Independent Intelligence

Business Intelligence for Search, AI and Digital Growth.

We don't sell implementation. We don't sell retainers. We provide the independent intelligence leadership teams need to make better decisions.

Built on 15+ years leading search inside TUI · Trainline · Checkatrade · Forbes · CarNext
The Intelligence Report Sample Extract
FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Visibility Index74.2▲ 12%
Page 1 Rankings1,384▲ 8%
Organic Clicks218K▼ 3%
Avg. CTR4.6%— 0%
Est. Revenue Impact£1.2M▲ 15%
Avg. Pixel Depth612px▼ 9%

Most organisations make search and AI decisions without independent evidence.

The people recommending the strategy are usually the same people paid to execute it. Internal teams are too close to see clearly. Boards are asked to approve roadmaps built on incentive, not evidence. Kraft Intelligence exists to sit outside that conflict — and tell you what the data actually shows.

The Kraft Difference

An advisor with nothing else to sell you.

AgenciesInternal TeamsKraft Intelligence
IncentiveSell more workProtect the status quoNone — fixed scope, fixed price
ObjectivityLimitedLimitedIndependent by design
SeniorityAccount managersVaries15+ years in-house leadership
OutputOngoing activityInternal reportingA decision-ready report
CommitmentRetainerHeadcountFixed engagement, defined end date
Services

Four ways to work with Kraft Intelligence.

Every engagement is independent, fixed-price, and ends with a decision-ready output — not an ongoing relationship you have to manage.

01 / Two Weeks

Intelligence Sprint

A fixed-price engagement to understand what's really happening inside your search, AI visibility and digital growth.

For leadership teams who need clarity fast
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02 / 4–6 Weeks

Intelligence Review

A deeper strategic engagement — operating model, maturity, executive interviews and a long-term roadmap.

For organisations planning significant change
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03 / Monthly

Fractional Intelligence Advisor

Ongoing strategic advisory, without implementation or delivery. Direct access to challenge your thinking.

For CEOs, CMOs and Heads of SEO
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04 / Scoped to Deal

Company Intelligence

Independent due diligence on search, AI visibility, brand and digital maturity — before you invest or acquire.

For investors, boards and PE firms
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Process

How an engagement works.

01

Scope

We define exactly what needs to be understood, and why it matters to leadership.

02

Evidence

Interviews, technical review, search performance analysis, AI visibility review.

03

Analysis

We identify what is actually driving — or blocking — performance.

04

Report

A single, decision-ready Intelligence Report, presented directly to leadership.

05

Roadmap

A prioritised path forward. No obligation to engage us again to act on it.

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Founder

Fifteen years inside the businesses you're trying to understand.

Adam has spent his career leading search and organic growth from the inside — not advising from the outside looking in. Across fifteen years, he has held in-house leadership roles spanning global enterprise, high-growth scale-ups, and early-stage startups, giving him a working understanding of how digital strategy actually gets made, funded, blocked and shipped at every stage of a company's life.

That range matters. The constraints facing a FTSE-listed travel business are not the constraints facing a founder-led marketplace two years post-launch — and a generalist consultant who has only ever seen one end of that spectrum will misdiagnose the other. Adam has sat inside both, and everything in between: enterprise organisations with multi-layered governance and nine-figure digital revenue on the line; scale-ups scaling a function from three people to fifteen; and startups where he was the entire search function, reporting directly to the founder.

He has managed budgets from five figures to seven, led teams from a single specialist to a distributed group of twelve, and worked inside technology stacks ranging from bespoke enterprise platforms and headless architectures to off-the-shelf CMSs stretched well past their intended scale. He has sat through the board conversation where a roadmap gets cut, and the one where it gets funded — and knows what separates them.

Beyond in-house leadership, Adam has consulted on guidance for the UK Competition & Markets Authority, built and sold independent websites, and built and sold a YouTube channel from zero — giving him direct, practitioner-level experience of organic growth across search, publishing and video, not just theory.

"Every organisation I've worked inside had the same blind spot: no one senior enough, independent enough, and close enough to the discipline to just tell leadership the truth. That's the gap Kraft Intelligence exists to fill."

Kraft Intelligence exists because that pattern repeated everywhere he worked — regardless of company size, sector or maturity. Leadership teams making significant decisions without an independent, evidence-based view of what was actually happening inside their search, AI visibility and digital growth. He built this firm to be that view.

Experience Range — What Adam Has Operated Inside
Organisation Size
Startup → Global Enterprise
From founder-led, pre-Series B businesses through to FTSE-listed, multi-market organisations.
Team Size Led
1 → 12+
From sole in-house specialist reporting directly to the founder, to distributed teams across multiple markets.
Budgets Owned
£50K → £5M+
Lean, resource-constrained scale-up budgets through to enterprise-scale annual programme spend.
Tech Stack Exposure
Bespoke → Enterprise Suite
Headless and custom-built platforms, high-traffic legacy CMSs, and enterprise suites including Adobe and Salesforce Commerce.
Markets Covered
UK → Multi-Market Global
Single-market UK businesses through to pan-European and globally distributed digital estates.
Analytics & Tooling
GA4, Adobe, BigQuery, Looker
Hands-on with the reporting and data infrastructure leadership teams actually rely on to make decisions.
Stakeholder Complexity
Founder → Multi-Layer Board
Direct founder access at startup stage; multi-layered governance and cross-functional sign-off at enterprise scale.
Growth Stage Focus
0→1 Build to Mature Optimisation
Building a function from nothing, scaling an existing one, and untangling technical debt inside mature estates.
Where This Experience Was Built
Enterprise · Travel
TUI

Global, multi-market travel business. Leading search inside a mature, highly governed organisation with significant digital revenue exposure and complex, cross-functional stakeholder alignment.

Enterprise · Marketplace
Trainline

High-traffic, transactional consumer platform where search performance is directly and immediately tied to revenue — every technical decision carries measurable commercial weight.

Scale-Up · Marketplace
Checkatrade

Two-sided marketplace balancing consumer search demand with tradesperson supply — local search, trust signals and marketplace-specific SEO dynamics at scale-up pace.

Enterprise · Publishing
Forbes

Large-scale editorial publishing, where organic visibility depends on content governance, syndication complexity and technical infrastructure operating at genuine volume.

Scale-Up · Marketplace
CarNext

Pan-European, multi-language scale-up expansion — building search foundations across markets simultaneously, with resourcing and localisation constraints agencies rarely encounter first-hand.

Startup · 0→1
Virail

Early-stage startup environment building a search function from zero — direct founder access, limited resource, and the discipline of proving impact before scaling investment.

TUITrainlineCheckatradeForbesCarNextVirail
15+
Years In-House Leadership
6
Major Organisations
1
Independent Advisor — No Team, No Bias
Industries

Understood from the inside.

Travel & Mobility Marketplaces Publishing & Media Startups & Scale-ups Enterprise Private Equity & Investment
FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Are you an SEO agency?+

No. We don't implement SEO work, manage delivery teams, or run retainers. We provide independent analysis and strategic recommendations — what you do with them is your decision.

Do you replace our existing agency or team?+

No. We sit above delivery, not inside it. Many clients keep their existing team or agency in place and use Kraft Intelligence to check their thinking.

How is this different from hiring a consultant?+

Most consultants generalise. Adam has spent 15 years specifically inside search, AI visibility and digital growth — at the leadership level, inside real organisations.

What does it cost?+

Every engagement is fixed-price, agreed before work begins, and scoped to your situation in a short initial call.

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Before your next decision, understand the evidence.