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Rank First Labs · Investor Brief

One platform. One bill. The whole business.

Every service business pays for ten tools to grow. Rankly replaces them with one, turning fragmented spend into recurring revenue.

Market & Rankly potential
One platform replaces
WebsiteSEOGoogle Business ProfileSocial mediaReviewsContentCRMCall trackingDispatchLead follow upWhatsApp agentAnalytics
  • U.S. home service businesses2.5M
  • U.S. home services industry$500B+
  • Average monthly spend / account~$4,600
  • Rankly's addressable market~$30B
At just 1% market capture25,000
Launching now10+ waitlisted
Existing agency clients committed to onboard at launch.
At just 1% of the market, ~$300M ARR potential · illustrative
The switch · 10 → 1

Ten tools become one.

Everything a service business runs on, consolidated into a single platform.

The typical service business stack
Website builder SEO tool Google Business Profile Social scheduler Review app Content / marketing CRM Call tracking Dispatch Lead follow up
10+ tools · 10+ logins · 10+ bills · 0 that talk to each other
Rankly is all ten, in one platform. Website, SEO, GBP, reviews, CRM, dispatch & lead follow up. One login. One bill.
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The Problem

Service businesses are drowning in software.

A roofer, plumber, or cleaner runs their entire company across a dozen tools that don't talk to each other. The owner becomes the integration layer.

Fragmented data, no single view

Leads live in one app, reviews in another, jobs in a third. Nothing connects, so nothing compounds.

Hours lost to busywork

Chasing leads, copying data between tools, and manually asking for reviews eats the time that should go to paying jobs.

Ten subscriptions, ten bills

Every tool is another login, another invoice, another thing to learn, and the leads still slip through the gaps.

Market · The Spend

The real cost of fragmented growth.

A typical $2M U.S. service company with 10 to 15 employees already spends $220,000 to $320,000 every year on marketing, CRMs, and core software, just to keep leads coming in and operations running.

7.7 to 12%
Marketing & lead generation

Of gross revenue goes to marketing, $154K to $240K+ a year for a $2M firm. Hyper local SEO, Google Ads, and agency retainers alone run $2,500 to $12,000 / month.

U.S. SBA · Gartner CMO Spend Survey
$121,336
CRM & software stack

Average annual SaaS spend for teams under 20, roughly $8,000 per employee / year, with CRM seats at $12 to $100+ per user / month.

Cledara Software Spend Report
$2,400
IT & core operations

Per employee / year on productivity, field management, and bookkeeping tools, 26% of it now going to cybersecurity and compliance.

Spiceworks State of IT · Gartner
34%

The operational leak

Up to a third of the software budget is wasted, unused features, duplicate seats, and hours lost copying data between tools that don't talk. For a $2M service firm, that's $41,000+ thrown away every year to a fractured stack.

Consolidating into one unified workflow isn't an added technology cost. It's recovering lost revenue and eliminating an immediate cash drain, exactly the wallet Rankly captures.

Zylo · Cledara
The Market

Customers find these businesses by searching. Rankly owns that layer.

Nearly half of all Google searches are local, buyers decide within a day, and a business's website, profile, and reviews make or break the choice. Those are exactly the signals Rankly builds and optimizes, for businesses that mostly don't.

46%
of all Google searches have local intent.
Search Engine Roundtable
80%
of U.S. consumers search for a local business every week, 32% every day.
SOCi Consumer Behavior Index, 2024
76%
of "near me" searches lead to a visit within 24 hours.
Google · Think with Google
75%
"always" or "regularly" read online reviews when choosing a local business.
BrightLocal, 2024
70%
more likely to visit a business with a complete Google Business Profile.
Google
32%
of consumers have already used AI to search for local businesses.
Near Media, 2024

Rankly builds and optimizes every one of these signals: website, SEO, Google Business Profile, reviews, and AI search presence, in one platform.

The Product

One login. The entire business, connected.

Rankly runs the full customer lifecycle, get found, convert, run the work, and grow, from one platform. Every module is a workflow Rank First Labs has run by hand for three years, refined over 18 months of in house tooling and leveled up with AI. Proven playbooks, not a roadmap.

The wedge · < a day

A real, SEO optimized website, live in hours, not weeks.

Rankly stands up a genuinely ranked website from day one, the thing agencies charge thousands and take weeks to build becomes the on ramp.

See a demo
Get found

Google Business Profile

Configured and optimized for the local map pack.

Get found

Social presence

Profiles and posts, set up and kept running.

Get found

AI content & marketing

On brand content and campaigns generated on demand.

Convert

WhatsApp lead agent

Follows up every lead instantly, and asks for the review after.

Convert

Call intelligence

Listens in and routes each call to your best rep.

Run

CRM

Every client and job in one connected place.

Run

Field dispatch

Right technician, right job, on time, with workflows.

Grow

Reviews, automated

Auto requests after each job, and replies on brand.

The Macro Tailwind

Physical service is becoming the AI proof asset class.

