James Burrow

Search Visibility Leader · AI Builder

20 years in search. Now I build the AI tools SEO teams use every day.

I lead search strategy for franchise and home services brands. Most of my time goes to technical SEO and site architecture for multi-location businesses. More and more of it goes to GEO and AIO, which is really about getting a brand cited when people ask AI for an answer instead of searching. The tools I build, mostly in Claude, are how my team keeps up with both.

Recent AI work

These are some of my favorite builds from my current role. I've made a lot more than what's here, plus a few custom GPTs, but Claude is my main tool. Most of these pull live data and check their own numbers before anything reaches a client.

GEO · AIO

AI Visibility Report

Combines AI citation data from Bing Webmaster and Search Console with our visibility tracking, then turns it into an internal analysis and a client-ready summary. No visibility percentage makes it into a client deck until the confidence checks pass.

  • GEO
  • Bing Webmaster
  • Search Console

Analytics

Keyword Ranking Analysis

Pulls rankings straight from the WhiteSpark API and flags the moves worth caring about, like new map pack entries and pages crossing onto page one. The output is an interactive dashboard instead of another spreadsheet.

  • WhiteSpark API
  • Local SEO
  • Dashboards

Strategy

Market Research & Persona Matching

Ranks cities and ZIP codes on home services demand using Census ACS data, then matches each market to a customer persona. The agency now uses this method across its home services clients.

  • Census ACS
  • Personas
  • Market sizing

Content

AI-Optimized Blog Writer

Writes posts built to get cited in Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity. That means the answer up front, sections that stand on their own, real E-E-A-T signals, and schema and internal links handled before the post ships.

  • AIO
  • Schema
  • E-E-A-T

Technical SEO

Geo-Cluster Builder

Reads a site crawl and works out how the location pages already link to each other. Then it recommends new hub-and-spoke clusters by county or metro area, adjusting to however that particular site is built.

  • Screaming Frog
  • Site architecture

Analytics

Campaign Performance Analysis

Takes ranking data for an entire book of clients and surfaces the outliers, along with a watchlist of accounts that need attention. Strategists can spot a client at risk without opening every campaign one at a time.

  • Statistics
  • Reporting
More recent builds

Content & generative search

  • GBP Description Writer. Rewrites Google Business Profile descriptions to fit the main customer persona in each market.
  • SEO HTML Builders. CMS-safe HTML with schema for our Drupal-based platform, with a stricter version for non-technical users.

Analytics & reporting

  • Quarterly Keyword Group Analysis. Head-term ranking reviews split out by industry.
  • GA4 Landing Page Analysis. Sorts weak pages into traffic problems and conversion problems.
  • Review Priority Analysis. Scores each location to decide where review generation should start.
  • Post-Launch QA Check. Health checks at two weeks, one month and three months after a site launch.

Strategy & research

  • SWOT Builder. Quarterly SEO SWOTs that can be compared across accounts.
  • Seasonal Service Calendar. Which pests or lawn tasks to feature each month, based on sourced local climate data.
  • Contract Renewal Upsell Review. Weighs performance against contract data and gives one clear renewal recommendation.
  • Prospect Site Review. A two-page organic diagnostic the sales team can hand to a prospect.

Team operations

  • Project Management Context Sync. Explains SEO work to account managers in terms of leads and visibility.
  • Product Ticket Writer. Turns a bug investigation into a dev ticket engineering can pick up.
  • SEO Candidate Assessment Grading. Grades take-home tests against one rubric so hiring is fairer.
  • Prompt Refactoring & Enhancer. Tightens prompts for the Claude API and cleans up rough ones.

Side projects

Two products I'm building on my own time. Both are live.

Local search · Founder

Porchlight

A free local visibility report for home services businesses. Look up a business and Porchlight shows where it ranks on Google Maps across its service area, whether it shows up on Bing Places and Apple Maps, how its profile and reviews compare with the competitors beating it, and whether AI assistants recommend it.

  • Local SEO
  • Map rank grids
  • AI visibility
  • Census data
porchlightscore.com

Beekeeping · Builder

BroodLink

Apiary software for beekeeping nerds. You log a hive inspection by voice, and BroodLink suggests the next procedure step by step, with every recommendation tied back to university extension research. Optional Raspberry Pi and Pico sensor nodes track temperature, humidity and hive weight. It's free for hobbyist beekeepers.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • Raspberry Pi
  • MQTT
broodlink.app

Skills

AI & generative search

  • Claude (advanced)
  • Claude skills
  • Custom GPTs
  • Prompt engineering
  • AIO / GEO / GSO strategy
  • AI workflow development
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity

SEO & analytics

  • Technical SEO
  • Multi-location architecture
  • Site migrations
  • Local SEO & GBP
  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Looker Studio
  • Screaming Frog
  • Ahrefs
  • SEMRush
  • BrightLocal
  • WhiteSpark

Development

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML & CSS
  • PHP
  • Scrapy
  • Linux

Platforms

  • WordPress
  • Shopify
  • Drupal
  • Magento
  • Google Ads
  • Bing Ads

Let's talk

I'm open to SEO leadership and AI builder roles. I'm based near Raleigh, NC, and you can email me or book a free consult below.