RankingTank

/ 00— Web Systems · CRM Automation · SEO & GEO · AI Agents

Web systemsthat getfound.

RankingTank builds custom web systems, CRM automation, SEO & GEO, and AI agents for businesses that treat their site as infrastructure — engineered end-to-end by one accountable studio.

5live client systems
4disciplines, one studio
Same-dayresponse, worldwide
100%real numbers — or none
/ 01 — What we build

Four services. Zero hand-offs.

Every engagement is scoped, built and measured end-to-end by the same studio you brief.

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Custom Web Systems

Custom websites, web apps and e-commerce on Next.js, Shopify and WordPress — with a CMS your team can actually use. Headless architecture, platform migrations, and performance budgets enforced from the first commit, not bolted on at the end.

Next.jsShopify · LiquidWordPressHeadless CMSCore Web Vitals
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CRM & Client Systems

Complete client acquisition systems on GoHighLevel and similar platforms — quiz and assessment funnels, booking flows, pipelines, payment integration, and email sequences that run without you touching them.

GoHighLevelFunnelsStripeEmail workflowsBooking · Pipelines
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SEO & GEO

Technical SEO — crawl architecture, indexation, structured data, performance — plus generative engine optimization (GEO), so your business shows up when people ask ChatGPT, not just when they search Google.

Technical auditsSchemaIndexationGEOSearch Console
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AI Agents & Automation

Self-hosted AI agents, workflow automation, and AI-powered tools on real infrastructure — Docker, VPS, API orchestration. Built to run unattended and fail loudly, not silently.

AI agentsAutomationsDocker · VPSAPI orchestrationMonitoring
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/ 02 — Selected work

Live projects, real domains.

Everything here is in production right now. Hover a row to inspect it, click to open the live site.

/ 03 — How we work

Diagnose first. Build second.

Every project runs the same four-step pipeline — so you always know what's happening and what comes next.

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Week one

Diagnose

Full audit of the current setup — findings first, opinions second.

  • Crawl & indexation report
  • Performance baseline (CWV)
  • Funnel & stack map
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Before code

Plan

Everything locked in writing before anything ships.

  • Fixed scope & price
  • Stack decision, justified
  • Success criteria, measurable
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The build

Build

Performance budgets enforced from the first commit.

  • Staged preview links
  • Milestone check-ins
  • No big reveals
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Post-launch

Grow

Systems that improve with time instead of decaying.

  • Real-number reporting
  • Iteration on findings
  • Automation where it pays
/ 04 — Standards

Built to measurable targets.

Two things separate engineered sites from decorated ones: maintenance compounds, and performance is pass/fail.

Search visibility is a maintained system, not a launch event. A neglected site decays — crawl errors accumulate, performance drifts, rankings erode. A maintained one compounds.

Every engagement includes measurement and iteration after launch, not just delivery. The graph shows the principle every retainer is built around; the plates below are the pass/fail targets every build ships against — Google's Core Web Vitals.

LCP — Largest Contentful Paint
Main content visible fast.
0.0 s
INP — Interaction to Next Paint
Every interaction responds.
0.0 ms
CLS — Cumulative Layout Shift
Nothing jumps while loading.
0.0 max
LIVE — system trajectoryMONTH 01
TIME →VISIBILITY
Maintained systemNeglected site
Illustrative principle — not client data
/ 05 — About

RankingTank is an independent studio, led by one engineer. No account managers, no hand-offs — the person you brief is the person who builds.

That means faster decisions, zero translation loss between strategy and code, and accountability that can't be diffused across a department. Every number a client sees is real, or it doesn't ship.

ModelIndependent studio, direct line
CoverageRemote · Worldwide
EngagementsProject & retainer
ResponseSame working day
/ 06 — FAQ

Straight answers.

Two models: fixed-scope projects and monthly retainers. Either way, scope, stack and success criteria are locked in writing before any code ships — you know exactly what arrives and when.

The engineer you talk to during scoping is the one who builds the project. RankingTank is a small, independent studio — no account managers, no outsourcing, no internal hand-offs. That structure exists specifically to keep decisions fast and accountability direct.

Projects get a written scope with a fixed price. Retainers are a flat monthly rate, scoped the same way. Cost depends entirely on scope, which is why every engagement starts with a diagnosis before any number is discussed.

Same working day, worldwide. Communication runs through whatever channel you already use — email, WhatsApp, or Slack.

No. Every number in a report is real and verifiable — traffic, indexation, conversions, load times. If a metric can't be traced to its source, it doesn't ship.

Yes — that's usually the point. Whether it's your existing payment processor, calendar, email tool, or a niche industry platform, the system is built to plug into what you already run, not replace it wholesale unless replacement is genuinely the right call.

No. You need to know how to run your business — we handle the technical layer and hand off documentation and a walkthrough so your team can operate it without us in the room. Deeper changes later are covered by retainers.

It's built to fail loudly, not silently. Monitoring and alerts are part of every build, so if something breaks — an API goes down, a workflow stalls — you or we know immediately, instead of finding out three weeks later when a client complains.

GEO is the practice of structuring content so AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity — can parse it and cite your business directly in their responses. It uses structured data, clear entity definitions, and direct-answer formatting rather than traditional keyword targeting alone.

SEO optimizes a site to rank in traditional search results (Google, Bing) using keywords, backlinks, and crawlability. GEO optimizes content to be extracted and cited by AI answer engines, which read for clear structure and factual density rather than ranking signals. We treat them as one connected discipline, not separate services.

A GoHighLevel developer builds and configures funnels, pipelines, automations, and integrations inside the GoHighLevel CRM platform — things like quiz funnels, booking flows, payment integration, and automated follow-up sequences. We work in GoHighLevel and comparable platforms to build systems that run client acquisition without manual input.

Custom builds generally outperform templates for SEO because they let you control page structure, load performance, and structured data precisely — templates carry bloat and generic markup that hurts crawlability. Templates are faster to launch and fine for low-competition niches; custom is worth it when search visibility is a growth channel.

Yes, when built with monitoring, error handling, and clear failure boundaries — which is standard in our builds. Risk comes from unmonitored automations making decisions silently; we design agents to fail loudly, log every action, and hand off to a human when a workflow hits an edge case it was not built for.

Most custom web systems take 6–14 weeks depending on scope, integrations, and content readiness. CRM and automation builds typically run 3–8 weeks. Exact timelines are set in the written scope before work starts, so there are no moving-target deadlines mid-project.

Let's build somethingworth finding.

One brief. One reply within a working day. No discovery-call theater.

Prefer email? hello@rankingtank.com