Founded in 2023
A Malta-based company built to productise publisher placements for marketers and agencies.
About Rank Engine
Your #1 search growth platform.
Rank Engine creates and manages placements on real websites, helping brands become easier to find, trust and cite in organic and AI search.
Systems with expert oversight
Purpose-built applications run each stage while our team judges quality, relevance and risk.
Why Rank Engine exists
Search is no longer just Google.
Brands now win or lose visibility across organic results, AI answers and the wider web where opinions form. The evidence those systems weigh is third-party: credible articles on real publishers that mention, cite and link to you.
Earning that coverage used to mean slow outreach, inconsistent writing and vendors who worked as black boxes. Rank Engine was built in 2023 to productise the whole path, so a marketer or agency can brief a campaign, keep control of the decisions that matter and let the platform and our team do the operational work.
Placements that strengthen the pages that matter
Relevant editorial coverage and contextual links give search engines clearer evidence of what a brand is about.
Third-party context answer engines can cite
Consistent, source-backed articles on real publishers are the material AI systems find, trust and reference.
Credible coverage that shapes first impressions
Positive, balanced editorial assets decide what people see first when they search a company or a name.
How it's built
Purpose-built systems.
One managed workflow.
Rank Engine is not a roster of freelancers and spreadsheets. It is a set of applications our team built around one job: turning a brief into a placement you can stand behind. Each system handles one stage, and human review sits between them.
Guided ordering
Order Setup captures the goal, subject, audience, publisher targeting and approvals. ARI then assesses the brand background, researches the gaps and integrates stronger detail before final validation.
Research and article production
Source-backed research, thesis and outline development, staged drafting with mixed OpenAI and Anthropic model roles, deterministic checks and structured critique passes before review.
Revision Desk
An optional workspace for reviewing finished articles, incorporating client feedback and refining particular messaging with the original research in context.
Publisher assessment
Every candidate website is classified and scored for relevance, traffic, authority and quality before it can be considered for a placement.
Opportunity matching
Keyword and category signals, embedding-based matching and article-to-site fit evaluation surface the publishers where each article belongs.
Outreach and delivery
Policy-controlled outreach with review and hold states, placement tracking, live URL delivery and account-level reporting in the dashboard.
Built on OpenAI and Anthropic models, with Ahrefs and Moz data informing every publisher decision.
See the workflow in detailExpert oversight
Led by twenty years in search.
Rank Engine was founded by James Jouni, who has spent two decades building organic visibility for brands and agencies and who designed the workflows the platform runs on. That experience sets the editorial standard: an article has to belong on the publisher's site before it can do anything for the brand.
Our team covers product and engineering, editorial review and publisher relations. The systems do the repetitive work at scale; people make the judgment calls on quality, relevance and risk.
Rank Engine on LinkedInOperating standards
The principles behind the platform.
Rank Engine exists to make publisher placements easier to buy, manage and report without making the content worse.
Editorial quality first
Content has to read like it belongs on the publisher site, not like a forced mention.
Genuine placement
Real outreach to real publishers, with a new article written for every placement. No link inserts into old content.
Transparent delivery
Clear pricing, visible progress, approval controls and live URL reporting stay attached to the order.
Practical automation
AI speeds up research and production, while human checks protect standards and relevance.
Milestones
How the platform has grown.
Every release has moved more of the work from manual effort into systems, without moving the editorial standard.
Rank Engine is founded
Rank Engine Ltd is set up in Malta to give marketers content that reputable sites will actually publish.
The content engine goes live
The research and article production system enters production, replacing manual writing and outreach workflows.
Platform release
Guided Order Setup, publisher matching, approvals and dashboard delivery are released to marketers and agencies.
Revision Desk, Team Accounts and ARI
Source-aware review, shared team workflows and background research launch, and Rank Engine joins the OpenAI Partner Network as a Select Partner.
Case studies and resources
See the platform in context.
Campaign examples and the workflow walkthrough that show where Rank Engine fits.
Case study
Increase Organic & AI Visibility
A 12-month authority campaign moved a B2B brand from flat growth to stronger rankings and AI citations.
Read case study Case studyOnline Reputation Recovery
One month of editorial placements pushed negative press off page one and restored positive search context.
Read case study WorkflowHow It Works
See how an order moves from campaign direction to research, content, outreach, publishing and reporting.
View workflow
