AI-first SEO agency listed for sale at $1.5 million

A fully remote, AI-first SEO and digital agency serving mid-market and venture-backed businesses has been put up for sale with an asking price of $1,542,006, a figure that lands at about 1.3 times its $1,195,362 in annual revenue and roughly 2.6 times its $592,018 in annual profit.

That pricing says a lot about what the market is rewarding right now. This is not a generic services shop trying to sell a founder’s time. The business is pitched as bootstrapped, profitable, and built to scale, with clients in the United States and the United Kingdom and margins the listing puts at about 50 percent EBITDA. Buyers looking at agencies in 2026 are clearly paying up for the version that looks closest to software: repeatable delivery, narrow positioning, and a tool stack that can be monetized beyond billable hours.

The seller’s growth story leans hard into that logic. Trailing-twelve-month marketing spend was just $3,200, a tiny outlay against the revenue base. The listing says the agency’s LLM Visibility Tool already generates 169 qualified leads per month at $4.70 each, a low acquisition cost that should grab attention from anyone who has watched agency margins get eaten alive by paid traffic or bloated outbound. A proprietary AI content agent was also scheduled to go live in May 2026, adding another layer of automation to a business that is already selling itself as AI-first rather than AI-adjacent.

The bigger upside is in how the seller frames the next step. The business has a 500-person email list that has not yet been monetized, and the listing points to 10 percent to 15 percent price increases for existing clients, productizing the LLM Visibility Tool as paid SaaS, and even acquiring complementary agencies or consulting services tied to AI transformation. That is the acquisition pitch buyers tend to like: revenue today, software optionality tomorrow.

Acquire.com, which says it is the largest marketplace for buying and selling profitable online businesses, reports more than 500,000 entrepreneurs and more than 2,000 active listings, with agencies as a core category. That matters because the AI search optimization category is getting crowded fast, with tools chasing visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and other answer engines. In that market, an agency with real profit, cheap lead flow, and a proprietary tool is exactly the kind of shop that can command a premium.