SEO Savages
Still from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: two characters driving a convertible through the desert

We came for the rankings and stayed for the savagery. No bat country required.

ABOUT US   two founders · Warsaw & San Francisco

The two founders
behind a boutique SEO agency.

A Stanford GSB MBA who built early go-to-market at OpenGov, and a psychometrics PhD with 16+ years in stats and data science. We run every engagement ourselves.

We took our own startup, Gyfted, to 1.2M organic users a year on 27%+ site-wide conversion and $7k of backlinks. Now we do the same work for a few startups at a time.

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the short version

1.2M

Gyfted organic users a year (GA peak)

27%+

Gyfted site-wide conversion

16+

Years in stats and data science (Blazej)

Max 6

Clients at a time

The Gyfted numbers come with their Search Console screenshots in the Gyfted case study.

who you work with

Meet Rob & Blazej

Both of us are on every engagement and we mix the work freely. Rob leans towards SEO research and go-to-market, Blazej towards development and insights.

Robert Kowalski, co-founder of SEO Savages, in a red cap and glasses carrying a folded table on his back

Robert Kowalski

Co-founder · SEO research, go-to-market & programmatic SEO

credentials

  • MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • BSc, London School of Economics (LSE)
  • Built enterprise and state GTM and account-based marketing early at OpenGov
  • Co-founder and CEO of Gyfted (1.2M organic users a year)
  • Former Head of Business Development, Aegis Custody
  • Former policy adviser to the Office of the President of Poland; co-created the country’s first R&D tax credit

leans towards

  • SEO research: keyword, SERP and competitor data before anything gets built
  • Positioning and go-to-market: which buyers, which searches, which pages
  • Programmatic SEO strategy, and tying the plan to pipeline and your board numbers

Around here: Bobby K. 15+ years across data, SaaS, product, ABM, SEO, sales and BD.

Robert’s full bio
Blazej Mrozinski, co-founder of SEO Savages, in a white cap and dark sunglasses

Blazej Mrozinski

Co-founder · development, data & insights

credentials

  • PhD in Psychology (social cognition), SWPS University
  • Postgraduate study, London School of Economics (LSE)
  • 16+ years lecturing stats, data science and psychology at European universities
  • SWPS University, Department of Research Methodology in Psychology
  • Led product psychometrics, assessment, data and UX at Gyfted

leans towards

  • Development: free tools, data products, apps and the data pipelines behind programmatic pages
  • Insights and measurement: what counts as a result, and whether the numbers are real
  • Technical SEO: your stack, your templates, what search engines and AI crawlers see

Around here: Dr Blaze. A psychometrician who treats your funnel like a measurement model.

Blazej’s full bio

OpenGov: in February 2024 Cox Enterprises bought a majority stake in OpenGov at a $1.8 billion valuation (Cox Enterprises press release, February 2024).

origin story

Why we started SEO Savages

We are founders first. For Gyfted, our own startup, we hired an SEO agency. We fired it and ran SEO ourselves.

Google clicks went from 230 a month in January 2022 to 126,824 in January 2024: programmatic pages plus free, ungated tests that answered the search, on $7k of backlinks in total.

SEO Savages sells that approach to other startups: senior people who own the plan, work inside your team and tell you straight what will move the needle. We keep the roster small so we can keep doing the work ourselves.

How we grew Gyfted →

receipts

What we have built since

Three of our own products and one client. Each case study shows the raw Search Console or Bing exports behind the number.

Our own startup

Gyfted

Talent assessments

1.2M

Organic users a year (GA peak)

Case study →

Our own product

Prawomat

Legal-tech (D2C)

4,863

Search clicks in Nov 2025: Google 3,591 + Bing 1,272

Case study →

Our own product

Symptomatik

Health-tech (D2C)

20x

Citations a day in Bing's AI answers: 102 in June to 2,073 (9-15 Sep)

Case study →

Client

RMIQ

AdTech / retail media (B2B)

~285k

/mo impressions (GSC peak)

Case study →

Prawomat got a second chapter: 2.9x the daily Google clicks within 19 days of our rebuild. All of it in case studies.

how we work

A senior team member, in your Slack

The founders do the work

The two of us run strategy and execution on every engagement. There are no account managers and no juniors between you and the people doing the work.

Max six clients at a time

We cap the roster so each client gets real attention from both founders.

One client per sector per market

We never work for your direct competitor in the same market.

Inside your team

Weekly or bi-weekly meetings, and Slack, WhatsApp or Telegram in between. We flag problems before they show up in your numbers.

Priorities over checklists

We pick the few things that will move the needle over 3-6 months and skip the rest for now.

From $3,500/mo

$3,500/mo (3-month minimum) or $6,000/mo (4-month minimum). Off-page (backlink) work is agreed with you on both tiers; any link-building spend is on top of the fee.

Both tiers, scope and onboarding: our fractional SEO service.

method

We test the metrics before we trust them

Blazej’s field is measurement: whether a score measures what people use it to decide. We apply the same test to SEO tools and publish the results in the Savage Lab.

Example: we checked Ahrefs Keyword Difficulty against 241 ranking pages across 30 keywords. It tracks the links of ranking pages closely (ρ = .91) and the authority of the sites that rank far less (ρ = .36). That gap decides which keywords a young site can win, and it shapes the plan we hand you.

Read the Keyword Difficulty study → / Measuring SEO like a psychometrician →

about us, answered

Straight answers

Who will I actually work with? +
The two founders, Robert Kowalski and Blazej Mrozinski. We run strategy and execution ourselves, with no account managers or junior staff on your account, and share the work between us: Rob leans towards SEO research, Blazej towards development and insights. Your engineers build templates and product changes where they are needed; we direct and review that work with them.
What are the founders’ backgrounds? +
Robert Kowalski holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and a BSc from LSE, built enterprise GTM early at OpenGov and co-founded Gyfted as CEO. Blazej Mrozinski holds a PhD in psychology (social cognition) from SWPS University, did postgraduate study at LSE and has 16+ years lecturing stats, data science and psychology.
Why did you start SEO Savages? +
We ran SEO for our own startup, Gyfted. We fired our SEO agency, did the work ourselves and took the site from 230 Google clicks a month in January 2022 to 126,824 in January 2024, on $7k of backlinks. SEO Savages sells that same founder-run approach to other startups.
How many clients do you take? +
Six at most, and one per sector per market, so we never work for your direct competitor.
Where are you based? +
Warsaw and San Francisco, and we work with clients remotely. Our results span the US and English-speaking markets (Gyfted, RMIQ), Poland (Prawomat) and three languages (Symptomatik in English, Polish and Spanish).
What does it cost? +
$3,500/mo (3-month minimum) or $6,000/mo (4-month minimum). Off-page (backlink) work is agreed with you on both tiers; any link-building spend is on top of the fee. Both tiers are laid out on our fractional SEO service page.
How do we start? +
Book a call or send the form below with your site and your goal. The first conversation is about your product, stage, traction and constraints. If SEO is the wrong channel for you right now, we will say so on that call.

intro call

Talk to
both founders.

Send your URL and one line about what you need from search. We’ll reply with where we’d start, or tell you straight that SEO is the wrong channel for you right now.

  • > The founders do the work, no juniors
  • > One client per sector per market, max six
  • > From $3,500/mo, 3-month minimum

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