AdLift

What AdLift does

AdLift is a digital marketing agency founded in 2009 that provides SEO, content marketing, paid media, and AI-driven search optimization services to enterprise clients across e-commerce, travel, finance, healthcare, legal, real estate, and SaaS verticals. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, with operations in India, and maintains Google Partner and Facebook Partner status. Its proprietary platform, Tesseract, analyzes brand visibility across AI-generated search environments including Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Deepseek, and Perplexity, integrating Anthropic's Claude AI for advanced sentiment analysis and conversational positioning audits.

AdLift monetizes through professional services on a project/contract basis with quote-based pricing, supplemented by Enterprise and Pro Plan tiers for the Tesseract platform. The agency structure is led by Co-Founder/CEO Prashant Puri, with a leadership team including VPs across Client Success, Paid Media, Organic Growth, Content, Finance, and HR. The company demonstrates case studies with measurable outcomes for enterprise clients including Walmart (125% SEO traffic increase), Airbnb (288% increase), PayPal, Shopify, Barnes & Noble (86% non-branded traffic increase), ThoughtSpot (165% growth over 3 years), and Appoxee (6X YoY non-brand SEO growth).

AdLift is majority-owned by Liqvd Asia, a creative-led digital agency that filed draft papers for a Rs 37 crore SME IPO in June 2026 with plans to acquire the remaining 23.21% stake in AdLift for Rs 9 crore and consolidate full ownership. The agency employs 11-50 people and has 15+ years of operating history, with recent strategic emphasis on AI-native service offerings (LLM SEO, GEO, AEO, AIO) reflecting the broader shift from traditional search to AI-mediated discovery.

Name

AdLift

Legal name

AdLift

Website

https://adlift.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AdLift is a digital marketing agency founded in 2009, offering SEO, content marketing, paid media, and AI-driven search optimization services to enterprise clients across e-commerce, travel, finance, healthcare, and SaaS, supported by its proprietary Tesseract AI visibility platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (54181), Media Buying Agencies (54183), Other Services Related to Advertising (54189)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Advertising (7310), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Paid Social Advertising (BPAFACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Performance Marketing Automation & Bid Management Services (MPAAACAM), PR, Reputation Management & Earned Media Platforms (BPAMALAO)

Keywords

• SEO services
• Digital marketing agency
• Content marketing services
• AI search visibility
• Paid media marketing

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Digital Marketing Services: AdLift generates revenue through professional services including SEO, content marketing, paid media, and specialized AI-driven marketing services. The company operates on a project/contract basis with enterprise clients, focusing on delivering measurable ROI through improved search visibility and traffic.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

AdLift is a full-service digital marketing agency that delivers SEO, content marketing, paid media, and AI-driven search visibility services to enterprise and mid-market clients. Its proprietary Tesseract platform tracks brand visibility and sentiment across AI search environments (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Deepseek, Perplexity) using integrated Claude AI capabilities, while the agency layer provides strategy, content production, and performance execution on an engagement basis.

Product overview

AdLift is a digital marketing agency founded in 2009 with offices in India and USA, headquartered in Burlingame, California. The company operates as a multi-service digital marketing firm offering both proprietary technology products and professional services. The core proprietary product is Tesseract, an AI Search Visibility Platform that analyzes brand mentions and tracks visibility across AI platforms. The service portfolio centers on SEO, Content Marketing, and Paid Media as core offerings, supplemented by specialized AI-focused services including AI SEO, LLM SEO, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), and AIO Services. The company also provides free SEO tools including a Chrome extension, sitemap generator, and meta description generator. AdLift serves enterprise clients across industries including travel, finance, real estate, healthcare, law, e-commerce, and SaaS.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tesseract: AI Search Visibility platform operated by AdLift, providing AI-mediated brand mention analysis, Claude AI integration, AI Traffic Analytics, and advanced sentiment analysis for tracking brand visibility across generative AI platforms.

Products and services

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Core SEO service for enterprise and mid-market clients, focused on improving page authority and driving qualified traffic that converts rather than visits alone.
• Content Marketing Content Lift Platform service that creates scalable, adaptable content to build brand confidence, domain authority, and SEO-driven traffic efficiently.
• Paid Media Performance marketing service using insights-driven paid media strategy to acquire customers and deliver measurable marketing ROI.
• AI SEO Services Specialized SEO services that incorporate AI capabilities to optimize brand visibility in AI-driven discovery environments.
• LLM SEO Service Service optimizing brand visibility and citation within Large Language Model responses and AI-generated outputs.
• Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Services Service that optimizes brand content for visibility and citation in generative AI platforms and AI-powered answer engines.
• Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Services Service focused on optimizing brand content for visibility in AI-powered answer engines like ChatGPT, voice assistants, and other conversational AI platforms.
• AIO Service AI Optimization service for brands seeking visibility in AI-first search landscapes.
• Tesseract — AI Search Visibility Platform Proprietary AI Search Visibility Platform that enables brands to analyze AI-generated brand mentions, track AI-driven referral traffic, and evaluate brand perception across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Deepseek, and Perplexity. Includes Claude AI integration for sentiment analysis, conversational positioning audits, proactive GEO optimization, and an AI Traffic Analytics module — available on Enterprise and Pro Plans.
• SEO Tools Suite of free SEO utilities including an SEO Analyzer Chrome Extension, XML Sitemap Generator, Meta Description Generator, Server Status Checker, and other web-based SEO tools.

Quantifiable outcome

• 47% traffic improvement for Tynker
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• BrightEdge: Enterprise SEO and content performance platform used by large brands. Direct overlap with AdLift's SEO services and increasingly with AI-search visibility as BrightEdge has added generative-engine tracking.
• Ahrefs: SEO toolset used heavily by agencies and in-house teams. Comparable because AdLift's SEO service work is built on the same underlying SEO data layer Ahrefs commercializes directly.
• PageTraffic: India-headquartered SEO and digital marketing agency with US presence. Near-twin geographic and service profile to AdLift and a direct competitor in enterprise SEO retainers.
• Seer Interactive: Digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, paid media, and analytics for enterprise clients. Comparable service portfolio and mid-sized team structure to AdLift.
• SEMrush: Leading SEO and digital marketing platform with a large agency ecosystem. Comparable across SEO tooling, paid media research, and content marketing — all of which AdLift delivers as services.
• WebFX: Full-service digital marketing agency offering SEO, content, and paid media. Overlaps heavily with AdLift's service catalog and enterprise/mid-market go-to-market.
• Conductor: Enterprise SEO platform serving large brands with technical SEO, content optimization, and search performance analytics. Closely comparable to AdLift's enterprise SEO service line and to Tesseract's visibility-tracking premise.
• iQuanti: Digital marketing agency with strong SEO, paid media, and analytics capabilities serving enterprise clients. Closely comparable service mix and enterprise client profile to AdLift.

Broad incumbents

• DEPT: Large global digital agency with SEO, content, paid media, and emerging AI services across enterprise clients. Comparable enterprise GTM and service breadth, but at materially larger scale than AdLift.

Emerging players

• Profound: Early-stage platform focused on brand visibility inside generative AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini). Directly comparable to AdLift's Tesseract product and a credible entrant in the AEO/GEO category AdLift is targeting.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/2396801
• Xx.com/adlift
• Facebookfacebook.com/adlift

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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