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AirOps

airops.com

AirOps helps enterprise marketing teams measure and improve brand visibility across AI search and answer engines.

HQNew York City and San Francisco, New York and California, United States
Employees11-50
Funding$62.5M
Valuation$225M
14 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 1h ago
AI / MLAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries B$50M-$200M

About

AirOps builds an enterprise platform for Answer Engine Optimization and AI-search content engineering. It sells to marketing, content, SEO, and AEO teams, differentiating through an integrated loop that tracks brand visibility, executes content work, governs brand consistency, and measures results across owned and third-party content.

Market

AirOps competes in enterprise AI-search visibility, answer-engine optimization, SEO, and AI-powered content-operations software. Its positioning is broader than monitoring-only AEO tools: it combines AI-search measurement and competitive intelligence with content creation, refreshes, workflow automation, human review, CMS publishing, and offsite publisher-placement programs. AirOps differentiates through a unified onsite-and-offsite platform, specialized content-engineering workflows, brand context, integrations with major LLM providers, and outcome measurement tied to citations and visibility.

Target Customers

AirOps primarily serves enterprise marketing, content, SEO, and AEO teams at organizations operating large-scale content programs. Typical buyers and users are content and SEO leaders who need to improve AI-search visibility, automate content creation and refreshes, govern brand output, and connect publishing and performance measurement across many pages and team members.

At a Glance

Problem

AirOps addresses the problem that conventional content and SEO workflows are too slow, manual, and disconnected for an AI-search environment. Buyers increasingly go directly to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and other answer engines, making the narrative those systems produce about a brand a critical marketing asset. The pain is both operational and economic: teams must monitor changing search behavior, identify which pages and topics matter, and repeatedly update content while preserving brand quality. The challenge extends beyond a company’s own website, since AirOps cites research indicating that as much as 85% of brand discovery in AI search can come from third-party content.

The killer use case is turning AI-search visibility insights into a repeatable content operation: identify where a brand is missing from important answers, refresh underperforming pages, and create or place content that improves citations and share of voice. This replaces labor-intensive audits and one-off content projects with a continuous loop that can compound visibility and reduce the amount of repetitive work required from SEO and content experts.

Product / Service

AirOps positions itself as an end-to-end content engineering and AI-search growth platform that connects context, insights, and actions. It combines visibility measurement across AI search platforms with citation tracking, competitor intelligence, share-of-voice analysis, content audits, and workflows for prioritizing and triggering updates. Its AI agent, Quill, executes against a team’s strategy by drafting, refreshing, and monitoring content, while brand context, knowledge bases, data, and Brand Kits ground outputs in the customer’s own information and voice.

The delivery model is enterprise software supported by human-in-the-loop review and services such as training, dedicated support, original research, and community resources. Page-level signals such as citation rates, SEO performance, engagement, and content freshness help determine which pages need light edits or full refreshes; workflows can then move work toward publication with evaluation and approval checkpoints. The intended benefit is scalable production of more relevant, on-brand content without removing expert judgment from the process.

Market

AirOps competes in the emerging market for AI-search optimization, answer-engine optimization, generative-engine optimization, and content engineering software for enterprise marketing teams. Its positioning spans both owned-site content operations and broader visibility across the web, including the third-party publishers, comparison pages, communities, and other sources that influence AI-generated recommendations. The available research does not identify named direct competitors, so the clearest competitive frame is the broader AI-search and enterprise content-operations stack rather than a specific rival list.

The company shows meaningful commercial traction rather than appearing pre-product: AirOps says it has helped more than 1,000 brands, and reported customer examples include Webflow, Klaviyo, Wiz, Kayak, Asana, Parallel, Chime, Webflow, and Carta. Its published case studies cite outcomes such as a 3x increase in AI-search citations for Chime, a 7x increase for Carta, and more than 500% growth in AI-attributed signups for Webflow. AirOps also reported $55.5 million in funding raised to date as of March 2026. Revenue, profitability, and a precise market-share figure are not disclosed in the available research, but the customer base, case-study results, enterprise integrations, and funding indicate an actively commercializing company.

