Scrappy entrepreneur building for (and with) AI. Co-founder @ FlyDragon. ex-SEO consultant (12+ yrs).
England, United Kingdom
Joined February 2017
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Ryan Darani retweeted
Just had dinner at Cannes with a bunch of agency owners that do AI Search work.
I was the only one from an SEO agency.
Everyone else was PR, web dev, creative, digital, or management consultancy, etc.
The category is being formed whether the SEO community likes it or not.
Ryan Darani retweeted
I always tread lightly when friends ask me if they should start their own marketing agency
Like yeah bro you’re gonna have to grind your ass off for 12-18 months just to see some semblance of a legitimate business
Then the next 3-5 years are debatably even more of a grind to sustain growth and deliver real results to clients
First 12-18 months will be filled with massive doubt uncertainty and the voice in the back of your head saying you should quit
It’s fun though!!
Ryan Darani retweeted
Late 2024: AI agencies sold n8n workflows for $2-$5K.
Mid 2025: they pivoted to AI agents for $5-15K.
Today: Claude Code ships in hours what used to take weeks, and most agencies are still pitching 2024's playbook.
I spent 2 months rewriting mine for where we actually are in April 2026.
Inside:
→ The offer closing $25K-$60K projects right now
→ Top 5 industries worth selling to this quarter
→ Content schedule generating my inbound (exact post types + cadence)
→ LinkedIn + cold email sequences booking calls today → My 4-call sales process from first touch to signed
→ The strategy doc + proposal template I'm using to close
→ 3 live client builds my team is shipping this quarter
BONUS: First 100 people also get 2 discovery call recordings from my own sales process.
Like + RT + reply PLAYBOOK and I'll DM you the link. Make sure to follow me so I can DM you.
Ryan Darani retweeted
'GPT-5.5, Claude 5 Mythos, and DeepSeek-V4 are all expected to drop in April'
we are accelerating nicely
Ryan Darani retweeted
My single biggest pain point right now: AI-induced attention deficit
I have 5 Claude Code sessions running
10 Terminal tabs open
50 browser tabs open
100 X articles in my bookmarks
When there are multiple AIs working for you, you're constantly task switching
When you're waiting for AI to output, you're constantly distracted
Because what used to be hard is now so easy, you always wanna do more, more, more
Because of the speed of the AI news cycle, you feel a constant need to be on this app
Add all this up and the result: you live in a constant state of distraction & delirium. Focus & deep work is harder than ever
If anyone has figured this out pls teach me how
Ryan Darani retweeted
claude cowork is making me think maybe we’ll look back and it’ll be obvious that humans were never meant to spend their lives working behind a screen. we’ll see it as inevitable that computers do everything for us on computers and the future of work is cooler than we can imagine
Ryan Darani retweeted
the secret to b2b saas is selling things that get people noticed by their boss and promoted
Ryan Darani retweeted
Looking for something to do this weekend?
I need your help 🙏🙏
We just acquired Beki.io and would love to have some users hop in, test it, and give us some valuable feedback!
It currently has a limited FREE Plan, but if you are a friend of Acme, shoot me a DM and I'll get you access to the higher plans.
More details on the acquisition below 👇
Ryan Darani retweeted
The podcast with @SearchForRyan & @CarrieRosePR goes live on Youtube at 2pm today.
Well worth a listen ( link in first comment )
Ryan Darani retweeted
Things that Google says don't exist/work, but actually, they do:
- Negative SEO
- Toxic Links
- Buying Links
- Parasite SEO
- Exact Match Domains
- Redirects
- Reviews That Have Never Used The Product
- Spamming
Ryan Darani retweeted
Be careful that the people you hire to help you recover from this update aren’t the same people who got our industry into this mess in the first place. – at Berlin, Germany
Ryan Darani retweeted
There are two reasons you shouldn't care what people think about you for promoting your work:
• You can’t pay your phone bill or mortgage with their opinions
• You’re going to die someday and it won’t matter
There it is.
Stop the nonsense.
Promote your work.
Ryan Darani retweeted
Asking my community for a favor today.
I'm very close to breaking 6k followers here. Help me get there and reshare?
Follow along if you're into:
- Honest takes on building a company & community
- Freelancing
- Early stage tech
- Regular hike views
- The occasional pup pic
✨
Ryan Darani retweeted
Everyone wants to start a startup but 99% can't handle the ego gut punch.
Every day:
1. Your family will wonder when you’re going back to a real job.
2. Your friends will doubt you behind your back.
3. Good luck dating at all.
Until you're successful, of course.
