SEO tickets lose to bugs
An "improve SEO" ticket loses to a product bug every time, because nobody can say what it's worth. A specific, ranked task gets picked up.
For startups Audits + AI visibility for lean teams
Ship fast, without SEO blind spots.
Pre-seed landing page or Series B content team, the job is the same: keep the public site in good technical shape, and find out how assistants describe your category before a competitor sets the terms.
First audit within an hour
Plain-language fix list
Audit + AI in one subscription
app.linkstonic.com/yourstartup/launch
Launch Thu
Launch readiness
Ready · 2 fixes left
86/ 100
✓Titles & meta descriptions12/12
✓Structured data on /pricingvalid
✓Redirects from old waitlist301
!Hero image slows LCP3.1s
!Missing social preview image/launch
AI category watch
best expense tool for small teams
Mentioned by 2 of 4 enginesPosition Also-ranLast audit today
Sample workspace for illustration
Lean team reality
Every hour counts. Guessing wastes runway.
Small teams can't pay for five niche tools or a full SEO hire. They still need to know what's broken and what to fix first, and more and more, what AI says about them.
No AI baseline
Most founders learn how ChatGPT talks about their space when a prospect forwards a screenshot.
Pages ship unchecked
Marketing ships a landing page every week. Nobody checks schema, speed or redirects on all of them.
What to turn on first
Start with an audit.
Start with an audit.
Add the rest as you grow.
Run a technical audit in minutes and work through the fixes in plain language. Connect Search Console when there's enough traffic to read. Alerts and integrations can wait until you need them.
Launch readiness
Check public pages before a big announcement or Product Hunt day. Engineers get tasks ranked by severity, each with a plain-language fix, instead of a vague "improve SEO" note.
Fix list · yourstartup.comSample
HIGH
Redirect chain on /pricingPoint the old URL straight to the new page
TechnicalHIGH
No title tag on /launchAdd a unique title under 60 characters
On-pageMED
Hero image slows LCPCompress and set width and height
SpeedLOW
Missing social preview imageAdd an og:image for link previews
SocialAI positioning radar
Learn what assistants say about your category before you spend money on outbound or events. You see if they treat you as a leader, an also-ran, or leave you out.
"best expense tool for small teams"Sample
Invisible
Also-ran
Leader
ChatGPT#3 mention
Perplexity#1 cited
Claudenot listed
Gemininot listed
Query data, when you're ready
Once you have some traction, connect the same property to Google Search Console. The queries people type then sit next to your audit and AI data.
Google Search Consolesc-domain:yourstartup.com
● ConnectedEarly queriesSample
QueryClicksPos.
yourstartup1841.0
expense tool for small teams419.3
rival-one alternative1714.6
Alerts that grow with you
Find out when something breaks, or when a competitor starts showing up first in AI answers, even if the whole company is three people. Add more alerts as the roadmap grows.
Recent alertsSample
Audit score dropped after deploy/pricing lost its structured data
2h agoCompetitor gaining in AI answersrival-one now listed first in Perplexity
1d agoNew AI mentionChatGPT added yourstartup to a category answer
3d agoOne dashboard instead of stitching Lighthouse, Search Console and LLM screenshots together by hand. Upgrade tiers as domains and keywords multiply.
Big weeks
Useful in the weeks that shape a startup.
A raise, a pivot, your first marketing hire, the point where organic becomes a real channel. Each is easier when the data is already there.
Fundraising data room
Show investors that your marketing site is actually monitored, and have a straight answer when they ask how AI search affects your acquisition risk.
- Audit history with owners, not one-off Lighthouse runs
- AI visibility baseline for your category
- Fewer unknowns the week before a board meeting
Data room · marketing infrastructure
SamplePDFAudit summarySite health, open issues, history
CSVAI visibilityCategory prompts by engine
Site health91
Open high0
AlertsOn
Pivot positioning
Compare AI answers before and after a messaging change to see if assistants picked up the new story.
