Ventures & Platforms

Three ventures, one operating philosophy.

Alongside consultancy, SAO builds and runs its own platforms. Each is a separate venture, and each came out of real operational work.

The Portfolio
Operational intelligence · In development

OPlayer

An operational intelligence platform for charities and SMEs, currently in private development: performance, processes and bottlenecks in one view.

  • Performance dashboards without a BI team
  • Process and bottleneck mapping
  • Built for charity and SME budgets
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Lead generation

LeadLens

Finds local businesses with weak or missing web presence, postcode by postcode.

  • Postcode-level business discovery
  • Web-presence scoring
  • Export-ready outreach lists
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Marketing & visibility agency

Sarai Social

Our Manchester-based digital marketing agency: content, social media, paid campaigns and AI-driven content, now a full visibility engine.

  • Content, social & paid ads
  • SEO + local "near me" optimisation
  • GEO · AEO · LLMO, cited by AI engines
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Sarai Social — Five Layers of Being Found

Your customers don't just Google anymore. They ask AI.

Sarai Social works on every layer where a decision-maker might find you, including the newest one most agencies still miss: AI answers. sarai.social

SEO

Search Engine Optimisation

Classic search rankings: titles, structure, content and authority.

LOCAL

Local Search

"Near me" search: Google Business Profile, local citations, area pages.

GEO

Generative Engine Optimisation

Structuring content so AI search draws on it.

AEO

Answer Engine Optimisation

Question-formatted pages and FAQ schema built to be the answer.

LLMO

Large Language Model Optimisation

Being the org ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity name.