Farhan Arshad
Hire me
Head of SEO and AI Growth. Or the person who keeps your clients.
I am looking for a senior seat where search, AI visibility and client retention sit together, with a team that wants someone who has run the whole stack himself.
Roles
What I am a fit for
Head of SEO and AI Search, Director of Discoverability
Own organic and AI visibility end to end: technical SEO, entity and schema strategy, content operations, and the tracking layer that shows where the brand appears in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity and how accurately it is described.
AI Growth or Marketing Automation Lead
Design the AI-assisted workflows a marketing team actually runs: reporting, briefs, creative, QA and monitoring, with humans editing and shipping. I have built this for my own agency and for clients.
Client Success Manager, agency or SaaS
Keep accounts that should have churned. Seventeen retained white-label accounts, a Friday status-note habit, and a track record of flagging problems in the report before the client sees them.
What I bring
The parts that are hard to fake
I have run the P&L
Eight years as an agency founder. I know what a retainer costs to deliver, what churn does to a quarter, and why concentration risk is the thing that actually kills you.
AI is in the work, not the resume
Twenty-plus custom Claude skills, agents on live client accounts, reporting automated with n8n and Zapier, an AI answer engine and a phone receptionist productised and sold.
Schema and entities, deeply
Entity stacking, structured data at scale, multi-location Business Profiles, the foundation work that AI answers now depend on. This is the specialism that got rarer while it got more important.
Retention with receipts
Cost per lead drifting from AED 0.63 to 1.36 over four weeks, flagged in my own report before the client noticed, diagnosed as creative age, rebuilt, retained.
Writes the documents clients keep
Proposals, scopes of work, operator guides, client emails, long-form articles. Every document on the work page was written by me with AI drafting first.
Works across time zones
Clients in the US, Australia, the Gulf and Canada over eight years. Remote by default, with a registered US LLC available for contracting.
Dress code
Whatever the room needs
The illustrated version of me comes in four outfits. The real one has all four in the wardrobe.
Consulting
Not hiring, but need the work done?
I take a small number of engagements on AI search visibility: an audit of how your brand shows up in AI answers and what is missing from your structured data, followed by the fixes. I also build AI answer engines and reporting automation for agencies and service businesses. Email me with what you are trying to do and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person.
Contact
Say hello. I answer myself.
For a role, a consultation on AI search visibility, or an automation build. Tell me what you are trying to do and I will reply within one working day.
Or skip the form: WhatsApp me for a quick answer, or write to hello@farhanarshad.com if you would rather explain properly.