About Us

Every small business deserves the SEO power of a Fortune 500 company.

We built Scaup because we got tired of watching great businesses stay invisible online,not because they weren't good enough, but because real SEO was always just out of reach.

100s
Small businesses served
20+
Years combined tech experience
Weekly
Automated improvements per site

Scaup is a US company, based in New York. We're Joel and Slava, two entrepreneurs with a combined 20 years in tech who've watched SEO stay broken for small businesses for way too long.

Most founders and small business owners do get a website built. Some even get a one-time SEO audit. Then life takes over. The recommendations sit in a Google Doc, the site collects dust in search results, and nothing actually changes. Real SEO isn't a report you file away. It's work that has to happen consistently, week after week.

That's the gap Scaup fills. It connects to your site, analyzes what's hurting your search visibility, and makes improvements automatically on a regular cadence. Better page titles, stronger meta descriptions, sharper headings, tighter copy. The kind of incremental work that moves rankings but rarely gets done because there's always something more urgent. And because SEO keeps changing, Scaup tracks what matters so you don't have to — if you're curious how that works, we wrote about keeping up with SEO trends without spending hours on research.

Built for founders, freelancers, and small teams.

Scaup is designed for people who care about growing their business online but don't have an SEO team, an agency retainer, or hours to spend inside yet another dashboard. It runs in the background. You approve changes before anything goes live. Nothing gets published without your say.

The AI writes like a human, not like a keyword-stuffed bot. And because you stay in control of approvals, the content that goes out sounds like you, not like a template.

For years, getting real SEO results meant one of two things: hiring an expensive agency or building an in-house team. Both out of reach for most businesses. We knew the problem was solvable. We just needed the right tool.

When large language models started maturing, we saw what was possible. What used to require a team of writers, strategists, and SEO specialists could be done intelligently and at a fraction of the cost. We combined everything we knew about AI, SEO, and digital marketing to build Scaup.

That's why we're here.

The team

Joel

Co-founder & CEO

Serial entrepreneur with a background in digital marketing and growth. Joel has spent the last decade helping businesses scale online,and got frustrated enough with the SEO industry to build something better.

Slava

Co-founder & CTO

Engineer and product builder with deep experience in AI systems and automation. Slava architected the engine that makes Scaup's weekly improvements possible,fast, accurate, and invisible to the user.

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