- Track the same prompts across the change
- See which engines still describe the old product
- Spot when a competitor owns the narrative
How AI describes yourstartup
SampleBefore
"yourstartup is a personal budgeting app for freelancers."
Old positioningAfter
"yourstartup is an expense tool built for small teams."
Matches new messagingYour first marketing hire
Give them a working toolkit on day one instead of a blank wiki page, and make the handoff clean when a full-time SEO lead joins later.
- Audit history and open fixes, already prioritized
- Tracked AI prompts with trendlines
- Invite teammates within your plan's seats
Day-one access
Sample✓SEO audits & fix listHistory
✓AI visibility trackingPrompts
✓Search Console dataQueries
✓AlertsOwner
Organic as a channel
Get off paid-only acquisition without hiring an agency on day one. Organic growth shows up in the same data your team already checks.
- Search Console queries and pages in one view
- Technical fixes ranked by severity
- AI answers tracked alongside Google
Signups by channel
SampleOrganicPaid
How it works
Three steps a two-person team can finish.
STEP 01Connect
Connect your domain
Marketing site, docs or waitlist page. Whatever faces buyers. A one-pager is enough to start.
STEP 02Audit
Run your first audit
Get a ranked fix list, then share the PDF-friendly summary with advisors or your first technical hire.
STEP 03Grow
Layer in GSC + AI
Add Search Console and AI prompts once there is traction to measure. Alerts and integrations come later.
Alerts to DiscordLaterMost teams run their first audit within an hourConnect your domain →
Weekly routine
The one-hour Friday check a founder can own.
One founder takes Friday afternoon, an hour at most, and starts with the week's alerts, like structured data dropped from /pricing. They send the top two high-severity fixes to the sprint and audit any new landing page before promoting it. Last, they check whether more engines mention the company than last month.
- Give SEO one fixed hour a week, owned by one founder
- Send two ranked fixes to engineering, not a backlog of ten
- Check if more engines mention you than last month
Tools built for startups
Three tools that replace a stack of subscriptions.
Audit
SEO Audit
Full technical audits in minutes, with fixes ranked by severity that your engineers can pick up right away.
Explore SEO Audit
AI Visibility
AI Tracking
Baseline how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity talk about your category while it's still being written.
Explore AI Tracking
Monitoring
Alerts
Get told when scores or AI mentions move, so a tiny team still has an early-warning system.
Explore Alerts
FAQ
Questions founders ask us.
Trials, seats, subdomains, onboarding and what Linkstonic does and doesn't do.
Watching the budget?
See startup-friendly tiers and upgrade as domains and keywords multiply.
Compare plans →Is there a free trial?
Check the Pricing page for the current offer, since trial terms can change with promotions. You can sign up and start free, then pick a paid tier once you've seen your first audit and fix list.
Can two founders share a login?
Better not to. Invite each other as teammates so each founder has their own access. How many seats you get depends on your plan, and your first marketing hire gets added the same way later.
Do you support subdomains?
Yes. You can track your marketing site, app and docs subdomains as separate properties if that's useful. Keeping them apart means a docs problem doesn't get buried inside the marketing site's score.
What if we only have a one-pager?
That's enough to start. You can run a baseline audit and track AI prompts for your category today, then add pages, docs and Search Console as the site grows. A one-pager also gives problems fewer places to hide.
Will you write our content?
No. Linkstonic gives you the data: what's broken, which queries bring people in and what assistants say about you. The writing stays with your team or your agency, and the fix list tells them where to start.
How fast can we onboard?
Most teams connect a domain and run their first audit within an hour. Search Console and AI prompt tracking can go in the same day, or later once there's traction worth measuring.
Grow the site without the surprises.
Connect your domain, run your first audit and start tracking how AI describes your category. Startup-friendly tiers on the pricing page.
Technical audits
AI visibility
Alerts