Founders & Leadership

Alex HallidayFounder
Co-Founder and CEO
Matt HammelFounder
Co-Founder and COO
Berna GonzalezFounder
Co-Founder and CTO

Funding History

2023-04
Seed$7M

Wing Venture Capital

2024-10
Series A$15.5M

Unusual Ventures

2025-11
Series B$40M

Greylock

Recent News

2026-05-27product
Webinar Recap: What's New at AirOps and Quill

AirOps recapped a webinar featuring its CEO and VP of Product that demonstrated Quill, an AI agent connecting AI-search insights with content execution for marketing teams.

2026-05-13product
AirOps Launches Quill, The AI Agent Lead That Monitors, Updates, and Drafts Content So Brands Stay Visible in AI Search

AirOps launched Quill as an AI agent that monitors, creates, refreshes, and optimizes content to improve brands’ visibility in AI search. AirOps said early customers including Parallel and Asana saw AI-search citation increases as high as 165%.

2026-03-03partnership
AirOps Brings AI Search Optimization Directly Into the Enterprise Content Stack with New Suite of CMS and Project Management Integrations

AirOps announced native integrations with major CMS platforms and project-management tools, enabling teams to import, refresh, manage, review, and publish content from within AirOps. The release also connected content workflows with Slack and Gmail, and was made available to enterprise customers at no additional cost.

2026-02-05partnership
AirOps Launches Native Integration With Claude

AirOps launched a native connector for Anthropic’s Claude, allowing marketing teams to access AirOps data such as AI-search visibility, competitive citation gaps, and content-performance metrics directly within Claude.

2026-02-03product
AirOps Launches Offsite, Extending AI Search Visibility Beyond Owned Content

AirOps launched Offsite to help brands identify influential third-party publishers, secure valuable mentions, and measure the visibility impact of those placements across the web and AI-search ecosystem.

2026-01-27product
AirOps Launches Page360, the First Unified Content Performance Layer for the AI-Search Era

Page360 combines SEO, AI-search visibility, traffic, and engagement signals to show how individual pages perform across search and AI platforms. AirOps made the product available to all customers.

2025-11-10funding
AirOps raises $40 million Series B at $225 million valuation to rethink marketing in the age of AI

AirOps raised $40 million in Series B funding at a reported $225 million valuation, led by Greylock. The company planned to use the funding to help marketers adapt as discovery shifts from traditional search toward large language models.

Active Roles

14
New York City or San Francisco/Marketing/1d ago
New York City or San Francisco (Onsite)/Data & Analytics/3d ago
San Francisco/Legal/3d ago
New York City or San Francisco/Marketing/21d ago
New York , San Francisco or US-Remote/Operations/21d ago
New York , San Francisco or US-Remote/Professional Services/21d ago
New York , San Francisco or US-Remote/Marketing/21d ago
Head of AI AdsRemote$185k – $250k
New York , San Francisco or Remote /Marketing/30d ago
New York City or San Francisco/Product/34d ago
Account Executive$265k – $325k
New York City or San Francisco/Sales/84d ago
Senior AEO Strategy LeadRemote$160k – $215k
New York , San Francisco or Remote /Operations/168d ago
Product Engineer$200k – $300k
New York City or San Francisco/Engineering/197d ago
New York/Forward-Deployed Engineer/197d ago
Biz Ops Lead$180k – $210k
San Francisco/Operations/197d ago

Business Model

AirOps monetizes a subscription software platform with monthly task allowances; workflow actions and answers consume tasks, with additional usage charged per task. Its plans include self-serve tiers and custom-priced enterprise offerings.

Products

AirOps Platform: Studio, Inbox, and InsightsWorkflow StudioAI Copilot and Quill AI agentPower Agents and PlaybooksGrids for bulk content operationsBrand Kits for brand governanceAirOps MCPOffsite for third-party publisher placements and AI citation growth

Customers

RampWebflowKayakKlaviyoChimeWiz

Tech Stack

Large Language Models (LLMs)OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI modelsModel Context Protocol (MCP)AI agents and no-code workflow automationSEO, SERP, CMS, and marketing-data integrations

Competitors

Profound
Scrunch
Peec.ai
AthenaHQ
Rankshift
Conductor
Otterly.AI

Key Investors

Greylock, Wing Venture Capital, Unusual Ventures, Founder Collective, XFund, Village Global