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daydream is a leading AI-native agency that delivers an unfair advantage in organic search by combining a proven methodology with SEO agents and dedicated experts through full-service support.
The New York Times just released a full story on daydream's Series A launch.
When we announced it in March we got almost 1,000 likes, 600+ comments, and 70+ reposts. We spent $80,000 on it, and I don't regret it one bit.
Finding unique distribution alpha is probably the single most important skill for any marketing or growth leader today, and a top two priority for any founder/CEO (building a great product being the first).
Ironically, all the best "growth hacks" pale in comparison to building a durable, unique brand. That's exactly why we shot this launch video, and I'm proud of the amazing work from our team (shoutout Janet Lee and Kim Huong T.!).
Shoutout to Natallie Rocha for the great feature! Story in the comments below.
daydream just won the Shorty award for best SEO/SEM campaign! The winning campaign was one we did for OpenArt AI, where we scaled 10,000+ programmatic pages for them, hitting 1M visits/mo in just around a year.
We were also a finalist for the best GEO campaign award.
Huge shoutout to Nicolás Cerdeira and Devin Morris who worked on this campaign, Houston Barnett-Gearhart and Jack White at for being great mentors to the team, Kim Huong T. for submitting us for the award and Coco Mao and the OpenArt team for being early supports of daydream!
Today I'm announcing daydream’s $15M Series A with Shravan Rajinikanth to build the SEO & AI Search agency of the future, with an exclusive from Business Insider. Shoutout to our in-house actress and Head of GTM, Janet Lee for starring in our first ever commercial!
A few reflections for me on the future of daydream:
**The rise of the AI-native agency**
Agencies were previously considered an un-venturebackable, but that’s changed with the rise of agents over the last two years. YC, which rejected daydream in 2023, listed the AI-native agency as # 3 in their Spring 2026 Requests for startups. daydream is one of the earliest models for what a venture-scale growth marketing agency looks like.
**AI search, not “GEO”**
I’ve deliberately decided to remove every “GEO” acronym from our website. It’s now widely known that the foundations of optimizing for AI search engines are very similar to what’s required for SEO. There are some differences, but they represent incremental evolution rather than the creation of an entirely new category. I have a lot more to say about this trend with acronyms, but more on that later.
**Beyond AI visibility**
Everyone is monitoring their AI search visibility scores, but how do you actually improve it? daydream pairs expert practitioners with agents to deliver outcomes for clients like Clay, Replit, Beautiful.ai, and others. We’ve worked with everyone from 10-person AI-native startups doing $30M+ ARR a year to publicly traded companies in sensitive, regulated industries.
**The daydream method**
We’ve identified seven levers at the core of delivering outstanding customer performance in both SEO & AI Search. We’ve documented them under a unified methodology called “The daydream Method,” which you can access on our website. This is the distillation of what we’ve learned from thousands of hours of serving customers from end to end.
Huge thank you to all of the amazing investors in daydream:
Funds: Sujay Jaswa and ChenLi Wang (WndrCo), Todd Jackson (First Round Capital), Lan Xuezhao, Wilson Kyi, John Mannes (Basis Set), Eric Bahn, Elizabeth Yin, Shiyan K., Brian Nichols (Hustle Fund).
Founders: Varun Anand and Kareem Amin (Co-founders of Clay), Daniel Marashlian (Co-Founder & CTO at Drata), Arash Ferdowsi (Co-Founder at Dropbox), Chetan Pungaliya (Co-Founder & Former SVP Engineering at Poshmark), Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny's Newsletter), Tara Viswanathan (Co-Founder, Rupa Health), Michelle Lim (CEO, Flint).
Growth Leaders: Eli Schwartz (Product Led SEO), George Bonaci (VP of Growth & Demand at Ramp), Lauryn Motamedi (Product & Growth Leadership at Notion), Melissa Tan (GM & Head of Print at Canva), Bryan Tsao (Chief Product Officer at Jasper), David Hoang (VP of Design at Atlassian), James Dyett (Head of Sales at OpenAI), Kyle Norton (CRO of Owner.com), Kyle Parrish (fmr. VP of Sales at Figma).
(there were more but I couldn't tag all of them 😅)