For 150 years, technology automated manual labor and protected the desk. Generative AI flips it, targeting cognitive white collar work while hands on physical service stays secure, in demand, and rising in value. Rankly arms the businesses on the winning side.

65%of trade professionals believe their job is safe from AI.Angi · Skilled Trades in America, 2024
77%of Gen Z say it is important their future job is hard to automate.Jobber, via CBS News, 2025

The AI reversal

For 150 years tech automated manual labor and shielded desk jobs. Generative AI does the opposite, hitting cognitive white collar roles like data entry, basic legal, copywriting, and middle management, while physical service stays secure.

The unpredictability moat

AI needs clean data and predictable algorithms. It can't diagnose a uniquely rusted pipe, wire a custom panel, or adapt to a live job site, physical adaptability is machine proof.

Irreplaceable human value

Service runs on trust, emotional intelligence, and on site crisis management, the rapport and physical peace of mind a chatbot simply can't deliver.

The valuation boom

As software costs fall with AI, physical execution becomes the premium commodity. The businesses that own the trucks, tools, technicians, and local relationships are the most resilient, high margin asset class on the market, and Rankly is the software layer that arms them.

Why Now

Three shifts make this the moment.

01

Search fractured into three

Getting found now means Google, Maps, and AI answers (GEO), three systems with different signals. More complexity means more tools. Rankly handles all three from one place.

02

SaaS fatigue is real

Small businesses are done paying for and stitching together ten point tools. The market is consolidating, and service businesses want one system that just works.

03

A huge, under digitized base

~2.5 million U.S. home service businesses still run on spreadsheets and disconnected apps, an enormous, fragmented market with no all in one incumbent.

Why Rank First Labs

We ran this by hand for three years. Now we've productized it.

For more than three years, Rank First Labs has profitably generated organic leads for paying clients across the U.S., managing 100+ Google Business Profiles and 50+ websites, ranking clients #1 across Google, Maps, and AI search, with no paid ads. Rankly is that exact playbook, encoded.

A proven playbook, not a prototype

Every automation mirrors a process that already produced ranked clients and real leads.

Strategy and build in the same hands

The work is scoped and shipped by the same people, no translation layer between diagnosis and fix.

Organic only credibility

No paid ad crutch. Results come from durable SEO and GEO systems that keep compounding.

Native to AI search (GEO)

Built for how customers find businesses now, in AI answers, not just blue links.

Traction

A profitable business, not just a pitch.

This is not a concept. Rank First Labs has run profitably for more than three years with real paying clients. We keep specific figures private, full financials, revenue, and margins are shared with serious investors under NDA. What we show publicly is the engine that works.

100+
Google Business Profiles managed
50+
Websites under management
#1
Where clients rank, or on the way
Total clicks
12.3K
▲ 36%
Impressions
1.08M
▲ 42%
Avg. CTR
1.1%
▲ 8%
Avg. position
12.3
▲ 19%
Launching now10+ existing clients are already on the Rankly waitlist, committed to onboard at launch.
The Opportunity

A fragmented market ready to consolidate.

All in one, and actually simple

Competitors exist, GoHighLevel, Podium, Thryv, Jobber, Housecall Pro, but each owns only part of the stack, and the few that come close are complex and built for tech savvy operators or agencies. Rankly is the one that is both complete and simple enough for a non technical owner to run.

Built in distribution

An existing book of agency clients and a lead generation engine give Rankly a warm launch base most startups never have.

Land, then expand

The "website in hours" wedge lands the account; the CRM, dispatch, and follow up automations deepen it and raise switching costs.

An AI proof tailwind

The physical service base Rankly serves is the segment insulated from AI disruption, and the one capital, talent, and demand are now flowing into.

~$30B

Addressable software wallet

~2.5M U.S. home service businesses × ~$12K / yr in tools Rankly replaces, and expandable across 30M+ U.S. small businesses.

Sources: U.S. Census / SBA · industry estimates
Team

Led by the people who built it.

Rankly is built inside Rank First Labs, a company that has operated profitably for three years with a proven track record, not a two person startup. It is led hands on by:

YD

Yoram Daniel

Founder & CEO

Founded Rank First Labs and built it into a profitable business. Leads product, growth, and go to market.

LinkedIn ↗
JY

Jacob Yiannakou

Web Developer & Product Builder

Builds and ships the Rankly platform end to end.

LinkedIn ↗
Let's talk

We're opening the conversation with investors.

Rankly is launching now, built on a profitable agency with 3+ years of paying clients. We are raising $250K to fund marketing and team expansion, and offering equity in the whole company, Rank First Labs (agency and product), not just Rankly.

Where the capital goes

  • Marketing and go to market to win Rankly customers
  • Team expansion to support launch and growth
  • Onboard the 10+ waitlisted clients, then scale it
  • Deepen the product and GEO / AI search automation
Now raising
$250K

For marketing and team expansion, in exchange for equity in the whole company, Rank First Labs (agency and product), not just Rankly. Structure flexible, let us find the right fit.

Book a meeting with Yoram Daniel
Yoram Daniel · Founder & CEO
info@rankfirstlabs.com · +357 96 293 728
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