Welcome to daydream

We pair the best SEO agents with dedicated experts.

Vision

daydream was founded by Thenuka and Shravan, who spent years deep in the craft of organic search—learning what actually moves rankings, traffic, and revenue. That foundation, and the setbacks that followed, shaped everything we believe about how SEO should work.

We believe growth-stage companies shouldn't have to choose between doing SEO right and doing it at the pace the business demands. They deserve more than a dashboard that tells them what's broken, a content farm that publishes pages no one reads, or an agency that bills for hours instead of outcomes. They deserve a system that thinks like the best practitioners, executes like a full team, and stays accountable to results.

For the first time, much of what the best SEO execution can be modeled, encoded into agents, and paired with human expertise. This shift changes everything about who gets access to real organic growth.

daydream is how that happens. SEO agents modeled off the top 1% of practitioners, paired with dedicated experts who stay with you from day one and make sure it actually works for your business.

Our values

The principles behind how we operate, collaborate, and execute every day.

Craftsmanship

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Craftsmanship is the belief that the how matters as much as the what. Outcomes matter, but so does the process, the care, and the way someone approaches their work every single day. It is not limited to traditionally creative roles because someone handling customer interactions can master that craft just as an engineer masters code or a marketer masters campaigns.

Craftsmanship is not perfectionism for its own sake, not polishing things that do not matter, and not caring only when someone important is watching. It is an internal standard that does not adjust based on the audience.

Commit to the Cause

Resilient Optimism

Ownership

Proactive Communication

Team

We are dreamers and builders who are obsessed with continuous improvement.

Ani Ter-Margaryan

Growth Lead
I've visited 26 countries and counting

Devin Morris

Growth Lead
My friends and I write a motivational anime newsletter called Kaminari

Houston Barnett-Gearhart

Head of Growth
I was born in the southernmost point of the continental United States

Hunter Johnson

Growth Lead
I am a lifelong runner and am currently training for my next marathon and a new PR!

Jack White

Growth Delivery Lead
Justin Bieber drove by me on a jet ski while I was lost at sea for 10 hours in Turks and Caicos

Janet Lee

Head of GTM
I have booked speaking acting roles on Grey's Anatomy, This is Us, Shameless, Jane the Virgin and more

Shravan Rajinikanth

Co-Founder & CTO
I used to write TF2/CSGO trading bots as a side gig My Steam backpack is still worth $20k+

Thenuka Karunaratne

Co-Founder & CEO
I lived in a Zen Buddhist temple for 2 years

Trevor Hernstadt

Growth Lead
Last summer, I did rattlesnake removal as a way to make some money on the side

Wisia Neo

Growth Lead
I can lift 5× my bodyweight but still ask for help with my bags

Investors

We are backed by leading venture firms and innovators who've shaped modern growth and SEO.

Funding partners

Founders

Lenny Rachitsky

Author, Lenny's Newsletter and Lenny’s Podcast

Kareem Amin

Co-Founder & CEO at Clay

Varun Anand

Co-Founder & Head of Operations at Clay

Daniel Marashlian

Co-Founder & CTO at Drata

Arash Ferdowsi

Co-Founder at Dropbox

Chetan Pungaliya

Co-Founder & Former SVP Engineering at Poshmark

Growth leaders

Eli Schwartz

Author of Product-Led SEO

George Bonaci

VP of Growth & Demand at Ramp

Lauryn Isford

Product & Growth Leadership at Notion

Melissa Tan

GM & Head of Print at Canva, Former GM Self-Serve & Head of Growth at Webflow

Bryan Tsao

Chief Product Officer at Jasper, Former VP of Growth & Data at Dropbox

David Hoang

VP of Design at Atlassian, Former VP of Marketing at Design at Replit

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