programs, and performance tracking. Competitive SEO covers competitor intelligence, gap analysis, link building, and SERP-focused strategy. Site migration services address platform changes, rebranding and mergers, domain changes, international expansion, and redirect strategy, aimed at preventing traffic loss during transitions. Ayima also offers "SEO for AI," helping sites appear in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT responses, and other AI-driven discovery tools. The agency has built proprietary tools, such as custom Hreflang generation software for international targeting, and uses Ayima AI, an internally developed tool offering diagnostics on crawl errors, keyword opportunities, site speed, and backlink audits. Client examples mentioned include fixing international targeting issues, assessing brand visibility on ChatGPT, and generating SEO content across large marketplace category sets.