Graphite
Graphite is a research-driven growth agency offering AEO, SEO and performance marketing to companies such as Webflow, n8n and Hinge Health.
Graphite describes itself as a research-driven growth agency. Its homepage states that it helps ambitious companies build scalable AEO and SEO engines that compound, and that its AI research team identifies the 5% of strategies that drive impact in AEO, SEO and performance marketing.
Its AEO work covers prompt research, citation-ready content, brand sentiment and reputation management, technical AEO, citation tracking and analytics, and offsite AEO with a Reddit strategy. Its SEO work covers topic research, editorial content, technical SEO, AI content penalty recovery, ROI and analytics, and programmatic SEO. On engagement, its SEO page states a twelve-month minimum, and that the team can provide either full writing services or content planning and recommendations. For technical work it advises the client's own engineering teams on implementation.
Its homepage names Webflow, n8n and Hinge Health as companies it helps grow revenue, and its CEO bio says it works with companies like Webflow, Adobe and Upwork. Its case study listings state that Webflow doubled sign-ups from LLMs, that Fourthwall increased search-driven revenue by 936% in 9 months, and that BetterUp grew monthly organic traffic from 74K to 3.8M. These figures are the agency's own claims.
Its homepage names Ethan Smith as CEO, Gregory Druck, PhD as Chief AI Officer, and Jose Luis Paredes, PhD as Senior Data Specialist. Druck's bio states that he leads a team of scientists and engineers building AI tools for growth and researching how AI is reshaping marketing.
Who it fitsOpinion, not a ranking
From its own pages, Graphite describes itself as a research-driven growth agency that works with companies like Webflow, Adobe and Upwork, and its work covers AEO, SEO and performance marketing. Its pages name business-to-business SEO as work driven by personas and use cases, and they say it identifies the prompts buyers ask AI engines by drawing on sales calls, Reddit threads and help center questions. The problems it says it takes on include being cited by AI engines such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, technical work on structured data, internal linking and page architecture, and rebuilding authority after a Google AI update has cut traffic. On how a client engages, its SEO page states a twelve-month minimum, and says the team can be structured either as full writing services or as content planning and recommendations. It also says it works with a client's own technical or engineering teams, giving guidance for implementation and execution.
Who it fits (our reading of its own pages; opinion). Written from the agency's own pages listed below. How we write these
Sources
- Graphite Growth — Research Driven Growth Agency, 23 October 2026
- AEO — Answer Engine Optimization | Graphite Growth, 23 October 2026
- SEO — Search Engine Optimization | Graphite Growth, 23 October 2026
- Ethan Smith | Graphite, 23 October 2026
- Gregory Druck, PhD | Graphite, 23 October 2026
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