Ranksector started the way most useful tools do: we needed it ourselves. We’d launched a handful of products and kept hitting the same wall. Getting traction in 2026 is brutal. Hiring a writer who understands your niche runs four figures a month, a single quality backlink can cost more than a weekend in Lisbon, and getting a site to show up in Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude takes a level of sustained, boring work that no early-stage founder has time for.
The industry’s answer, for roughly two decades, has been the same: hire an agency, pay a retainer, wait a quarter, hope the partner with six other accounts remembers your name on Tuesday. We thought that was a bad trade. So we built the thing we wanted — software that writes, publishes, and builds links while we sleep, for a fraction of what an agency costs. Ranksector is that product, now opened up to every founder and small marketing team that would rather ship than babysit a content calendar.
We’re a small, proudly European team. Fully remote, fully async. No offices, no all-hands theater, no “strategy syncs.” Most of us came from running our own products, which is why the tool behaves like something a founder would actually use.